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Given that American foreign policy today is largely burdened with containing Russia and China, an active anti-Iranian policy may face a lack of resources. Therefore, Trump’s victory will be undesirable for Tehran, writes Valdai Club Programme Director Ivan Timofeev. The outcome of the US presidential elections has very little significance for Russia. The elections are also unlikely to fundamentally change the course of American foreign policy towards China.
The United States imposed its first sanctions against Iran back in 1979 when the Iranian revolutionaries seized the American embassy and took its diplomats hostage. However, only after 2010 the restrictions that Washington and its allies imposed on Tehran for advancing its nuclear programme had a devastating effect on the Iranian economy.
In the best traditions of a Persian epic, Tehran has long been able to play on the fear and curiosity of the great powers, leaving them in the dark about the true contents of its “box”.
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