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Trump’s Iran agreement embraces sanctions relief, a policy he and his team once denounced

For years, President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance argued against deals that provided financial concessions to Iran, saying that giving the regime money fuels terror. But now the agreement they’ve reached to end the war with Tehran is poised to hand the regime billions.

For the better part of a decade, Trump’s central indictment of former President Barack Obama’s Iran nuclear deal was simple: Giving Tehran access to frozen assets enriched a dangerous regime and got the United States little in return.

Trump’s current secretary of state and vice president went even further, co-sponsoring legislation as senators that argued Iranian frozen funds could not be safely released because the money, even with rules governing its use, could end up being utilized in a dangerous way.


Now, all three are backing an agreement that spells out US commitments to potentially release those funds and lift sanctions on Tehran but leaves specific details on Iran’s nuclear program to future negotiations.

Administration officials have downplayed the significance of the written document and said the movement of any money will be performance-based. They also have said the atmosphere of this deal is different from previous ones because the US has degraded Iran’s military.

“We have great confidence that we’re going to be able to see if they try to fund terrorist organizations,” Vance said Thursday.

However, the signed memorandum of understanding nevertheless embraces the same type of incentivized financial relief that Trump, Rubio and Vance spent years warning would enrich a nation they described as the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism.

Under the terms of the 14-point memorandum of understanding formally signed and released by the White House on Wednesday, the US “undertakes to make fully available for use the frozen or restricted funds and assets of the Islamic Republic of Iran upon the implementation of this MOU,” “to terminate all types of sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran, including the United Nations Security Council resolutions,” and to immediately issue waivers for the sale of Iranian oil.

The Trump administration has vehemently argued that its agreement is stronger than Obama’s Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, despite many analysts and critics arguing it appears to give Iran significant concessions.

Significantly, a number of Republican senators, including those who typically stay quiet, have openly questioned the terms of Trump’s Iran negotiations.

Roger Wicker, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he was “concerned that the memorandum of understanding negotiates away the victories” of the war and that the plan for a $300 billion reconstruction fund would make the financial incentives in the JCPOA “look like a pittance by comparison.” The administration said the US would not contribute to that fund.

Trump has long criticized the JCPOA, from which he withdrew the US in 2018, in large part because it gave Tehran sanctions relief and access to frozen assets.

In an op-ed in September 2015 — ahead of the deal’s implementation — then-candidate Trump castigated the JCPOA for the prospect of lifting “all nuclear related sanctions” and handing Iran “a windfall of $150 billion, which will no doubt fund terrorism around the world.”

“It appears we wanted a deal at any cost,” he wrote.

As recently as 2016, Trump argued that Obama had made a basic mistake by relieving pressure on Tehran before obtaining stronger concessions. “We took the sanctions off, we got nothing for that,” Trump said at a conservative summit in Denver. “It’s like 101, Trump, ‘The Art of the Deal.’”

“Why did Pres Obama remove sanctions against Iran prior to negotiating rather than completing successful negotiation & then remove sanctions?” Trump tweeted in 2014.

Trump also repeatedly argued that giving Iran access to frozen assets made the regime stronger and enriched a government he described as a sponsor of terrorism.

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/22/politics/iran-agreement-trump-sanctions-relief

Trump also repeatedly argued that giving Iran access to frozen assets made the regime stronger and enriched a government he described as a sponsor of terrorism.

Obama has being vindicated. Obamas crime in the US 🇺🇸 is that he dismantled white hegemony and brought black diversity and then took diversity to a weird extent.

With Obama, diversity that is, all races from black to brown to yellow, even Latino, Arab, Asians with the skills worked in government spaces they only dreamt about.

But like a Samson, Obama got carried away with LGBT ++ nonsense.
But like a David touch not my anointed and do my people no harm.

Donald Trump looks like a confused fellow

Trump may have fcked around and found out.

Oil prices dumped more than before the war. Trump needs to refill American Reserves and oil will dip more but guess, Wait until
after the midterms

I’d say let’s wait and see if indeed this crop of IRGC leaders get the money.

Also, if the money will empower a moderate group with more pro-western values then I subscribe to it. After all Qatari funds spread pro-Palestine/sharia ideologies across American universities so if there’s a similar strategy then yes.

How Iran stood alone to fight these two nations should be studied as a course in all Western universities.
Ukraine has exposed to us that Russia is only big in African media,
Iran has exposed to us that USA is nothing without nuclear weapons

There's no billions anywhere to be released to Iran in CASH rather part of the frozen funds which is domiciled in Qatar SHALL be use to solely purchase AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS for Iranians FROM THE USA.

Ironfaceman:
Trump’s Iran agreement embraces sanctions relief, a policy he and his team once denounced





https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/22/politics/iran-agreement-trump-sanctions-relief

EdiskyHarry:
How Iran stood alone to fight these two nations should be studied as a course in all Western universities.
Ukraine has exposed to us that Russia is only big in African media,
Iran has exposed to us that USA is nothing without nuclear weapons

Well the war wasn’t against Iran but a sect in Iran. Would you have preferred blanket bombing like Gaza?
Isreal took southern Lebanon in 10 minutes. Statements like this is an insult to the principle of restraint in war.

Trump is a 🤡. All the bragadocious na here it ended. He'd end his 2nd term as one of US worst Presidents

Donald Trump own will bring Peace finally, that is the difference

Baxilexi:
Well the war wasn’t against Iran but a sect in Iran. Would you have preferred blanket bombing like Gaza?
Isreal took southern Lebanon in 10 minutes. Statements like this is an insult to the principle of restraint in war.

