Trump & Vance wants you focused on this shiny object: Frozen Iranian funds will supposedly be performance-based and used to buy American farm products.
Cute. This is a sleight of hand. Here's what they hope you will ignore:
1. Money is fungible.
Every dollar Iran spends on wheat, soybeans, or corn is a dollar it does not have to spend from somewhere else. That frees up regime resources for missiles, drones, terrorism, hostage-taking, and crushing the Iranian people.
Calling it “for farmers” does not make it benign.
It launders sanctions relief through a politically convenient constituency.
2. American victims should come first.
Iran already owes American victims of Iranian terrorism tens of billions of dollars in court judgments.
Before a single Iranian dollar is unfrozen to help Tehran buy anything, why aren’t American families made whole first?
Iran attacked Americans. Iran funded terrorists. Iran helped murder U.S. citizens. Iran still owes the victims.
But somehow the Trump-Vance position is: let’s help Iran access cash, sell oil, rebuild, and maybe buy some soybeans.
3. The real giveaway is the OFAC oil waiver.
The farm-products talking point is meant to distract from the real prize.
Read the waiver.
This is not some narrow humanitarian carveout for grain. It authorizes Iranian-origin crude oil, petroleum products, petrochemical products, and the services needed to move them — banking, insurance, transportation, logistics, and payments.
The oil waiver alone could hand Tehran roughly $7–10B in gross revenue over 60 days by letting it openly sell crude/petroleum products with banking, insurance, transport, and dollar transactions authorized.
Sanctions relief is money. Oil waivers are money.
That is not “farm relief.”
It is a lifeline to the regime.
4. China wins, too.
And who buys Iranian oil?
China.
China already accounts for the overwhelming majority of Iran’s exported oil. Beijing will be thrilled. Tehran will get revenue. The regime will get breathing room.
And Trump’s team will insist this is all somehow about American farmers.
5. Treasury cannot make the IRGC disappear.
Treasury can issue sanctions licenses, but it cannot erase the reality of Iran’s economy.
The IRGC is deeply embedded in Iran’s energy, construction, logistics, and financial networks. Any serious Iran policy has to assume regime-connected entities will benefit unless there are airtight safeguards.
Where are they?
Where is the enforcement mechanism?
Where is the prohibition on IRGC-linked beneficiaries?
Where is the plan to stop oil revenue from rebuilding the war machine Trump just claimed to have destroyed?
I do not see one.
6. Zoom out: this is regime reconstruction.
This MoU does not just contemplate frozen funds. It points toward a massive reconstruction and economic-development architecture for Iran.
So after Iran launched missiles at American bases, attacked our allies, armed terrorists, threatened the Strait of Hormuz, and lost a war, the Trump administration is now helping design the regime’s economic recovery?
Normally when you lose a war, you pay damages.
Under this deal, Iran gets an American chamber of commerce to drum up business for the regime.
The “farmers” line is not an argument.
It is a shiny object.
The real issue is that Trump and Vance are converting U.S. leverage into Iranian liquidity while gaslighting us in the hopes we won't notice.
دوستان من در حال بن یا ساسپند شدن هستم. به شدت همه فعالیت هام محدود شده.
نمیدونم اصلا کمکی میکنه یا نه. اما اگه میشه کامنت انگلیسی و بدون هشتگ برام بذارید. ریتویت کنید هم این پست دیده میشه.
We've gone full Obama now. Vance calls giving Iran billions to allow IAEA inspectors in to see nuclear sites we've already destroyed "a major milestone for the American people."
🚨 URGENT — PLEASE SHARE NOW
@elonmusk@x, this is time-sensitive.
Something is seriously wrong.
Accounts criticizing the Iran deal are being suspended.
This must be looked into immediately — before more voices disappear and the damage spreads.
X was supposed to be the place where speech survives pressure from powerful interests — not where those interests learn how to game the system.
Please intervene ASAP.
Free the bird again.
We are not bots. We are ordinary Iranians, many of us refugees who fled the Islamic Republic because our lives were at risk. Even in exile, we are threatened for speaking out.
Now, anyone who criticizes the MOU or JD Vance is smeared as a “bot,” while Iranian dissidents face organized efforts to silence them, including the suspension of X accounts. That is contrary to the principles of free speech and the values America claims to stand for.
We oppose the MOU because no regime change has taken place. It gives legitimacy and a lifeline to the same rulers who massacred 40,000 Iranians and continue to fund terrorist proxies with the Iranian people’s money.
These are among the most shameful days of American policy in the Middle East, and all of this is happening under President Trump’s administration. History will remember who chose to silence dissidents and rescue a terrorist regime instead of standing with its victims.
