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News & Current Events Apr 17, 2026 at 12:50 PM

U.S. considers $20 billion cash-for-uranium deal with Iran

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VampiricClam Apr 17, 2026 +11859
US: buys 1bn worth of uranium from Iran for 20bn Iran: buys 20bn worth of uranium from Russia 3 months later
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SmurfRiding Apr 17, 2026 +2401
They mostly probably still have centrifuges to make enriched uranium.
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famine- Apr 17, 2026 +1216
Here is the problem with the orange pedo's zero enrichment plan: Iran can not comply without shutting down all of it's civilian reactors and forgoing medical isotope generation. Iran running low enriched uranium is actually a good thing. It was a requirement under JCPOA and they modifIed their reactors so they couldn't use natural uranium. Why? Because it massively reduces the amount of weapons grade plutonium that their reactors produce. Before modification their reactors could produce enough plutonium for 2 bombs a year.
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Oerthling Apr 17, 2026 +362
Even worse, by bombing Iran Trump double-motivated Iran to get nukes now. After Putin's invasion of Ukraine and Trump trampling international treaties, threatening allies and attacking Venezuela and Iran - everybody and his brother is going to pursue nukes as insurance against such unrestrained aggression. Non-proliferation was a good idea (too many nukes raise the risk of the damn things getting used one way or another) - but it can only work in a world with some level of restraint. Now that the post-WW2 order is crumbling even countries that previously ruled out getting nukes are going to reconsider. World is getting stupider fast.
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XimbalaHu3 Apr 17, 2026 +79
I'll be surprized if in the next 20 years germany at least doesn't have nukes and getting those are at the forefront of the public discourse. Brasil for one has had a huge wave of investiment in missiles and miniaturization of nuclear reactors, the missing steps for modern ICBMs as the country already has the enrichment tech. In the next 30 years I see most latent nuclear countries as activelly nuclear and we'll see a bunch of new latent nuclear countries pop up.
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montarion Apr 17, 2026 +17
> germany at least doesn't have nukes and getting those are at the forefront of the public discourse. Germany _HATES_ everything that even sounds like nuclear, though
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Lucky-Elk-1234 Apr 17, 2026 +15
All it takes is one horrible war to change their mind though. If US bails from NATO and Europe gets entangled in some war with Russia etc then Germany might want a good deterrent. Its ground army is not exactly huge these days.
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Ok-Lingonberry7143 Apr 17, 2026 +364
The US has previously offered to give them low grade materials for reactors and medical use free of charge indefinitely. There are ways around it if they actually intend to give up chasing a bomb
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PopUpClicker Apr 17, 2026 +566
But then you are at the mercy or a country not sticking to a deal
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MysteriousQuote4665 Apr 17, 2026 +484
Which Trump proved is a very real thing...
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birdman424344 Apr 17, 2026 +22
Just like the Lanisters’….
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Pabus_Alt Apr 17, 2026 +89
This halfway measure really is the worst. The old "deal" was "let the superpowers have the bomb and in return everyone else gets nuclear power and security guarantees" Those security guarantees have *repeatedly* been shown to be not worth the paper they are written on.
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samdajellybeenie Apr 17, 2026 +8
The guarantee is only as good as the guarantor.
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Crazymoose86 Apr 17, 2026 +231
The USA is known for honoring its deals and treaties so at least there's that. /s
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geomaster Apr 17, 2026 +50
yes donald the liar in chief destroyed the deal that was working. propaganda channels fed this narrative to the lemmings and of course donald did nothing solve the issue. because destroying is easy, creating solutions is difficult. go ahead and name when donald came up with a plan or a solution to anything we're still waiting for the healthcare plan...
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Nick85er Apr 17, 2026 +22
JUST WAIT TWO WEEKS LIKE EVERYONE ELSE YOU ANTIFA RADICAL TERRORIST /s
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Schmantikor Apr 17, 2026 +12
I don't really see how they would want to give up nukes now. The government people's main thought when falling asleep must be "Why didn't we try building our nukes quicker? Then America couldn't have attacked us.". That's how I see it.
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PolygonMan Apr 17, 2026 +9
"The US has previously offered for Iran to be permanently reliant on them for domestic civilian nuclear technologies." What kind of idiot would take that deal considering America's dealings with the rest of the world. They had already given up on chasing a bomb with the JCPOA, and Trump ripped it up. They had a fatwa against developing nuclear weapons and America murdered the guy who issued that fatwa. Now his much-more hardliner son is in that position, while the IRGC is much more politically powerful and the religious leadership is weaker.
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Gauntlets28 Apr 17, 2026 +56
Sure, but if they agreed to that then the US could easily take away that offer without warning, which they absolutely would if it hurt Iran.
