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Most people analyze the Middle East through religion, ideology, or ethnic conflict. Useful frames — but incomplete ones. If you want to understand why wars never end and why the same regions keep bleeding across decades, follow the printing press.

In this episode of Reads on the Bitcoin Well Podcast, Zach reads his original essay "How Iran Is a Creation of Fiat Money" — a deep dive into the monetary history behind 70 years of engineered conflict.

What's covered: the 1953 CIA coup that overthrew Iran's democratically elected prime minister for daring to nationalize his country's oil, Nixon's 1971 gold shock and the birth of the petrodollar system, how fiat money funded both sides of the Iran-Iraq War simultaneously, the 2012 Swift sanctions and what happened when Iranians started looking for alternatives, why Iran became a significant Bitcoin mining hub — and why the regime couldn't control it, and why Bitcoin is the only structural solution to monetary coercion.

The story of Iran isn't about Islam vs. the West. Those are just the costumes. The underlying play is always the same: centralized control of money enables centralized control of people.

Fix the money. Fix the world.

Original Article: https://bitcoinwell.com/blog/how-iran-is-a-creation-of-fiat-money

📩 z.addair@bitcoinwell.com

Chapters:
00:00 Intro — The US at War, Zach's Personal Connection
02:16 How Iran Is a Creation of Fiat Money
02:55 1953 — The CIA Coup and the Dollar's Need for Oil
05:00 The Dollar vs. Bitcoin: Two Very Different Uses of Energy
05:37 1971-1979 — Nixon, Kissinger, and the Petrodollar Trap
08:07 The Perpetual War Machine — Funding Both Sides
11:01 Fiat Thrives on the Chaos It Creates
09:22 2012 Swift Sanctions — Bitcoin's Most Honest Advertisement
10:15 Iran Becomes a Bitcoin Mining Hub
10:41 The Global War Machine Runs on Dollars
12:35 Bitcoin — Defunding the Global War Theater
13:26 Fix the Money, Fix the World

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