Who Will Last Longer: Trump or Iran's Theocrats?
"The lack of unified foreign support for the sanctions will mean lots of loopholes, more complicated enforcement, and many more arguments between the U.S. and European governments than in the past..."
"At the same time, Iran’s theocrats have been under growing pressure, too. Since December, sporadic demonstrations in nearly all of the country’s thirty-one provinces have protested unemployment; rising prices; the plummeting value of the country’s currency, the rial; delayed wages; and other economic hardships."
"There is no clear goal to the Trump Administration’s sanctions “other than Iran capitulating and coming back to the table to renegotiate,” Matthew Levitt, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis at the Treasury, told me. “And that seems unlikely.”"
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/who-will-last-longer-trump-or-irans-theocrats
Can we pick None of the above?