Iran’s Sanctions Economy: How Survival Became System Failure

Описание: Sanctions are often framed as pressure meant to force change. But pressure alone does not explain what happens when a nation is pushed outside the normal channels of global finance for decades. Iran’s story is not a single crisis. It is a long experiment in economic life under restriction—where access replaces competitiveness, survival replaces productivity, and distortion becomes policy.

In this documentary, we trace the system logic behind Iran’s endurance and the structural damage that accumulates beneath it. Stage one shows how distortion becomes normal: multiple exchange rates, managed scarcity, and parallel pricing. Stage two follows institutional hardening, where control over access grows more valuable than efficiency. Stage three maps the capital inversion: savings flee into hard assets, investment horizons shrink, and productive capacity erodes quietly. Stage four explores trade rerouting, from formal channels into shadow networks that preserve flow but leak value. Stage five examines internal lock-in, where distortion creates stakeholders who resist normalization.

Finally, we connect these patterns to the modern global system—where compliance-driven finance, centralized logistics, and faster information flows narrow the space for adaptation. The result is not a prediction of timing, but a clear sequence: endurance can delay visible collapse while embedding rigidity that makes future shocks transmit faster and hit harder.

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