Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, Professor of Economics at Virginia Tech, is a research fellow at the Economic Research Forum in Cairo and an associate of the Middle East Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Centre.
The risk that the UN will reimpose economic sanctions on Iran hangs over the presidency of hardliner Ebrahim Raisi. This threat may be Raisi’s strongest incentive to reach a compromise in the ongoing nuclear talks, writes Djavad Salehi-Isfahani.
