Thread by @TessHottenroth

@HNIJohnMiller you’ve long said that Iranians would cause regime change economically. Evidence of financial ruin in support of that theory as fodder for any upcoming Iran threads you may be planning follows (though who knows what this week will bring...)

Seminarians in Qom (the religious center) who receive stipends from Khameini are now protesting economic injustice under Rouhani. It’d be interesting to delve into how much Rouhani’s administration influences spending versus Khamenei.
trackpersia.com/qom-seminarian…

There’s been constant turmoil and turnover in the past months and weeks. A plethora of cabinet, banking and finance heads have been detained, fired, hired, and summoned to testify lately.
uk.reuters.com/article/uk-ira…

Oh and that reopened reparations file? They just want a cool trillion. Apparently signing the Caspian Sea over to Russia didn’t fill the coffers. (See Mr. Taheri’s timeline for knowledgeable insight on the Caspian Sea issue also).

https://twitter.com/amirtaheri4/status/1030776603687743488?s=21

With decades of corrupt socialism as wind in the sails, there are obviously no quick/easy solutions that can tamp down the public disquiet. It seems more like public frenzy in search of a scapegoat.
News from captain obvious!
en.radiofarda.com/a/iran-corrupt…

Eventually the center will no longer hold. While some may blame this administration / sanctions for causing a coup I’m heartened knowing that the impetus for change has been internal.
Indeed, it won’t be the US that does it.
#براندازم
uk.reuters.com/article/uk-ira…