Former Under Secretary of Defense Robert Wilkie said Monday he thinks President-elect Donald Trump will rein in Iran after he is sworn in by crippling the Islamic republic’s economy.
“What I expect President Trump to do – and I’m not speaking for him officially – is to finally break the back of the Iranian economy by opening up America’s energy power – that drives the price of oil down,” Wilkie told Newsmax’s “Wake Up America.” “He will reinstitute the sanctions on Iran that [President] Joe Biden lifted, and I think you will see the Middle East settling into a more pro-Israeli Arab agreement or friendship than you’ve ever seen before. And I think America will actually be stronger in the long run.”
Pointing to the recent insurgent uprising in Syria, Wilkie said that permanent ceasefire or lasting peace in the Middle East will only come “with the destruction of the Iranian regime.”
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