Tag: USForeignPolicy
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From $1.7B to $300B: How Trump Just Out-Obama’d Obama on Iran
Let’s run the numbers side by side. The financial contrast between the two presidents’ Iranian policies is nothing short of breathtaking. Obama (2015 JCPOA):· $100–150 billion In sanctions relief, Barack Obama unfreeze Iran’s own assets, and $1.7 billion returned in a separate hostage/settlement deal· Nuclear sanctions waived only after Iran verified compliance· Gradual, phased sanctions…