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By Golnar Motevalli

January 24, 2021 at 9:08 AM UTC

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Iran had barely started to reap the economic benefits of its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers when Donald Trump withdrew and imposed sanctions so tight they plunged the country into its worst economic crisis since the 1980s.