The ever-insecure Trump put on a big show of bluster and bravado as the terms of his Iran deal agreement were leaked to the public, needlessly trashing President Obama in a show of clear insecurity.
Trump said to the media, “Nobody could have made this deal. I mean the JCPOA done by Obama. He handed him a billion seven in cash… 1.7 billion dollars in cash, green cash from banks into a Boeing 757 and flew it into Iran…The Iranians laughed at Obama and they said, ‘He is a stupid son of a bitch,'”.
After reviewing the leaked terms of the deal, it’s easy to see why Trump is desperately posturing: it’s a total Iranian victory.
Trump endlessly complained about Obama giving Iran a billion dollars of THEIR OWN MONEY BACK.
Now Trump is going to give them a $300 billion reconstruction fund that *we* will pay for.
They’ve won an end to the US blockade and an end to the crippling sanctions that have been crushing the Iranian middle class for so many years.
In exchange, they will re-open the Strait of Hormuz and promise never to pursue a nuclear weapon, which is what they were ALREADY doing under the terms of Obama’s Iran deal.
Iran emerges from this war in a much better position than it was previously, with Trump and Netanyahu both left humiliated. It’s almost like there was a REASON no other president was ever stupid enough to try to take on Iran like this.
But Trump is a stupid son of a b*tch who tore up Obama’s deal with Iran and is now paying the consequences.
For all their posturing about how much they love “warfighting” and “lethality,” Hegseth and Trump have led America to one of its most humiliating defeats in history.
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It really annoys me when Trump and others complain that Obama “gave Iran $1.7 billion” as if it was just some gift or bribe!
It was ordered by the international courts & America had no choice!
It was Iranian money that Obama returned (the original Iranian payment for weapons that were never delivered, plus interest)
The Obama administration arranged for a plane to transport $400 million in cash to Iran in January 2016.
The $400 million was part of a larger $1.7 billion settlement ($400 million principal + $1.3 billion interest) enforced by International Courts.
That payment was the first installment of the $1.7 billion settlement aimed at resolving a decades-old dispute regarding a failed arms deal from before the 1979 Iranian revolution. Iran paid for arms from America, but America failed to deliver and the International Courts agreed with Iran.
The funds were delivered in foreign currency (Euros, Swiss francs) on an unmarked cargo plane because US sanctions and the lack of a direct banking relationship with Iran made wire transfers impossible, so it had to be by cash.
President Obama was doing the honourable thing and settling America’s debts.