Weakened by a delicate economic situation and emerging from unprecedented popular protest, the Iranian regime has put itself in a position to face difficult times, especially if Donald Trump returns to power.
In 2018, the Republican president left the international nuclear agreement, signed three years earlier by Iran and the great powers, and, in the process, imposed new sanctions which made the leaders of the Islamic Republic tremble.
An ultraconservative turn of the screw was then given with the election to the presidency of the Republic of Ebrahim Raissi.
Since then, the regime has calcified around a hard core, which has moved closer diplomatically to Russia thanks to the war in Ukraine and, commercially, to China.
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“In view of the American election in November, Iran is leaning even more closely on Russia,”
notes a Gulf expert familiar with the mullahs' regime.
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