In late 2016, when Donald Trump was elected US president, it seemed logical that he would withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal.
After all, he had repeatedly condemned the deal as the worst in US history and explicitly campaigned on the promise that he would scrap it. Iranian bankers, whose hopes for the normalization of their country’s financial sector relied on the survival of the international agreement, found the news ominous, although outwardly they tried to appear optimistic.
Business hopes
One hope remained for Iran.
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