Jeffrey Sachs

It's been an economic war.

What our Treasury Secretary, who I increasingly regard to be a thug, basically, not a Treasury Secretary, but someone who...

delights and gloats in crushing other economies by using financial means or trade sanctions or financial blockages.

And delights in it explained in Davos this year in a Fox News interview with Maria Bartiromo that our statecraft destroyed the Iranian economy last year.

Well, we've been doing that kind of statecraft.

What a horrible Orwellian term for destroying another country's economy.

We've been doing that for decades.

And we have been engaged in assassinations of Iranian leaders.

We have been engaged in blowing up their nuclear facilities, even when they have been pleading, let's have an agreement that puts us under attack.

strict supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

We've been using what's called hybrid warfare, every possible means of subversion,

of economic warfare, of direct military action, of covert operations.

Donald Trump confirmed that in the protests last year, the U.S.

sent weapons to the protesters.

That's not a protest.

That's an insurrection we were creating that did not work.

But the point I'm making is that

We portray Iran as evil because it did something unacceptable to the United States that doesn't involve nuclear weapons or any of the specific issues or Hezbollah or Hamas.

It goes back to 1979.

They escape from the American empire.