Iran considers the Trump administration to be an "existential threat" to the regime and has ordered its proxy terrorist armies to exercise restraint and not fire on American targets, and certainly not with Iranian weapons, according to a Telegraph report on Saturday.
A senior Iranian official speaking with the Telegraph said that these forces "have been told to keep defensive positions for a while and to avoid any actions that might provoke the Americans."
Meanwhile the Iraqi government is trying to convince pro-Iranian militias in the country to disband and join the state's official security forces, after it targeted both Israeli and US targets with explosive drones for months during the war started by Hamas on October 7.
The Trump administration has also reinstated its sanctions against the Houthis as a terrorist group, after the Biden administration lifted them in the hopes of negotiating with Iran.
The statement announcing this said that "As a result of the Biden administration’s weak policy, the Houthis have fired at US Navy warships dozens of times, launched numerous attacks on civilian infrastructure in partner nations, and attacked commercial vessels transiting Bab al-Mandeb more than 100 times."
A member of Iran’s parliamentary national security and foreign policy committee said today that the Iranian government is not currently permitted to engage in direct negotiations with the US, according to Iran International.
Government spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohajerani Said that despite Iranian President stated readiness to negotiate with the Trump administration, any such talks must first be approved by Iran's Supreme National Security Council, whose final decisions must be approved in turn by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
Iran's currency continues to collapse in the face of tensions with the United States, and its ability to sell its oil to cover increasing budget shortfalls were in question even before Donald Trump was inaugurated last week.
Advisers close to Trump have promised to restore "maximum pressure" sanctions on Iran in order to deter it from developing nuclear weapons or supporting its proxy terrorist armies.
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