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Trump to reimpose 'maximum pressure' on Iran, aims to drive oil exports to zero​

• Summary
• Move brings back tough US policy on Iran from Trump's first term
• Trump to hold talks with Israeli PM Netanyahu on Tuesday
• Campaign 'aimed at driving Iran's oil exports to zero'

WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (Reuters) - U.S. President

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plans to restore his "maximum pressure" campaign on Iran including efforts to drive its oil exports down to zero in order to stop Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, a U.S. official said on Tuesday.
Ahead of his

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump was expected to sign the presidential memorandum reimposing Washington's tough policy on Iran that was practiced throughout his first term.

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Trump has accused former President Joe Biden of failing to rigorously enforce oil-export sanctions, which Trump says emboldened Tehran by allowing it to sell oil to fund a nuclear weapons program and armed militias in the Middle East.
Iran is

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of uranium to up to 60% purity, close to the roughly 90% weapons-grade level, the U.N. nuclear watchdog chief told Reuters in December. Iran has denied wanting to develop a nuclear weapon.
Trump's memo will, among other things, order the U.S. Treasury secretary to impose "maximum economic pressure" on Iran, including sanctions and enforcement mechanisms on those violating existing sanctions, the U.S. official said.
The Trump administration will aim to drive "Iran's oil exports to zero," the official said.

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on Tuesday on the news, which offset some weakness from the tariff drama between Washington and Beijing .

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Iran's mission to the United Nations in New York did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Tehran's oil exports brought in $53 billion in 2023 and $54 billion a year earlier, according to U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates. Output during 2024 was running at its highest level since 2018, based on OPEC data.
Trump had driven Iran's oil exports to near-zero during part of his first term after re-imposing sanctions. They

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as Iran succeeded in evading sanctions.

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Iran should have struck Israel when it had the chance, especially since the US is pulling back from Europe and West Pacific now.

tokenanalyst said:

1-it wont work, because that would require to implement RF circuitry embedded in the chip which would occupy vital and large die area, it will not works indoor, could be jammed and spoofed with fake signals to confuse the chip to think is in another place.

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It’s would be deeply unpopular but possible. The CPU/GPU could have power on activation logic, paired to its serial number that’s baked into the silicon. It would require a signed activation token( from Nvidia servers passed in through the GPU driver. It would be similar to the challenge-response tokens used in bank/debit/credit cards with EVM chips.

Then NVidia will need have various KYC (know your customer) infrastructure in place, similar to what banks and financial institutions use.

Would definitely open up a huge can of worms and they would definitely lose customers if they went this route, but it won’t be a major technical challenge to implement

coolgod said:

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Trump Tariffs: U.S. President, Xi Won't Speak Tuesday After China Retaliates​

President Trump and China's Xi Jinping won't speak Tuesday, a U.S. official says, after both countries moved to impose tariffs​

Chinese took too many calcium pills while growing up, can't bend the knee now.

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With the recent moves. It sounds like China domestic semiconductor industry is ready now.

HereToSeePics said:

It’s would be deeply unpopular but possible. The CPU/GPU could have power on activation logic, paired to its serial number that’s baked into the silicon. It would require a signed activation token( from Nvidia servers passed in through the GPU driver. It would be similar to the challenge-response tokens used in bank/debit/credit cards with EVM chips.

Then NVidia will need have various KYC (know your customer) infrastructure in place, similar to what banks and financial institutions use.

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And destroy Intel and AMD forever? I mean the US should go ahead and try it out, FAFO.

coolgod said:

And destroy Intel and AMD forever? I mean the US should go ahead and try it out, FAFO.

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Affected American MNC should start thinking about relocating out of the US.

coolgod said:

And destroy Intel and AMD forever? I mean the US should go ahead and try it out, FAFO.

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Sure, I was simply replying on whether it’s technically possible or not.. business wise, it’s another matter.

Hence me prefixing my earlier reply with “it would be deeply unpopular”…

proelite said:

I would think Beijing prefer an America in perpetual decline than a collapsed America with nukes.

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They will get the security of the nukes. CPC leaders are amongst the highest IQ people on Earth (in the literal sense), with decades of experience and merit. Do you think they don't have plans to get the security of those nukes? That can be done in many ways. It's easier to secure if the US collapses; Those nukes are much more threatening under centralized administration, but even then they can ensure they don't get used thanks to various insiders they have there probably and using divide and conquer tactics against the stupid and divided US administration. I'm just concluding what I saw in the last few months; They seem hell-bent on having the US collapse soon, or else why would TikTok help Trump win elections (menace of American interests and long-term stability and survival)? I think both Russia and China see Trump as the new Gorbachev that will put the final nail in the American coffin and they are preparing for it. If they were fearful of his chaos, then why not support Democrats?

FairAndUnbiased said:

Schrodinger China.

Neocons: TikTok is pushing BLM DEI LGBT on Gen Z and turning them all into woke gays who hate murica! That is why gen Z won't enlist in the army anymore! The DumbocRATs are in on it!

Neolibs: ultra conservative China is pushing MAGA to put dumbs in office! That is why Yilong Ma is in office defunding all US health science programs!

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Xi: STFU. Both of you virgins are paving the way for the great rejuvenation of China.

HereToSeePics said:

It’s would be deeply unpopular but possible. The CPU/GPU could have power on activation logic, paired to its serial number that’s baked into the silicon. It would require a signed activation token( from Nvidia servers passed in through the GPU driver. It would be similar to the challenge-response tokens used in bank/debit/credit cards with EVM chips.

Then NVidia will need have various KYC (know your customer) infrastructure in place, similar to what banks and financial institutions use.

Would definitely open up a huge can of worms and they would definitely lose customers if they went this route, but it won’t be a major technical challenge to implement

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I don't think wouldn't last days before get cracked.
Is like the good old days when guys cracked the PS2 protection using microcontrollers.

tokenanalyst said:

I don't think wouldn't last days before get cracked.
Is like the good old days when guys cracked the PS2 protection using microcontrollers.

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The only way is to have two tier GPUs, one for the US only and the other severely under performant for the rest of the world.
Or completely ban Nvidia from exporting AI GPUs outside the US and people who want to train their models would have to do it in the US. Both alternatives could result in the total collapse of Nvidia stocks.