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applegrove

(131,985 posts)
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 12:41 AM 11 hrs ago

Trump will end up giving Iran 8 times more money to Iran than the unfrozen Iranian assets Obama gave back to Iran:

Trump officials reportedly float Iran peace deal that looks very familiar You’ve gotta be f’n kidding me. President Donald Trump has roiled the world economy , driven gas prices and inflation higher ,

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Trump will end up giving Iran 8 times more money to Iran than the unfrozen Iranian assets Obama gave back to Iran: (Original Post) applegrove 11 hrs ago OP
Kick dalton99a 11 hrs ago #1
Art of the Deal dweller 11 hrs ago #2
Trump is rewarding Iran for killing Americans in a war he started. RockRaven 10 hrs ago #3
Trump is committing a war of aggression and killed hundreds of Iranian schoolgirls David__77 10 hrs ago #5
While point taken, of course what was "given" belonged to Iran. David__77 10 hrs ago #4
Exactly. I care way more about our dead soldiers and the $200B that fucker wants to steal from us taxpayers AZJonnie 5 hrs ago #9
If someone bombed a school in my country,.. Bread and Circuses 10 hrs ago #6
Iran will walk away better Eddie Haskell 60 10 hrs ago #7
IMO, reparations to Iran (cash up front and wired to Iranian banks) no_hypocrisy 7 hrs ago #8

dalton99a

(94,012 posts)
1. Kick
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 12:44 AM
11 hrs ago
Trump, meanwhile, is already panicking over gas prices hammering his party. So what does he do? He lifts sanctions on 140 million barrels of Iranian oil—worth roughly $14–15 billion.

So Iran doesn’t just get the deal back. It gets a far bigger payday, courtesy of Trump’s war.

So to recap:

Republicans claim Obama “gave” Iran $1.7 billion, for funsies
Trump tears up Obama deal
Trump claims Kamala Harris will launch war against Iran, but he’s the candidate of peace
Trump launches war against Iran
Iran replaces Ayatollah Khamenei with younger, worse Ayatollah Khamenei
Trump declares victory, several times
War weirdly continues
Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz, which everyone expected except Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth
Trump lifts sanctions on Iranian oil, rewarding them with massive profit
Trump people now are floating Obama deal, but with even more money for Iran

Profit!

RockRaven

(19,267 posts)
3. Trump is rewarding Iran for killing Americans in a war he started.
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 12:57 AM
10 hrs ago

Trump is rewarding Iran for killing Americans in a war he started.

Trump is rewarding Iran for killing Americans in a war he started.

Trump is rewarding Iran for killing Americans in a war he started.

Trump is rewarding Iran for killing Americans in a war he started.

Trump is rewarding Iran for killing Americans in a war he started.


I feel like that cannot be said enough. You get the idea though.

AZJonnie

(3,690 posts)
9. Exactly. I care way more about our dead soldiers and the $200B that fucker wants to steal from us taxpayers
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 05:57 AM
5 hrs ago

than I do about Iran getting the money they earned selling their resources. Then, or now, for that matter.

Bread and Circuses

(1,984 posts)
6. If someone bombed a school in my country,..
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 01:22 AM
10 hrs ago

There’s NO DEAL.

- apology
- reparations
- remove your bases in the Gulf.

Iran, may play hardball.


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Eddie Haskell 60

(55 posts)
7. Iran will walk away better
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 01:24 AM
10 hrs ago

Iran will not let Trump out of this mess. They will likely demand lifting of all sanctions, compensation, tolls for ships, security guarantees, etc. They have absolutely no reason for any type of ceasefire where this happens all over again six months later.

no_hypocrisy

(54,855 posts)
8. IMO, reparations to Iran (cash up front and wired to Iranian banks)
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 04:44 AM
7 hrs ago

is the likely way to end this morass.

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