Dr. Janice Stein
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No constraints at all after 15 years.
And they were free to do what they wanted with respect to enrichment.
That is a big difference between the two bills.
So were this to happen, and who knows, because it's not a small gap, but were this to happen, it would be fair to say this is a better deal than the Obama administration got.
Now, who knows where tolls are in this story either?
Because you can reopen the Strait.
But you can charge a toll, right?
And none of that was in place when the war started.
The big thing for them, sanctions relief.
All those sanctions are going to be lifted.
They are asking for reparations.
The reparations are going to get changed into unfreezing their frozen assets, which is significant, and sanctions relief.
And that has to matter now.
No matter what they say, that has to matter to these guys because the day the war stops, they confront an impoverished population, a middle class that is broken in Iran right now.
There was a really interesting piece about Iranians, you know, walking to the cafes and to have coffee.
Wow.
They can afford coffee, but that's all.
And the reporter interviewed people and they said, we've given up on saving.
It's so desperate that we're just going to go out and spend what we have on espresso in a cafe.
This is an impoverishment of the Iranian middle class.