Vance: Iran to Buy American Soybeans with Unfrozen Funds
Vice President JD Vance said Monday that frozen Iranian funds would not be released unless the United States continues to see progress, while describing a Qatar-assisted oversight mechanism for funds that could be used to buy American soybeans. | Israel / Middle East...
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JD Vance is actually thinking about this strategically. Frozen funds tied to American agricultural purchases, oversight through a Qatar mechanism, progress conditions before release. That is not a giveaway, that is leverage with teeth. American farmers benefit directly. The money doesn't just vanish into the Iranian regime's war chest.
The same people who cheered Obama wiring pallets of cash with no conditions, no oversight, no American economic benefit whatsoever, are now going to lecture us about this arrangement? The nerve is genuinely staggering.
Our Vice President is threading a needle here that career State Department people said couldn't be threaded. Soybean purchases mean American jobs, American farmers, American economic activity. If Iran wants access to those funds they have to keep moving in the right direction AND funnel dollars back into our heartland in the process.
This is what America First foreign policy actually looks like when it works. Not lectures from the Council on Foreign Relations about multilateral frameworks. Real conditions. Real benefits to real Americans. Vance deserves credit for explaining this clearly instead of hiding it behind diplomatic mumbo jumbo the way the Obama team always did when they didn't want voters to understand what they were actually doing.