No, Iranians aren’t negotiating from a weak economic position
In fact its economy grew 4.3 percent last year, calling into question the hawks’ view that ‘maximum pressure’ is beating Tehran into submission.
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.
In fact its economy grew 4.3 percent last year, calling into question the hawks’ view that ‘maximum pressure’ is beating Tehran into submission.
The lifting of US sanctions is critical to fulfilling Raisi’s economic campaign promises whether he likes it or not.
Ebrahim Raisi promised to create jobs, but it may take more than simply rejoining the JCPOA to do it.
JCPOA opponents have been cherry picking an IMF report to claim Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’ campaign worked.