U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance say their interim deal to end the war with Iran will deliver a financial windfall to American farmers.
But the Iranians deny it. And, in the absence of more details, sanctions experts are flummoxed over exactly how billions of dollars’ worth of Iranian assets would make their way to the American heartland from the escrow accounts where they’ve been locked for years by U.S. sanctions.
A tentative agreement reached last week would reopen the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world’s oil and natural gas once passed, and allow Iran to start selling its oil freely again during a 60-day period when the two countries will continue negotiating key issues. The memorandum of understanding also promised to unfreeze Iranian assets.
Trump’s deal has come under fire for failing to address the reasons the president cited for going to war with Iran on Feb. 28, including curbing Tehran’s nuclear ambitions, its missile program and its support for militant groups such as Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza.
Lashing back at critics Tuesday on his Truth Social media platform, Trump said U.S. farmers would get a payday: The U.S. Treasury Department, he wrote, would release the Iranian assets “into escrow, controlled by the U.S.A., and will be used for the purchase of food and medical supplies, exclusively from the United States, including Corn, Wheat, and Soybeans from our great American farmers. These are things that are desperately needed by Iran.’’
Vance, who spoke about the proposal after high-level talks in Switzerland, and Trump say that any frozen funds and assets held outside of Iran will be used to buy U.S. crops.
Holy cow, this administration is just chock full of complete morons.
He’s posting right now that he’s going to have the oil companies investigated because his brain has somehow retained a portion of a message he heard that fuel prices are up and climbing. So naturally he acts first and thinks never to say that gas prices must come down, completely ignoring that all of this stupid bullshit is entirely his own fault.
Giving Iran $300BILLION is going to help Farmers!
-Alpha Republicans!
Isn’t this the same rational for why we give Israel tons of money every year? But instead of food it’s military equipment.
At least arms manufacturing produces something, you need someone to build the guns and all that.
arms dealer need some welfare too!!! /s
The U.S. Treasury Department, he wrote, would release the Iranian assets “into escrow, controlled by the U.S.A., and will be used for the purchase of food and medical supplies, exclusively from the United States, including Corn, Wheat, and Soybeans from our great American farmers. These are things that are desperately needed by Iran.
If Iran buys food from anywhere, the U.S. is surely the last place they’d choose to get it from.
The problem is that you are not thinking like a grifter. It’s going to be some Trump lackey in charge of the escrow fund, who’s sole job is to make sure that escrow money goes into Trump and Co’s pockets.
Bomb them and then give them a fuckload of money and lie about it being a boon to our farmers!
I really hate this administration and all it stands for
AP, CNN, CBS, WaPo, and natch NYT and even everyone’s news-source-next-door NPR are all complicit in this shit.
They know exactly how fucked up this is. And they ain’t sayin shit.
Trump’s deal has come under fire for failing to address the reasons the president cited for going to war with Iran on Feb. 28, including curbing Tehran’s nuclear ambitions, its missile program and its support for militant groups such as Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza.
That’s because it was never about any of that. Trump started a war to distract from the Trump-Epstein files.
And he ended up losing the war, and the Epstein files are still on everyone’s minds.
Yeah, Iran is not going to buy our damn soybeans.
EDIT: By the way, did I mention we’re running a special on soybeans?
The real program will see $300 billion released into a us escrow account then $12billion for usa farmers . The rest is bonus and commission for witkof and kushner who negotiated the “winning” deal.
