Richard Goldberg
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Well, I think the important context to remember that we never had full compliance from the Iranians on what we thought they were supposed to do under the MOU.
When we lifted the blockade up front, we issued a general license out of the Treasury Department that, at least on its face, allows the Iranians to sell their oil on the open market and get paid for it, even in dollars, which was a pretty big concession.
And if they do certain other things, they can unfree some more funds, you know, let the inspectors back in, give up the nuclear material, dismantle things.
They can get a lot more money out of it.
But upfront concessions on their side are free navigation services.
Freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz.
No tolling, no interference, no harassment.
And from day one, it was very much, well, a press release from the IRGC.
We're still going to charge a toll.
You've got to come through us.
And then the other side of the house would say, well...
We're waiting 60 days under the deal to impose tolls, but get ready to pay tolls.
Then suddenly you'd see a ship get fired upon.
This wasn't the first time this happened since the MOU.
And the U.S.
would respond with some sort of a retaliatory strike against points along the coast or on the islands around the Strait of Hormuz.
And so even despite all that uncertainty and the lack of sort of complete compliance by the Iranian side, the shipping community took the device of the MOU, sort of the feature of there is supposedly now peace.
There is supposedly now a ceasefire.
There's a bridge to something more at the end of 60 days.
There's an incentive structure for the Iranians to play along.
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