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The spread of the coronavirus throughout the Middle East constitutes a major challenge (Photo: Amin Tabrizi)

Pandemic means EU needs to regionalise its Iran policy

As Europe and Iran appear to be emerging from the first stage of the corona pandemic, all pre-existing problems are re-surfacing too.

Stringent US sanctions – opposed by the Europeans – helped exacerbate Iran's socio-economic malaise, but also allowed hardliners around the revolutionary guards to become stronger internally.

Meanwhile, the plunge in oil prices has hit the Gulf's petro-monarchies harder than the already-squeezed Islamic Republic, threatening to fuel regional instab...

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Cornelius Adebahr is a non-resident fellow at Carnegie Europe in Brussels and a fellow at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin.

The spread of the coronavirus throughout the Middle East constitutes a major challenge (Photo: Amin Tabrizi)

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Cornelius Adebahr is a non-resident fellow at Carnegie Europe in Brussels and a fellow at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin.

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