Rebecca Grant: ‘The Overall Iranian Economy … Is Terrible,’ But Focus Is on ‘IRGC Money’

RUSH EXCERPT:

GRANT: "We will see about China. But this week’s actions are not so much about the overall Iranian economy, which is terrible, as we know. It is specifically about the IRGC money. They are thugs and they are big businessmen as well. So this is really an attempt to go over their funding mechanisms in a very specific way, the banks they use for their nefarious transactions, that cuts off terrorism funding, but also the money that they take in, kind of like a mafia, to run their own businesses and what they spend to buy missile fuel, chemicals from China and all that as well. This is a very specific type of"