Ali Hossein Ghazizadeh, a member of Iran International’s editorial board, said that the United States, by expanding the Islamic Republic’s maritime, air, and land blockade, is seeking to limit a large part of Tehran’s economic trade routes.

According to him, the Trump administration hopes that, without entering into a military war in the short term, by intensifying the economic pressure on the Islamic Republic, it will compel it to accept Washington’s conditions.