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keboh Apr 17, 2026 +37
Ya, agreed. And with the rug-pulling they’ve seen from Trump, the chances of them trusting the US for long-term, stable deals like this is basically zero.
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spackletr0n Apr 17, 2026 +31
It sounds so reasonable, right? Iran should take this deal. If we can get a time machine back to 2015 when the US honored deals and did not use leverage (like tariffs) to capriciously extract new concessions. The cost of screwing over the other side of a negotiation is that they don’t trust you anymore. Trump didn’t read that chapter in The Art of The Deal, I guess.
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I_AM_THE_SEB Apr 17, 2026 +27
The problem is, the US is not reliable anymore. Iran cannot trust the US to honor any deal, so they cannot risk to be dependend on US deliveries for anything
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Coffeedemon Apr 17, 2026 +17
>free of charge indefinitely. And zero reason to doubt the US at all!
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apexxin Apr 17, 2026 +5
Except this isn’t really a thing, especially for many medical isotopes which need to be produced and used in a very short window. Can’t just ship em a bunch and let it sit in a warehouse.
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nezroy Apr 17, 2026 +17
> The US has previously offered to give them low grade materials for reactors and medical use free of charge indefinitely. The last 12 years has proven why any country that actually takes a deal like this with the US is demonstrably stupid as f***. I'm *Canadian* and I will never again vote for a government here that would actually consider a proposal of that nature from the US. And we were best friends, neighbors, and defense partners. I cannot fathom anyone arguing in good faith that *Iran* should do anything but laugh at a "deal" like that.
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NoxiousStimuli Apr 17, 2026 +8
>There are ways around it if they actually intend to give up chasing a bomb Something they shouldn't consider precisely because of Trump. He's demonstrated perfectly clearly the threat a rogue nuclear equipped nation poses.
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ithinkitslupis Apr 17, 2026 +16
They can buy civilian reactor levels directly that was always an option. South Korea, Spain, UAE, Switzerland, ... list goes on... all run their nuclear programs that way. Russia will even take the spent fuel back afterward like they did with JCPOA. Iran only has one nuclear power plant for reference and another 2 planned eventually, it currently makes up \~2 percent of their grid so it's really not that big of a piece of their infrastructure. Their civilian power plant reactor takes \~5% enriched, the TRR for making medical isotopes takes 20%, they still enriched to 60% and higher which they have no need for except playing politics with weapon risks.
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Goat_inna_Tree Apr 17, 2026 +10
Mostly probably is the most definit thing I have heard in a long time. Its a 50/50 long shot, but there is only a 10% chance of that.
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one8sevenn Apr 17, 2026 +83
- The U.S. and Iran are negotiating over a three-page plan to end the war, with one element under discussion being that the U.S. would release $20 billion in frozen Iranian funds in return for Iran giving up its stockpile of enriched uranium
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Shorties Apr 17, 2026 +29
What!? Isn’t this what was criticized about the previous Iran deals!?
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Stockholm86er Apr 17, 2026 +28
This is literally the Obama deal. I kid you not. And Trump was the a****** that was saying the deal was bad because we will be paying them billions, when in fact it's been iranian assets all along and now he is doing the exact same deal. Trump is a POS and can't stand that Obama is better than him on all counts. The ultra baby narcissist.
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TechnicalScheme385 Apr 17, 2026 +126
Total differences. Iran has Industrial grade uranium. We buy it, for 20x the price. Meanwhile Iran is BANKing on their shipping fees, and this buyout plan. Later Iran buys weapons grade uranium from Russia or China. with the money trump gives them. So what was all this bitching about Obama and giving Iran 1.7B?(their own money back) Because trump trumps trump!
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shef175 Apr 17, 2026 +102
The $1.7B also wasn’t just “giving” money to Iran. It was a repayment of funds Iran spent with the U.S. in a 1979 arms deal and settled a long-running court case. But of course, facts are hard to process and inconvenient when you can further anger and scare your voting base. This is just an unforced stupid and bad idea, which is entirely on brand with this administration.
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Morganvegas Apr 17, 2026 +24
Getting educated requires effort, remaining ignorant is much easier.
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chokokhan Apr 17, 2026 +27
I am downright shocked Trump has bankrupted so many businesses before including casinos. What this business acumen???? How?!?!?
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[deleted] Apr 17, 2026 +3642
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tri170391 Apr 17, 2026 +1152
MY deal is better, it is 20x bigger than Obama's /s
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Spork_Warrior Apr 17, 2026 +364
Your statement doesn't need to be marked as sarcasm. He really would boast about something like that.
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GotEggs Apr 17, 2026 +62
Always good to clarify things in today’s society, people are stupid remember? (That’s how we got this administration)
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NubEnt Apr 17, 2026 +85
Trump already gave them billions in oil revenue and sanction relief because *(checks notes)* he went to war with Iran and caused huge economic ripples that he didn’t anticipate or plan for.
