1 month ago
Radio Free Europe
A difficult winter for Europeans would offer many advantages, including leverage in protracted negotiations in Vienna aimed at reviving Iran’s stalled nuclear deal with world powers, according to the ideas floated by Iranian officials and state media. The thinking was that European nations across the negotiating table would be compelled to lift harsh sanctions against Iranian energy exports. Citizens angered over higher gas prices and cutoffs held scattered protests, adding a new cause to ongoing anti-government demonstrations in Iran. Under the agreement, some international sanctions against Iran were lifted in exchange for curbs on Iran’s disputed nuclear program. Iran has also not received any of the 55 million cubic meters of Russian gas it was to import under the deal with Moscow.
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