[Thor]

Expanding on this:

http://www.latimes.com/world/middlee...219-story.html

“As [President] Obama and John Kerry admitted, the 55 years of sanctions against Cuba have not worked and John Kerry himself said that by sanctions we have sanctioned ourselves not Cuba,” said Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Movahedi Kermani, the leader of Friday prayers in Tehran. “Sanctions are futile against Iran."

- Hoshang Tale, former member of Iran's parliament
Conservative political analyst Hossian Royvaran agreed.

"Obama is doing a wise thing by normalizing relation with Cuba and has no option but make a deal with Iran and start lifting sanctions and normalizing with Iran too," Royvaran said.

Many liberal Iranians also envied Cuba’s new relationship with the U.S.

“Financially, Iran is in bad shape and the sanctions are so painful that Iran has no option but to compromise,” said Amir Hossian Sharifi Sistani, 35, an import-export manager, “Now Cuba and the U.S. are normalizing - then why not Iran and the U.S.?"

"God willing, Iran and the U.S., as Cuba and U.S. have done after more than 50 years of severed relations, will bury axes and at least bank transfer will be possible,” he said. “My son is working in an import-export company and cannot do a regular business, as bank transfer is impossible."