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Law-of-Poe Apr 17, 2026 +234
Same way the pizzagate crowd got really quiet when it was found out that that Trump was blocking the fact that he’s all over the Epstein files—even raped a thirteen year old Epstein girl
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Nwah2112 Apr 17, 2026 +79
As an OG “there is an international cabal of billionaire child sex traffickers” believer I’ll never understand how Trump won so many of us over. Like from the earliest moments of the “conspiracy theory” going mainstream it was clear that he was at least tangentially involved or knowledgeable. Clearly not everyone who ever met Epstein was in on this, but there are tapes of Trump joking about Epstein liking women on the young side and it was known that he’d been on his plane.
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NumeralJoker Apr 17, 2026 +31
Unfortunately, these were the people who were wishcasting pizzagate into existence, not those who cared if Trump was connected to Epstein. It didn't matter if the evidence points to Trump being guilty because Trump promised he would take down the federal government, which they saw as being run by a black man. That was sadly all that mattered at that time.
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FamousVillage1890 Apr 17, 2026 +15
Wilful ignorance.
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MyHobbyAndMore3 Apr 17, 2026 +7
"he will drain the swamp". as it turns out he is the swamp.
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Gamelove0I5 Apr 17, 2026 +52
Have you been to the conservative sublistnook recently. More and more people are waking up to trumps bullshit. For every die hard maga user there's a dozen centre right people being actually reasonable. Trump posting an ai pic of himself as jesus really pissed off conservative Christians.
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LePouletPourpre Apr 17, 2026 +86
Yes. That sub is saturated with foreign actors though. I don’t believe anyone in the comments section. The mods also work over time to suppress any post critical of Trump administration.
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Wolfgirl90 Apr 17, 2026 +18
>More and more people are waking up to trumps bullshit. For every die hard maga user there's a dozen centre right people being actually reasonable.  If they gave even the slightest bit of a damn about being reasonable, then Trump wouldn't be president right now. They only care about what Trump is doing right now because his actions are affecting *them* now. He's deporting *their* friends, neighbors, and spouses. He's sending *their* loved ones into war. He's cutting *their* benefits. He's increasing *their* groceries and healthcare costs. And he's making a public mockery out of *their* religion. These folks wanted to bask in Trump's 3 ring circus, but are now wondering why they are starting to smell elephant shit. Like bruh, I told you to move out of the way of that elephant's ass a decade ago.
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Imaginary_Hamster847 Apr 17, 2026 +35
Also, every single time he does something crazy, a bunch of conservatives online "wake up" for 36 hours until they get their Facebook (or Fox News or whatever) marching orders, and then it's right back to the cult
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iliveonramen Apr 17, 2026 +16
I’ve seen it happen realtime with family members. On a family vacation they were shell shocked after Trump’s debate against Harris. After consuming a days worth of Fox News it was “5 versus 1” and Trump actually did well
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reddollardays Apr 17, 2026 +6
It’s such a sad little safe space.
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silverbullet1989 Apr 17, 2026 +12
Those that "wake up" are instantly banned and removed from the sub. Cant have people going against the safe space echo chamber.
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samanime Apr 17, 2026 +5
You know, I'm just now realizing, Trump always talks about the "Art of the Deal"... but he never said it was the art of the GOOD deal...
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Odd_Perfect Apr 17, 2026 +17
Hey WeRe AbOut to Have NuClEar WeapOnSS!!! Don’t you want world peace!
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brickne3 Apr 17, 2026 +5
I'd be happy to part with all my research for just £10 billion, it's out in the shed and almost done, pinky promise!
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AdventurousNecessary Apr 17, 2026 +8
Must be nice for Republicans to only have a single value. "Trump is always right". We should never forget or forgive the Republican party for the damage done to the vast majority of this country and its reputation.
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Prior-Explanation389 Apr 17, 2026 +5
The issue was that Obama didn’t give them enough!!! Duh
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0fficerGeorgeGreen Apr 17, 2026 +8
I was literally getting that clap-back just weeks ago when talking about the stupidity of all this. 'At least Trump isn't just giving them money!' What's the excuse now? Never ending.
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jpiro Apr 17, 2026 +19
Especially when all Obama actually did was give Iran back its own money.
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dambthatpaper Apr 17, 2026 +33
>The U.S. and [Iran](https://www.axios.com/world/iran) are negotiating over a three-page plan to end the war, with one element under discussion being that **the U.S. would release $20 billion in frozen Iranian funds** in return for Iran giving up its stockpile of enriched uranium, according to two U.S. officials and two additional sources briefed on the talks. This is literally the first sentence of the article, so if I'm not misunderstanding it, this is also "giving Iran back its own money"
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Plappedudel Apr 17, 2026 +334
Nice, so this is just Obama's deal, but 10 times more expensive. Tired of winning yet?
