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Sauce: https://newrepublic.com/post/211826/jd-vance-us-pay-iran-billions-trump-deal
Jun 15, 2026 4:20 PM
Che07
7529
372
3
Sauce: https://newrepublic.com/post/211826/jd-vance-us-pay-iran-billions-trump-deal
Che07
Demand AND get billions to even start to talk is something I did not have on my Bingo card. "You want to have something to announce on you b'day? That'll be 12 billion, payable today. And btw. we could recommend some of our doctors..." Can't make this up. America can now simply and literally not afford this moron anymore.
camn333
keelindsey
So... Iran won this one, yes? We're paying them, we must have lost. Good job, you orange twat, you stuck us in an unnecessary war against an inferior military and managed to do so in a way that guaranteed we'd get the short end of the stick at the end.
Bizarkly
Doing his best to bankrupt America... like *everything else* he's ever run.
thrashingcows
ThailandExpress
fractalsphere
I think we found what DOGE was looking for lol
IWantedOneOfThoseLongUsernamesTooSoIGotOne
Can we just start calling him President Surrender?
Bizarkly
Sure we can -- but you're going to get some fight from the 'President Fail' folks...
IWantedOneOfThoseLongUsernamesTooSoIGotOne
Well, either one is okay with me.
ShoopDeDoop
America first, am I right?
DrSchlepenstein
TACO failed again.
RetrogradeLlama
Under the Obama deal the Right Wingers endlessly complained about, we released a billion dollars (plus interest) of their own money we had seized when the Shah was overthrown in the 1980's.
Under Trump's deal, we'll give them tens or hundreds of billions in US money.
urusername2
He knows the Art of the Steal, but has no idea of the Art of the Deal. He's paying them $300,000,000,000 to let us stop attacking them!
ImJustHereAtThisPoint
"yeah but it's different because we did it Trump's way, so it's better"
countbassy
Is trump giving them $TRUMP coins?
icantbelieveistillhavetoprotestthiscrap
Hegseth had the gall to say that this deal was from "a position of power", which made it better than Obama's. Bitch, we gave away the fucking Strait of Hormuz.
DrNicholasRivierA
Total cost of this military excursion, when all is taken into account including rebuilding our bases, veteran's long term care, replenishing our weapons and planes lost:
Greater than $1 trillion US taxpayer dollars.
kevinfromspace
sooo...his brilliant plan is to pay them to stop fighting a war.. he started?
Bizarkly
The fart of the deal...
Mithi
Absolute 5-D chess
brightlightbarking
I'm sure that's adequate compensation for all the lives taken throughout a war that never should have happened in the first place. /s
hamiltol
DON'T EVER FORGET WHAT HIS "NEGOTIATION" TEAM DID IN AFGHANISTAN, AND THEN BLAMED BIDEN FOR HIS NEGOTIATED FAILURES.
Resistance1000
Well, it's not like it's HIS money. He doesn't pay any taxes, so he isn't even paying a teeny-tiny fraction of a sliver of a percent of the cost.
Killerpixler
Well normally Congress would have to approve that since they have the power of the purse... But it's not like the rule of law has mattered to him.... Ever...
Bizarkly
I'd be quite amused if the House came to their senses, and voted "No. Fucking. Way."
anjeleyezjr
So, yeah, we lost this war. Before, our official Ls were at two. The orange shitstain and his cronies just increased that count by 50%.
SomeUser2
There is no way Trump is letting this amount of money go, without some personal benefits..... We just need to wait a couple of days to get the full picture
Bizarkly
"Everybody says I should get a finder's fee -- say, 20% or so..."
eion85
Trump doesn't care about spending taxpayer money if it means he thinks he'll look better.
WowThatUsernameIsSoOriginal
Maybe trump paid a premium on a deal just so it could be announced on his birthday? he was soooo hoping it would be signed on his birthday.
TaiPan87
Pre-Book your stay at Trump Iran, located on beautiful Karg Island!
RenaissanceFaireMan
No more than 2 weeks.
barstr7
America really will give money to anyone but poor Americans. Our government would rather spend tax dollars on the most asinine things rather than its own citizens.
AstarothMagus
And yet they will continue to argue they don't have the money for any social safety nets or health care funding.
CallMeMcGyver
$300 billion for reconstruction funds... in case you don't want to read the article... so that's on top of releasing the $25 billion in frozen assets... They shit blood because the Obama administration unfroze 1.7 billion in Iranian assets (1.3 Billion was interest from 1979), but this they are just fine with... I guess when pedophiles waste taxpayer money and capitulate to "hostile" nations it's just hunky dory, eh?
ijustwonamathdebate
So, Iran, an ally of Russia gets $320 Billion, while aid to Ukraine is gonna be too expensive, I take it? Yeah, checks out for Comrade Krasnov. Once again.
