Fraser McIlwraith
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This is a gigantic sum of money, basically equal to Iran's annual GDP.
J.D.
Vance earlier in the week was talking up the prospect of a fund of this sort, saying this is the kind of thing that the Iran
Iranians could have access to if they play along.
Although he did say that it would be funded by Gulf countries.
Later in the week, Trump said that America wouldn't be involved in paying into this fund, and he said that he hadn't asked Gulf countries to contribute to it.
This does seem like it's a kind of typical Trump peacemaking offer.
It's basically an offer to get lots and lots of money flowing.
In the hope that it greases the wheels of the negotiations and helps all of the other issues sort themselves out.
But there are some really serious problems with this idea, quite apart from the fact that Iran's Gulf neighbors have been having drones and missiles lobbed at them for the past few months, and they will want to do anything other than send money into Iran.
Sanctions on Iran, which have been built
Up over the years and of long-deterred foreign investors would need to be unwound for anything like this kind of money going into the country.
And we're not talking about sanctions waivers here and there on oil exports.
If you think about the way that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have extended their reach throughout Iran's economy, any kind of investment into the country's industry really would need pretty
comprehensive sanctions relief, and that will be a very tough political sell at home for Donald Trump.
Yeah, absolutely.
So it's a big inducement that America seems to be offering Iran, but I would take it with a pretty serious pinch of salt, and there's a good chance that it never materializes.
Yeah, so I think
This war, in a way, is one which has changed everything and changed nothing.
In the weeks that follow, I think we will get a situation which maybe has the appearance of normality.
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