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Iran Vows Defiantly to Help Its People But Offers No Plan

Traffic passes the Imamzadeh Saleh mosque in Tehran

Photographer: Ali Mohammadi/Bloomberg
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Iranian officials vowed that their nation would weather the impact of bruising new U.S. sanctions, but offered no plan of action to back up their defiant words.

The gap between rhetoric and strategy highlighted the formidable challenge Iran’s leaders will face trying to protect their country from the economic warfare the Trump administration has unleashed in an effort to force Iran to renegotiate the 2015 nuclear deal.