{"id":72302,"date":"2021-03-10T23:01:34","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T23:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/?p=183455"},"modified":"2021-03-10T23:01:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T23:01:34","slug":"biden-iran-envoy-boasted-of-causing-civilian-deprivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/03\/10\/biden-iran-envoy-boasted-of-causing-civilian-deprivation\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Iran Envoy Boasted Of Causing Civilian Deprivation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration has named Richard Nephew\u00a0as its deputy Iran envoy. As the former principal deputy coordinator of sanctions policy for Barack Obama\u2019s State Department, Nephew took personal credit for depriving Iranians of food, sabotaging their automobile industry, and driving up unemployment rates.<\/p>\n<p>Nephew has described the destruction of Iran\u2019s economy as \u201ca tremendous success,\u201d and lamented during a visit to Russia that food was still plentiful in the country\u2019s capital despite mounting U.S. sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>Nephew\u2019s appointment to a senior diplomatic post suggests that rather than immediately returning to the JCPOA nuclear deal, the Biden administration will finesse sanctions illegally imposed by Trump to pressure Iran into an onerous, reworked agreement that Tehran is unlikely to join.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/biden-iran-envoy-boasted-of-causing-civilian-deprivation\/\">Biden Iran Envoy Boasted Of Causing Civilian Deprivation<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/biden-iran-envoy-boasted-of-causing-civilian-deprivation\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration has named Richard Nephew\u00a0as its deputy Iran envoy. As the former principal deputy coordinator of sanctions policy for Barack Obama\u2019s State Department, Nephew took personal credit for depriving Iranians of food, sabotaging their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5726,5722,25,51,8724],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72303,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72302\/revisions\/72303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}