Ben Rhodes

how many centrifuges they could operate, they shipped the stockpile to the country, they destroyed their plutonium reactors so that they didn't have that as a possibility for getting a weapon, all of these restrictions.

But importantly, you also had the UN Security Council, Russia, China, the United States, France, United Kingdom, Germany, European Union in on the deal.

and the International Atomic Energy Agency verifying the deal.

Now you've got Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner flying to Pakistan for reasons that are mysterious unless you think that it's because Pakistan has invested in Trump crypto.

So you don't have the whole world in on even what's happening.

And so the best thing he can get is, you know, something that is very much like the deal he pulled out of.

And why do we go through this?

Yeah, and he claims that every dollar in the banks in Washington, which is just a completely made-up story.

But you're right.

The deal is what we did.

The Iranians get some money.

They get some unfrozen assets.

Their own money, by the way, is what we provided them with.

It wasn't U.S.

taxpayer money at all.

It was they sell –

oil on the market and that money gets frozen in accounts because of our sanctions.

So you release some of that to the Iranians.

Or the $1.7 billion was money that we owed them from the pre-1979 when the Shah bought a bunch of military equipment from us that we never delivered.

It was a refund on military equipment.