Is Iran’s economy buckling under war pressure or holding up?

Despite severe sanctions, Iran's economy shows resilience as surging oil revenues offset the deepening costs of regional conflict. | Contesto: cronaca

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• Is Iran’s economy buckling under war pressure or holding up?

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Iran's economy is weathering the dual pressures of a costly regional war and stringent international sanctions, with a significant and unexpected cushion provided by a sustained surge in oil revenues, according to recent analyses. The conflict, which has seen Iran engaged in a protracted shadow war across the Middle East, has deepened the structural damage to an economy already reeling from years of financial isolation. However, record levels of oil production and exports, facilitated by strategic partnerships that circumvent Western embargoes, have injected vital foreign currency and prevented a full-scale economic collapse. The resilience is notable given the scale of the financial burden. Military expenditures for supporting proxy forces and developing missile and drone arsenals have soared, diverting billions of dollars from domestic needs. Internally, the population grapples with soaring inflation, a plummeting currency, and chronic shortages of essential goods. The war effort has exacerbated these conditions, stretching the state's budget and further isolating Iran from the global financial system. Yet, the anticipated economic breaking point has been consistently deferred. This deferral is largely credited to the energy sector's performance. By cultivating opaque trade relationships with major buyers, including China, and utilizing complex shipping networks to obscure the origin of its cargoes, Iran has managed to ramp up crude exports to levels not seen since before the United States re-imposed sanctions in 2018. The revenue from these sales flows directly into state coffers, funding both the war machinery and a vast system of subsidies that maintains a degree of social stability, however tenuous. The economic strategy represents a high-stakes balancing act for the Tehran government. On one hand, it must fund its strategic ambitions and military commitments across the region, which it views as essential to its national security and ideological standing. On the other, it must manage a restive populace weary of economic hardship, as evidenced by periodic waves of protest. The oil windfall allows the regime to service both priorities simultaneously, but...

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