>Trump Admin Renames Iran’s $300 Billion Reparations Demand an ‘Investment Fund’ to Avoid a Political Firestorm at Homehttps://www.ibtimes.co.uk/us-iran-draft-deal-300-billion-investment-fund-1799752
The man who spent a decade calling Obama a traitor for sending Iran $400 million is now floating a fund four hundred times that size, just with a friendlier name on the tin.A draft memorandum of understanding between the United States and Iran, reported by the New York Times on 28 May 2026, includes a proposed £224 billion ($300 billion) reconstruction mechanism for Iran. The fund's inclusion follows months of negotiations to end the 2026 US-Iran war, during which Tehran had explicitly demanded reparations for bombardment damage that some Iranian officials estimate at between £224 billion ($300 billion) and £745 billion ($1 trillion).Diplomats familiar with the draft told the Times that the American side intentionally avoided the words 'compensation' or 'reparations,' opting instead for the term 'international investment fund,' a rebranding confirmed by multiple officials across outlets including Axios and CNN. As of 30 May 2026, President Trump has not signed the agreement.
An Iranian official described the proposed mechanism to the New York Times as a 'reconstruction programme' that would be promised to Iran upon the signing of a final agreement. Two diplomats briefed on the latest draft used different language, calling it an international 'investment fund' that the United States would facilitate. The divergence in terminology is deliberate.ADVERTISEMENTAlgolia — AI search that convertsDiscover75% of top fashion houses use Algolia to provide personalized customer experiences onlineHelp customers find the perfect fit with AlgoliaDiscoverTry our Fashion Solution and see how we can help improve customer UX and grow conversionsSearch and product discovery for fashion brandsDiscoverGive your shoppers a personalized experience when buying online with AlgoliaAlgolia — AI search that convertsDiscover75% of top fashion houses use Algolia to provide personalized customer experiences onlineHelp customers find the perfect fit with AlgoliaDiscoverTry our Fashion Solution and see how we can help improve customer UX and grow conversionsSearch and product discovery for fashion brandsDiscoverGive your shoppers a personalized experience when buying online with AlgoliaAlgolia — AI search that convertsDiscover75% of top fashion houses use Algolia to provide personalized customer experiences onlineHelp customers find the perfect fit with AlgoliaDiscoverTry our Fashion Solution and see how we can help improve customer UX and grow conversionsSearch and product discovery for fashion brandsDiscoverGive your shoppers a personalized experience when buying online with AlgoliaInspired byThe domestic constraint is not hypothetical. Trump himself, according to the Times' reporting, told aides he would not sign any deal that could be seen as the United States directly giving money to Iran.
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That position is rooted in his own two-decade political record. As a candidate in 2016 and repeatedly thereafter, Trump attacked the Obama administration's settlement of a decades-old arbitration case with Iran, which involved a cash payment of £307 million ($400 million) as part of a total £1.3 billion ($1.7 billion) transfer.Republicans called it ransom. Trump called Obama a liar. He has repeated variations of the claim in almost every major foreign policy speech since. A fund labelled 'reparations' at £224 billion ($300 billion) would hand his critics, and his own base, the exact cudgel he spent a decade swinging.
The investment fund concept did not originate on the Iranian side. According to the New York Times, the proposal is an iteration of an idea first raised by Steve Witkoff, Trump's Special Envoy to the Middle East, and Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law. Both men are real estate investors.Some mediators told the Times that Witkoff and Kushner had suggested promoting real estate projects in Tehran and establishing a broader investment mechanism as an incentive for a deal, a framing that has since been folded into the formal draft text.
Witkoff, a New York property developer who founded the Witkoff Group, was appointed Special Envoy to the Middle East in November 2024 and expanded his role to Special Envoy for Peace Missions from July 2025.Kushner, who owns his own real estate firm, began assisting Witkoff in late 2025. Iranian negotiators took the investment fund proposal and built on it, suggesting that large American oil and energy companies could enter Iran's market through joint ventures after sanctions are lifted, according to the Times and corroborated by Ynet News. The prospect of US energy corporations gaining access to Iran's reserves, the fourth-largest in the world, gives the fund a commercial logic that 'reparations' never could.Beyond the fund, the 60-day memorandum of understanding covers a sequence of immediate commitments on both sides. According to Axios's primary reporting, the MOU would reopen the Strait of Hormuz to unrestricted commercial shipping with no tolls, require Iran to remove all mines from the strait within 30 days, lift the American naval blockade proportionally as commercial shipping resumes and issue sanctions waivers allowing Iran to sell oil freely. The deal would also include an Iranian commitment not to pursue a nuclear weapon, with negotiations on enrichment and the disposal of Iran's highly enriched uranium stockpile deferred to the 60-day talks that follow.
