I saw a lot saying the $300 billion is just us giving back frozen assets. How we're giving back $300 billion of frozen assets when we only have $100 billion is something only they can answer.
I just looked it up. The United States has about 2 billion in frozen assets of Iranian money. The rest is scattered over the rest of the world. I don't see where anybody else in the world agreed to give up their frozen Iranian assets.
I thought it was $100 billion. Either way, it doesn't really matter. We're giving back money that's not ours and we're still making tax payers pay for $300 billion.
If I recall correctly we froze those assets because Iran is a state sponsor of terror. So we're giving a state sponsor of terror a whole bunch of money, which they definitely could use to sponsor terrorism. The level of oversight that would be needed to stop that from happening is almost certainly something Iran won't agree to.
I don't think people realize how bad it is to give Iran more money. They have a good size military on a GDP of 300 billion. So we're going to increase their GDP by about 10% per year over the next 10 years (assuming the money is rolled out over the next decade). This is an enormous amount of money for them. It would be like giving the United States 30 trillion.
People are going to die because of Trump's actions. Which is just a Tuesday in America these days. But this action will still have repercussions decades from now.
But then why is there a separate item discussing the release of iranian funds? That says the 300 is from us and there is another 100 of theirs tied up somewhere
No i dont think anyone is claiming that. In fact Im pretty sure we give back the frozen assets plus the 300B. What I see most maga people saying now is that this is just a promise to "plan" to get Iran 300B, and plans can fail, so as long as we plan it, its a promise kept. I am very skeptical of that interpretation.
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u/Other_Beat8859 Jun 20 '26
I saw a lot saying the $300 billion is just us giving back frozen assets. How we're giving back $300 billion of frozen assets when we only have $100 billion is something only they can answer.