Trita Parsi

No, and we have to remember during the Obama years, it was called crippling sanctions.

Hillary Clinton constantly used the language of crippling their economy.

I wrote on Twitter, this was not a slip of the tongue.

This is not her accidentally saying the quiet part out loud.

This was always the intent.

To get to a state in which you destroy the economy, and as a result, you get people to rise up to overthrow the government.

But to do so, you have to make their lives as miserable as possible so that they have no choice but to go out on the streets and risk their lives.

But the playbook has been to never admit it, constantly say that the medicine shortage is not because of sanctions.

it's because of the regime's incompetence and corruption.

And without a doubt, there's a tremendous amount of incompetence and corruption in the Iranian government, for sure.

But these type of shortages do not occur by themselves.

They do occur as a result of the sanctions.

The latest research has made it very, very clear that the sanctions is the triggering thing that really causes the degree to which the economy is collapsing.

But you don't admit it until the very end when you think a regime change is about to happen, because at that point, you want to take credit for it.

But up until that point, you do and you...

You go and you gaslit and you say, well, sanctions have nothing to do with this.

Sanctions have nothing to do with the fact that medicine cannot get in.

Sanctions have nothing to do with the fact that the currency is collapsing, that the economy is collapsing.

But once it does, then you take credit for it because you say that you achieved this.

Back in the warm in just a moment.