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

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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Nice, so this is just Obama's deal, but 10 times more expensive. Tired of winning yet?

I think he solved the Denny’s maze this morn and is feeling good

umm....so we are paying them 20 billion for their uranium... sound like they will mine more uranium for cash in the future.

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

But we can’t have free school lunches. Or healthcare or scientific funding. No sir.

Remember when the Republicans made a huge deal of unfreezing about $30 Billion of Iranian assets as part of the JCPOA?

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.

$20B for Iran, $20B for Argentina, $16B for Israel, $0 for your healthcare

What a total knobhead. The Art of the Deal hey? The worst president in US history.

another L ! So they camouflage Irans reperations as uranium payment lol ! So much win...

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.

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?

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.

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?

lol. And people want to complain about Obama funding terrorism?

So over 15x the amount Obama released back, not even paid. So much winning. JFC how does he still have supporters.

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.

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)

Remember when GOP lost their shit because Obama gave them $1bn not to build a nuclear weapon?

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.

Didn't the right complain that Obama did this?

But we can't afford to forgive student loans, healthcare, fix the roads, medicare, medicaid, child programs, etc etc etc etc..... got it.

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?

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?

yeah, the u.s. lost the war and is actually going to pay more than restitution

Let’s see- Obama treaty no uranium enrichment- Trump here is $20 Billion What a buffoon

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.

Coming from the guy that was complaining about Obama sending planes of cash…

These guys are fuckn morons.

Could have not ripped up obamas deal. USA is so great right now, so f****** great.

Weren't republicans furious when Obama unfroze iranian money? I am sure they all will praise trump for giving them $20B...

So Obama's deal, but 20 billion instead of 2 billion.

Can’t wait for Ben Shapiro to meltdown when he finds out Trumps doing the Obama deal x20 lmao

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

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...

Didn't they criticize Obama for doing something similar, even though it was like 1 billion of their dollars?

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..

And that in essence if what Dr Jesus is after in the first place. Question is, who will personally benefit?

No money for healthcare or education in the US but plenty of money for war and paying off dictatorships and other evil people.

BRO WHAT THE F***

Wasn't Trump going to get it for free?

Everything this administration does is enrich Trump and his cronies. They’ll get richer while everyone else pays the bills.

Obama also released frozen Iranian funds and the GOP lied and said a plane full money was sent over.

YOU MEAN LIKE THE DEAL YOU TORE UP, YOU F****** MORON

Art of the deal. Sending 20 billion to Iran.

Oh right, it's Friday!  Time to manipulate the market more

So we will give them $20 billion and they will continue to enrich uranium.

Wait didnt Obama get roasted for giving iran their money back? Now we gonna actually give them tax money?

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

art of the f****** deal yall. EVERYTHING.. EVERYTHING this asshat touches turns to shit.

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.

This is the same president that talks about Obama handing them a plane full of cash, this admin continues to outdue itself

"Pallets of cash"

Why isn't Israel buying it as they were the ones that didn't want a nuclear Iran?

Imagine how many people you could pull out of poverty with $20B?

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.

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

Obama had the same deal for only $1.7 billion, Trump screwed it up.

I remember how PISSED the GOP was when Obama negotiated 1.7 billion. Are they going to be pissed now??

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?

Hilarious

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?

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.

You're f****** kidding me. If I see one more magat talk shit about Obama giving Iran their own money I'm gonna flip

Jesus H tapdancing Christ

Sounds like “negotiating with terrorist” but ok lol

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.

Didn’t we used to have a cash for uranium deal with Iran?

So the USA and Israel do $200B-500B damage to Iran and then offer $20B. Mmm

Shart of the deal

They still got $20 billion? That fiat machine has been going brrrrr for awhile now.

Lmao isn’t this what maga raged about last time? We GAVE them tax payer dollars right?? /s

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….

In EU5 this is called paying war reparations after losing a war

So it was a shakedown in the end?

They bitched about Obama unfreezing funds now its ok if their white jesus does it?

I hope that they have to send pallets of cash. Oh, the sweet sweet MAGA schadenfreude.

Can a historian tell us if there has ever been any dumber leadership in any major society in history?

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?!?!

I thought all the weapons grade stuff was destroyed or burried underground Right ??

This might as well be an admission of defeat

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***.

Trump is the epitome of starting a fire, causing more damage, getting back less than we had before and then claiming victory.

How is this not worse than the Iran nuclear deal lmao

Can we stop using the term "US" on these stories? It's the folks proping up the Trump administration considering this.

Didn’t Trump and MAGA go bad shit crazy when Obama’s administration made a similar deal with Iran? Hi pot, this is kettle.

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?

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?

Imagine if Obama came up with this idea. The Republican backlash

Tell this story to your kids when they don’t have healthcare

and Obama got lambasted for giving Iran back its own money conservatives are not serious people

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.

We’re all done paying taxes right?

\*Insert Dennis Reynolds You Dumb B**** Meme\*

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.

We learned nothing from the planeload of gold and Swiss francs.

we should just let them have one of our nukes now and get it over with

Healthcare

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

Let me buy my way out of this with someone else’s money

Oooh but Biden was giving Iran money??? Imagine how many drones they can make with 20b

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. 

Remember when Trump was so upset about the Obama deal to give them back $1.7 Billion that legally already belonged to them?

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.

Ooh... are they offering "pallets of cash?"