China wins, India loses in Trump’s gamble on crushing Iran
“Maximum pressure” may have permanently pushed Iran toward China. How much leverage India may retain in Iran remains to be seen.
Fatemeh Aman, a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center, has written on Iranian, Afghan, and other Middle Eastern affairs for over 20 years. She has worked and published as a journalist, and her writings have appeared in numerous publications, including Jane’s Islamic Affairs Analyst, Jane’s Intelligence Review, the Atlantic Council, and the Middle East Institute’s publications. She is the author of the Atlantic Council’s Water Dispute Escalating between Iran and Afghanistan (2016), and co-author of Iran, Afghanistan, and South Asia: Resolving Regional Sources of Instability (2013).
“Maximum pressure” may have permanently pushed Iran toward China. How much leverage India may retain in Iran remains to be seen.
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