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<title><![CDATA[Benoit Faucon - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/53450.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Benoit Faucon]]></description><category domain="53450">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Tightening Squeeze Heaps More Pain on Iran's Ailing Economy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/trumps-tightening-squeeze-on-iran-will-heap-more-pain-on-its-battered-economy-9e2e8952?st=3t4sJe</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benoit Faucon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Iran'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s leaders have historically proved willing to impose enormous costs on the population rather than accept demands they see as threatening the regime'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s survival.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[American Blockade Taking Toll on Iran]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/iran-us-blockade-oil-641b89f2?st=cpDMLw</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benoit Faucon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Siege reveals hole in Tehran'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s strategy of guerrilla warfare and controlling Strait of Hormuz]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Iranian Economy Descends Into a Death Spiral]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/iranians-feel-the-pain-as-their-economy-descends-into-a-death-spiral-47dba669?st=3nEQei</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benoit Faucon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Businesses are closing, unemployment is soaring and food is increasingly unaffordable'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Does Iran Have Any Good Options Left?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/talking-or-fighting-all-of-irans-options-are-bad-c3527c0a?st=31d1WW</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Benoit Faucon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s new threats highlight how the regime is in its most dire position in decades]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Erik Prince Muscles Back Into the Mercenary Business]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/erik-prince-mercenaries-vectus-global-5a166dca?st=DWgLr6</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benoit Faucon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Edwin Ajahuana, a mine owner from high in the Andes, spent 23 hours traveling by road to meet the mercenary he hoped could protect his workers and assets.]]></description>
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