There is a way to help changing Iran with limited use of force. Red China has today Millionaires and the Single One Party is as far off the hard times of the Cultural Revolution as possible, actually as far as most never would have considered possible.
Persians are known in our minds as Conquerors, but that is a misconception. They were the market traders being brothers, and not distant cousins, to the nomadic Arab traders. They served Indian Tea when Muhammad The Trader met with Chin Chu Ha the Trader negotiating cargo loads being swapped close by the Tea place in Tehran, in most of their history.
The Regime is in certain parts of society weak or depended, depending on your perspective, on a more or less fragile peace. The only major deal they ever negotiated after finding troubles to sell Uranium from their mines was a Drone factory license deal. That is financially minimal and pretty much irrelevant for a 90 million people economy, if you know what I mean, CNN and FOX & Co.
There will be cargo traffic through its boarders meeting local demand way below and off all embargo. We are talking litterly Couscous and steel bolts level cargo of lower few tons volume; Things we know as SME business. In those regions the SMEs are more important than here in the West and except facing bombing runs and artillery batteries ensure a minimum standard of living way below ours, but also way above Gaza or the Westbank.
To be honest, you can calm them, but not end their solidarity against mistreatment by another force having decided to not assimilate or even integrate, but to dominate.
If your Trade Ministry would open an Intelligence Office to collect intelligence on local market situations in terms of safety, language skills, regulations and demand and offer making those available to export willing companies with some wanderlust and interest in a bit of an adventure, Dubai can be the long term neutral ground for what only a flight ticket and car ride away is, knowing Offer like here
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finding Demand in a Galaxy still far far way, but the longest time, that is also served by Merck and has local 30ton truck operating logistic companies a phone call away.
If the CIA can buy an old Russian helicopter in a desert war zone, you can sell and deliver legal off embargo list factory goods to a Iranian market. Canned Soup?
I was hooked by Burgers and Big Red One in town, now look at me and my Blogg. Than understand what a Trade Hub could have turned me into. A Donkey, no Wulf.
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