Is Iran’s economy really sinking?
JCPOA opponents have been cherry picking an IMF report to claim Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’ campaign worked.
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.
JCPOA opponents have been cherry picking an IMF report to claim Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’ campaign worked.
Although the early predictions that the virus would kill between 250,000 and 500,000 Iranians by August 2020 have failed to materialize, and the second wave is slowly flattening, Iran is by no means out of the woods.
Washington hawks are taking bad faith to a whole new level in their quest for regime change in Tehran.
It is in the interest of the region, Europe, and the world to help Iran succeed in managing the economic fallout from Trump’s sanctions.