US economic D-Day sanctions: 'Repeated bombing attacks across Iran failed to change the calculus'

France 24 features an interview with Imran Bayoumi of the Atlantic Council on the Trump administration's new sanctions strategy toward Iran. The analyst sees it as an attempt to gain economic leverage after military force has so far failed to produce results. He says the strategy's effectiveness depends on whether China, Iran's largest oil customer, will comply, and that Iran, with decades of experience weathering sanctions, is again threatening regional escalation.

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