Iran faces significant challenges as its economy struggles and sanctions are reimposed. Despite these pressures, the government hasn't taken major actions to address the situation or restart nuclear talks with the West. Concerns are growing that Iran's strategy of 'strategic patience' has turned to one of systemic inaction.
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Scientists are listeningAmerican e-waste is causing a 'hidden tsunami' in Southeast Asia, watchdog report saysCOVID-19 vaccines may help some cancer patients fight tumorsA good shower is a simple shower, no matter what influencers recommendOpenAI launches Atlas browser to compete with Google ChromeThe Dubai chocolate craze is now about much more than barsVatican will return dozens of artifacts to Indigenous groups in Canada as gesture of reconciliationEEUU ataca 2 lanchas en el Pacífico que supuestamente llevaban drogas y mata a 5 personas¿Quién es Sanae Takaichi, la primera líder femenina y estrella ultraconservadora de Japón?A woman holds a poster of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as portraits of the late Iranian armed forces commanders, who were killed in Israeli strike in June, are seen at background, during a commemoration marking the first death anniversary of Hezbollah leaders Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine, who were killed in Israeli airstrikes in Beirut, in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025. In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei listens to a speaker in a meeting in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Oct. 20, 2025. Women talk in front of the banners showing portraits of the late chief of the general staff of Iran’s armed forces, Gen. Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, right, and the late commander of Revolutionary Guard Gen. Hossein Salami, who were killed in Israeli strike in June, during a commemoration marking the first death anniversary of Hezbollah leaders Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine, who were killed in Israeli airstrikes in Beirut, in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025. A woman sits in the al fresco dining area of a cafe at the Enqelab-e-Eslami street, in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025. An Iranian Shahed-136 attack drone, acquired from Ukraine by United Against Nuclear Iran , is displayed at a press conference in Parliament in London, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025. A woman holds a poster of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as portraits of the late Iranian armed forces commanders, who were killed in Israeli strike in June, are seen at background, during a commemoration marking the first death anniversary of Hezbollah leaders Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine, who were killed in Israeli airstrikes in Beirut, in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025. A woman holds a poster of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as portraits of the late Iranian armed forces commanders, who were killed in Israeli strike in June, are seen at background, during a commemoration marking the first death anniversary of Hezbollah leaders Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine, who were killed in Israeli airstrikes in Beirut, in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025. In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei listens to a speaker in a meeting in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Oct. 20, 2025. In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei listens to a speaker in a meeting in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Oct. 20, 2025. Women talk in front of the banners showing portraits of the late chief of the general staff of Iran’s armed forces, Gen. Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, right, and the late commander of Revolutionary Guard Gen. Hossein Salami, who were killed in Israeli strike in June, during a commemoration marking the first death anniversary of Hezbollah leaders Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine, who were killed in Israeli airstrikes in Beirut, in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025. Women talk in front of the banners showing portraits of the late chief of the general staff of Iran’s armed forces, Gen. Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, right, and the late commander of Revolutionary Guard Gen. Hossein Salami, who were killed in Israeli strike in June, during a commemoration marking the first death anniversary of Hezbollah leaders Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine, who were killed in Israeli airstrikes in Beirut, in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025. A woman sits in the al fresco dining area of a cafe at the Enqelab-e-Eslami street, in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025. A woman sits in the al fresco dining area of a cafe at the Enqelab-e-Eslami street, in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025. An Iranian Shahed-136 attack drone, acquired from Ukraine by United Against Nuclear Iran , is displayed at a press conference in Parliament in London, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025. An Iranian Shahed-136 attack drone, acquired from Ukraine by United Against Nuclear Iran , is displayed at a press conference in Parliament in London, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025. further into the red this year. But its theocracy so far hasn’t taken any major action to halt the slide, restart crucial nuclear negotiations with the West nor fully prepare for possible further hostilities with Israel and the United States. In the past, Iran’s 86-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei