Iran Is Escalating. The Economic Stakes Go Beyond Oil | Bijan Kian

Iran is facing renewed economic and military pressure, with the Strait of Hormuz again at the center of concerns over oil and global trade. The immediate focus is escalation, but underneath it is another question: how long can this pressure continue, and what is it actually accomplishing?

The instinct is to read this as a straightforward pressure campaign that either works or it doesn’t. But the costs don’t fall evenly, and the economic costs of the confrontation become harder to assess once the pressure extends beyond sanctions alone.

Bijan Kian joins us to examine the economics of the confrontation. Drawing on his years working in U.S. export financing, he explains how he reads Iran’s economic position and what the financial side of the standoff may reveal about the pressure now being applied.

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