Dr. Janice Stein

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.

They know that and they have to do something about the Iranian economy and they can't do that

With the oil frozen, the exports frozen, and no sanctions relief.

So this is a hurting stalemate for both sides.

That's the rare moment where you can sometimes get a deal.

Yeah, but with Iranian money, let's just understand, because that was really unfair by the Trump administration on Obama, okay?