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MessMaximum5493 Apr 17, 2026 +93
If you add in all the costs of the war it's probably 20 times lol
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u9Nails Apr 17, 2026 +10
Yay! We're great again now, right? Maga? He spent our taxes greatly?
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noremac2414 Apr 17, 2026 +8
Art of the deal
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HeartFullONeutrality Apr 17, 2026 +4
You mean infinitely more expensive, since the money Obama paid them was not ours, but theirs.
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CarPhoneRonnie Apr 17, 2026 +358
I think he solved the Denny’s maze this morn and is feeling good
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Careless-Age-4290 Apr 17, 2026 +76
"Still got it! 😏"
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UnTides Apr 17, 2026 +9
Later that night on "I got the best score ever on cognitive test! And 100% on dementia test, they've never seen a better score"
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Puzzleheaded-Lab-635 Apr 17, 2026 +1300
umm....so we are paying them 20 billion for their uranium... sound like they will mine more uranium for cash in the future.
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MileHighManBearPig Apr 17, 2026 +827
The Cobra Effect. Well studied economic stuff. In British-ruled India a bounty for dead cobras backfired. To reduce the snake population, the government offered cash for dead cobras. Instead of reducing snakes, this led to people breeding them for money, resulting in more, not fewer, cobras.
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wait_what_now Apr 17, 2026 +265
And then when they ended the program, everyone just released their broods, making it soo much worse!
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killboticus89 Apr 17, 2026 +47
Damn dog Britain really was out there AB testing colonies 
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Somhlth Apr 17, 2026 +19
I'm thinking of ordering a shovel myself now.
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blueye525 Apr 17, 2026 +453
Wait so I’m clear: - we had a nuclear deal (JCPOA) which Iran was honoring. - Trump and republicans criticized Obama for sending Iran $1.7b in returned funding / interest accrued as part of the deal. - Trump pulls out of Iran deal in first term and puts sanctions back on. Iran begins nuclear program again. - Trump bombs Iran nuclear program in 2025 “completely obliterating” it. - in 2026 Trump initiates a war (in the midst of diplomatic talks) with one of the goals being “no nuclear program for Iran.” Trump admin assassinates leadership and bombs civilian infrastructure, providing Iran justification for wanting to have a nuclear weapon as deterrent. - Talks start again for a new nuclear deal, and we’re considering buying their Uranium for $20b. What reason does Iran have to trust any agreement made by this administration? They’re gonna end up taking our money and continuing on with their nuclear program regardless. Art of the deal folks. Republicans are a joke
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No-Good-One-Shoe Apr 17, 2026 +142
You should add all the parts where Trump and his buddies made tons of money.  That's the true art of the deal. 
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MaxGoldFilms Apr 17, 2026 +50
According to some reports from the Iran negotiating team in Pakistan (which may or may not be true), Kushner inquired about receiving a portion of the Hormuz Toll as a part of a deal. That may be propaganda, but it's effective because it wouldn't be out of character.
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TheKingOfSwing777 Apr 17, 2026 +21
This seems more likely than not tbh.
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koshgeo Apr 17, 2026 +18
The best deal that the US can currently hope for is basically the same deal that it tore up previously, which was torn up by the same guy that is negotiating now. No wonder Iran is reluctant. And that's after spending billions of dollars on war and tanking the global economy, none of which had to happen. I'm sure whatever deal is struck we'll hear about how "nobody else could have negotiated a deal as well as President Trump."
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FalloutRip Apr 17, 2026 +631
But we can’t have free school lunches. Or healthcare or scientific funding. No sir.
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Independent-Cow-4070 Apr 17, 2026 +147
$20B would probably connect DC to NYC with high speed rail lol
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Nwah2112 Apr 17, 2026 +92
California’s high speed rail was approved in 2008, meant to be completed in 2020, has yet to run a train and is now projected to be $90B over budget and completed in 2033. NY’s LIRR tunnel to Grand Central was $13B over budget and a decade later than projected. I don’t think the country is capable any longer of meaningfully and successfully investing in infrastructure.
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Independent-Cow-4070 Apr 17, 2026 +61
Well if we learn from the CAHSR experience and stop letting shill lawsuits stop construction, we could definitely do it In fact it would probably cost less than $20B if our government ever grows some balls
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blitznoodles Apr 17, 2026 +19
Not just lawsuits, the state government should've tried funding it properly rather than just starve it of money.
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digidado Apr 17, 2026 +9
You can blame republicans for literally all of that.
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knightgawd Apr 17, 2026 +8
Only if you let a private company run and it steam roll all the bull shit local and state governments do to prevent progress. See: California high speed rail.
