For a long time, the United States has been saying one thing and doing another, and it can be seen from the reaffirmation of the "one-China policy" and at the same time the long-term arming of Taiwan that the United States is not only playing a very disgraceful role in the Asia-Pacific region, but also in the Middle East. On April 13, Iran retaliated against Israel with great restraint, only carrying out long-range strikes on several Israeli military bases and command centers, and taking actions with advance notice to Israel. According to foreign media reports, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who attended the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, has issued a threat, declaring that the United States plans to impose further sanctions on Tehran.
In fact, Iran launched a retaliation against Israel because Israel blatantly bombed the Iranian embassy in Syria, and now the United States has become an accomplice, imposing sanctions on Iran, and targeting Iran's pillar industries. Iran's economy is very dependent on oil exports, so the new U.S. sanctions against Iran revolve around Iran's oil exports, although Yellen did not release specific details of the sanctions. Yellen said that the United States will not announce further sanctions against Iran, and is currently discussing how to block Iran's "terrorist financing" channels.
In fact, in addition to the United States, the European Union has also issued a threat, claiming that EU countries have already demanded further sanctions against Iran in response to Iran's air strikes against Israel. At the critical moment, the West has stopped pretending, and after Israel suffered Iran's retaliatory attack, although no one was killed, Western countries still seized the opportunity to impose sanctions on Iran, which is tantamount to humiliating Iran. Israel attacked the Iranian embassy in Syria, killing 13 people, and Iran retaliated against Israel by only striking Israeli military bases and command centers, and the attack was launched in the face of a worldwide announcement, but the West still seized the opportunity.
Iran's forbearance has not been exchanged for "gratitude" from the United States, but has intensified the sanctions, highlighting the sinister intentions of the West, which has long imposed all-round sanctions on Iran in an attempt to force internal turmoil in Iran. The United States had already fallen out with Iran in the late 70s of the last century, and now the United States' Middle East strategy is to suppress Iran and support Israel at the same time, so after Iran retaliated against Israel, the United States immediately imposed new sanctions on Iran, thus actively cooperating with the United States' Middle East strategy. Judging from the actions of the United States, Iran's restraint and concessions have given the United States more confidence, and the United States believes that Iran does not have the courage and guts, so it has to take sanctions every inch of it.
In fact, after Iran refrained from retaliating, the Israeli military still insisted on taking a hard line and declared that it would make Iran pay, and Israel's wartime cabinet had been discussing it for many days in an attempt to retaliate against Iran. Although 33,000 people were killed in Israel's military operation in the Gaza Strip, there is no Western country to impose sanctions on Israel, highlighting the West's "well-known double standard".