The vast majority of the American media is garbage. It just is. It’s no better than the propaganda outlets of state-controlled media, like we see in Iran, China, and North Korea. Most of America’s media is replete with left-wing ideologues pretending to be journalists, so of course, anything to help the Democrat Party is fair game. Even if the ‘reporting’ is 100 percent trash.
With that in mind, it makes perfect sense that U.S. media outlets would take one segment of the newly signed Memorandum of Understanding with Iran to end the conflict, for now, completely out of context. That would be the segment that says Iran ‘is getting $300 billion’ and ‘that idiot Donald Trump’ agreed to it.
Both of these claims are false, false, false. Fake news. Not true. Literally unreal. Surprisingly, hand it to Reuters for getting it right:
The new fund is a private investment vehicle, not a reconstruction or reparations programme and will not include any government ?money or grants, the source said, adding that companies based in the U.S., the Gulf Arab states, Asia, South America and Africa have agreed to commit financing.
Investments pledged span energy, logistics, manufacturing and transport, the source said.
U.S. President Donald Trump pushed back on Wednesday against any characterisation of the fund as a U.S. investment. “We’re not investing, we’re not putting up 10 cents,” he said, adding that he was not asking Gulf countries to invest either. [emphasis added]
President Trump has repeatedly said this. He’s posted it publicly on his Truth Social platform. Vice President Vance has repeatedly said this. So have various members of the Trump administration. The text of the memorandum is public. Nowhere does it say that the ‘U.S. will be providing Iran with $300 billion.’ It does say the U.S. will be administering the program, which only makes sense given that the U.S. military, primarily, with assistance from Israel, took all the risks and took on Iran. Not our Gulf ‘allies.’ Not our NATO ‘allies.’
Understand that this money isn’t “reparations.” In that scenario, you’d cut someone a check and move on. But this is an investment fund. And key to an investment is the expectation of a return on that investment. Making money, in other words.
Trump is, by trade, a businessman, so setting this fund up as an investment vehicle makes perfect sense. Iran gets ‘rebuilt’ by having companies and countries invest, and they will only do that if Iran becomes less chaotic and much more stable.
Can Iran allow some investment, then ‘nationalize’ the company, steal the tech, and keep the profits? Sure. That’s a legitimate concern. But that will only happen once, and if it does, all future investments will cease.
As for Trump, the president had to sign an agreement. Crippling gas prices and a tanking stock market would have been a sure-fire way to lose the midterms. Now he can buy some time, get prices back down and the market back up (both of which are already happening), and keep an eye on Iran for any ‘misbehavior.’
But the claim that we are “giving Iran $300 billion” is complete BS. Shame on our ‘media’ for reporting it that way.
