The $300 Billion Reconstruction Fund to Iran Explained

The media-inspired rumor that the U.S. is giving Iran $300 billion in cash toward its reconstruction is false. Iran will have access to such a fund, provided by the Gulf States, if they follow through on the requirements of the nuclear deal.

Vice President Vance explained the details on CBS Broadcast News.

CBS Interviewer: To walk through some of this, the Iranians are saying that they’re going to have access to a $300 billion reconstruction fund. True or false?

JD Vance: Well, that’s the sort of thing they could have access to, funded by the Gulf Coast Coalition, so long as they honor their end of the obligation.

I think that one of the things you’re going to see, Ed, and people have to be skeptical of this, is that the hardliners in the Iranian system will overemphasize the benefits that Iran gets, while underemphasizing all the things that they have to concede and all the things they have to provide in order to get these benefits.

So we absolutely are open to the Gulf Coast countries investing in the reconstruction of Iran, but only if Iran ends their nuclear program, ends their enriched stockpile of material, and is really open to an inspections and enforcement regime that gives the American people confidence they’re never going to have a nuclear weapon.

So I think, I think the dance you’re going to see, Ed, which is going to be interesting, is the Iranian media, especially the hard-line media, they’re going to talk a lot about what they get without talking about what they give.

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