TOI correspondent from Washington : The Art of the Deal met the ghost of Versailles. US President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a controversial MoU committing, among other things, Washington to help finance Iran's reconstruction to the tune of $300 billion. He signed the document in the same place that gave the world the Treaty of Versailles, history's most famous cautionary tale about war, peace, reparations, unintended consequences and leaders who believed they had struck a masterful deal.
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