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welcome everyone to the robot center the

recent US sanctions on Iran is the

toughest among all the sanctions that

was imposed on Iran itself in the past

because that effective Iranian rial

dramatically and made the people go out

in the streets and demonstrate against

the Iranian government's however it

won't always manage to get away from the

US sanctions in one way or another and

that is why the Iranian regime is still

around until now now one of the ways

that Iran uses today to maneuver the

current US sanctions is done in Iraq and

let me start here with a whacky market

now you won't always want it to control

the Iraqi market since 2003 and they got

extremely successful in 2014 when Isis

invaded many govenor rates in Iraq and

the ISIS invasion prevented turkey from

exporting their products directly to

Iraq and made them really send their

products through the Iranian territory

to Iraq and the Turkish products got

taxed and taxed out in Iran which made

it really pricey and expensive for the

Iraqi people to afford and when you

consider the low buying power of the

Iraqis due to the high percentage of the

unemployment rate and the low salaries

that they are getting it makes every

sense why the Iraqis really chose the

Iranian products instead of the Turkish

products for that reason there was a

study released by the Roberts Center on

October 2017 showing that the Iranian

domestic products control 72 percent of

the Iraqi market and that is really

interesting statistics because we are

looking here at the non oil products and

also in recent news came out by Reuters

showing that Iran actually are

controlling now the dates market they

are leading that market instead of Saudi

Arabia we always used to hear that Saudi

Arabia is the one that controls and

leads that market at least because of

the quality of the dates that they are

having however Iran for some reason in

some way they are controlling that

market right now

now also there is actually a way that

you want came up with in 2015 which is

considered as a very smart way to get

the hard currencies

2015 they offered all the investors

around the world the 20% interest rate

that's crazy you will never find that

kind of interest rate anywhere in the

world because the interest rates today

for years really are actually 2% 2.5

percent 4 percent maybe that is just the

highest but 20 percent is just insane

and also Iran offered a stable foreign

exchange rate by all its banks and also

it actually promoted that the whole

investment that you can do actually in

the Iranian bank is actually not against

the Sharia law also you know the kind of

relationships that Iran had with the

United States and in 2015 under the

Obama administration made every sense

for the Iraqi investors even for the

ordinary people to take out their life

savings and invested in the Iranian

banks for that reason the Iran really

got millions of dollars of hard

currencies into their banks because they

know probably the United States are

gonna turn their back on them one day

and that is exactly what happened

Trump made the surprised and became the

US president and he's implementing today

one of the toughest sanctions as I

mentioned before on Iran and now the

whole Iranian currency got depreciated

and the Iraqi people really lost the

value of their investment and the

Washington Post talked about the big

loss that the Iraqis really are

suffering from today because of the you

know the depreciation of the Iranian

currency and the depreciation of their

investments which is just really crazy

and that is just one of the nightmares

that the Iraqis are facing today and for

them really I mean at the Washington

Post at that particular article they

said that it was it made every sense to

invest in Iran because Isis as well

we're actually getting bigger they

became as big as France and the future

in York was uncertain the people stopped

buying houses in Baghdad itself so for

that reason they really transferred

their money and they started to invest

away from here

now another way that Iran used to

maneuver the US sanctions was actually

revealed by the New York Times in 2012

what it actually revealed that the

Iraqis are helping Iran and sending the

hard currencies to them during the

sanctions times and that is just one of

the most interesting things to look at

because who's those people who are

actually smuggling to Iran that kind of

hard currencies and also the New York

Times revealed again that the there are

Iranian organizations that are

controlling for Iraqi commercial banks

and that is just really really dangerous

to look at how Iran actually are

controlling things up and these reports

are realistic because this is what we

are facing today now the reward center

as well revealed couple of ways that

Iran are using is that they created some

special agents inside Iraq where Iran

through them can buy the hard currencies

as well they doubled the trading of

drugs inside Iraq which is really

dangerous on Iraq in many ways on the

youth of Iraq and also the the kind of

thing that is going on in Iraq and

increasingly happening the drugs just

gonna make Iraq and the people of Iraq

are you know in a bad shape really it's

gonna put them in a position where they

will socially be destroyed and that is

what you want really wants today that's

what we actually conclude from all the

actions that we are seeing from Iran

here for that reason all the you know

the actions was taken by the Iraqi Prime

Minister and the speeches that he came

up with after the implementation of the

US sanctions against Iran and Iraq

showed the commitments also the Iraqi

central bank stopped really dealing with

Iran using the US dollar or any hard

currency however the Iraqi dinar is

losing its value because of the

smuggling of the US dollars from Iraq to

Iran and also there are reports talked

about that actually the

the US dollars are being smuggled using

donkeys a donkey can carry about

according to one of the reports that I

read a donkey can carry about two

million dollars so the Americans now

knows about these connot techniques that

are happening however I don't know how

they're gonna prevent it really what an

expensive donkey that is right so now

the Iraqi government are having now

today many challenges this is just one

of the biggest challenges the Iraqi

dinar is just going down at the moment

with all the currencies with all the

situations that are happening right now

in the area Iraq is trying to be stable

looking at Basra and what is going on

the oil probably going to be affected

because of the demonstrations as well so

everything is going backwards right now

for the Iraqi economy so the next

government tree they are having a big

challenge here they are having agendas

going on they are having control by

another country and I don't know if your

walk is really capable of getting over

that kind of control that you want is

having over the Iraqi economy and

whether luck is going to be really

committed to the US sanctions and let's

hope that things goes to the better way

to the better future rather than just

you know talking about bad about the

whole thing let's hope that thing is

going to get better in the future and

that Iraq is going to recover from all

what's happening hopefully thank you for

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