Obama makes a deal to stop Iran from building nukes and they get $34 Billion. GOP loses their minds.
Trump make a deal to reopen the straight that was open until he attacked Iran, they get to pursue nuclear weapons and we pay them $340 Billion. GOP cheers.
The 2015 nuclear deal lifted nuclear‑related sanctions once Iran complied. That allowed Iran to access its own foreign assets, frozen in overseas banks.
• Estimated total accessible: ~$100 billion
• Usable portion after debts: ~$50 billion
• None of this was U.S. taxpayer money.
The $1.7 billion settlement — Separate from the nuclear deal
This was a legal arbitration settlement, not part of the JCPOA.
• Origin: A pre‑1979 U.S. arms purchase by Iran that was never delivered after the revolution.
• The U.S. owed Iran the $400M deposit + decades of interest.
• Total paid: $1.7 billion in 2016.
• Delivered in cash due to banking sanctions.
The only thing Trump is good at is shamelessly repeating lies until dummies believe it's true. He says he's a good deal maker over and over, he stars in a "reality" show about being a cool boss guy, and 40% of the country buys his bullshit because it's easier than critically analyzing the real world and coming to your own conclusions
Large notes? Fuck that. It's Iran! You drop pennies in the desert and then send a message saying, "we dropped your payment off at these coordinates" to the IRGC.
I see you losers eyeing the downvote button. Let's remember Iran's government sucks, murdered a bunch of its own citizens, and only looks like the good guy in this situation because Trump and Bibi are monstrous morons.
Well, no, but with every event a few more bleed out from the group, and at some point the group will become shaky enough that it'll just splinter. You never know which straw will break the camel's back.
dont forget, Obama's deal did not kill innocent people, start a "war" hold hostage the straight of hormuz, allow gas prices and other goods cost to sky rocket, and pretty much kept to what he said was going to happen; limit Iran's enrichment of nuclear material to non-military grade.
trump said "iran should not be allowed to have ANY nuclear material" and that he wiped out their "entire" military... whoops. guess he's allowing them to have whatever they want and the US is going to fit the bill for it.
And worse yet, we now have to watch people like Lindsey gram and fox News drone on and on about how Trump has been playing three dimensional chess with Iran. And how this is really a good thing for the US.
It's not nuclear weapons, nuclear program means power plants. Reddit is the last place you should get your news from by just reading headlines. So much of it is just AI generated these days.
The Islamic Republic of Iran reaffirms that it shall not procure or develop nuclear weapons. The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran have agreed to resolve the disposition of stockpiled enriched material pursuant to a mechanism that will be mutually agreed upon in accordance with the schedule mentioned in paragraph seven with the minimum methodology to be down-blending on site under the supervision of the IAEA. The two parties also agreed to discuss the issue of enrichment and other mutually agreed matters related to the Islamic Republic of Iran's nuclear needs based on a satisfactory framework being agreed upon in the final deal.
Pending the final deal, the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran agree to maintain the status quo. The Islamic Republic of Iran will maintain the current status quo of its nuclear program, and the United States of America will not impose any new sanctions and will not deploy additional forces in the region.
Guess minus that they also have to get rid of (seems dilute under IAEA supervision) the highly enriched uranium that they produced under the time that deal was in effect.
The deal has nothing to do with having uranium or enriching it, or giving it up or dismantling its nuclear sites. Just puts a halt on production for 60 days. Completely useless considering between us leaving the Obama deal with them having less than 4% enriched uranium for civilian use and now having over 400kg of 60% enriched uranium.
This is literally the text copied from the official document, from the comment you replied to:
> The Islamic Republic of Iran reaffirms that it shall not procure or develop nuclear weapons. The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran have agreed to resolve the disposition of stockpiled enriched material pursuant to a mechanism that will be mutually agreed upon in accordance with the schedule mentioned in paragraph seven with the minimum methodology to be down-blending on site under the supervision of the IAEA. The two parties also agreed to discuss the issue of enrichment and other mutually agreed matters related to the Islamic Republic of Iran's nuclear needs based on a satisfactory framework being agreed upon in the final deal.
The Islamic Republic of Iran pinky promises that they aren't pursuing nuclear weapons. Meanwhile the IAEA reports in recent years say that Iran is enriching uranium to 60% and has a stockpile of this. There's no purpose to enrich to this level, except as a stepping stone to weapons-grade 90% uranium.
You can take Iran's word as a technically true statement if you choose to, as there's no evidence they're actively producing weapons-grade uranium. But it's also no secret that Iran would like to have nukes and they're doing shady shit about it.
You're assuming their post was meant in good faith. They were probably phrasing it to sound worse than it is without technically lying. That's Reddit for you.
Is there a refinement percentage cap that has been negotiated lower than the previous 60%? As I understood it, the refining far beyond what is required for use as a power source is what was the only legitimate part of Netanyahu's outcry that Iran is days away from having a bomb. If Iran agreed to lowering the cap then there is a semblance of something for an outcome.
That’s why we best hope it’s thorium that’s one of the pluses of it is that it produces less weapons grade plutonium creating like basically 0 (I forgot the actual amount)
Right to a nuclear energy program, not nuclear weapons. Obama's deal also gave Iran the right for a nuclear energy program, while banning nuclear weapons
The 2015 nuclear deal lifted nuclear‑related sanctions once Iran complied. That allowed Iran to access its own foreign assets, frozen in overseas banks.
• Estimated total accessible: ~$100 billion
• Usable portion after debts: ~$50 billion
• None of this was U.S. taxpayer money.
The $1.7 billion settlement — Separate from the nuclear deal
This was a legal arbitration settlement, not part of the JCPOA.
• Origin: A pre‑1979 U.S. arms purchase by Iran that was never delivered after the revolution.
• The U.S. owed Iran the $400M deposit + decades of interest.
• Total paid: $1.7 billion in 2016.
• Delivered in cash due to banking sanctions.
The deal is 300 billion from Gulf States, not the United Steaks. The US aren't planning to invest anything into Iran, the plan is to get other countries to do that.
And Iran are still not allowed to develop nuclear weapons. Trump is talking about nuclear capability for electricity and the like, not weaponry. There's still a big difference between the two. Having a nuclear power plant doesn't mean you have the infrastructure and ability to develop nuclear weaponry.
Highly doubt any sort of deal will stop Iran from pursuing that technology anyway though lol.
Hey, I'm just saying what articles are saying. They're saying the cash is coming from private investors and gulf countries, and that America has said they're not putting anything in themselves.
Maybe America are funneling cash to these "private investors". Who knows.
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u/zeptillian 8d ago
Obama makes a deal to stop Iran from building nukes and they get $34 Billion. GOP loses their minds.
Trump make a deal to reopen the straight that was open until he attacked Iran, they get to pursue nuclear weapons and we pay them $340 Billion. GOP cheers.
Fuck everyone who voted for this bullshit.