@POTUS@JDVance@SecRubio@LindseyGrahamSC@marklevinshow
رضا شاه بزرگ و محمدرضا شاه در دوران حکمرانی خود کوشیدند ایرانی بسازند که متعلق به همه ایرانیان باشد. آنها تلاش کردند همه نخبگان و اندیشمندان کشور را فارغ از تبار و مذهب و نگاه سیاسی برای ساختن ایران به کار بگیرند. بر پایه چنین نگاه و باوری بود که بسیاری از کارگزاران پادشاهی پهلوی از نخبگان دوره قاجار بودند. و در راستای بهرهبرداری حداکثری از ظرفیت انسانی کشور بود که پدربزرگ و پدرم راهگشای حضور زنان در اجتماع و سیاست شدند و نیمی از جمعیت ایران را از پستوی انزوا و تحجر خارج کردند. آنچه ما باید از رضاشاه و محمدرضاشاه بیاموزیم ترجیح منافع ایران بر منافع شخصی و گروهی است.
رضا شاه در سفرنامهاش پس از نجات خوزستان آرزو کرده بود آنقدر عمر کند تا بتواند آن وطن «جذاب و عزیز» را چنان آباد سازد که حتی کسانی که مهر وطن ندارند هم زندگی در آن را به زندگی در «خارجه» ترجیح دهند. هم پدربزرگ و هم پدرم به همراه یاران ایرانسازشان، مُجدّانه و دلسوزانه برای برآورده کردن این آرزو کوشیدند و ایرانی ساختند که تا پیش از فاجعه خانمانسوز ۵۷، کمتر ایرانی حاضر به ترک همیشگی آن بود.
اکنون رضاشاه و محمدرضاشاه نیستند که ببینند جمهوری اسلامی با «وطن جذاب و عزیز»شان کاری کرده که حتی فرزندان و وابستگان رهبران این رژیم نیز با وجود برخورداری از رانتهای فراوان، زندگی در «خارجه» را به حضور در ایران ترجیح میدهند.
رضاشاه و محمدرضاشاه اما اگر امروز بودند به جوانان آگاه و دلاور ایران افتخار میکردند. جوانانی که با درسآموزی از گذشته، و با عزمی میهنپرستانه، میخواهند ایران را پس بگیرند و از نو بسازند؛ ایرانی که دوباره متعلق به همه ایرانیان باشد و همه نخبگان و نیروهای توانمند کشور، فارغ از تبار و جنسیت و باور و نگاه سیاسی در بازسازی آن به کار گرفته شوند. با اتکا به این جوانان است که یقین دارم فردای ایران بهتر از گذشتهاش خواهد بود.
Nothing exposes the collapse of trust in the Trump administration more than this.
Rapid Response 47, an official account created to defend and promote the President of the United States, is now citing Qatar’s Prime Minister to convince Americans that its narrative is true.
Imagine the level of desperation.
A U.S. government account borrowing credibility from a regime that hosts Hamas Terrorist leaders.
When Americans no longer trust your word, and you need Doha to do your PR, you’ve already failed.
This isn’t strength.
It’s weakness.
It’s humiliation.
And it’s a sign that the Trump administration has lost so much credibility that even many of its own supporters no longer take its claims at face value.
@POTUS@JDVance@SecRubio@LindseyGrahamSC@marklevinshow
🔶️ This is the second questionable poll Bruesewitz has published claiming that the "American people" support the deal.
1. Both polls are based on samples of only 1,000 to 1,500 people. There are X polls with much larger samples from Trump-supporting accounts showing a completely different picture: more than 80% oppose the deal, with over 20,000 respondents.
2. The wording of the first poll was highly leading and manipulative.
3. And this is the MOST important point: how can polls about the MoU have been conducted between June 16 and June 18 if the MoU was only published on June 17?
Dear President Trump,
Respectfully, if Americans wanted Barack Obamas deal with Iran we would have voted for Kamala Harris and not you.
Sincerely,
Trump Voters
@alexbruesewitz We're not bots.
This deal is a total surrender of the U.S.
It empowers the Islamic Republic terrorists and gives them the funds and the green light to continue their worldwide terror.
@alexbruesewitz Alex, quick question, to what degree is the Iranian diaspora not allowed an opinion on an MOU that directly affects our homeland and loved ones? Does living in Europe change where we come from?
Btw, the accounts have already begun to return, because they were never inauthentic.
@PathfinderAstro Not true! Read his tweets then! He actually told the people to keep protesting, taking the institutions, to note the names of the killers and that told them help is on the way to help them free Iran! Don't spread lies if you don't know the facts.