MolanaChet

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[MolanaChet @ChetMolana]

@HatsOffff His politics is as shity and lazy as his comedy… the guy hasn’t prepared a set in years just lampooning and off-color jokes on the stage

[MolanaChet @ChetMolana]

@USABehFarsi شتر در خواب بیند پنبه دانه گهی لف لف خورد گه دانه دانه

[MolanaChet @ChetMolana]

@miadmaleki The ship you are trying to sink has 90+ millions of your countrymen in it. Your hate for IR blinds you to see their sufferings, and worse, you are enabling that.

[Esfandyar Batmanghelidj @yarbatman]

You know what's normal? Corruption and mismanagement. So many countries around the world are led by governments, frequently authoritarian, which have persistently mismanaged their economies.

Egypt, Pakistan, Nigeria, Argentina, South Africa, Turkey, India etc. are all performing far below their potential because of policy failures connected to corruption and elite politics.

Notwithstanding its own corruption and mismanagement, Iran was actually outperforming many of these countries in delivering economic welfare until 2012. Ordinary Iranians were getting consistently richer until the sanctions really tightened that year.

What makes Iran unique *is* the sanctions. It is their pervasive and extreme impact that distinguishes Iran from other "normally mismanaged" countries. Unlike every other country experiencing economic malaise around the world, neither the Iranian state nor the private sector can engage in routine commerce. Iran cannot freely export its oil and non-oil goods and it even struggles to efficiently import food. The country faces a persistent and wholly artificial balance of payments crisis because of expansive U.S. sanctions pushed by your employer.

Who's to blame for this situation? You want to blame Iran's leaders for this predicament. In your view, it's their fault that they have undertaken policies that led them to be sanctioned by Trump. Assigning blame solely on one side is obviously ahistorical and reductive, but for the sake of argument let's say its correct and that only Iran should be blamed for the imposition of the sanctions. Does that actually absolve the U.S. from responsibility for the pain faced by ordinary Iranians? Absolutely not, because they U.S. is not just causing the hardship, it is also denying ordinary Iranians the means to alleviate the economic pain they are enduring.

Once again, we can look to other countries for a guide. When an economic crisis hits Pakistan or Argentina or South Africa, ordinary people take matters into their own hands. When things get really extreme, one form of recourse is emigration. Those who do emigrate send remittances back to their countries to support their suffering family members. Ordinary Iranians cannot do this. They are uniquely encumbered by U.S. sanctions and related policies.

If they can get a visa, Iranians can scarcely afford to emigrate to most countries and are banned from the U.S. altogether by racist policies. Those who are abroad cannot easily send money back to Iran because U.S. sanctions policy makes banks and money service businesses cower from processing payments to Iranian bank accounts.

So in effect, the sanctions have created a crisis, trapped ordinary Iranians in the crisis, and denied them the means to shield themselves from the pain of the crisis. Even if you refuse to believe that "maximum pressure" sanctions are an abnormal and amoral tool or that the U.S. government should be held responsible for their imposition, you cannot skirt the fact that sanctions deny Iranians the basic means to protect themselves from the fallout of sanctions ostensibly intended to target elites. People are getting poorer, hungrier, more desperate in a country that until quite recently had a large and growing middle class.

These conditions arose because the goal of sanctions stopped being "behavior change" years ago. The goal is to turn Iran into a weak and dysfunctional state, even if that means crushing the livelihoods and aspirations of 90 million people.

The Trump administration keeps speaking of the Islamic Republic as a "sinking ship." If ordinary people were a priority, they'd at least be thrown a lifeline. But in Iran, as in Cuba, Afghanistan, and Venezuela, people are being left to drown and people like you, who hold the rope in their hands, stand there blaming the Iranian regime for your own lack of moral action.

[MolanaChet @ChetMolana]

@oliverburdick Allah is not a name, it literally means „the God“. In Lebanon also Christians say Allah in their prayers when they call out God

[MolanaChet @ChetMolana]

@RayDalio “The orange man and the battle of Hormuz”

[MolanaChet @ChetMolana]

@USABehFarsi Number is increasing with each Truth, it started at 30k and now is at 52k 🧐

[MolanaChet @ChetMolana]

@Acyn In Iran she is known as an idiot. Seems language isn’t a barrier for her to show her “special talents”

[MolanaChet @ChetMolana]

@BBCArdalan Is this is not act of terror then what is?

[MolanaChet @ChetMolana]

@marklevinshow Because you lost the war and the loser doesn’t dictate terms

[MolanaChet @ChetMolana]

@BillAckman Oil refineries and metal & medicine factories, hospital and schools are military targets? This is what you are missing

[MolanaChet @ChetMolana]

@BBCArdalan Great job to the Iranian negotiation team 👍

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

LOGICAL COURSE OF EVENTS
Gulf states, including the UAE, are finding that Iranian protection is more effective & less #fragile than one by remote Western powers or, of course, by the state currently known as Israel.

[MolanaChet @ChetMolana]

@bundeskanzler @POTUS While you are at it remember you MUST not kiss more 🍑 🍑

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

Some Iranian engineer is quietly chuckling,

[MolanaChet @ChetMolana]

ای مگس حضرت سیمرغ نه جولانگه توست
عرض خود می‌بری و زحمت ما می‌داری

تو به تقصیر خود افتادی از این در محروم
از که می‌نالی و فریاد چرا می‌داری؟

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

For idiots w/either short memory or lack of historical curiosity/sophistication, a reminder that Sadam w/U.S. support invaded S. Iran in 1980 to grab a contested area thinking that it would be a "matter of days" w/an Iran "weakened" by the revolution.
The war ended 8 y later.

[MolanaChet @ChetMolana]

Strait of Hormuz

View from the Hormuz Island

[MolanaChet @ChetMolana]

@omiddana19 بازار آزاد همینه دیگه… کسی محبورشون نکرده. شما هم کنسرت بذار قیمت بلیت‌ و بالا بذار

[MolanaChet @ChetMolana]

@bryan_johnson To do what? Live a boring life? 🤓 🍷