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Mark Dubowitz, the executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), said the administration has greatly underestimated the amount of economic relief it gave to Tehran.
"We estimate that Iran has benefitted from much greater economic relief than U.S. policymakers have acknowledged," Dubowitz said in a recent report on Iran's improving economy.
"While the Iranian economy remains under pressure, its stabilization and improvement in key areas has diminished the severity of the economic pressure on Iran's leaders and enhanced their negotiating leverage," he said. "This may account for the intransigence that Tehran has demonstrated at the talks in Vienna."
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