Washington, Nov 16 (Reporter) US President-elect Donald Trump's team is making up a strategy of maximum economic pressure on Iran in an attempt to force it into a new nuclear deal, the Financial Times newspaper reported on Saturday, citing people familiar with the situation. The maximum pressure tactic will be aimed at depleting Iran's oil revenues and thus curb its ability to fund regional proxies, develop nuclear weapons or impact regional politics, the report read. In 2015, Iran, the United Kingdom, Germany, China, Russia, the US and France, as well as the European Union, signed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, also known as the Iran nuclear deal, aimed at limiting the Iranian nuclear program in exchange for lifting sanctions against Tehran. Then-US President Donald Trump pulled the US from the deal and reintroduced sanctions in 2018, prompting Iran to renege on its obligations. Iranian Atomic Energy Organization spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi has earlier said that Tehran was ready to resume the nuclear deal, but this requires serious negotiations...////...