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Thanks to Trump, the mullahs are going bankrupt.
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15183/iran-mullahs-bankrupt
Thanks to Trump, the Mullahs Are Going Bankrupt
by Majid Rafizadeh
November 21, 2019 at 4:00 am
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One of the reasons behind IMF's gloomy picture of Iran's economy is linked
to the Trump administration's decision not to extend its waiver for Iran's
eight biggest oil buyers; China, India, Greece, Italy, Taiwan, Japan, Turkey
and South Korea.
Iran's national currency, the rial, also continues to lose value: it dropped
to historic lows. One US dollar, which equaled approximately 35,000 rials in
November 2017, now buys you nearly 110,000 rials.
On November 12, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani acknowledged for the first
time that "Iran is experiencing one of its hardest years since the 1979
Islamic revolution" and that "the country's situation is not normal." (Image
source: Tasnim News/CC by 4.0)
The critics of President Trump's Iran policy have been proven wrong: the US
sanctions are imposing significant pressure on the ruling mullahs of Iran
and the ability to fund their terror groups.
Before the US Department of Treasury leveled secondary sanctions against
Iran's oil and gas sectors, Tehran was exporting over two million barrel a
day of oil. Currently, Tehran's oil export has gone down to less than
200,000 barrel a day, which represents a decline of roughly 90% in Iran's
oil exports.
Iran has the second-largest natural gas reserves and the fourth-largest
proven crude oil reserves in the world, and the sale of these resources
account for more than 80 percent of its export revenues. The Islamic
Republic therefore historically depends heavily on oil revenues to fund its
military adventurism in the region and sponsor militias and terror groups.
Iran's presented budget in 2019 was nearly $41 billion, while the regime was
expecting to generate approximately $21 billion of it from oil revenues.
This means that approximately half of Iran's government revenue comes from
exporting oil to other nations.
Even though Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, boasts about the
country's self-sufficient economy, several of Iran's leaders recently
admitted the dire economic situation that the government is facing. Speaking
in the city of Kerman on November 12, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani
acknowledged for the first time that "Iran is experiencing one of its
hardest years since the 1979 Islamic revolution" and that "the country's
situation is not normal."
Rouhani also complained:
"Although we have some other incomes, the only revenue that can keep the
country going is the oil money. We have never had so many problems in
selling oil. We never had so many problems in keeping our oil tanker fleet
sailing.... How can we run the affairs of the country when we have problems
with selling our oil?"
Thanks to the US policy of "maximum pressure," the Islamic Republic's
overall economy has taken a major beating as well. Lately, the International
Monetary Fund (IMF) has again adjusted its forecast for Iran's economy and
pointed out that Iran's economy is expected to shrink by 9.5% rather than 6%
by the end of 2019.
One of the reasons behind IMF's gloomy picture of Iran's economy is linked
to the Trump administration's decision not to extend its waiver for Iran's
eight biggest oil buyers; China, India, Greece, Italy, Taiwan, Japan, Turkey
and South Korea. Instead of showing economic growth in 2019, Iran's economy
would be 90% of its size by the end of 2019 in comparison to two years ago,
based on a recent report from the World Bank.
Iran's national currency, the rial, also continues to lose value: it dropped
to historic lows. One US dollar, which equaled approximately 35,000 rials in
November 2017, now buys you nearly 110,000 rials.
In addition, the Islamic Republic appears to be scrambling to compensate for
the loss of revenues it is encountering. A few days ago, for example, Iran's
leaders tripled the price of gasoline. It appears a sign of desperation to
generate revenues in order to fund their military adventurism in the region
and support their proxies and terror groups.
This increase immediately led people to rise up against the government. In
the last few days, several Iranian cities have become the scenes of
widespread protests and demonstrations. The protests first erupted in Ahvaz
and then spread to many other cities in the Khuzestan province as well as in
the capital Tehran, and Kermanshah, Isfahan, Tabriz, Karadj, Shiraz, Yazd,
Boushehr, Sari, Khorramshahr, Andimeshk, Dezful, Behbahan and Mahshahr.
Tehran's diminishing resources have also caused Iranian leaders to cut funds
to the Palestinian terror group Hamas and the Lebanese militant group,
Hezbollah. Hamas was forced to introduce "austerity plans" while Hassan
Nasrallah, the leader of Iran's proxy, Hezbollah, has also called on his
group's fundraising arm "to provide the opportunity for jihad with money and
also to help with this ongoing battle."
To the likely dismay of Washington's critics, President Trump's Iran policy
has been heading in the right direction. By escalating economic sanctions,
the ruling mullahs and their proxies are going bankrupt. Other nations now
need to join the US by also adopting a "maximum pressure" policy -- even if
they would rather continue to do business with Iran and undermine President
Trump's administration -- to them, a "twofer". If Iran succeeds in
developing its nuclear weapons breakout capability, in the end it will be
used to blackmail precisely them.
Dr. Majid Rafizadeh is a business strategist and advisor, Harvard-educated
scholar, political scientist, board member of Harvard International Review,
and president of the International American Council on the Middle East. He
has authored several books on Islam and US foreign policy. He can be reached
at ***@Post.Harvard.Edu
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