{"id":250174,"date":"2021-11-03T05:41:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T10:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=250174"},"modified":"2023-02-01T04:39:32","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T03:39:32","slug":"iran-why-sanctions-are-working-and-negotiations-wont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/nuclear\/iran-why-sanctions-are-working-and-negotiations-wont\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Why Sanctions Are Working and Negotiations Won\u2019t?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On Sunday, the Iranian regime’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian<\/a> made a fresh attempt to dictate U.S. conduct amidst efforts to restore the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. “If there is a serious will in Washington to return to the deal, there is no need for all these negotiations at all,” Amir-Abdollahian said<\/a> in reference to the discussions that have been stalled in Vienna since June.<\/p>\n

But despite Tehran’s efforts to show strength, claiming there is no haste to return to negotiations, it desperately needs sanctions relief to save its collapsing economy, to avoid mass uprisings, and feed its proxies in the Middle East that have become unprecedently unpopular<\/a>. Reviewing the previous attempts by Iranian officials reveal the latter.<\/p>\n

Amir-Abdollahian’s latest remarks come less than a month after the Raisi administration demanded the release of 10 billion dollars in frozen Iranian assets as another supposed gesture of goodwill<\/a> from the U.S. On August 22, during the Japanese foreign minister’s visit to Tehran, Ebrahim Raisi<\/a> asked Japan to release Iranian funds frozen<\/a> in the country because of U.S. sanctions.<\/p>\n

In January 2021, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards<\/a> Naval forces seized a South Korean vessel and triggered an international fiasco in order to press Seoul to release $7 billion in funds frozen. For almost 20 months, Tehran has been pleading<\/a> with the International Monetary Fund to get a $5 billion loan<\/a>, allegedly counterfeiting<\/a> the Covid-19 virus. On all fronts, Tehran has failed to get access to the frozen funds, and even a close ally, Baghdad, has not been quite helpful with releasing the funds and circumventing U.S. sanctions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Some of the latest analyses indicate that Iran is capable of producing about 800,000 barrels of gasoline per day, leaving a surplus of only about 250,000 barrels after the country’s current domestic needs are met. What’s more, these needs are sure to increase sharply as autumn progresses into winter, and some Iranian experts have already taken to publicly warning about looming energy shortages. The country’s inability to keep up with demand for power generation during the summer caused lengthy blackouts, which sparked widespread protests<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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