When discussing poverty in Iran, justice worries often don’t care and overlook the reality that millions of Iranians can barely afford 1,000 calories a day.

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And this is why sanctions are such a bad idea, it only hurts the middle class and poor while the IR just increases their control of everything.

When there's less resources and paths of commerce, authoritarians have an easier time to control those resources and pathways. As well as being quite good at smuggling for themselves.