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Mark Dubowitz of FDD cautions, "We should never delude ourselves into thinking that these are men who want to see a buoyant Iranian economy with strong trading links to the West and thousands of Westerners flooding into Iran to take away their markets and corrupt their people. What they want to avoid is economic collapse that threatens the survival of their regime." He adds, "Russia and China provide an economic escape hatch from the full power of Western sanctions without the dangers to the regime from trade and political liberalization while also allowing Iran's hard men to retain the essential elements of their military-nuclear program."
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