Economics
Iran’s Bid to Integrate With Global Economy Coming to an End
- Growth remains biggest challenge for ascendant conservatives
- Rouhani policies discredited by collapse of 2015 nuclear deal
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Iran’s six-year push to integrate with the global economy appears to be coming to an end.
On Monday, Iran threatened to withdraw from its last remaining commitments to the 2015 deal that limited its nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of international sanctions. On the same day, Foreign Minister Javad Zarif pulled out of this week’s World Economic Forum, the global economy’s annual networking event in Switzerland.