China has already said it won’t be taking orders from America.
So is this another failed bid by Donald Trump to bend Iran and its backers to his will? Or could this actually work?
Several senior Iranian leaders have recently acknowledged the economic pain that the country and its people are feeling.
On this episode of The Fourcast, Krishnan Guru-Murthy speaks to Mohammed Marandi, a professor at Tehran University and a former adviser to Iran’s nuclear negotiating team to get a view from inside Iran.