The recent nationwide protests by Iranians, which was savagely put down by the ruling Islamist fascists, once again showed the necessity of weakening the unreformable Islamist fascist aggressor in order to give a fighting chance to the beleaguered, freedom seeking Iranians.

Although unlike the ex-president Obama, the Islamist appeaser-in-chief, president Trump, the Twitter-in-chief, has repeatedly avowed his support for the Iranians, it has not gone past the mostly lip service.

If anything, president Trump knows big money, how it flows internationally and where to look for it.

In a Wall Street Journal opinion piece, Mark Dubowitz, chief executive of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and research fellow, Iranian dissident Saeed Ghasseminejad have mapped out a way to materially help Iranians.

“The Trump administration already has offered rhetorical support to Iran’s antigovernment protesters. Now, nearly a month after the demonstrations began, how can the U.S. provide material help? Follow the money.

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s supporters brag about his modest lifestyle. They fail to mention that he runs a multibillion-dollar corporate conglomerate to fund his political patronage networks. His three most valuable possessions are the Execution of Imam Khomeini’s Order, or EIKO ; the Mostazafan Foundation; and the Astan Quds Razavi. These businesses have an interest in nearly every Iranian industry and are worth approximately $200 billion, according to our estimates.

While these entities are far from transparent, the U.S. knows enough to target them with sanctions. The Foundation for Defense of Democracies has identified 146 Khamenei-owned companies and 144 executives and board members associated with these companies. The Trump administration can use the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act of 2016 to isolate the Khamenei business empire, freeze its assets, and penalize international companies that enrich the Iranian regime.”

Airtight sanctions, a la against the despicable South Africaapartheid, works. U.S. lawmakers get to it.