ELN Policy Fellow Axel Hellman and Founder of Bourse & Bazaar, Esfandyar Batmanghelidj, cited by BBC Persia for their policy brief ‘Europe, Iran, and Economic Sovereignty: A New Banking Architecture in Response to US Sanctions’
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