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The situation worsens daily. I can't afford my rent, pay my bills, or buy clothes for my children,
said Alireza Yousefi, 42, a teacher from Isfahan There is no question whatsoever that the man who has been the Supreme Leader since 1989 and his foreign policy preferences are more guilty than anybody else for the state of affairs,
said Alex Vatanka, director of the Iran Program at the Middle East Institute think-tank in Washington I can barely cover the rent for my carpet shop or pay my workers' salaries. No one has the money to buy carpets. If this continues, I will have to lay off my staff,
Morteza, 39, said by phone from Tehran's Grand Bazaar, giving only his first name Yes, there are concerns about more economic pressure, there are concerns about the nation's growing anger, but we cannot sacrifice our right to produce nuclear energy because Trump wants it,
The country is like a powder keg, and further economic strain could be the spark that sets it off,
said one of the four officials, who is close to the government That is why Ayatollah Khamenei seems to believe that the only thing that is more dangerous than suffering from sanctions is surrendering to them,
The other side must be convinced that the policy of pressure is ineffective - only then can we sit at the negotiating table on equal terms,
It’s something Iran wants to avoid, and this diplomatic pressure – when combined with the economic and military pressure the US and Israel are exerting – can help bring Tehran to the table for negotiations. But it’s a wasting asset – the SnapBack mechanism expires in October of this year,
We need all the friends we can get, and I'm not sure that we're keeping the friends that we traditionally have,
You’ve got to constantly be progressive and watching and adjusting how you deploy the sanctions, because people find secondary and tertiary roundabouts,
Brownback said in an interview I certainly am not a fan of going to war with the whole world at the same time,
Rep Brad Sherman, the lead Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, remarked on Saturday They fully understand, they’re very sophisticated [in terms of gathering intelligence on Iran],
We’re NATO. And we're much better off organizing NATO around members who want to be a part of NATO, who want to have 5% of their GDP in defense.”
Pressure is always more effective when it has broad international support, and that begins with close U.S.-Europe cooperation, ... At a time when the U.S. and Europe have mounting disagreements, preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons is a point on which they agree vehemently, and can be a point of collaboration amid acrimony.”
Europe has long believed that the JCPOA is dead and that efforts to revive it are somewhere between useless and counterproductive, yet [France, Germany and Italy] have not withdrawn from the agreement or moved yet to restore pre-JCPOA sanctions,
I don't think western Europe matters,
Giuliani told The Independent on Saturday I said, and I really believe it: It's not now or never. It's now or nuclear on Iran,
If we enter negotiations while the other side is imposing maximum pressure, we will be negotiating from a weak position and will achieve nothing,
Araqchi told the Iran paper in an interview If the US and their agents make a wrong military move against Iran, they'll be the ones who will suffer the greatest loss,
President Trump has made clear that Iran's nuclear program poses a threat to international peace and security,
a statement by the U.S. Mission to the U.N. read
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