heralded the benefit of Tehran’s “strategic patience” in confronting its enemies. Now, however, concern is growing that patience has slipped into paralysis as Iran’s partners in its self-described “Axis of Resistance” have been devastated and there’s no overt sign of materiel support from either China or Russia. “One of the harms and dangers facing the country is precisely this state of neither war nor peace, which isn’t good,” Khamenei himself warned in September. But there’s been no move to change that calculus, as Iranians themselves remain fearful of war resuming. Each fire or industrial accident becomes grist for new worry as they watch their life savings further dwindle as Iran’s rial currency falls to historic lows against the U.S. dollar. “Even if we accept that the possibility of a second war exists, the right approach to governing the country is not to keep public opinion in constant anxiety through recurring alerts every few days,” said Ali Abdullah Khani, an analyst with Iran’s Presidential Strategic Affairs Office, in an interview published in October by the website NourNews. “Such a policy places the nation in a permanent state of crisis — a condition in which it always seems that war could break out at any moment, and as a result, all managerial and political capacities are consumed by confronting a presumed and hypothetical conflict.”The United Nations reimposed sanctions on Iran last month, but Tehran has sought to downplay their effect or even insist they don’t exist. The sanctions date from Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal and were reimposed by a mechanism known to diplomats as “snapback.” China, Iran and Russia issued a tripartite statement over the weekend, decrying them as “legally and procedurally flawed.” But while China and Russia have signaled they won’t enforce the sanctions, the U.S., European nations and others are. But the main ones squeeze Iran’s Central Bank and its oil exports, one of the few sources of hard currency for the government. That could allow for the seizure of Iranian crude oil shipments on the seas, something that in the past hasThe June war saw Israel kill top leadership in Iran’s regular military and its paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, a force answerable only to Khamenei that controls its own arsenal of ballistic missiles. In the time since, Iran has held no major military parades and conducted only limited drills at sea — likely out of the concern of providing Israel with any tempting targets. Criticism is slowly rising to the surface of Iran’s theocracy, which under Khamenei has grown into various competing camps and agencies often tasked with the same missions. Ali Shamkhani, a top adviser to Khamenei who survived an Israeli attack targeting him during the war, said in an online video that Iran’s earlier attacks against Israel in 2024 “did not achieve the outcomes” sought by Tehran — a rare acknowledgment by a senior official of He also even went as far as to openly muse about Iran pursuing a nuclear weapon — something Tehran long has insisted it doesn’t want to do despite the West and the International Atomic Energy Agency saying the Islamic Republic had an organized weapons program up until 2003. “Now that it has become clear, Iran should have developed this capability for itself,” Shamkhani said. After the interview, Shamkhani found himself targeted by the leak of a video from his daughter’s wedding, in which she was unveiled and wearing a wedding dress with a plunging neckline — something criticized by hard-liners who have been calling for a new campaign targeting women over the mandatory hijab, or headscarf. Former President Hassan Rouhani, who reached the 2015 nuclear deal, meanwhile has stepped up his criticism of hard-liners and sought to organize his fellow Shiite clerics in Qom, the Iranian seminary city. Executions are also now at a decades-long high. The theocracy meanwhile has largely been mute about the economic turmoil, sparked by exchange rate pressure, loose fiscal policies and sanctions, the International Monetary Fund said this week. The IMF estimates annual inflation in Iran to be 45% by the end of the year, further eating into people’s already-shriveled savings.Then there is Khamenei himself, with no clear front-runner to succeed him. His profile has dropped since the war, with more delays surrounding the release of his remarks — likely again a security measure against possibly being targeted by Israel. Yet at a moment when talks with the U.S. and the Europeans represent one path out of Iran’s issues, he’s been adamant that negotiations can’t be held. He gave a speech as both Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi went to New York for the U.N. General Assembly, which had the effect of stopping them from having direct negotiations. “Once a decision is made, everyone must follow it — whether they support it or not,” Araghchi told the state-run IRNA news agency in August, before the summit. Speaking to athletes on Monday, Khamenei kept up his criticism of the U.S. president and insisted Iran “will not submit to coercion.” Trump “prides himself on ‘bombing and destroying Iran’s nuclear industry,’” Khamenei said. “Fine — keep living that fantasy.”, the news director for the Gulf and Iran for The Associated Press, has reported from each of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, Iran and other locations across the Mideast and the wider world since joining the AP in 2006.Gambrell is the news director for the Gulf and Iran for The Associated Press. He has reported from each of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, Iran and other locations across the world since joining the AP in 2006.
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