| I am Iranian and I follow the news very very closely. I have family and friends in Iran. You are right. The Iranian economy is crushed and basically the country is starving. Here's what happened (oversimplified of course): 1. US has had sanctions on Iran for a long time (> 3 decades). No US entity can deal with Iran. 2. Obama extended these sanctions to the world: No entity form any country is allowed to work with Iran. If they do, they cannot work with the U.S. 3. Europe was happy with those sanctions and pushed for it. 4. JCPOA (Iran Deal) was signed. 5. Iran stopped nuclear activities. 6. US got out of the deal and push-forced everyone else out 7. The rest of the world, being powerless and bullied, bowed to it, but Europe, UK, China, Turkey and Japan have all been vocal in supporting Iran now. They even have exemptions from the sanctions to work with Iran. 8. Europe even has been working on a back-channel [0] (with no success though) to trade with Iran. It is true that sanctions are crushing Iran but that's due to years of pressure that was already built-up during Obama era where the Europe and rest of the world did agree upon that. US cannot cut China from world trade overnight without the support from rest of the world. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument_in_Support_of_Trade... |