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Sanctions served to prevent boom in Iran economy: Analyst

Chief Executive of Suez Environment, Jean-Louis Chaussade (R), Iranian Energy Vice-Minister, Alireza Daemi (L), Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (Rear L) and French President Francois Hollande attend a bilateral political, cultural and economic agreements signing ceremony at the Elysee Palace in Paris on January 28, 2016 in Paris. ©AFP

Press TV has conducted an interview with Jim W. Dean, managing editor of Veterans Today in Atlanta, to discuss the recent remarks by Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani that US Republicans were asking for the inmates not to be released until after the presidential election in the United States.

The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: Thanks for joining us. How do you feel about this revelation?

Dean: It is a very strange story. One would think that why would the Republicans think Iran would cooperate with them in having some kind of surprise right up before the election that could possibly boost their fortune because if the Republicans had it to do over again, if they get in, they would like to re-impose the sanctions on Iran. So I cannot understand why they would think Iran would have cooperated on this when obviously Iran got a boost by having the prisoner exchange done, when the sanctions were coming off to end that issue and put it behind them.

Press TV: But at very least, it shows an obsession with the Islamic Republic in the US establishment, doesn’t it?  

Dean: It does show that the Republicans want to keep Iran a boogey man; that they have got a scab that they want to keep scratching with the Israelis to show that they were going to continue to keep beating up on Iran. Even though that we lost, we have got a constituency; we want to keep hostile and really it shows they are lost in time because the sanctions, now that Iran has diversified its economy, they are going to have huge investments from the West and all over the world coming in to Iran. They are going to be sanctions proof pretty much in the future. And as the world sees this happening, it will be obvious to everybody that the whole Iran boogey man, the nuclear hoax scare, was to prevent Iran becoming a larger economic force than that actually is.

So I think the Republicans are really going to just bury themselves on this if they keep beating the dead horse. 


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