Vance: Iran can have access to $300B reconstruction fund

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5924963-vance-iran-300b-reconstruction-fund/

by GreenSalem • 1 month ago

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3eb7988a16632• 1 month ago

Surely such a deal would have to be approved by Congress, right? Would they really have the votes?

WarOnPrivacy• 1 month ago

Surely such a deal would have to be approved by Congress, right?

That's the law. But Congress is abdicating much of it's power. The SCotUS defers to the WhiteHouse (ex:sides with the admin 90% of the time). The mechanisms that foster ethics in the 3 branches are being intentionally sabotaged by the majority in power.

joxdosba5• 1 month ago

What is congress going to do? Say “never negotiate with the US”?

It’s not like congress can very feasibly reject this deal in the end, Iran would just extort the gulf countries and it’d be even harder to sell an intervention.

3eb7988a16632• 1 month ago

Iran has been bombed at least twice during negotiations. Surely there is some skepticism that the US will not keep the deal.

There is no winning move -which is why this never should have been started. Congress absolutely can and should reject the deal. I thought we were worried about the deficit? Or is that just when the next guy is in charge?

nixon_why693• 1 month ago

The article says "funded by the gulf coast coalition" so it doesn't sound like they're planning on asking Congress.

No way congress passes that appropriation. They wouldn't pass the first JCPOA which is why Trump could shred it so easily.

JumpCrisscross• 1 month ago

Say “never negotiate with the US”?

The way Tom Cotton did to Iran over Obama? And then Trump did when he tore up the JCPOA?

America has straight up broken treaties before. Most countries have. You negotiate with who you have at the table in geopolitics. Diplomats who refuse to negotiate with someone have short, useless careers.

mdp20213• 1 month ago

I would campaign that the deal be fulfilled with private money instead of public funds.

(Or, act to show - roots and consequences - that this should be the proper procedure.)

ciconia• 1 month ago

I got news for you: that private money - a big chunk of it comes from public funds.

vintermann• 1 month ago

Don't worry, nothing this administration says to Iran means anything.

bediger4000• 1 month ago

Why was it bad for Obama to release much less than this to assure the earlier joint agreement? We heard a lot about how bad that was. Pallets of cash they said, real bad.

newtonianrules• 1 month ago

Because Democrats are held to different standards. I mean just look at the last year.

marysol5• 1 month ago

And they also have no teeth, even now. They still play this "we must reach across the aisle" stuff.

And the worlds shortest memories. They literally re-hashed a conspiracy from 2008 at the fight....

Democrats can't even remember a Republican scandal from 2 weeks ago

seanmcdirmid• 1 month ago

Trump has never felt any shame for hypocrisy. Or any shame at all actually.

pjc50• 1 month ago

Because that was done by Obama.

red-iron-pine3• 1 month ago

because Israel, the Saudis, and a few US billionaires didn't like it.

and now they do

erentz• 1 month ago

This would be an incredible $1,800 from each taxpayer sent overseas to the Iranian regime. On top of what’s already been spent and the inflation caused. In any other time in history just this alone (ignoring all the other scandals) would lead to something like a landslide 100 seat swing in the house. The fact polls show we’ll be lucky to see 10 seats switch shows how incredibly broken our information environment has become.

t0lo• 1 month ago

Sustained flooding the zone and abject denial over multiple years really is an unmatched cognitive warfare strategy isn't it. It's incredible how so many of us are tricked by something so primitive.

red-iron-pine3• 1 month ago

rubes gonna rube

jiwidi• 1 month ago

what, so you go and bomb them then now u pay them hahaha

LtWorf• 1 month ago

Loser has to pay reparations.

mdp20213• 1 month ago

If you like those kind of "jokes", also note that

-- it does not seem that those who had to bear the collateral damages of the whole action (e.g. economic loss, diplomatic loss) will be paid;

-- there have been hints that some not involved in the action (hit by the retaliation) also paid (to appease the retaliator).

N_Lens• 1 month ago

It's surprising how this administration consistently keeps rolling 1s on a D20.

tenuousemphasis• 1 month ago

Do they? Then where are the consequences?

krapp• 1 month ago

We pay the consequences. I don't know why we decided the DM gets to play their chaotic stupid goblin rogue and wreck the entire campaign, but we did.

oliwarner• 1 month ago

The lack of consequence and massive personal gains suggest the White House are hitting nat 20s.

The taxpayer and future generations are footing the bill. Trump and friends are rich forever.

red-iron-pine3• 1 month ago

what's surprising is that people think 1) they give a shit, and 2) that they're not 100% manipulated by foreign influence.

Israel and Russia completely own MAGA. Every decision they make re: foreign policy looks like it is straight out of Foundations of Geopolitics or Netanyahu's fever dreams.

mdp20213• 1 month ago

The point may be beyond the surprise and towards actions towards accountability.

