Leave it to the Soros regime to make it seem to the public like an economically-shellacked enemy of the U.S. is somehow winning its war against President Donald Trump.
The liberal Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft — which boasts $2,025,000 in funding from George Soros between 2019-2023 — pushed an asinine claim by non-resident fellow Ian Proud April 28 headlined, “Iran and Russia are gaming the United States, and winning.”
Proud then fear-mongered that Trump was running out of time to end the world before the American economy goes belly up. Proud attempted to prop up Iran’s illusory economic firewall, which new reporting proves is false in retrospect: “Both [Iran and Russia] have as a source of their strength considerable natural resources from which they can generate cash flow to sustain themselves during stand-offs with the West.” But as even pro-terrorist outlet Al Jazeera admitted May 2, “Prices surge, jobs disappear as war strains Iran’s economy.”
Meanwhile, a day after Proud’s piece was published, Trump’s arch-rival at the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, even conceded in his last policy press conference as chairman that “Growth is really solid across our economy. Some of that is that consumer spending is hanging in pretty well, the most recent data are good.”
But in Proud’s distorted reality, it is Iran that is “now ‘making a mint’ from the current war” and maintaining a “significant financial advantage.” But the data do not support these obfuscations in the slightest. In fact, the Iranian rial is now down a whopping 20 percent against the U.S. dollar since the start of the American naval blockade April 13, according to Brookings Institution senior fellow Robin Brooks. As Brooks summarized, “We're only three weeks into the blockade and this is the most visible sign it's already meaningfully disrupting Iran's economy. The blockade is working.” What kind of “significant financial advantage” is that? In fact, Al Jazeera noted that the “toxic mix” of the naval blockade, the Islamist regime’s near-total internet shutdown, the bombardment against Iran’s infrastructure, and ongoing U.S. sanctions have all been “pummelling the [Iranian] economy.”
Since the start of the US blockade on April 13, the Iranian Rial is down 20 percent against the Dollar. We're only three weeks into the blockade and this is the most visible sign it's already meaningfully disrupting Iran's economy. The blockade is working.https://t.co/tkb1sh0KHN pic.twitter.com/j4fbhgElAW
— Robin Brooks (@robin_j_brooks) May 4, 2026
What Proud is doing is the equivalent of saying boxer Deontay Wilder still had the advantage after Tyson Fury knocked him down to the canvas twice and left him bloodied in their rematch bout. Reading Proud’s ridiculous pro-Iran propaganda illustrates this analogy well:
But, if Iran wasn’t going to buckle economically in the years before the war when its oil exports and earnings were sagging, it isn’t going to do so now, with the oil market booming in its favor.
Economist Daniel Lacalle skewered this point in a sarcastic May 4 X post. “The Iran oil industry is doing awesomely well because the regime says so.” He continued: “That is why it bans the internet, so you cannot get any independent information. It is amazing that Western media buys and sells the regime's propaganda.” Apparently the Soros circle is guilty of buying and selling the same anti-American Kool-Aid, too.
