How Trump forced himself to pay billions to Iran in peace deal

The optics for a president could not be worse: handing over billions of dollars to the very regime America has been at war against.

Yet, that is the reality facing Donald Trump, who spent years criticising Barack Obama for sending “pallets of cash” to Iran under a 2015 nuclear agreement negotiated by the US, Britain, France, China, Russia and Germany.

Read more here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026/05/26/trump-us-iran-capitulation/

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