The Guardian website had published an analytical article the previous week by Kaveh Madani and Tom Lewis examining the potentially positive effects that the lifting of severe economic sanctions against Iran might have on the country's ability to address the damaging effects of climate change on its natural resources.
The authors first reviewed several environmental problems which, together with Iran's water problems and economic sanctions, had created major difficulties during the preceding decade for agriculture, urban communities, and industry.
They then argued that, following the lifting of Western sanctions, Iran could be in a stronger position to confront those problems if its financial and natural resources were managed effectively.
The article referred to the document Iran brought to the Paris climate conference the previous December. According to the source post, Iran stated during the conference that it hoped the removal of sanctions would allow it to make a more substantial contribution to reducing its greenhouse-gas emissions.
Madani, described by the source as a leading scholar in water resources, and Lewis concluded on a hopeful note. They argued that easing the economic, psychological, and social pressures associated with sanctions could allow Iranian society to expand economic, industrial, scientific, and research relationships with the Western world and make better use of opportunities already available to it.
In the original article's play on words, Iran could then try to “circumvent”—this time not economic sanctions, but the climate and environmental problems visibly challenging the country's soil, air, and water resources.
This translation preserves the original article's January 2016 framing of sanctions and environmental policy.