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ejoy-rs2 Apr 17, 2026 +16
It's frozen assets. Not actual US money.
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[deleted] Apr 17, 2026 +13
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Armano-Avalus Apr 17, 2026 +4
So it's sanctions relief?
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xyouRABitchx Apr 17, 2026 +6
Did you read the article?
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PedanticQuebecer Apr 17, 2026 +228
Remember when the Republicans made a huge deal of unfreezing about $30 Billion of Iranian assets as part of the JCPOA?
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TJames6210 Apr 17, 2026 +38
And unlocking those assets was reported by right wing media as "Obama sending Iran pallets of cash". Why tf are they so gullible?
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PedanticQuebecer Apr 17, 2026 +24
I think it was pallets
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Somhlth Apr 17, 2026 +82
Shhh. Republicans hate when you put two and two together.
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Icutu62 Apr 17, 2026 +121
So, couldn’t we have just offered Iran that from the start? Instead we wasted countless of billions of dollars, lost American lives and caused worldwide economic chaos. I’m beginning to think this “Art of the Deal” guy is a con man.
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famine- Apr 17, 2026 +65
The world did under the JCPOA deal with Obama, and Iran was complying with all the requirements. The Republicans vowed to kill the deal in 2015/2016 when it was finalized, then in 2018 the orange pedo unilaterally pulled out of the deal. Iran has been slowly escalating for 8 years and reporting those escalations to the IAEA.   The deal was being worked on under Biden and slowly de-escalated under the pedo's second term.
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Sideos385 Apr 17, 2026 +17
Big difference is the money they got under JCPOA was their money already! We froze their assets!! This is literally handing them money which is what the republicans accuse Obama of doing
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LUK3FAULK Apr 17, 2026 +8
It’s the same thing this time, this is unfrozen assets being given to them again. Still stupid though
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El_mochilero Apr 17, 2026 +90
$20B for Iran, $20B for Argentina, $16B for Israel, $0 for your healthcare
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Henry-8th Apr 17, 2026 +81
What a total knobhead. The Art of the Deal hey? The worst president in US history.
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Azatis- Apr 17, 2026 +19
another L ! So they camouflage Irans reperations as uranium payment lol ! So much win...
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BillButtlickerII Apr 17, 2026 +47
Dude this will go down as the stupidest administration in history. I don’t even need to know the future to know that no future president will make as many dumbass, corrupt, and narcissistic decisions. Genuinely f*** this administration, the GOP, and MAGA.
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AcrobaticMistake2468 Apr 17, 2026 +14
They bitched and moaned Moaned and bitched for years “Obama sent pallets of cash to help Iran engage in terror” Four hundred million is less than 20 billion right? I’m not crazy here am I?
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BrothelWaffles Apr 17, 2026 +27
Remember when Republicans lost their f****** minds when Obama made the old Iran nuclear deal because part of it was giving them back their own money? Cause I sure as f*** do.
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mortemdeus Apr 17, 2026 +23
I thought the whole reason we tore up the old Iran deal was because Obama gave them $1 billion. Now we are giving then $20 billion?
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ratedsar Apr 17, 2026 +14
Trump in a future "What moron tore up that agreement, I had to go to war to get it back"  Just like usmca
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ITSHOBBSMA Apr 17, 2026 +10
lol. And people want to complain about Obama funding terrorism?
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roosterthumper Apr 17, 2026 +10
So over 15x the amount Obama released back, not even paid. So much winning. JFC how does he still have supporters.
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Faroutman1234 Apr 17, 2026 +16
Iran has thousands of trained nuclear engineers and thousands of centrifuges hidden away. They even can make modern carbon fiber centrifuges. The proverbial genie is out of the bottle. There is no way to inspect every cave in a country bigger than Iraq and Afghanistan combined. The best solution is to integrate Iran into the western economies so they have no incentive to attack neighbors. And defund the Israeli military.
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royale_wthCheEsE Apr 17, 2026 +8
Aren’t these the same assholes constantly saying Obama had to pay Iran 1 billion dollars to get Iran to agree to the original nuclear agreement? ( note : he didn’t , just unfroze Iranian funds that Iran already owned)
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kosmokramr Apr 17, 2026 +8
Remember when GOP lost their shit because Obama gave them $1bn not to build a nuclear weapon?
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TheBlueBlaze Apr 17, 2026 +8
From the same administration that wouldn't let you forget that "Obama sent planes full of cash to Iran!", they are now considering doing what they constantly try to imply Obama did. They don't say "Obama used taxpayer money" because he didn't, he unfroze Iranian assets. He was effectively giving them back their own money. But this proposal *would*, in fact, be using taxpayer money to pay Iran.
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i_am_voldemort Apr 17, 2026 +7
Didn't the right complain that Obama did this?
