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(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Iran's Resistance Economy Is Kicking In: Esfandyar Batmanghelidj Zamaninia has a point, considering that the U.S. is the only country seeking to enforce a global embargo on Iran's oil exports. Iran needs to keep the economy turning with the bandaid solutions of resistance management, even if it means undoing the hard-fought reforms that had helped make Iran's economy a little more globalized, more transparent, and less state-controlled over the past few years. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Investors Have Always Struggled in Iran: Esfandyar Batmanghelidj "DuPont's GE turbines sat in port for a year after the Iranian government commandeered every available dolly in the country to bring in its own generating equipment", Blaszczyk writes. DuPont executives obliged, on the understanding that the Iranian government would ensure a "protected market and a price structure that would permit profits", according to Blaszczyk's account. [Extracted from the article]

Just four months later, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom are ready to launch the much-anticipated SPV, a first-of-its-kind state-owned trade intermediary. Among other things, Germany worries that the Trump administration may deploy secondary sanctions against Russia, jeopardizing the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in particular, and EU-Russia trade more generally. The Trump administration is skeptical that the SPV will work. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- How to Get Iran to a New Deal: Esfandyar Batmanghelidj Prior to seeking a new deal with Iran, and before embarking on sanctions campaigns against other countries, the U.S. should create new instruments for the more effective lifting of sanctions. Until such instruments are in place, not only will a new deal with Iran remain a long-shot, but the U.S. will face continued resistance to its use of financial sanctions - from allies and adversaries alike. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Trump Should Sell Grain to Iran: Esfandyar Batmanghelidj By some accounts the Trump administration's Iran policy is inspired by the Reagan playbook. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Give Iran's Central Banker a Chance: Esfandyar Batmanghelidj Next week, the U.S. will reimpose sanctions on the Central Bank of Iran, one of the steps triggered by President Donald Trump's withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal in May. The U.S. should use Hemmati's arrival as a chance to synchronize its sanctions policy with the engagement efforts of its European partners. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Iran Needs Reform Before Revolution: Esfandyar Batmanghelidj But what regime change proponents fail to see - or admit - is that successful regime change is impossible without reform. [Extracted from the article]