The answer is yes. Keep in mind, the answer is coming from an optimistic realist over here, and there is no predicting success when so much of it rides on reciprocity and flexibility on both fronts. My hope is burrowed deep within the low-level depression inside every Iranian person who is collapsing under the current religio-political regime, and the back-breaking sanctions that have come with ayatollahs takeover.

My hope always exists for the sake of the people.

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Child laborers living below the poverty line, making less than a dollar a day. I will never forget the look of resignation and hopelessness in their eyes.