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The Iranian defence budget is something like 10-20 billion a year, btw. How's that for a return on investment.
I’m not sure that 300 billion is even enough to pay for all the damages that were done to begin with, not much of a return on investment.
The best trade deal in the history of trade deals, maybe ever.
Really? Did you forget that the US blew up more than one Iranian elementary school?
I mean, one could make the argument that higher poverty levels from Western sanctions were killing more elementary school children than that yearly, so a few elementary schools for sanctions relief is "worth it" in a purely utilitarian sense. That aside I don't think the Iranian regime was optimizing for minimum dead elementary school children, so it can be a good deal for them even if it sucks for other people.
I'm not saying it's not true, but do you have a source for this?
Nope. That's why I phrased it as an argument that can be made, not an established fact. That said, the impact of US sanctions on Iranian healthcare is well documented (1 2 3), and that's before getting to knock-on effects from general increased poverty, so I'd be very surprised if this was not the case.
Art of the deal!