Not surprisingly, Obama nailed it.

[Nostra]

Iran’s Military Says It Has Reimposed ‘Strict Control’ of Strait of Hormuz​

Iran tightened its grip on the Strait of Hormuz again on Saturday, asserting that it was “under strict control” by Iranian forces — just hours after Iranian officials and President Trump had raised hopes for an end to the war by announcing that the waterway had reopened.

Iran’s military said in a statement that the strait had now “returned to its previous state” unless the United States ended its own blockade of Iranian ports. A shipping monitor run by the British navy said Saturday that it had received a report of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards firing at a tanker in the strait.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04/18/world/iran-us-war-trump-hormuz

These are the folks trump claimed were "more reasonable" than the crew he blew up. It seems the reason he said it is because he needed to make it appear as though an objective for starting the war had been achieved. The problem here being duping your followers has proven to be much easier than dealing with reality. The reality being the new Iranian regime is playing hardball. It is proving to be more intractable than the contractors Don used to cheat during construction projects.

Hundreds Claim Donald Trump Doesn't Pay His Bills in Full​

Dozens of lawsuits allege the businessman didn't pay what he owed.

www.nbcnews.com

As far as the negotiations go, this has a feeling of familiarity. Can anyone guess why?
The U.S. and Iran are negotiating over a three-page plan to end the war, with one element under discussion being that the U.S. would release $20 billion in frozen Iranian funds in return for Iran giving up its stockpile of enriched uranium, according to two U.S. officials and two additional sources briefed on the talks.
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/17/iran-us-deal-20-billion-frozen-funds-uranium

AI Overview

Yes, under the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Iran agreed to ship out or dilute over 98% of its enriched uranium stockpile, reducing it to a maximum of 300kg at 3.67% purity, down from 11 tons. They also dismantled over 13,000 centrifuges.

Cuz the Mullahs say so.....

 

[berg80]

Obama was bombing Libya for 7 months.

That resulted in Benghazi.

He was bombing Yemen and Syria for years which resulted in millions of refugees flooding Europe.

IOW, the answers to all my questions is none.

 

[pknopp]

How many of those bombings resulted in a 6 week war, a million refugees, an inflationary spike in the price of oil and NG, 13 dead US soldiers and hundreds injured, a regional conflict involving multiple countries, and impacted every country in the world that uses oil?

Anything you refuse to condemn your guy for will only get worse with the next.

 

[berg80]

Anything you refuse to condemn your guy for will only get worse with the next.

If Obama's actions were analogous to trump's you'd have a point.

 

[pknopp]

If Obama's actions were analogous to trump's you'd have a point.

They don't have to be 100% exactly all the same never is.

We were at war Obama's entire 8 years. A massive failure.

 

[JanetTheGreat]

I don't support Obama. Obama lead us into several disastrous interventions, under Obama there were tons of school shootings, everything was made racial, and the beginnings of the modern "Woke" began.

 

[Lisa558]

Fyi


The Obama administration did transfer $400 million in cash, plus interest to Iran in January 2016, but this was a settlement for a long-standing dispute over a 1970s arms deal, not a payment of U.S. taxpayer money or a ransom. Officials used cash because international sanctions had severely restricted Iran's access to global banking systems. While the timing of the delivery coincided with the release of American prisoners, the administration maintained that the settlement and the prisoner release were separate, negotiated through different channels.

Then why did he hide it from Congress and do it in secret at 2 am?

 

[teddyearp]

I was worried this was going to be a Obama homo thread.

Now as for your stupidity, no dummy Obama did nothing but gift hundreds of millions to Iran which they used to KILL Americans and build towards nukes while laughing at the naive idiot.

What makes you think Obama was naive when he did that? He knew exactly what he was doing. He was helping to, and I quote, fundamentally transform the United States of America.

 

[Care4all]

Then why did he hide it from Congress and do it in secret at 2 am?

Congress was notified ahead of the return of Iran's money....they were not told the day and time, but they were well aware that Iran would be getting their money, plus interest, back.

The $400 million in cash was due to sanctions in place that prevented them getting their money passed through banks, from what I've read?

 

[justoffal]

After trump's ill-fated, reckless decision to withdraw from the JCPOA, eventually causing this war, he said he would negotiate a better deal. He failed. With the US imposing heavy economic sanctions on Iran, the offer of lifting sanctions being what brought it to the negotiating table in the first place, it announced it would withdraw from the agreement on May 8, 2019. Exactly 1 year after Don essentially killed it.

A timeline of tensions over Iran's nuclear program as talks with U.S. approach

Iran and the United States are due to hold new talks in Geneva on Thursday over Tehran's nuclear program.

www.pbs.org

In response, Obama made a prediction.

Trump says U.S. pulling out of ‘rotten’ nuclear deal​

The move makes good on Trump’s insistence that the deal was too generous, allowing Iran to keep a mostly dormant nuclear program that Trump said could quickly produce a nuclear bomb once the deal’s provisions expire in the middle of the next decade.

