Tuesday, June 09, 2026

𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐏 𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐍𝐒 𝐖𝐄𝐋𝐊𝐄𝐑'𝐒 𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐍 𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐓-𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐂𝐊 𝐁𝐀𝐂𝐊 𝐎𝐍 𝐎𝐁𝐀𝐌𝐀, "𝐖𝐇𝐎 𝐏𝐀𝐈𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐑𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐌𝐄 𝐁𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐆𝐔𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐑𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐒?"

NBC’s Kristen Welker came to the Meet the Press exclusive ready to hang Iran’s nuclear progress around President Trump’s neck.  - M.A. Rothman@MichaelARothman
The regime got closest to weapons-grade uranium, she insisted, 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘶𝘱 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘶𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰 𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦. 
Trump did not let the premise stand for a sentence. 
  • 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐮𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐥, he fired back. 
  • Then he named the man he says actually paid for the program: 𝘖𝘣𝘢𝘮𝘢 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘱𝘪𝘥 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘴 — 𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮... 
  • To land the 2015 accord, the Obama administration unfroze an estimated one hundred billion dollars in Iranian assets, and 
  • in January 2016 it sent Tehran a separate $1.7 billion settlement — $400 million of it flown out as pallets of foreign cash — that landed the very week four American detainees were released. 
  • 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐮𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐬𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐚 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤...


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