President Donald Trump is on the verge of handing Iran $20 billion in frozen assets, a move that would mirror the exact deal he spent years trashing as a “disaster” under Barack Obama. Reports surfaced this week that the president is weighing a three-page agreement to permanently end hostilities with Iran, with the unfreezing of billions in Iranian funds as a key bargaining chip.
The proposed $20 billion payment would dwarf the $1.7 billion Obama released in 2015, a sum Trump has repeatedly slammed as reckless. According to the Daily Beast, Trump spent his first term ripping up Obama’s nuclear deal, calling it “catastrophic” and “disastrous” during his 2016 campaign.
