Decades and decades of useless US sanctions have hardened the Iranian economy and drove them to Russia and China.
And Iran still managed to obtain Western funds through Bitcoin exchanges. Dummkopf Trumpf had pardoned one of these notorious crypto-currency goniffs.
Living in the neighborhood of belligerent Israel, the Iranians developed inexpensive asymmetric countermeasures, drones, which they have sold to the Kremlin-- the Shaheeds, for example.
One of Iran's cabinet ministers confessed that his country still has stockpiles of drones left.
I believe him.
Just imagine the ammunition stockpiles in North Korea after decades and decades of isolation.
For oil-poor Israel, the US shunned oil-rich Iran.
Under the notorious Shah, Iran was a US military ally in CENTO, a now defunct NATO analog in the Middle East.
Decades of foreign interference in the US body politic-- followed up with healthy dollops of irrational Islamophobia-- have prevented detente between Wash DC and Tehran-- and the 1980s Iran-Contra Affair exposed American duplicity.
Note that on 12 Nov 2001, Iran still tried to become friends again with the US. The Iranian IRGC-QF helped USSOF topple the Taliban in the city of Herat, paving the way for the US to initially depose the Taliban and root out al-Qaida operatives in Afghanistan.
Years later, Dummkopf Trumpf would later assassinate that IRGC-QF commander, a beloved military hero named General Qasem Soleimani.
The $300bn will go far in Iran to rebuild the country we attacked on behalf of Israel, replenish Tahran's drone stockpiles, and provide 100% universal healthcare for all their residents. Presently Iran is at 95%, which is a galaxy farther down the road than the US and our 'BBB.'
Endnote: The airwing of the Chinese PLA have developed these aerial drone carriers while the US will be wasting billions and billions of dollars building sinkable paleolithic Trumpf-class battleships.
