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  • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
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    8 days ago

    The explanation of the “dollar bill flight” I was looking for.

    Is this Iran’s gold?

    It is now. Gold is fungible. It belongs to whoever has it. Like 2% of all the gold in the world can be tracked back to an ethical origin point. Once it gets minted its history gets erased.

    I think one thing that Iran must be careful of in regards to asset retrieval is not falling into the trap of making Iranian economic development dependent on Western or Western aligned investment.

    This isn’t investment, this is returning seized assets. If you have to break someone bones to get them to pay you what they owe are you going to keep doing business with them? The MoU’s “$300 billion in reconstruction” was never agreed to be an “investment” by Iran. If Iran had agreed to it as an investment the MoU would have said that. That was only ever an american talking point to spin part 7 in the MoU into less of a capitulation.

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      This is overall a positive thing, but I’m still on guard with talks of assets due to how much it ended up controlling the narrative during the MoU. Retrieving stolen assets is a good thing, but until the US is completely and utterly removed from the region, I see it as secondary to the decolinization process. I was just airing out some concerns I have about the topic.

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          8 days ago

          No No, don’t worry, I just wanted to explain my reasoning! I hope I don’t come off as too thin skinned with my responses at times. I appreciate the input that comrades leave here, it’s always useful to better refine my own application of DiMat.