Didn't Germany already try this exact method and fail following their post-WWI sanctions? They had to pay back something like $132 billion gold marks London Schedule of Payments required Germany to pay ~ $132 billion gold marks and issued a bunch of currency leading to hyerinflation? And resentment, populism and nationalism rose and things went pear shaped from there.

Relevant: Map of US Navy "deployed carrier strike groups" in conspicuous locations https://news.usni.org/category/fleet-tracker

You got down-voted, but it's naive to think that's not true.

US and UK did orchestrate a coup to overthrow the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran in 1953. (Operation Ajax)

The Prime Minister was a lawyer and politician that took control of Iran's oil resources from British Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (What we know as BP today), and he was going to take more actions to take control over their resources.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...