“Thank God, the site is continuing its work as before,” said Behrouz Kamalvandi, a spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran.  These sorts of comments are common, incorporating theological and political comments.  But they also capture the importance of the nuclear program to Iran’s Regime—it’s power, security, and future.  See “Iran reports 2nd mysterious “incident” near a nuclear facility,” CBS News, July 2, 2020.

“INTERPOL Denies Issuing Red Notices for Donald Trump, U.S. Officials, as Iran Claimed,” Polygraph.info, July 2, 2020.

“U.S. files suit to seize gasoline in four Iran tankers headed to Venezuela,” WKZO, July 2, 2020.

Again, we will believe it when we see it.  Iran has a long history of not providing compensation for its deeds and actions.  “”We have signed an agreement of mutual understanding that we will now negotiate together with Iran about amends, compensation to the victims’ next of kin,” Foreign Minister Ann Linde told Swedish news agency TT.”  See “Iran to compensate Ukraine plane crash victims, Swedish official says,” David Keyton and Jan Olsen, AP, Stars and Stripes, July 2, 2020.

“Iran must be held to account for global espionage, assassinations and terrorism plots,” Majid Rafizadeh, op-ed, Arab News, July 2, 2020.

“Lebanon blocks Iran cargo ships from docking over US sanctions fears,” Middle East Monitor, July 2, 2020.

“Central Bank; Where Iran’s Foreign Currency Resources Are Plundered,” Fereydoun Khavand, Radio Farda, July 2, 2020. “The rate of exchange for the U.S. dollar has risen 2,700 times during the past 41 years since the start of clerical rule in Iran under the Islamic Republic system. During the past two weeks the rate has been nearing 210,000 rials per dollar due to an extremely sharp devaluation of Iran’s national currency. The decline has been attributed by the media to a widespread systematic financial corruption, thanks to revelations made by the country’s civil society, foreign-based Persian-speaking media and international institutions. The Central bank of Iran (CBI) has been in the center of the economic chaos that has led to wasting billions of dollars of national resources by offering unjustified privileges to well-connected regime insiders and failing to carry out its initial mission.”  (Keep reading to see more and more of the mismanagement over the decades).”