Protests, drones send Iran’s economic recovery in spiral
But the situation is complicated, and the West’s next move could make it much worse for ordinary Iranians
Djavad Salehi-Isfahani conducts research on the economics of the Middle East and is currently a professor of economics at Virginia Tech. He is a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and research associate of the Iran Project, at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
But the situation is complicated, and the West’s next move could make it much worse for ordinary Iranians
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