Repubs freaked out when Obama gave $400M to Iran. Trump might give $20B

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

https://www.axios.com/2026/04/17/iran-us-deal-20-billion-frozen-funds-uranium


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

[videohead5]

1. They could've negotiated this

Without ever going to war. Trump is a fool.

[LakeVermilion]

2. If I'm not mistaken, the $400 million was the Iranian's money to begin with...

Obama just released the $400 million from being frozen in accounts.

[Disaffected]

3. That is correct.

They "gave" Iran the money is typical Republican BS.

[John1956PA]

5. Also, the Rethug propaganda that went out at the time stated that said amount the amount represented . .

. . . millions of dollars for each U.S. citizen. It took a few minutes for a few of my MAGA co-workers to understand my explanation that said amount actually represented just a little over one dollar per U.S. citizen.

[TheProle]

6. The "give" in this scenario is no different:

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, according to two U.S. officials and two additional sources briefed on the talks.

https://www.axios.com/2026/04/17/iran-us-deal-20-billion-frozen-funds-uranium

[leftstreet]

4. Why would Iran do this?

Why give up the enriched uranium Trump was unable to get by force?

Iran is in the driver's seat here, not the US

Sounds like more market-manipulation talking points from the WH

[leftstreet]

8. Sure n/t

[D_Master81]

10. Yeah okay

If the Iranian regime was so dead set on getting a nuke don’t you think they would have attained 1 over the last 40 years? This has more to do with sanctions on thr economy

[BannonsLiver]

13. They were only 2 weeks away!

[paleotn]

14. With enriched material already in hand

they could have several warheads in a matter of months. It’s the enriched material that’s always the hard part. Not a simple gun type device. The Manhattan Project guys sketched out “Little Boy” in a couple months. “Fat Man” took considerably more work, but “Little Boy” was much easier. The hard part was the enriched U235. Iran already has plenty of that

[paleotn]

11. DoD guys, other than Whiskey Pete, told Donnie

he can’t get the enriched material by force. At least no force that’s politically palatable. Nukes and /or lots of body bags. If Donnie is willing to pay it means he’s desperate. He’s got to get the uranium or the whole cover story for this misadventure collapses. Uncovering the real reason….Epstein.

[senseandsensibility]

12. He's gonna give 20B

and not even get back to where Obama was all those years ago since he tore up the agreement that Obama and Kerry handed him on a silver platter.

[misanthrope]

15. While he takes away Americans' health care

Pumps money into tech that will obliterate jobs, starves families, eviscerates weather studies and the forest service, and jacks up inflation willy-nilly.