Edit: and more than that, towards the defense of alternative political and geopolitical models. (Actual examples redacted to keep a calmer water surface.) (Already 'alternative' seems so preposterous a term for the context - as if "rape" vs "invite to dinner" could be covered by the term.)

lobito25• 1 month ago

Destroy and rebuild, that's the whole point of war.

adrian_b• 1 month ago

USA has a weird concept about the future as it were something already known, so they may declare now what will happen, even if the actual future depends on other agents.

From TFA:

U.S. officials have said Iran agreed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz permanently without tolls, while Tehran said the agreement is to allow free passage for the next 60 days during another period of negotiations led by Vance.
When asked about the confusion during a Monday appearance on CNBC, Vance said “Well, our expectation is that the strait is gonna be opened in a toll-free way for the long term, and that’s the sort of thing that we’re gonna figure out in these technical negotiations.”

adjejmxbdjdn• 1 month ago

These are semantic games.

Iran has said the Strait will be open without tolls as well.

But they’ve said they will charge fees for “services they provide”, where the possible service they will provide is not shooting down any ship that pays them the “fee”.

Schiendelman3• 1 month ago

That's not the US, that's just how you communicate when you're projecting your political goals.

trolleski• 1 month ago

For the 3567th time, I'll believe it when I see the fuel prices drop. Anything else is just the Yellow Dog and Jeffrey Dahmer Vance market manipulation talks.

thisislife2• 1 month ago

There is no "$300 billion fund" or "peace treaty" - these are all "carrots" being dangled to entice Iran. What we know for sure:

1. An MoU has been signed by both sides extending the ceasefire for another 60 days.

2. US Naval blockade will be lifted. The US expects the Strait to be toll-free, while Iranians claim it will not charge anything only during the 60 days ceasefire period. Iran claims it does plan to introduce some "maritime service fees", along with Oman, for the usage of the Strait, in the future.

3. Trump claims Iran will have no weapon grade nuclear material and will hand over all its enriched nuclear material. Iran claims it has only agreed to dilute the existing stockpile of 60% enriched uranium to "civilian grade" levels. It will not hand it over to anyone. And while it will also retain its existing enrichment facilities there will no "0% enrichment" policy as the US administration demands. Iran however will restrict itself from enriching uranium for military use as per the NPT.

4. The agreement also demands that Israel will have to end all military operations in Lebanon too, and withdraw from all the Lebanese territories occupied by it so far. Israel has however said it will not withdraw from the territories it has captured. Iran says it is up to Trump and the US to bring Israel to heel and enforce the agreement.

5. "Denuclearisation" and complete cessation of hostilities in Lebanon is supposed to be further negotiated within this 60 days period. During this process, US has offered to lift some sanctions if progress is made on the nuclear "deal".

- MoU reached. Peace? Not sure. - https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/527364/MoU-reached-Peace-No...

- Iran and US agree peace deal roadmap: What is and isn’t known - https://www.rt.com/news/641641-iran-us-peace-deal/

- Scoop: CIA director doubts Iran's intentions on deal, sources say - https://www.axios.com/2026/06/15/us-iran-deal-cia-director-r...

Personally, I wouldn't hold my breath for this ceasefire to last beyond 60 days. Netanyahu needs some war, some where to continue till elections in Israel are over. Peace in the Lebanon front upsets that. The US has made clear it wants the enriched nuclear pile removed. So Iran will have to deliberate on how much of all this nuclear negotiations can be trusted to not be an "intelligence gathering" exercise (to figure out where the stockpile is currently - dilution of the enriched pile will need on the ground inspection).

ekjhgkejhgk3• 1 month ago

reconstruction fund

Literal reparations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_reparations

War reparations are compensation payments made after a war by one side to the other. They are intended to cover damage or injury inflicted during a war.

Another war lost by the USA, despite its infinite military supremacy. Weird.

One observation that comes to mind is that a lot of people in the world realize that the interests of the US and of Israel are not aligned, but American policy makers keep pretending they're one and the same. This was completely self-inflicted and it's not the first time. (The Iraq war cost what, trillions?) It's quite incredible.

jimmydoe• 1 month ago

Please appreciate the peace and say thanks.

ekjhgkejhgk3• 1 month ago

I think nobody here can agree what part of that offended you.

Schiendelman3• 1 month ago

As an American, this whole thing has been so disappointing. I donate to candidates who both oppose this stuff and win, so I think I'm doing my part well, and I think in two years we'll improve things. But in the meantime I'm sorry!

ekjhgkejhgk3• 1 month ago

I know I know. I think most people wouldn't blame any one individual American voter. This specific issue isn't even left vs right in any case.

cosmicgadget2• 1 month ago

“Well, our expectation is that the strait is gonna be opened in a toll-free way for the long term, and that’s the sort of thing that we’re gonna figure out in these technical negotiations... You know that there are a lot of very important details to figure out, that we’re actually gonna sit at the table and discuss together and figure out a path forward on these details.”

This is the kind of thing you say when the deal is ready to be signed Friday.

Vance: Iran can have access to $300B reconstruction fund

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