Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
In June 2019, when a Congressional committee member asked Trump’s Iran envoy why the US kept up a “maximum pressure” campaign that had done nothing to alter Iran’s behavior, the envoy answered that they considered the policy a success because it was making Iranians poorer. — PolitiTweet.org
Gregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom
"[Iran's] absolute poverty rate rose by 11% between March 2018 and March 2020... Trump's maximum pressure campaign… https://t.co/KxkgVKqNCU