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Donald Trump’s Pallets of Cash

JL;DR SUMMARY The article critically examines the alleged similarities between Donald Trump's approach to Iran and the controversial 2015 nuclear deal negotiated by Barack Obama. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Middle EastDonald TrumpUaeGeopoliticsObamaNuclear DealSanctionsIrgcIran PolicyJd Vance

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Tehran, Iran
"According to reports Friday, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a key U.S. regional ally, is making $20 billion of frozen Iranian assets available to the Islamic Republic, with $3 billion of it having already been delivered to Tehran, perhaps by a Boeing 757 and maybe even on wooden pallets like those Obama stacked with cash to pay the terror state."
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
"Emirati officials deny that theyre buying off Iran on behalf of the United States, but if Abu Dhabi thought Trump was going to put the clerical regime down for the count, it wouldnt be giving money to a neighbor that since March has set fire to high-end real-estate properties with hundreds of missile and drone attacks."
Israel
"Thus, what most distinguishes the MOU from the JCPOA, Vance insists, is that the Iranians wont get paid up front, the way Obama paid Iran to sit down and negotiate. But thats obviously not true. There are two stages to the MOU, and Iran has conditioned its participation in the second stage, to negotiate over the nuclear issues, on its satisfaction with the concessi"
Saudi Arabia
"Once paid, and confident that the United States wont return to war lest it jeopardize the negotiations for which it called off military operations, the Iranians can dictate the tempo of the talks and determine how and when, if ever, to begin the second phase. Vance has already shown his willingness to help them keep stringing it out, for six or 12 months or until Trumps term is over."

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