U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the agreement reached with Iran is "a fair deal," adding that the United States will not invest money in Iran. Trump also stated that Qatar will invest trillions of dollars in the United States, according to his remarks published by Israeli media.
President Trump broadened the financial framing of the emerging Iran deal during remarks on Tuesday, adding for the first time that Qatar will invest trillions of dollars in the United States. The statement, reported by Israeli media around 12:52 Jerusalem, builds on his earlier assertions that no U.S. taxpayer money would go to Tehran. Trump repeated his characterization of the agreement as "a fair deal." The new Qatari investment claim was absent from his earlier statements Tuesday morning, when he denied the U.S. would pay Iran $300 million for reconstruction and said Iran had agreed never to hold nuclear weapons.
The thread began at 06:59 Jerusalem on Tuesday, when Trump first stated that Iran had agreed to forswear nuclear weapons. Minutes later, at the same timestamp, he denied reports of a $300 million U.S. payment as "fake news." A third version at 06:59 added his characterization of the deal as "fair" and reinforced that the U.S. would not invest in Iran. All statements relied on Trump's own social media posts and were reported by Israeli media; no independent U.S. official confirmation of the deal's terms has been published.
Trump's shift to citing a third-party investor aligns with earlier background context reported by The Zioneer. On Mon Jun 15 at 00:07 Jerusalem, the desk reported that Qatar was pressing Tehran to sign a memorandum of understanding as part of U.S.-mediated talks. On Sun Jun 14 at 16:31 Jerusalem, Trump was reported to be promising an Iran deal under which enriched uranium would be exported and funds restricted to humanitarian aid — a structure that leaves financial implementation to intermediaries.
No U.S. or Iranian official has confirmed the Qatari investment figure or its link to the nuclear agreement. The $300 billion reconstruction figure that Trump denied Tuesday morning was never proposed by any U.S. official, and the scale of "trillions" from Qatar remains unsourced beyond Trump's own statement.
6 developments
- StrongNetanyahu: Iran will not get nuclear weapons — with or without a deal
- DevelopingTrump: Netanyahu will have no choice but to accept any Iran agreement
- StrongTrump says war with Iran over, Iran agreed to never hold nuclear weapons
- StrongTrump: Iran deal details to be published soon; no sanctions relief until Iran complies
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- Internal intake