US sanctions on Iran’s oil sector and the waivers of said sanctions are causing rifts among the US administration—pitting the National Security Council and the US State Department against each other as the deadline for waiver extensions draws near. US President Donald Trump is caught in the middle of the now-public squabble, as anonymous sources “ familiar with the debate ” disclosed the infighting to the media, according to Bloomberg. Many others, too, have publicly decried the extension waivers or the sanctions, including oil-dependent economies that have long relied on Iran’s oil such as India, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, China, and others—some of which enjoy peaceful relations with the United States. President Trump campaigned heavily on scrapping the nuclear deal with Iran, and made good on that promise in May 2018 . A few short months later, he announced that the United States would levy sanctions on Iran in […]