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brodamansisterwoman Apr 17, 2026 +8
And Obama only did this in order to get a deal that stops them from getting new weapons. Trump‘s deal wouldn’t even achieve that and he’s freeing up 20x the amount of sanctioned cash
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TuringC0mplete Apr 17, 2026 +7
But we can't afford to forgive student loans, healthcare, fix the roads, medicare, medicaid, child programs, etc etc etc etc..... got it.
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Sniperonzolo Apr 17, 2026 +7
Wait, wasn’t Iran’s uranium obliterated in a strike in 2025, and then obliterated again in the war a few weeks ago? Oh wait, let me get this straight: - Trump started a war - spent BILLIONS bombing Iran - failed to destroy their centrifuges and uranium stockpile TWICE - caused the world economy to have a stroke - increased inflation for literally everyone on earth including the U.S. - lost even the last grain of credibility the U.S. still had within NATO and its **former** allies - failed to overthrow the Iranian regime - failed to secure any support from Europe - removed sanctions on Russia - damaged oil, polymer and fertilizer production globally - got his allies in the Middle East bombed - Irreversibly undermined NATO …and NOW HE WANTS TO PAY 20 BILLION to Iran for giving up their uranium?
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Main-Bandicoot6477 Apr 17, 2026 +30
But I never stop hearing about how Obama gave them pallets of cash!!? And that it funds terrorism!! And why didn't we do this before we killed children and got Americans killed and spent ten times that already and increased costs for regular people all over the world?
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poppadada Apr 17, 2026 +6
yeah, the u.s. lost the war and is actually going to pay more than restitution
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VegetableYesterday63 Apr 17, 2026 +7
Let’s see- Obama treaty no uranium enrichment- Trump here is $20 Billion What a buffoon
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Constant_Section1491 Apr 17, 2026 +6
Wait we were supposed to recover Uranium, not pay them 20Billions for it. Also where's the regime change which was the stated goal when the war began.
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Correct-Shine-1692 Apr 17, 2026 +6
Coming from the guy that was complaining about Obama sending planes of cash…
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peePpotato Apr 17, 2026 +7
These guys are fuckn morons.
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gwarrior5 Apr 17, 2026 +6
Could have not ripped up obamas deal. USA is so great right now, so f****** great.
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lushootseed Apr 17, 2026 +5
Weren't republicans furious when Obama unfroze iranian money? I am sure they all will praise trump for giving them $20B...
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magnamed Apr 17, 2026 +6
So Obama's deal, but 20 billion instead of 2 billion.
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MenaFWM Apr 17, 2026 +3
And maga is going to be ok with it, while they lost their shit over the Obama deal…
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Spoons4Forks Apr 17, 2026 +11
Can’t wait for Ben Shapiro to meltdown when he finds out Trumps doing the Obama deal x20 lmao
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GryphonCough Apr 17, 2026 +6
Oh I’ve seen this one before!  The republicans are going to lose their f****** minds because a sitting US president gave cash to Iran. They will proceed to scream-whine about it for the next decade.  We all know republicans have unmovable morals and are never hypocrites about anything ever. So they definitely won’t be cheering this on as a massive win this time.  /s
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mshaefer Apr 17, 2026 +5
We wouldn't be talking about pallets of American cash, are we? 20, did you say? That's at least....\[math sounds\]...a lot more than the 8 the GOP has screamed about the previous admin authorizing \[edit: 1.8 from Obama, 6 from Biden\]. Of course, they'll be quick to point out that none of it is American cash, it's just unfrozen funds, exactly like the last admin(s) but we can just ignore that for now. So, great work guys! Really moved Iran's geopolitical standing ahead light years, eroded virtually all of our allied relationships, made it abundantly clear how dependent we actually are on foreign oil, lost a handful of planes and servicemembers along the way and ended up with a worse deal with a higher price tag, Hard to imagine how one President could've done a worse job in less time. But those Lego videos, though...
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Impossible-Flight250 Apr 17, 2026 +5
Didn't they criticize Obama for doing something similar, even though it was like 1 billion of their dollars?
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Illustrious-Kiwi8670 Apr 17, 2026 +5
So giving them back money for nuclear concessions? Where have I heard about that approach before? It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so pathetic..
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OneNormalBloke Apr 17, 2026 +21
And that in essence if what Dr Jesus is after in the first place. Question is, who will personally benefit?
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kalekayn Apr 17, 2026 +5
No money for healthcare or education in the US but plenty of money for war and paying off dictatorships and other evil people.
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dylanholmes222 Apr 17, 2026 +4
BRO WHAT THE F***
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The_mingthing Apr 17, 2026 +4
Wasn't Trump going to get it for free?
