Ernest Hemingway said ‘How did you go bankrupt? Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.’
Iran is strategically weak because it faces daunting challenges — from oil price changes and water shortages to a disgruntled, Internet-savvy, youthful population, led by increasingly assertive women, hampered by chronic double-digit inflation and unemployment, and angered by corruption, cronyism and the squandering of massive sums in proxy wars, particularly in Syria.
John Bolton, Donald Trump’s new national-security adviser, has long advocated regime change in Iran, and more recently has argued that the administration should openly embrace it as a foreign-policy goal.
Most are expecting Trump will pull out of the Iran nuclear deal and re-impose sanctions.
The thinking is that with Iran regime and economy already weak that more pressure could cause a collapse.
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