GogglesGreek
On top of the tens of billions (hundreds?) wasted on the war that Trump started.
US taxpayers were robbed by Trump to bomb the Middle East, and now we're getting robbed again to bribe Iran to reopen the strait.
Magjee
The art of the deal
tentacularfleshscape
Not to mention that the tolls they've charged on passage through the strait have probably earned them more than the pittance released to them under the jcpoa
ricpaul
I think they charged 2 million per vessel, so it WAS actually a pittance compared to 300 billion. (They'd have to let through 150,000 vessels to earn that much, or about 3 years worth of pre-war numbers of vessels times 2 million each to get to 300 billion)
tentacularfleshscape
I was talking about the funds released by the old nuclear deal
LangleyofMappe
The US should take that out from the billions they send to 'Israel' every year
SpamYarBlockers
The reconstruction funds will go to companies controlled by Trump, his family, or his friends
dinosaurbutt
We are winning coz it wont be Obama deal ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
DesdemonaMoor
Trump doesn't care, not his money. So long as he gets to sign his name to a new Iran/US agreement, cost is irrelevant.
BuckRavers
Remember, those are all your (Americans) dollars being collected and exported, since we all know they aren't taking dollars from the wealthy. 👍
BuckRavers
Correction: *TAX dollars
Nanntuckett
So on top of the hundreds of billions spent on the war already, we will now spend hundreds of billions to end the war, and hundreds of billions rebuilding what we lost. Likely over $1 trillion for a war nobody wanted but Israel.
TrancedJoe
It's not us spending anything. It's just us releasing money that we still from them through the central banks. It's their money.
Miller16of16
Not sure why you're being downvoted, at least 100-120 billion is their cash.
Miller16of16
Not sure why I'm being downvoted, at least 100-120 billion is their cash.
TrancedJoe
The chuds are out
captainsweatypants
In just 4 short months. Such a great businessman
lopix
But hey, gas is more expensive, so there's that
Nanntuckett
It’s about to get even more expensive. Our reserves run out within 2 months.
OregonComputerGuy
And, israel is pissed
SchnekPlissken
Israel is really pissed. Which means Lebanon is going to feel it.
eyespy95523
Because they deserve that money that came from American taxpayers
IGotMyDreamJobProgrammingGames
Israel being unhappy is a silver lining I guess
LangleyofMappe
Cue the false flags. We all know those are coming.
ChelVanin
The enemy of my enemy…. wait, fuck that’s a bad saying
TheMightyMollusk
My enemy's enemy can attack first. Then when they're both tired, I can mop them all up.
HonHomes
"is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less"
eadanke
If the enemy of my enemy is a friend, then from an outside perspective all three are both friend and enemy to the other two.
DrNicholasRivierA
We really have to stop sending them any aid whatsoever, especially if they break the terms of this incredibly fucked up deal.
woodworkerf
Of course Israel will break the terms. I bet they'll attack Lebanon fefore the weekend. They are incapable of ceasing fire.
demosteness
Israel and the USA are the same thing
ImJustHereAtThisPoint
And WILL fuck up the deal and screw over the planet to continue a vendetta they have with strangers
Illinifan88
Bibi has allegedly pissed off Trump. If that's true, Trump will leave Bibi and Israel out to dry.
As Republicans constantly figure out here, latching onto Trump is an easy way to make it to the top. But when he's done with you, there is no safety line. You're on your own.
If Israel having to fend for itself comes out of this, then fuck it, I'll call it a success. It's not the success they wanted, but it's what needed to happen.
MadamPuddifoot
He'll still give them everything they need. He hates brown people more than he's mad at bibi.
CallMeMcGyver
Less a vendetta than a distraction and grift to get more "defense" handouts from the west, which they get to use as they like... you know... bombs and fancy toys for the Zionist leaders and their cronies. It's all a fucking land grab and a grift... always was and always will be.
Areliae
While I'm sure that's a big part of it, I think you're underestimating the human capacity to hate "others."
Onetonmanwithaspoon
Cause Benji wants WW3 so he can rule the Middle East.
ImJustHereAtThisPoint
"may the sun never set on the Israeli Empire" is a talking point y'all need to buckle up for in the coming days.
PrincessAris
He needs to be "at war" with someone. As soon as there is a pause, his fraud trials resume. And he's guilty as fuck, so the neverending conflicts are literally all that is keeping him out of jail.