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ScrewyYear Apr 17, 2026 +5
Everything this administration does is enrich Trump and his cronies. They’ll get richer while everyone else pays the bills.
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SnivyEyes Apr 17, 2026 +5
Obama also released frozen Iranian funds and the GOP lied and said a plane full money was sent over.
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Everheart1955 Apr 17, 2026 +3
YOU MEAN LIKE THE DEAL YOU TORE UP, YOU F****** MORON
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MEDICARE_FOR_ALL Apr 17, 2026 +4
Art of the deal. Sending 20 billion to Iran.
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Hystus Apr 17, 2026 +4
Oh right, it's Friday!  Time to manipulate the market more
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Moominsean Apr 17, 2026 +4
So we will give them $20 billion and they will continue to enrich uranium.
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fjvgamer Apr 17, 2026 +4
Wait didnt Obama get roasted for giving iran their money back? Now we gonna actually give them tax money?
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UofMtigers2014 Apr 17, 2026 +5
Republicans crucified Obama for the Nuclear deal because we unfroze less than $2 billion in Iran assets. But not republicans are totally fine with $20 billion
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Bleakwind Apr 17, 2026 +3
art of the f****** deal yall. EVERYTHING.. EVERYTHING this asshat touches turns to shit.
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themadpants Apr 17, 2026 +4
This idiot and his administration are the most useless unqualified morons. We had a deal with them, where we gave them no money from American Tax Payers, and they allowed monitoring of their nuclear program by independant inspectors, and you tore it up because your ego would not allow something a democrat did to stand. And here you are getting us in to ridiculous amounts of debt like you have a blank check. whats another 20 billion? How much are your real estate agent negotiators, who are not qualified to tie a shoe lace taking off the top? FUUUUUUUUUU. The stupidity knows no bounds.
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Oh_reaaaally Apr 17, 2026 +3
This is the same president that talks about Obama handing them a plane full of cash, this admin continues to outdue itself
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Yourponydied Apr 17, 2026 +4
"Pallets of cash"
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lushootseed Apr 17, 2026 +4
Why isn't Israel buying it as they were the ones that didn't want a nuclear Iran?
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mcbeardsauce Apr 17, 2026 +3
Imagine how many people you could pull out of poverty with $20B?
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Parking_Abalone_1232 Apr 18, 2026 +5
I can't believe Chump is going to just give Iran $20B. Especially after all the bullshit he's given Obama for giving Iran money.
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dntbstpd1 Apr 18, 2026 +4
Haha, the MAGAt trash complained about Obama approving $400 million of IRAN’S OWN MONEY to be returned to them and now they’ll have to figure out some mental gymnastics to get over TWENTY F****** BILLION being handed to them by Trump lmao
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Edwardv054 Apr 18, 2026 +3
Obama had the same deal for only $1.7 billion, Trump screwed it up.
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btspman1 Apr 17, 2026 +12
I remember how PISSED the GOP was when Obama negotiated 1.7 billion. Are they going to be pissed now??
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Weshtonio Apr 17, 2026 +8
A cash-for-something deal? Isn't that just buying? So they're buying some stuff. Couldn't they have just done that to begin with?
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ballsackface_ Apr 17, 2026 +3
Hilarious
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SpaceC0wboyX Apr 17, 2026 +3
Remember that time we already had a comprehensive nuclear deal with Iran and Trump and the republicans were going absolutely crazy because we were “giving them money” even though we just unfroze and unsanctioned their accounts. Now we’re gonna pay them to secure a worse deal?
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ThePlasticSturgeons Apr 17, 2026 +3
Jesus Christ. Why not just lead off with that instead spending a trillion dollars on failed military intervention first? These are the stupidest people who have ever walked on two legs.
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wtfbenlol Apr 17, 2026 +3
You're f****** kidding me. If I see one more magat talk shit about Obama giving Iran their own money I'm gonna flip
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BoudinBallz Apr 17, 2026 +3
Jesus H tapdancing Christ
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trip6god Apr 17, 2026 +3
Sounds like “negotiating with terrorist” but ok lol
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Rodinsprogeny Apr 17, 2026 +3
I thought all of this was necessary because Obama "gave them pallets of money". But at least it was their own, newly unfrozen money, and not $20 billion of *taxpayer* money. Absolute clown show.
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Fuck_Me_If_Im_Wrong_ Apr 17, 2026 +3
Didn’t we used to have a cash for uranium deal with Iran?
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Capital-Control308 Apr 17, 2026 +3
So the USA and Israel do $200B-500B damage to Iran and then offer $20B. Mmm
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Saneless Apr 17, 2026 +3
Shart of the deal
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Apprehensive-Tip9373 Apr 17, 2026 +3
They still got $20 billion? That fiat machine has been going brrrrr for awhile now.
