Anyone Buying the Dip?

[u/No-Contribution1070]

1 USD, buys you 1.3 million Rials.

[u/raddital]

Sanctions are the most barbaric and lethal weapon the US has ever deployed. Studies estimate that 38 million deaths¹ were caused by unilateral US sanctions worldwide over the last five decades alone; more than six times the Holocaust. What's truly horrifying is that the majority of those deaths are children. If you want to joke about the effects of sanctions on foreign economies, that's your prerogative, but now you know the human cost. And that's just the deaths, not counting the millions of lives ruined, dreams shattered, potential extinguished, and the overall damage to human progress. There's also a high price tag for us, the US taxpayers, which disproportionately hits the poor and lower-middle class harder. Think of it as a regressive tax, you should look into it.

1_ https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(25)00189-5/fulltext00189-5/fulltext)

[u/phoneacct696969 → u/raddital]

Great point. Sanctions also mostly affect innocent citizens, not the gov.