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What is Containment?
U.S. efforts to discourage arms sales, trade, and investment with Iran by other countries. [...] trying to isolate it — diplomatically, economically, militarily, and in every other way conceivable.
So basically sanctions, sanctions and more sanctions. Get the clients to do sanctions. Barter with non-clients to implement sanctions. But we really can recognize the routinely hostile activities >>/54314/
> The U.S. may withhold diplomatic recognition, block UN membership, decree or intensify a trade embargo, vote against multilateral loans, forbid normal travel by citizens of either country, offer asylum to immigrants from the enemy, attempt to restrict weapons and technology transfers, verbally support exiled opposition leaders, electronically broadcast propaganda, and, of course, denounce the enemy as illegitimate and a violator of basic norms (e.g., human rights).
And yes, this is the standard way of the US when dealing with enemies.
This isn't really to make the enemy do something, it's just for containing and hampering them in every way possible.
So keep in mind that the other options try to achieve something, to make Iran give up aspirations to get nukes, or stop supporting non-state actors, or whatever the US doesn't like, and in general to make Iran to do what the US wants.
They examine each policy thoroughly. They introduce it, describe the goal, the possible timeframe it can be initiated and the time it takes to achieve the goal (or fail), they write an overview, requirements, pros and cons. I won't do all that, just give a summary.