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Iran’s Empowered Hardliners — Djavad Salehi-Isfahani

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US Iran hawks argue that Donald Trump’s re-imposition of sanctions in 2018 has given his successor, Joe Biden, leverage in the new round of negotiations over restarting the 2015 nuclear deal. In fact, Trump's approach discredited and sidelined the Iranian moderates needed to secure a new agreement.…Did sanctions backfire? We'll know if Iran's hardliners win the coming election in Iran, which now seems baked in.It doesn't seem that there is room to reach an agreement before the election given the intransigence on all sides (US, Iran, and Israel) anyway. The window is now closing.Project SyndicateIran’s Empowered HardlinersDjavad Salehi-Isfahani | Professor of Economics at Virginia Tech, non-resident senior fellow for Global Economy and Development at the Brookings Institution, and a

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US Iran hawks argue that Donald Trump’s re-imposition of sanctions in 2018 has given his successor, Joe Biden, leverage in the new round of negotiations over restarting the 2015 nuclear deal. In fact, Trump's approach discredited and sidelined the Iranian moderates needed to secure a new agreement.…

Did sanctions backfire? We'll know if Iran's hardliners win the coming election in Iran, which now seems baked in.

It doesn't seem that there is room to reach an agreement before the election given the intransigence on all sides (US, Iran, and Israel) anyway. The window is now closing.

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Iran’s Empowered Hardliners
Djavad Salehi-Isfahani | Professor of Economics at Virginia Tech, non-resident senior fellow for Global Economy and Development at the Brookings Institution, and a research fellow at the Economic Research Forum in Cairo

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