Hezbollah Claims Iran Has Promised a Renewed Flow of Money When Sanctions Are Lifted

“ Trump added that if he doesn’t like the deal, he will “go back to shooting at them, dropping bombs on their heads.”

Surprise, surprise, surprise! 🙄

ping

We lost to the Islamists.

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Fox’s Trey Gowdy Trashes Trump Peace Deal for Making Iran a ‘Richer Country’ Even Though ‘They Lost The War’.
Sarah Rumpf.
Wed, June 17, 2026.

Fox News host Trey Gowdy criticized the memorandum of understanding (MOU) that President Trump is set to sign with Iran, arguing that it will make Iran richer despite losing the war.

Fox News host Trey Gowdy offered a scathing assessment of the memorandum of understanding (MOU) that President Donald Trump is going to sign with Iran on Friday, bashing it for making Iran “a richer country” even though “they lost the war.”

The 14-point MOU was released on Wednesday. Trump has touted the deal as one that will reopen the Strait of Hormuz and prevent Iran from ever obtaining a nuclear weapon, but the terms of the deal have been excoriated by critics — including many on the right.

Count Gowdy among those critics.

The host of Sunday Night in America joined his colleagues Sandra Smith and John Roberts to report on the terms of the MOU Wednesday afternoon, and voiced multiple points of contention with the deal.

Gowdy began by saying that he was “surprised, honestly” by the terms of the MOU because “we literally had our foot on their throat — militarily, economically.”

When he read the MOU, Gowdy said, “I didn’t believe it — I thought somebody was spoofing me when I saw it, because I see what we are giving up.”

“And then I see this word ‘downblend’ and I’m not the smartest guy in the world, Sandra,” he continued, “but if you can ‘downblend’ you can ‘upblend’ and how long would it take Iran to upblend because Donald Trump is going to be gone in January of 2029 but the so-called Supreme Leader [of Iran] will not be.”

“So here’s my question for my fellow citizens,” Gowdy said. “Do you really think Iran has abandoned its nuclear ambition? Do you believe ‘em? What do you think they are going to do with the $300 billion? What are they gonna do with the oil revenue? Do you think they are going to build schools? Do you think they are going to make women’s lives better? Or are they going to continue to target America and Israel?”

“I happen to think the latter,” Gowdy said emphatically.

Smith noted that the details of the MOU were “vague” about how Iran would be monitored and how “good behavior” would be determined.

Gowdy agreed, pointing out that the entities named in the MOU, the International Atomic Nuclear Agency and the United Nations were ones that “do not reassure the American people,” because they have “zero confidence” in the first and even less in the UN.

He commented that he “would really like to hear from” Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA director John Ratcliffe “on the intelligence of whether or not Iran thinks they got the better of us,” because he was still puzzled how “we had an economic stranglehold on that country,” but when “you go back to the status quo ante before the blockade, how are we better off? What did we get?”

Smith asked Gowdy why he thought Trump had agreed to this deal when the administration had said he “would not agree to any deal unless it was a great deal.”

“Well, I hate to be cynical, you know that,” Gowdy said, but “don’t we have midterms coming up? Are gas prices high?”

He added that he was open to being “corrected,” but needed to hear from Rubio and Ratcliffe “and if they tell me that this is as good as it gets, then I’ll go back to being a country prosecutor.”

Gowdy was especially scornful about the issue of the lifting of sanctions and billions of dollars to be transferred to Iran.

“They are better off than they were before hostilities began and that should not be the consequence of war,” he declared. “When you lose a war — I mean, think about it, Sandra, we went into Iran and rescued a downed pilot. We had total control over that country. We were winning militarily and economically. And when you are in that position, you negotiate from strength. You don’t give people money. You don’t give them access. What are they going to do with the money?…You know that Iran is going to use this for nefarious purposes! We all know that. The regime has not changed. They’re just richer.”

Roberts brought up the part of the MOU that addressed Iran’s uranium and required “at minimum the destruction of the highly enriched uranium at 60% by downblending,” asking Gowdy if he was “comfortable” with that, noting Hugh Hewitt had remarked that if you can downblend, you can upblend it again.

“Professor Hewitt is exactly right,” replied Gowdy. “I will be happy when they have no uranium whatsoever. That’s when I’ll be happy. But they are downblending it — and to further Professor Hewitt’s point, the so-called Supreme Leader ain’t going anywhere. Donald Trump, the longest he can serve is January 2029 and God only knows what comes after that. So if you don’t think Iran is sitting there saying, ‘Let’s just wait him out, let’s wait him out’ — because they can, and we can’t…Downblending means you can upblend. It does not mean it is obliterated. It does not mean it is gone. It means we are going to save it for later on.”

On the topic of the $300 billion construction fund, Gowdy rhetorically asked viewers if there were “placated by the fact that the money would come from the Qataris or Saudi Arabia and not us,” because “it’s still going to be used for weapons, and I’m pretty sure that the lifting of economic sanctions takes place immediately, and I am pretty sure that the removal of the blockade takes place immediately.”

“Look, Iran is a richer country as a result of this MOU and they lost the war!” Gowdy continued. “That’s the part I can’t get my head around. They lost! And they are coming out of this richer with this little phrase called ‘downblend,’ which they are just going to wait him out and hope for a president that’s focused on something else, and then they’re going to upblend again. This is never going to change until you remove it all or remove the regime. Those are the two options.”

Gowdy flat-out said he did not believe the terms of the MOU regarding the opening of the Strait of Hormuz without fees.

