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Esfandyar Batmanghelidj @yarbatman
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We already know how @SecPompeo's speech will be received by ordinary #Iranians. The sentiments are clear in nationally-representative opinion polling from January, when protests broke out across #Iran. These speeches are a sideshow for real mobilization.
iranpoll.com/s/IranPoll-UMD…
Perhaps unsurprisingly given its actions on the nuclear deal and the harsh reapplication of sanctions, nearly 70% of Iranians believe that the Trump administration's policy towards #Iran is "completely hostile." The figure is probably even higher now.
Importantly, journalists actually bothering to speak to Iranians in #Iran are also getting this clear message today.
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1. Everyone who cares about the wellbeing of the Iranian people and the credibility of American leadership can get behind this idea: Trump should sell grain to Iran.
bloomberg.com/view/articles/…
2. Fact 1: Iran has made strides in boosting its agricultural output, but still has a significant reliance on imports for key grains. The US is among the countries selling to Iran under sanctions exemptions. In August, Iran was the #1 destination for American soybeans.
3. Fact 2: The Trump administration is working from the Reagan playbook when it comes to its Iran policy. @mike_giglio's reporting helps illustrate this. Pompeo cites Reagan at length in his recent @ForeignAffairs piece. It's the 1980s baby!
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This may be the most significant #Iran sanctions designation in a decade. The Trump administration knows exactly what it is doing here. It is putting the wellbeing of ordinary Iranians at risk by sanctioning a bank at the heart of trade in food + medicine.
bourseandbazaar.com/articles/2018/…
For further context with background from senior Iranian bankers, read @MotamediMaziar's reporting for @BourseBazaar:
bourseandbazaar.com/articles/2018/…
Also, we have been tracking this issue since May. It does not come as a surprise to those in the trenches:
bourseandbazaar.com/articles/2018/…
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How is this a secret? Iranian media has been writing openly about the operationalization of these arrangements for months. Plus, expanded Russian-Iranian energy cooperation was discussed back in March 2017, agreed in November 2017, and initial exports hit in December 2017.
March 2017: Russian Energy Minister Novak talks about oil barter deal
tasnimnews.com/fa/news/1395/1…
November 2017: Moscow Times announces that a energy cooperation deal was agreed when Putin was in Tehran
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#Iran pledges Syria reconstruction as Iranians plunge into poverty irannewswire.org/iran-pledges-s…
With the current inflation in #Iran which the regime puts at 46.5% for food and beverages, 54.9% for transportation, and 52.6% for home appliances, ordinary Iranians have a hard time affording food and other basic goods.
The price of meat has doubled since last year and many people say they have not been able to buy meat for months.

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1)
 Let’s talk about a newly written piece by @bozorgmehr, again turning @Reuters into a mouthpiece for #Iran’s regime to lie about how U.S. sanctions by literally whitewashing the mullahs’ crimes.
reuters.com/article/us-usa…
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 To make a long story short, @bozorgmehr’s report literally places all the blame of #Iran’s economic woes on U.S. sanctions.

This is a narrative of the Iranian regime published extensively through its apologists/lobbyists in the #MSM these days.
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 A few questions:

How come @bozorgmehr doesn't mention that #Iran’s @khamenei_ir “oversees an organization called Setad that has assets estimated at about $95 billion?”

Why doesn’t Khamenei use this money to provide for ordinary Iranians?
reuters.com/investigates/i…
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“How did we get into this mess?" Obama asked Putin.'

@Sultanknish frontpagemag.com/fpm/270784/tru…
'It was the summer of ’09 and the two men, one a former community organizer and the other a former KGB officer, were sitting on the veranda of Putin’s dacha.'

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When @JZarif says, "#Iran never raced towards a bomb, nor will it race towards a bomb," rest assured it is the exact opposite.
We will realize how Tehran sought nuclear arms for decades. For a country sitting on an ocean of oil & gas, a "peaceful" nuclear program is meaningless.
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For those who describe #Iran's FM @JZarif as a "moderate" or "reformist"

"We will exit the NPT. / We will launch advanced enrichment," he says in response to Trump's May 12th #IranDeal deadline.
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