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A couple of months ago, once it had become clear that airstrikes alone wouldn't force an Iranian capitulation,

the Trump administration pivoted from a strategy of military coercion to one of economic coercion.

The bombing stopped and the US instead imposed a naval blockade of everything going in or out of Iran's ports, accompanied by some fresh sanctions,

in the hopes of imposing enough damage on the Iranian economy to force further concessions.

At first glance, it looks like this plan, or at least the first bit of it, is working remarkably well.

Iran's currency, the rial, has cratered against the dollar.

Inflation has duly spiked to a record high of about 90%.

And in July, the IMF said that it expects the Iranian economy to contract by 5 .4 % this year,

which will be the sharpest contraction since the Iran -Iraq war in the 1980s.

This is probably an underestimate as well.

Data released by Iran's statistical centre last month showed

that GDP shrank by 10 .1 % year on year between March 21st and June 20th, the first quarter of the Persian calendar.

Nonetheless, despite all of this, the regime has shown little interest in making further concessions.

So in this video, we're going to explain why Trump's new strategy of economic coercion isn't really working and why Iran's economy, bad as it might be, hasn't yet collapsed.

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So as we see it, there are mainly two reasons the Iranian economy hasn't collapsed at

least not to the extent required to force a change in Iranian strategy.

The first is that the Iranian state has, over time,

become very good at essentially transferring money and resources away from what we might call the normal economy towards the state itself.

This makes life extra miserable for ordinary Iranians, but allows the state to continue pursuing its domestic and foreign policy goals.

The exchange rate is a good case in point.

For context, Trump's defenders, including US Treasury Secretary Scott Besant, like to point to the cratering real dollar exchange rate as proof of the efficacy of their sanctions campaign,

with the implication that the Iranian economy is inescapably headed for collapse.

It is true that the real now trades at about 2 .6 million to the dollar, down from about a million last year.

And in a normal economy, such a sharp depreciation would usually signal some sort of crisis.

But Iran is not a normal economy.

Unlike most of the rest of the world, the rial's exchange rate, or more specifically the one that Trump

and co like to cite because Iran actually has a number of exchange rates, is not determined by the free market because the rial isn't freely traded.

Rather, it's determined by Iran's central bank.

The central bank obviously has to take into account what we might describe as the economic fundamentals, which effectively set an upper limit on the strength of the rial.

The central bank couldn't, for instance, set the rial at one to one with the dollar, but the central bank can quite easily devalue the rial, which is exactly what they do and what is happening now

when they want to essentially transfer wealth away from the so -called normal economy towards the state.

This is because devaluations benefit exporters at the expense of importers.

In Iran, because the state has control over basically every big export -oriented business,

including most obviously the oil industry and most households and small businesses are net importers,

this means that devaluations materially benefit the state at the expense of the rest of the economy.

Interestingly this was actually the proximate cause of the massive protests we saw in December

and January which began with bizarre merchants protesting the central bank's decision to devalue the real

which they believed unfairly benefited well -connected exporters at the expense of their own import -dependent businesses.

Anyway one of the main channels through which this transfer of occurs is the inflation rate.

Devaluations stoke inflation, which in turn erodes living standards, meaning Iranian households consume and import less.

Less consumption means more resources for the state to mobilize, and less imports reduces pressure on the real.

This obviously makes things additionally tough for ordinary Iranians, but unless they rise up and topple the regime,

which looks increasingly unlikely, allows the state to insulate themselves from the worst effects of sanctions.

This also speaks to the more general myth about sanctions.

Their advocates often justify their use by claiming that modern sanctions are targeted against political elites or specific decision makers.

In reality, however, this is rarely true.

Elites can usually find ways to shift the economic burden onto someone else.

And there's some evidence to suggest that sanctions have actually hit poorer Iranians hardest.

So that's the first reason that the economic pressure campaign isn't working.

The Iranian state has ways to divert resources away from the normal economy, which is additionally why the headline macro numbers aren't that informative.

On to the second.

sanctions become less effective with time.

Iran has been under some sort of US sanctions for the best part of 30 years, and every time the US President of the day promises

that this latest round of sanctions will finally be the one to break the Ayatollahs.

But while each new round of sanctions usually incurs some temporary economic pain, the Iranian economy always eventually finds its feet,

usually once Iran and its allies have engineered some new workarounds.

