David E. Sanger
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Right.
So one way to think about this is a Marshall Plan for Iran, which is how we rebuilt Germany after the war.
Right.
But not coming from American taxpayers.
Presumably it would come from the Gulf allies.
Now, let's stop and acknowledge for a moment this may never happen.
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.
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