WTF: Trump to Give Iran $30 Billion & Nuclear

But one of the things that they're

discussing is allowing helping Iran get

access to 20 to$30 billion and that

money would go towards building Iran's

civilian nuclear program, its energy uh

its nuclear energy program. Our special

envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witco,

has been discussing potentially

providing Iran access to as much as $30

billion

to build a civilian energy producing

nuclear program as well as through

easing sanctions and freeing up billions

of dollars in restricted Iranian funds.

Remember JCPOA1

did this as well. E sanctions provided

the release of billions of dollars in

restricted Iranian funds which then

became at least in part later

rerrestricted under the Biden

administration following Iran's support

for Hamas who invaded Israel. This was

that $6 billion that became so popular

in 2023 that was then refrozen and Trump

utilized that as sort of a campaign

pitch that we'd been funneling billions

of dollars towards the Iranians and this

is how they're coming up with money to

produce a bomb or nuclear weapons.

Meanwhile, you've got Carolyn Levid

literally just minutes ago saying that

uh you know, prior administrations such

as Biden and Obama uh had been plowing

on pallets billions of dollars to the

Iranians, enabling again their

development of these nuclear programs.

The Iranian regime was weeks away from

being able to produce a nuclear weapon

that would threaten the entire world

before President Trump took this

decisive action on Saturday night to

obliterate their nuclear capabilities.

The contrast in leadership could not be

more clear. Barack Obama and Joe Biden

sent pallets of cash, American taxpayer

dollars, in a failed attempt to buy the

Iranian regime's compliance with a weak

and ineffective deal.

Now we're hearing and it's, you know,

rumored as reported by anonymous sources

familiar with discussions to CNN. So it

could all be fugazi fugazi, right? But

this idea about providing Iran

potentially 25 to30 billion dollars and

helping them produce some form of

civilian energy producing nuclear

program. One of the things that they're

discussing is allowing helping Iran get

access to 20 to30 billion dollar and

that money would go towards building

Iran's civilian nuclear program, its

energy uh its nuclear energy program.

That's something that Steve Wickoff

generally spoke about in an interview

yesterday. But the other things they're

discussing are lifting sanctions on Iran

and also allowing them to easier access

$6 billion in Iranian funds that are

currently restricted. These are some

very specific things that are going to

be that are being discussed right now.

None of these terms are set in stone. We

talked to White House officials who said

there's a lot of proposals that are

around right now. We also talked to

people who have been involved in the

talks with Iran before Israel started

its operation against Iran and of course

uh before the US strikes against Iran

who said it's really unclear what's

going to come to fruition here. The

Iranians are also saying they don't know

anything about talks happening next

week. But what's clear from our

reporting is that there are active

efforts, specific terms being discussed

to put on the table with the Iranians.

When and if that actually happens yet to

be determined. Iran has previously

stated that the whole point of them

enriching nuclear uh products fizzle

material uh in in in having these you

know bomb ingredients isn't to make a

bomb but rather it's so that they could

run civilian and domestic energy

programs because remember when you have

a nuclear reactor and I think it's it's

worth thinking about this when you have

a nuclear reactor you can't just throw

U238 in there and expect anything to

happen U238 is your more prominent uh

uranium source and just uranium ore. It

really doesn't do you much good to throw

U238 and a bunch of uranium ore into a

reactor and go cool bro give me energy

because what you need to do is you need

to be able to start the reaction. You

need to start some kind of actual uh

nuclear

reaction. And the way you do that is you

take about uh let's see 35 you take

about 3 to 4% of U235 which is your

substantially more enriched uranium and

you combine that with about the rest of

U238. I'm oversimplifying here but this

is enough to start the reaction and keep

that reaction going. Starts reaction

we'll say. And so it's basically cycles

of starting that reaction. The problem

is when you undergo these reactions, you

end up going through neutron capture

which then through beta radiation you

end up with an extra proton. Uh you end

up with uh U23 sorry not U you end up

with plutonium uh 239 in its stabilized

form. But the problem with this is uh

plutonium 239 and uranium 235

both of these are components in bombs.

And so this is why people make this

argument. Oh, Iran, they're not making a

nuclear weapon. They're just doing a

peaceful energy program. And Iran's

like, well, I mean, all the components

of a bomb are sort of also part of a

peaceful nuclear program. Minus, of

course, you know, there are reports from

Israel. I hate it when it does that.