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Sad-Side-8704 Apr 17, 2026 +3
Lmao isn’t this what maga raged about last time? We GAVE them tax payer dollars right?? /s
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liquidsyphon Apr 17, 2026 +3
I thought they hated the Obama deal because he gave them money? Or didn’t he just unfreeze their own money? He’s setting up Iran to have their own toll booth and paying them billions….
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9ersaur Apr 17, 2026 +3
In EU5 this is called paying war reparations after losing a war
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veryboredatwork Apr 17, 2026 +3
So it was a shakedown in the end?
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AngryMillennialFU Apr 17, 2026 +3
They bitched about Obama unfreezing funds now its ok if their white jesus does it?
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fhilcollins666 Apr 17, 2026 +3
I hope that they have to send pallets of cash. Oh, the sweet sweet MAGA schadenfreude.
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Baxkit Apr 17, 2026 +3
Can a historian tell us if there has ever been any dumber leadership in any major society in history?
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ElectricDayDream Apr 17, 2026 +3
Wait. Wait.. we are gonna pay them with money on pallets? But this time it’s our money on pallets?!?!?! Where’s the burning effigies?!?!
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MrBubblepopper Apr 17, 2026 +3
I thought all the weapons grade stuff was destroyed or burried underground Right ??
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PaceEBene84 Apr 17, 2026 +3
This might as well be an admission of defeat
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DepletedPromethium Apr 17, 2026 +3
Iran doesnt even have weapons grade uranium due to the previous nuclear weapons deal that was inplace. So now the US wants to buy their shit uranium and help further fund the shaheds and other weapons of war going to help russia against ukraine? what the actual f***.
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oncemoor Apr 17, 2026 +3
Trump is the epitome of starting a fire, causing more damage, getting back less than we had before and then claiming victory.
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long-and-soft Apr 17, 2026 +3
How is this not worse than the Iran nuclear deal lmao
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williamgman Apr 17, 2026 +3
Can we stop using the term "US" on these stories? It's the folks proping up the Trump administration considering this.
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enakj Apr 17, 2026 +3
Didn’t Trump and MAGA go bad shit crazy when Obama’s administration made a similar deal with Iran? Hi pot, this is kettle.
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velwein Apr 17, 2026 +3
So… we’re sending them pallets of money… wasn’t that one of the MAGAts memes about Obama’s original deal, that was only a fraction of this?
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Odd_Zookeepergame_69 Apr 17, 2026 +3
Oh you mean that the US could have just asked nicely to purchase the uranium and didn't have to start a war that effected everyone in the world?
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jimnylover Apr 17, 2026 +3
Imagine if Obama came up with this idea. The Republican backlash
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SeparateSpend1542 Apr 17, 2026 +3
Tell this story to your kids when they don’t have healthcare
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sullen_agreement Apr 17, 2026 +3
and Obama got lambasted for giving Iran back its own money conservatives are not serious people
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III00Z102BO Apr 17, 2026 +3
The same people that lambasted a previous administration for releasing Iran's own money in exchange for a deal regarding their nuclear program. Of course.
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Gildenstern2u Apr 17, 2026 +3
We’re all done paying taxes right?
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sjrotella Apr 17, 2026 +3
\*Insert Dennis Reynolds You Dumb B**** Meme\*
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cutlineman Apr 17, 2026 +3
Obama giving Iran money to stop their nuclear program is bad because it would never work, but Trump giving Iran money to do the same thing is good and will definitely work. Got it. Just wanted to make sure I was following along.
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thinkmoreharder Apr 17, 2026 +3
We learned nothing from the planeload of gold and Swiss francs.
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themightywurm Apr 17, 2026 +3
we should just let them have one of our nukes now and get it over with
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cash8888 Apr 17, 2026 +3
Healthcare
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just_mark Apr 17, 2026 +3
just think. this problem was resolved by Obama orange man ripped it up cuz it was from a black president he has tried and failed to reach an agreement even half as good
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tekniklee Apr 17, 2026 +3
Let me buy my way out of this with someone else’s money
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sonofblackbird Apr 17, 2026 +3
Oooh but Biden was giving Iran money??? Imagine how many drones they can make with 20b
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Starter-for-Ten Apr 17, 2026 +3
Trump is paying £20b for nothing.  It's part of the deal to keep the straight open. But he has to say that he's getting something for his money....he's not. 
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JoshAllentown Apr 17, 2026 +3
Remember when Trump was so upset about the Obama deal to give them back $1.7 Billion that legally already belonged to them?
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Tirrus Apr 17, 2026 +3
Wasn’t the right recently raging about Obama/biden giving Iran a bunch of money?? I wonder how they’ll spin this as a good thing. F****** lemmings.
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KuroKageB Apr 17, 2026 +3
Ooh... are they offering "pallets of cash?"
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