Three years ago, Iran was exporting roughly 2.5 million barrels of oil a day.
According to the latest reports, Iran's oil export is now around 70,000 barrels a day - a reduction of nearly 97%. The 2020 Democratic nominee, Biden, will probably want to revive the Obama-era appeasement policies toward the ruling mullahs.
The Obama-Biden administration met the mullahs with generosity and flexibility every step of the way, including waiving inspections of military sites and the ultimate prize: permission at the "Sunset" of the agreement for Iran to have deliverable nuclear weapons.
As sanctions against Iran were lifted during the Obama-Biden administration, it quickly became clear that in the eyes of the international community, those actions gave Iran global legitimacy.
"Today we're sharing that we've recently seen significant cyber activity by a threat group we call Phosphorus, which we believe originates from Iran and is linked to the Iranian government."
"In a 30-day period between August and September, the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center observed Phosphorus making more than 2,700 attempts to identify consumer email accounts belonging to specific Microsoft customers and then attack 241 of those accounts. The targeted accounts are associated with a U.S. presidential campaign, current and former U.S. government officials, journalists covering global politics and prominent Iranians living outside Iran.".
In 2018 alone, Facebook removed "652 pages, groups and accounts for coordinated inauthentic behavior that originated in Iran and targeted people across multiple Internet services." The likes of Twitter and Google owner Alphabet have also identified hundreds of "Inauthentic" accounts that seem to have originated in Iran.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16403/us-election-interference
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