For Raisi, Economic Issues Primed to Drive Iran’s Foreign Policy Agenda
As long as Iran’s economy is spiraling downward, its new government will have some incentive to ease tensions abroad.
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Banafsheh Keynoush is the author of Saudi Arabia and Iran: Friends or Foes? (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), and the editor and an author of Iran’s Interregional Dynamics in the Near East (New York: Peter Lang, 2021).
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