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[li]Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, dubbed the “father of the Iranian bomb,” died from injuries after armed assassins fired upon his car, according to reports by Iranian media.[/li][li]Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif condemned the killing and alleged: “serious indications” of Israeli involvement.[/li][li]The Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment.[/li][/ul]
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Thursday declared the “end of the era of Trumpism” as Tehran continues to celebrate the defeat of the administration and the imminent end of its “maximum pressure” campaign, which has left Iran’s economy on the edge of collapse.
Iranian officials have been lauding Trump’s electoral defeat as vindication for Tehran’s resistance against the Trump administration, which has sought to contain Iran and force it to the table to negotiate a new, stricter nuclear deal.
Tehran was holding out for a Trump defeat to former Vice President Joe Biden, who is projected to win the contest with 306 electoral college votes. Biden was part of the administration that championed dialogue with Iran and signed the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action nuclear deal, which lifted crippling international sanctions on Tehran in exchange for limits on its nuclear program.
While inaugurating a new petrochemical plant on Thursday, Rouhani told reporters: “In the past three years of economic war, Iran proved that it will not surrender and the enemies suffered a humiliating defeat,” according to the Tasnim News Agency. Iran regularly frames American sanctions as economic warfare or economic terrorism.
Rouhani said Iran’s economy is “large” and “resistive,” adding: “Many came to destroy Iran but failed to do so.”
For all Iran’s stubbornness, American sanctions are biting. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said earlier this month that American measures have been “extraordinarily effective.”
“Today, Iran’s economy faces a currency crisis, mounting public debt, and rising inflation,” Pompeo said, noting that American sanctions had cut vital and lucrative Iranian oil exports by some 75 percent, denying the regime more than $70 billion in oil.