The Revolutionary Guards and the police who crack heads to keep the mullahs in power demand hard currency for their work. Hence the pallets of cash from Obama and Biden. The Chinese are introducing the yuan. Its now legal tender to buy consumer goods in Iran for people who can get them. Clever way to make Iran an economic colony of China. Shortly Iran will be forced to accept yuan for oil.
The only practical hope for the Iranian people for freedom, independence and dignity is if the Israelis found it necessary fot its own purposes to depose the mullahs. However it probably serves Israel’s strategic interests for China to dominate Iran and control its nuclear assets.
The IRI is being paid by the Chinese in Yuan. It is not legal tender there on the street .....yet