{"id":690,"date":"2021-10-07T06:32:37","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T14:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/?p=690"},"modified":"2021-10-07T06:32:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T14:32:37","slug":"wsj-iranians-10-billion-trial-balloon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/blog\/trending\/690\/","title":{"rendered":"WSJ: Iranian\u2019s $10 billion trial balloon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal, in an editorial entitled The Iranian regime&#8217;s $10 billion trial balloon, called on the United States not to give any concessions to the Islamic regime of Iran to return to negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal, which in this article challenges Biden&#8217;s policies and his ransoms to the mullahs&#8217; regime, writes by showing the impact of President Trump&#8217;s maximum pressure on Iran: \u201cIranian gross domestic product shrank nearly 60% between 2017 and 2020, thanks to Mr. Trump\u2019s maximum pressure sanctions campaign. Inflation has soared and weak bond sales have the government leaning on the central bank to fill financing gaps. Protests threaten the regime\u2019s stability, and terror mastermind Qasem Soleimani is dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal went on to offer a solution by exposing the real face of the Islamic regime of Iran: \u201cIran\u2019s only real leverage is nuclear escalation such as stockpiling highly enriched uranium, activating advanced centrifuges, and toying with international nuclear inspectors. Even these affronts have been slowed by a sabotage campaign likely carried out by Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal, in an editorial entitled The Iranian regime&#8217;s $10 billion trial balloon, called on the United States not to give any concessions to the Islamic regime of Iran to return to negotiations. The Wall Street Journal, which in this article challenges Biden&#8217;s policies and his ransoms to the mullahs&#8217; regime, writes by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","wds_primary_category":121,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-trending"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}