Lawfare Archive: Upheaval and Repression in Iran
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The Trump Administration's Maximum Pressure Campaign in Iran
Suzanne Nossel: The US strategy has been very effective at compounding the structural economic problems that have existed in Iran. She says there was a lot of uncertainty even here in this town about how a go it alone approach would work. There is at least some readiness on both sides to engage diplomatically, but because the United States has articulated such a broad based set of objectives for this maximum pressure strategy, what we have now done is essentially incentivize the Iranians to begin escalating around the region.
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