Geneive Abdo, Columnist

Sorry, Iran, China Isn’t Going to Save You

Europeans flee, rial sinks, protests rise — and U.S. sanctions haven’t even hit yet.

June 27, 2018 at 1:00 PM UTC

Geneive Abdo is a resident scholar at the Arabia Foundation and the author of four books, most recently "The New Sectarianism: The Arab Uprisings and the Rebirth of the Shi’a–Sunni Divide."

Smiles can fade.
Photographer: Kenzaburo Fukuhara/AFP/Getty Images

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