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Comment by rasz | Hacker News Reader

other than $300B war reparations

And the 2700 (regime number) to 30,000 dead Iranians seeking freedom from Islamic religious theocracy who Trump urged to come out and told help was on the way. I hate how much we just betray people who trust us and just want freedom. We betrayed the people after the fall of the Soviet Union who trusted us and said 'OK we will join you'. We betrayed so many Afghans. We betrayed Canada and Denmark. I hate this shit.

Some of the brave people who tried to fight for freedom over Islamic theocracy, trusted in Trumps words help is on the way, and lost their lives. Trump (America) spent their lives as well: https://www.bbc.com/persian/resources/idt-c005edd8-7204-4c74...

Autocracy thrives when there is an enemy to point to. If Iran is integrated into the west it is likely to become less theological and more about just doing business just like China has become more capitalist oriented after Nixon detente.

So don’t give up hope. The carrot in these cases is better than the stick.

Gaza hasn’t got its $10b funding yet so do you really think Iran will get $300B? And remember most of the fund are just confiscated Iranian funds anyhow.

The funds that are confiscated are the 25b of released frozen assets. I do think that the US will uphold its agreements, as it absolutely should.

If the US and allies didn't want to spend the 300b they should've stuck with the existing agreement that didn't include 300b in repairs.

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