In this episode of East to West, host Balig Sladeen sits down with Ella Rosenberg, an expert on the Iranian economy with extensive experience analyzing financial systems and capital movements, to understand how do they survive decades of crippling sanctions?Ella Rosenberg, whose research focuses on how funds are transferred from the Iranian regime to European countries explains that the Western idea of a "normal" economy, where goods are abundant and ordering is easy, doesn't exist for them. For Iranians, "bad is normal".