Iran’s horrible year: How 2025 is pushing the nation to its limits

Iran’s horrible year: How 2025 is pushing the nation to its limits

The year 2025 might be Iran’s worst-ever annus horribilis. Only 10 months ago, there was some tentative optimism in the nation that, with a new president in the White House — albeit one who had gifted Iran its previous anni horribiles by withdrawing from a working nuclear agreement, and who, while campaigning in 2024, promised he would “solve” Iran’s nuclear issue — there might be a chance for a renewed nuclear deal and an entente with the U.S. …