A principal strategy being used by Iran to pressure the U.S. into dropping the conditions required for a new iteration of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) to be agreed upon is to position itself as a huge reservoir of oil (and gas) that can be used to bring global oil prices down and alleviate the economic hardships that these are causing. Given the inability of OPEC member states, and Russia, to materially increase their production of crude oil, Iran has announced a huge expansion of another of its supergiant oil reservoirs, Azadegan,…