“There is going to be a toll and this is why people hate lawyers,” he said. “’Within 30 days’ doesn’t mean 30 days. Could be tomorrow. It means at the end of the 30 days, we’ve got to be gone. But chances are we are going to be gone sooner than that.”

He further noted that the MOU did not include any funds for American soldiers who were killed or wounded during the war.

“Is there a fund for prosthetics for all the American soldiers that Iran blew their arms and legs off? Is there any fund for the men and women that were injured trying to stop Iran from trying to attack Israel weeks ago? How about the guys and gals that bled and died on our country’s behalf. Where is their fund? I didn’t see that in the MOU.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/fox-trey-gowdy-trashes-trump-202517689.html

Carpet bomb them with ‘HE’ and ‘Napalm’, turn gaza in to a glass glazed parking lot. Then do the same to all the mullahs and any and all government buildings in iran.

We must destroy iran’s ability to fund and foment terrorism even if we have to bomb iran back to the stone age.

Let them feel the same terror the rest of the world has suffered from their horrible and hate filled actions.

The world needs to end their cycle of death and violence once and for all.

Trey Gowdy knows better than this.

And guess where Iran is getting the moola—from the US of course. So basically the US will be funding the terrorist grp Hezbollah.

“Carpet bomb them with ‘HE’ and ‘Napalm’, turn gaza in to a glass glazed parking lot. Then do the same to all the mullahs and any and all government buildings in iran.

We must destroy iran’s ability to fund and foment terrorism even if we have to bomb iran back to the stone age.

Let them feel the same terror the rest of the world has suffered from their horrible and hate filled actions.”
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There aremore of them than there are of us. They also have large families to expand future generations. We do not.

I know some young Iranians personally, whose families are still back in Iran. They have ZERO appetite for aggression or hostility. Regardless of how things sound on paper, I pray God works everything out so that another generation isn’t lost - either to the regime or to war.

Lots of prayers going up!

Way more powerful than bombs.

Would love to visit one day in a better time.

Iran will change organically from within once bombs stop dropping and the country opens up. NOT overnight though.

The Ayatollah is dead. And a lot more died with him. But again, what we see right now is temporary.

God has a plan. And the younger generations have vision.

Time is an amazing ally …… time reveals an enormous amount of information.

On an earlier thread I wrote:🕊️

“On paper it looks like it’s a win for the regime, but in the long run this is an act of God’s grace for the people of Iran who have been suffering.”

Then FReeper, monkeyshine replied with this: 📌

“Indeed. Once we start pulling the Navy out and the Iranian people are sure we won’t be bombing, they can rise up and decapitate their regime themselves.

Funny thing about wars, it galvanizes the society. Even if 80% of them hate the regime they weren’t going to do anything once we started bombing. Running the government in peacetime is an entirely different story and we’ll see. Hopefully the people will force a change.

Even if they have conventional missiles, for the most part all their potential targets have anti-missile capabilities.”

Historically, revolutions do not occur when the oppression of a tyrannical government are at a peak.

They occur when the oppressive grip of the tyrannical regime is loosening and there is optimism that the regime is falling and the tyrants are losing their grip on power.

This is the situation that the Islamic Republic and the IRGC finds themselves in.

They had destroyed the Iranian economy even before the US and Israeli forces began their military campaign due to their obsessive diversion of Iran's resources to wasteful weapons production, a costly nuclear weapons development program and funding of international terrorism world wide and especially with Hezbollah and Hamas, their support of the Assad regime in Syria and the purchase of expensive weapons systems from China and Russia.

The already failing and mismanaged Iranian economy is now in a death spiral due to the war Iran started with Israel and the US.

Their leadership from the most senior leaders to the leadership several tiers down has been killed and the government infrastructure has been destroyed and their only real economic asset - oil revenue has been shut down.

The Iranian regime held on to power with an iron grip and the lower tier leaders now in control are inexperience, unskilled and they lack the information needed to provide continuity of government. The remaining leadership lacks cohesion and there are power struggles as rival factions fight for power and vie for control.

Because of this, they are in way above their heads when it comes to running the country which is making a bad situation worse.

To compound the problem, any money that Iran gets as part of the MOU will go to supporting Iran's foreign terror networks and to funding the IRGC and Basij internal repression forces, not restarting Iran's deteriorating economy to the benefit of the Iranian people. .

The Iranian internal security and oppression forces have taken serious losses and those still alive have not been paid for months and their weapons and fuel supplies needed to suppress internal dissent and rebellion have been cut off.

The Trump administration is giving the Islamic State system time to implode and the Iranian people the time to organize to oust the IRGC. This is difficult to do with our instant gratification culture misinformed by an agenda driven media working on behalf of America and President Trump's enemies, both foreign and domestic

The Trump administration is giving the Islamic State system time to implode and the Iranian people the time to organize to oust the IRGC. This is difficult to do with our instant gratification culture misinformed by an agenda driven media working on behalf of America and President Trump's enemies, both foreign and domestic.

Well said, and so true.

Isn’t Gowdy one of the talked much but did little politicians?

His concern is noted.

The “Deal” by the Master Dealer (or so we thought) Pres. Donald Trump equals Munich 1938...

Bullshit. They are getting no money from us.

As a matter of hindsight, we should have stopped after the US bombed Fordow last year and left Iran’s nuclear program in a pile of dust. The irony is this follow up conflict which we won militarily in short order will now supply the Iran regime with the enough money to 300 billion in refund money and lifting of sanctions to rebuild their nuke program.

Actually, one of the few positives in this MOU is that the money is not coming from the US. The majority is IRI money that has been seized & frozen.