David E. Sanger
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 23 Jul
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Right.
I'm not even sure how the Iranian economy works.
could absorb $300 billion.
And the place is so riven with corruption that a lot of investors would be rightly concerned to think that their money would disappear into the black hole of Iran, where the IRGC, the military, does not exactly conform with normal accounting standards.
But the concept is that they would get the benefit.
And this has raised a lot of concern in Congress, Natalie,
Well, the first thing they say is you can't reintegrate a country with the global economy unless you make it possible.
But remember, for years we have used the Treasury's huge powers to control the dollar to cut off all forms of funding that we can find coming into Iran.
And so this commits the administration to reversing all of that
presumably, again, in return for performance.
But the markers of performance are not described in this document.
That's right.
And those sanctions are on all kinds of things.
They're on banking.
They're on export controls.
And they come from all kinds of places.
Some have been placed by President Trump.
Some were kept in place by Joe Biden, who never reversed the Trump sanctions.
Some go back to the Bush administration.
There are sanctions that Congress has imposed.
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