David E. Sanger
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first heard Dec 2024
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For him, this is not just an economic calculation.
It's a political calculation.
His entire party was telling him that if these gas prices stayed up through the summer when everybody's driving into the midterms, that he's got a big problem.
And we all know that it's going to take months to have a significant economic impact for countries to be able to build up their reserves of oil again and for the prices to begin to drop in a serious way.
So if he didn't do it now, it wasn't going to happen before the midterm elections.
Yes, it was a pretty striking line from Senator Cassidy and similar to things we heard off the record until this agreement got published.
And now we're hearing more and more of it.
But that's mostly because of how much Iran gets upfront.
Well, the biggest upfront benefit, Natalie, is the blockade goes away.
And that American blockade, to remind you, was a blockade against any shipping traffic coming into Iran and any going out.
Right.
So it basically bottled up all of their oil shipments.
That's all over.
So they can start shipping and money will be flowing to Iran again through those sales.
And that all happens immediately.
Now, once they get that oil money flowing, obviously they've got a lot of people suffering.
They have a lot of rebuilding to go do.
But one of the big concerns is once the money comes in, it will probably be spent in part
on rebuilding many of their military facilities that were destroyed during the war.
Money is fungible.
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