Ignore them. US was never at war with Iran as Congress never approved any war. Bibi played Trump big time.

erniok:
Ignore them. US was never at war with Iran as Congress never approved any war. Bibi played Trump big time.

Oga, if US didn't join the war,
There won't be an Iran right now.
Iran would have been gaza.

In all this Iran is still insisting on it's right to enrich uranium and toll the strait of homoz

Don't know what trump gained in the deal, is it same nuclear weapon Iran had agreed with Obama on

Helinuse:
Oga, if US didn't join the war,
There won't be an Iran right now.
Iran would have been gaza.

Iran would have seriously bloodied Israel nose or why do younthink Hillary Clinton said Israel has always been lobbying former US Presidents to attack Iran.

Life is give and take
You can't always have your Way.

erniok:
Ignore them. US was never at war with Iran as Congress never approved any war. Bibi played Trump big time.

an all out war with Iran will level the country within days but that was not a direct confrontation.

All I know is the West are playing chess with Mullahs, normal CIA work

erniok:
Iran would have seriously bloodied Israel nose or why do younthink Hillary Clinton said Israel has always been lobbying former US Presidents to attack Iran.

The Israelis have fought ALL the muslim countries combined at once, in more than five wars, and flawlessly prevailed.
Not once, not twice, not thrice, but many times.

Who is Iran?

Israel courts the participation of the USA simply because of some specific equipment, like the bunker buster. After that, it is usually the USA that ties Israeli hands from finishing off Iran. E.g., After the 12-day war, the US had to beg Israel not to take out the Ayatollah. After the US used its bunker buster again in this war, the US had to give Israel a no-kill list. And that is how these "negotiators" survived. Just because Israel spared them,

Helinuse:


The Israelis have fought ALL the muslim countries combined at once, in more than five wars, and flawlessly prevailed.
Not once, not twice, not thrice, but many times.

Who is Iran?

Israel courts the participation of the USA simply because of some specific equipment, like the bunker buster. After that, it is usually the USA that ties Israeli hands from finishing off Iran. E.g., After the 12-day war, the US had to beg Israel not to take out the Ayatollah. After the US used its bunker buster again in this war, the US had to give Israel a no-kill list. And that is how these "negotiators" survived. Just because Israel spared them,

There was a time Romans were beating nations no matter the coalition but where are they today. Times change and Iran has greatly developed militarily my friend. Isreal can't deal with Iran todaynsay way they are dealing with Lebanon. Iran will bloody their nose .

Trump the deafated and deflated. Viva Iran the Great. Righteousness is in sivia pains right now. The guy loves and mongers war vawulence , but claims to be a follower of christ. He was even in support in unaliving of innocent school children in Iran. Hy. Po. Crite. and sadduccee

That is what I am saying.
After the bombs, deaths and destruction people will still sit down to talk because of their sufferings.

And the worst of it all. They will end up in a worse position than where they were before the fighting.

The American taxpayer is worse off and Americans have died. Still Iran will not give up it's nuclear ambitions. They will just pause and hide and skitter and prepare for the next war.

The Iranian citizen is worse off than he was before the war. Thousands dead. Destruction everywhere no compensation can cover and have placed themselves in an ever greater crosshairs for future wars that will be even more devastating. Countries in that region will become even more militarized, more hostile towards it, plan to avoid the straits by building pipeline elsewhere leading to even greater economic losses in future.

For Israel, Hezbollah will become even more militarized, regroup to plan future strikes and the whole cycle of wars and vengeance will continue in a few months, not even years....

Mankind never, ever, ever learns.

erniok:
There was a time Romans were beating nations no matter the coalition but where are they today. Times change and Iran has greatly developed militarily my friend. Isreal can't deal with Iran todaynsay way they are dealing with Lebanon. Iran will bloody their nose .

Before the war, the mouth made on Iran was too much that it was regarded as par with Russia and China. Even America took them as a formidable enemy. Little did people know that they were a group of ragtag terrorists that only depended on the tactic of "wearing out" their enemies.


This war has exposed them badly. Their only saving grace is that the region they find themselves in depends heavily on assets they can sacrifice anything for. Assets such as energy installations, refineries, rigs, and transport routes.

Even America knows very well that if they let Israel's hands loose now, Iran will be Gaza.

So people want to compare the world of Trump to the world of Obama today.

Desperate times demand desperate measures.

Very embarrassing president.

Talks too much without spine.

Helinuse:


Before the war, the mouth made on Iran was too much that it was regarded as par with Russia and China. Even America took them as a formidable enemy. Little did people know that they were a group of ragtag terrorists that only depended on the tactic of "wearing out" their enemies.


This war has exposed them badly. Their only saving grace is that the region they find themselves in depends heavily on assets they can sacrifice anything for. Assets such as energy installations, refineries, rigs, and transport routes.

Even America knows very well that if they let Israel's hands loose now, Iran will be Gaza.

Then let Israel attack Iran independently let's see who will come out on top. Question for you: why have they always lobbied US for a joint attack if they could go solo?

A very disappointing outcome. The US and Israel lost this war unfortunately. Iran has gotten a better outcome from this half hearted war by the Americans.

If this is the way US wants to fight with Russia and China, they'd always lose.

erniok:
Then let Israel attack Iran independently let's see who will come out on top. Question for you: why have they always lobbied US for a joint attack if they could go solo?

Israel has gone solo before and it had a better outcome.
Israel is capable of matching Iranian escalation. Blocking the strait of hormuz doesn't concern Israel that much so Iran doesn't have much leverage.

This Baba Trump don cast/useless UNITED STATES. Very confused man

Trump na Abiku ..Daku daji ..