2018, when Trump withdrew the nuclear deal and imposed what he described as maximum pressure sanctions, is a good case in point.

Then as now, Trump claimed that this latest round of sanctions would bring the regime to its knees.

Then as now, oil exports, Iran's main source of foreign currency earnings, fell towards zero.

Then as now, there was subsequently a lot of speculation about impending economic crisis.

But an acute crisis never materialised.

Iran was able to find its way around the sanctions, and by 2022, oil exports were back up and the economy was going again.

The private sector has also developed its own coping strategies, including most notably stockpiles.

According to filings made by companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange, the average industrial firm has inventories that could last three months.

In sensitive sectors, such as electrical machinery, which has been heavily targeted by US sanctions in the past, firms maintain inventories that could last nearly seven months.

To be clear, this isn't to say that sanctions aren't painful.

They clearly are, as evidenced by both Iran's dismal economic record

and the emphasis that Iranian officials have put on sanctions relief in recent negotiations.

Rather, the point we're trying to make is that their efficacy wanes over time.

So if they haven't yet incurred an economic collapse or change in Iranian strategy, chances are they won't in the future.

All in all, while the US has been able to impose real and very severe harm upon the Iranian economy, it's unlikely to engender a change in Iranian policy,

not least because the brunt of it has been borne by a public with very little means to affect policy, and that is, by most accounts, broadly supportive of the regime's war effort.

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Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B2 si basa sul video “Why Hasn’t Iran’s Economy Collapsed?”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: Iranian, sanctions, economy, economic, blade. Questo video contiene 95 frasi e 1517 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 8:27. Chi parla ha un ritmo naturale di circa 179 parole al minuto, vicino a una conversazione quotidiana. Solo il 79% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è impegnativo.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

Le 15 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:

Parola	Pronuncia	Significato
sanction sostantivo	/ˈsæŋkʃən/	approvazione, convalida
blade sostantivo	/bleɪd/	lama
razor sostantivo	/ˈɹeɪzɚ/	rasoio
collapse verbo	/kəˈlæps/	collassare, crollare
coercion sostantivo	/koʊˈɝʒən/	coercizione
devaluation sostantivo		svalutazione
friction sostantivo	/ˈfɹɪkʃən/	attrito, frizione
shave verbo	/ˈʃeɪ̯v/	radere, rasare
import sostantivo	/ˈɪm.pɔɹt/	importazione
inflation sostantivo	/ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃən/	inflazione
devalue verbo	/diːˈvæljuː/	svalutare
exporter sostantivo		esportatore, esportatrice
importer sostantivo	/ɪmˈpɔː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)/	importatore, importatrice
incur verbo	/ɪnˈkɝ/	incorrere, esporsi
crater sostantivo	/ˈkɹeɪ.tɚ/	cratere

La grammatica di questo video

Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:

Struttura	Nel video
Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso	has cratered · has shown · has left
Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa	are targeted · has been borne · can be said
Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa	rial, which is · economy, which is · machinery, which has

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 22 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come isn't, aren't, don't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

I suoni “th”: nonetheless /ˌnʌnðəˈlɛs/, withdraw /wɪðˈdɹɔ/, myth /mɪθ/
I suoni “sh” e “zh”: sanction /ˈsæŋkʃən/, coercion /koʊˈɝʒən/, friction /ˈfɹɪkʃən/, shave /ˈʃeɪ̯v/, inflation /ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃən/
Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: efficacy /ˈɛf.ɪ.kə.si/, depreciation /dɪˌpɹiːʃɪˈeɪʃən/, humiliate /hjuːˈmɪliˌeɪt/, inconsistency /ˌɪnkənˈsɪstənsi/, irritation /ˌɪɹ.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

/h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: humiliate /hjuːˈmɪliˌeɪt/, headline /ˈhɛd.laɪn/
Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: blade /bleɪd/, collapse /kəˈlæps/, shave /ˈʃeɪ̯v/, import /ˈɪm.pɔɹt/, compensate /ˈkɑm.pənˌseɪt/
/æ/ — più aperta della “e”: sanction /ˈsæŋkʃən/, collapse /kəˈlæps/, devalue /diːˈvæljuː/, contraction /kənˈtɹækʃ(ə)n/, macroeconomics /ˌmæk.ɹoʊˌiː.kəˈnɒ.mɪks/

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