Iran on the verge of collapse

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President Trump’s Operation Economic Outcast is unleashing a painful wave of financial sanctions on the Iranian regime and its economic enablers.

The plan has a reasonable chance of success. Regime figures are already expressing concern about the Iranian economy, which was collapsing long before the current war erupted.

Still, the Trump administration can dial up the pressure further by weakening the regime’s network of terrorist proxies.

Jonathan Schanzer is executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, where Zev Mendelson is a summer intern.