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Understanding Iran

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The Iran Deal Is a Game Over, Right?

The bet on the Rouhani years internally and probably from where you were sitting as well was that these are people we can deal with. Everything kind of collapsed onto that, right? Because internally it was also the same time that serious happenings of the IRGCs flexing its muscles there. Then externally, Trump gets elected so this bet on the deal gets torn up and there's no room to even test that proposition. And the other promise of the deal for normal Iranians was a better economic situation. We don't have right now. The whole thing. So I think that it's done.

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