Iran's access to approximately £17.9 billion ($24 billion) in frozen foreign bank assets is a parallel negotiating thread. Iranian officials have insisted on receiving at least £14.9 billion ($20 billion) of that amount during the negotiation stage itself, before a final deal is signed, in order to stabilise the economy. The US has committed only to discuss sanctions relief and frozen funds as part of the 60-day window, not before it.Iran's Fars News Agency, affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, reported that the Strait of Hormuz would remain under Iran's management under the latest exchanged text, directly contradicting Trump's public characterisation of the deal. Military vessels, Iranian officials said, are explicitly excluded from any commitment to reopen passage. Despite two skirmishes between US and Iranian forces in the strait in the 48 hours before the MOU was confirmed, US officials told Axios they believed Iran's economic pressure was pushing its system toward settlement.A president who built his brand on never giving Iran a cent is now the architect of the largest financial commitment to Tehran in American history, provided nobody calls it what Iran originally asked for.
>>1517608Same as how the toll won’t be a toll it’ll be an environmental protection fee. Cliché but Orwellian, rebranded terminology and consolidation of the vocabulary so things that had nuanced differences in meanings now mean the same thing which is not the same as what it used to mean. Only works well against retards.
>>1517614If there is still justice in this world, Kushner and Witkoff should face war profiteering charges when this is all over. Kushner has made 5 billion that we know of just off Saudi bribes since Trump's first term. Who knows how high the real figure is and what other countries are paying them. Not to mention the war crimes trials for Israel's current far right warmongering government.
>>1517608I for one am willing to pay $10 or $20 per gallon if it means we win this war that Iran started
>>1517621We won't. We will be paying $8 a gallon and lose. Meanwhile Trump is figuring out the next war he can get in and it will be Cuba. Then gas prices will go even higher. Meanwhile we are running out of fertilizer so you get to starve also. And while you starve keep in mind he will be pocketing federal money left and right like he has been, and sending the alphabet agencies to be his personal army.Isn't it wonderful? Trump is improving so many things in this country I love it.
>>1517622>Americans>Starve
>>1517608>WE WON, WE PAID THEM $300 BILLIONhow much money would we pay if we didn't invade? 0? wow i cant stop winning. tired of winning yet? you still don't have working public transportation or healthcare btw
>>1517621oy vey $20? why won't you pay $30? stop being so antisemitic
>>1517622He's such a good Christian! It's harder for a camel to pass thru the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven! That's something so hard only trump could do it! He's really just saving our souls by taking all our money! That's why he's working towards nuclear war! He needs to kill us all while we're broke so we can be saved! Bless you Trump!
So we spent $30 billion dollars worth of munitions to bomb them, and now we're giving them $300 billion for damages.
>>1517630But we won don't you get it? Those trans girls are staying out of bathrooms! This is a Christian White House! We are winning!
>>1517635Think of it as a tribute so they allow the GCC to ship oil through the strait
If Trump was even remotely sentient, he would ban all Israelis from ever visiting the USA and purge his entire cabinet as a consequence of this war.
>>1517650>If Trump was even remotely sentient, he would ban all Israelis from ever visiting the USA and purge his entire cabinet as a consequence of this war.You act like this war wasn't Trump and Hegseth's baby with basically everyone else saying it was a dumbfuck idea.
>>1517666Everyone is saying it wasn’t Trump’s or Hegseth’s idea
>>1517668>Everyone is saying it wasn’t Trump’s or Hegseth’s ideaI can't tell if you're doing the bit mocking Trump's use of "Everyone is saying [naked lie]" or if you're a room temp.If you're doing a bit, there's too many cretins around for bits like that. Save that shit for other settings.
>>1517669Neither of those motherfuckers have any idea what they're doing: they're just thrashing and taking what they can, while they can, damn the consequences. This fast, this loose, they just think they're going to get away with it.Of course it's not their idea. They're dumb as fucking shit. They've made their careers off of being stooges to idea men.
>>1517650Why would he ban his bosses? Remember that leaker who they all wanted hanged when they thought he was an American? Then it turned out he was Israeli and back in Israel and literally telling the local news that he doesn't think he'll ever be extradited back to the US for it? That was only a couple months ago.
>>1517684>They've made their careers off of being stooges to idea men.Trump made his career off of selling bullshit. Hegseth made his career off of selling bullshit and then sucking up to Trump. Calling them stooges is unfair as it implies either takes orders well. Also both of them have been talking about bombing Iran for decades.
>>1517609A reminder that that the millions Obama 'gave' the Iranians already belong to them, Obama just froze the funds. Trump is handing them 400 billion in new funds, no strings attached.
>>1517650If he was actually smart he would drop nukes on where the Iranians are storing their water, fuel and food supplies.
>>1517781That’s called a war crime you stupid fuck
>>1517781>NoBoDy iS DuN dIs EcStReMleE ObIuS pWaN. I bIg SmArTYeah, that's kind of planning I'd expect from a maga retard.
>>1517776>new fundsAKA funded by us citizens. $300 billion is $2,000 per tax payer. Pretty fucking rich for a guy that doesn't pay any income taxes himself.
>>1517608talk about a bait title, lol OOF
I heard Iran is firing missiles out of retaliation because Trump offered them $300 billion and they were offended by it. Trump is such an idiot
