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Internet reacts to $300B reconstruction fund in Iran deal
A Peace Deal That Pays the RegimeThe People Holding the MoneyThe source story is simple enough: Vice President JD Vance said Iran could access a $300 billion reconstruction fund under a U.S.-Iran peace agreement, financed by the Gulf Cooperation Council coalition. That number matters because it is not a symbolic gesture. It is a transfer of leverage, and it appears to be coming from the center of state power, not from some stray bureaucratic accident.The real power here sits with the U.S. president, the vice president defending the arrangement, and the regional coalition underwriting it…
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