There are reports out from Israel that

potentially uh some of the uh research

that Iranian scientists have been

conducting has been related to uh

potentially warheads or uh missile

equipment. And that's potentially why

the Israelis have been getting more

nervous because if you're just trying to

research U235 or P239,

maybe that's not that big of a deal. But

once you come over here and you say,

"Oh, we're now also going to look at

warheads. We're also going to look at

delivery mechanisms, uh, you know,

missiles or whatever." That's where

people get more concerned that Iran is

developing a larger nuclear energy

program or nuclear weapons program

rather than just an energy program. Now,

we have speculated that an American

contractor and I was just using Olo as

an example. I actually don't necessarily

think that Ollo would be the best option

right now, but I was using Olo as an

example because Ollo is a it's a public

stock. Sam Alman used to be involved

with their board. And this this is a

company that pitches this idea that they

could do smaller more like neighborhood

or communitysized nuclear reactors that

you don't need, you know, the the giant

nipples anymore that you could do these

like rather maybe like small plants,

nuclear energy plants, and you could

just have many more of those. So rather

than having sort of one very large point

of failure, you have many of these

little uh facilities. So, uh, I I don't

believe Ollo is actually expecting to be

operational at any any of these

facilities until somewhere around 2028,

which is also very speculative. It's 3

years away. They don't have really

revenues for this s sort of stuff

because they can't sell it yet because

doesn't exist yet. It's all just an

idea. So, Ale's probably not the best

choice. But I'm sure some US companies

such as let's say a GE could come in and

build or sell Iran nuclear reactors

and uh and and essentially capture uh

control of this uranium 235 and the

plutonium 239, those bomb ingredients,

and basically let Iran get the energy uh

but also have US companies involved in

the capture of the more dangerous

enriched uranium uh or uh or the

plutonium. So that could be part of a

partnership and we've speculated about

this partnership before except we

haven't seen it really put together uh

in reporting yet and so we're just now

seeing reporting that potentially the

Trump administration and again rumored

may be open to discussing the

possibility of providing Iran as much as

$30 billion$25 to30 billion to build a

civilian energy producing nuclear

program. So basically giving them

exactly the pallets of cash Carolyn

Levit said the prior administrations

were easing sanctions and trying to

deescalate tensions to bring them back

to the negotiating table. Like look, I'm

all for finding peace in the Middle

East, but I don't know that this is like

a peace through strength negotiation. To

me, this sounds a little bit more like a

peace through money negotiation. But

again, you know, maybe that's a good

thing. Like who cares if we don't have

to keep bombing them like you know

bombing their Pyramid Mountain facility

or the other facilities that we didn't

strike at. We don't have to keep bombing

them and risking the loss of life and

more strikes from Iran against Israel.

Uh great. You know, it's honestly it's

probably cheaper than continuously

refilling Israel with Patriot warheads,

uh, you know, to intercept Iranian bombs

or place them around Qatar or move our

equipment because we're worried about,

well, not really worried about, but

we're trying to dodge Iranian strikes or

using our fighter jets to to shoot down

Iranian drones. It probably honestly

it's just cheaper to give Iran some

money and actually I hate to say it but

like negotiate with the terrorists if

you will uh because then you get to take

control of the nuclear energy program

that they promote or prop to want to do

peacefully in the first place. So, this

is

interesting because it's like the

opposite of what Carolyn Levit says, but

then again, you like you kind of have to

look at Carolyn Levit as the propaganda

arm of the White House, whereas Steve

Witkoff is more of like the

behind-the-scenes negotiating arm and

like all right, like what are we

actually going to do? So, uh we'll see I

suppose in the coming days what comes of

potentially negotiations here. Carolyn

Levit also suggesting that uh the

Iranian talks are still planned and sort

of continuously ongoing, but that we

should be quote unquote patient in terms

of waiting for a deal. Donald Trump

suggesting maybe we don't have to sign a

deal at all. That seems a little weird

because it seems like if you're going to

provide the money, you'd want to sign a

deal. So, we'll see. But this is some

interesting reporting uh just now. Why

not advertise these things that you told

us here? I feel like nobody else knows

about this. We'll we'll try a little

advertising and see how it goes.

Congratulations, man. You have done so

much. People love you. People look up to

you. Kevin Praath there, financial

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great to get your take.