The Carlyle Group's Admiral James Stavridis and 8VC's Joe Lonsdale want to invest in Iran. TechGod Joe told CNBC said he really excited to invest in Iran. Stavridis noted in a Semafor interview:
And then if we do get to a serious ceasefire, which I think is not impossible at this time, what is the big investment opportunity in the Middle East? It could be Iran. There’s a lot of chaotic movement, but the potential of this country that’s two and a half times the size of Texas, 90 million people, demographics vertical, highly educated, a culture that’s deep and strong, they believe in themselves as Persians. If you follow the geopolitical trends to a happy ending, which is not impossible, Iran becomes a very interesting investment opportunity. It could look like the reconstruction of the Korean peninsula after the end of the Korean War.It would be a natural fit for a politically connected private equity underwriter (PEU) like Carlyle to open an office in Tehran. TechGod Joe Lonsdale's Palantir could take over spying on citizens from the mullahs.
PEU Legends and TechGods remaking Iran in the image of U.S. oligarchy? It'd be a spectacular PEUtification, "something like no one has ever seen before," if they had not been looking in the American economic/government mirror every single day for the last two decades.