But it further strains relations with key European allies, who have spent months urging Trump to sustain the agreement. It also came over the opposition of China and Russia, which were also parties to the 2015 deal.

And it drew an unusual public rebuke from former President Barack Obama himself, who invoked the specter of military conflict.

“Without the [Iran deal], the United States could eventually be left with a losing choice between a nuclear-armed Iran or another war in the Middle East,” Obama said in a lengthy statement.

Many former Obama administration officials suspect that Trump’s decision was, in part personal — that he was motivated by a desire to gut Obama’s foreign policy legacy. Obama aides, including former Secretary of State John Kerry, spent years pushing sanctions and hundreds of hours painstakingly negotiating the deal over some 18 months, and Trump’s decision left some of them dejected.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, meanwhile, said he had ordered his foreign minister to begin negotiating with other countries to salvage the deal, according to The Associated Press. He added that if those talks fail, Iran will once against enrich uranium “more than before … in the next weeks.”

But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — a vociferous critic of the deal who calls Iran an existential threat to his country — praised Trump’s “bold decision.”

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/08/iran-responds-trump-nuclear-deal-573252

Naturally, trump apologists have made all manner of factually incorrect allegations about the agreement made in 2015 designed to stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. They amount to nothing more than a parroting of trump's lies about the adequacy of the JCPOA. Ultimately, Obama's comments following the withdrawal have proven to be prescient. So too Hillary's comments about trump's lack of fitness to lead the nation. If only we had listened.

The only thing Obama nailed was his personal assistant guy....

Iran, regardless of the signatory status was never in any containment deal.

 

[j-mac]

Congress was notified ahead of the return of Iran's money....they were not told the day and time, but they were well aware that Iran would be getting their money, plus interest, back.

The $400 million in cash was due to sanctions in place that prevented them getting their money passed through banks, from what I've read?

In January 2016, the Obama administration arranged for the delivery of $400 million in cash to Iran, stacked on wooden pallets and flown on an unmarked plane.

Yeah, that sounds legit…

 

[Care4all]

In January 2016, the Obama administration arranged for the delivery of $400 million in cash to Iran, stacked on wooden pallets and flown on an unmarked plane.

Yeah, that sounds legit…

As said, cash was the means necessary...

 

[markef]

trumple's ignorance about the terms of the JCPOA goes right to the top of the list of things they misunderstand. And that is saying something.

AI Overview

In January 2016, the Obama administration settled a decades-old legal dispute with Iran, resulting in a payment of $400 million in principal and $1.3 billion in interest to the Iranian government.

Here are the key details of the settlement:

• Origin of the Dispute: The funds stemmed from a failed 1979 arms deal. Before the Iranian Revolution, the U.S.-backed Shah of Iran paid $400 million into a trust fund for U.S. military equipment that was never delivered.
• The Settlement: The Obama administration agreed to pay back the $400 million principal plus $1.3 billion in interest to settle the claim at the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal in The Hague, which officials argued saved the U.S. billions in potential litigation costs.

U.S. considers $20 billion cash-for-uranium deal with Iran​

The U.S. and Iran are negotiating over a three-page plan to end the war, with one element under discussion being that the U.S. would release $20 billion in frozen Iranian funds in return for Iran giving up its stockpile of enriched uranium, according to two U.S. officials and two additional sources briefed on the talks.

https://www.axios.com/2026/04/17/iran-us-deal-20-billion-frozen-funds-uranium

When you enter in to a negotiation you have to expect to make concessions in order to get something in return. What the US and the 5 others countries who were signatories to the JCPOA got was "Iran agreed to ship out or dilute over 98% of its enriched uranium stockpile, reducing it to a maximum of 300kg at 3.67% purity, down from 11 tons. They also dismantled over 13,000 centrifuges" and agreed to inspections by the IAEA.

As for this batshyte crazy innuendo......"How much he may have received in kickbacks is not known."...........provide some evidence or STFU.

Obama did not consult with Congress or courts before deciding on his own to settle the 4 decade old dispute about the Shah's money. Obama decided to give the money to the terrorists just weeks before the SCOTUS ruled that the money was to go instead to American victims of Iranian terrorists.

 

[j-mac]

As said, cash was the means necessary...

To what? Enablement?

 

[markef]

Iran’s Military Says It Has Reimposed ‘Strict Control’ of Strait of Hormuz​

Iran tightened its grip on the Strait of Hormuz again on Saturday, asserting that it was “under strict control” by Iranian forces — just hours after Iranian officials and President Trump had raised hopes for an end to the war by announcing that the waterway had reopened.

Iran’s military said in a statement that the strait had now “returned to its previous state” unless the United States ended its own blockade of Iranian ports. A shipping monitor run by the British navy said Saturday that it had received a report of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards firing at a tanker in the strait.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04/18/world/iran-us-war-trump-hormuz

These are the folks trump claimed were "more reasonable" than the crew he blew up. It seems the reason he said it is because he needed to make it appear as though an objective for starting the war had been achieved. The problem here being duping your followers has proven to be much easier than dealing with reality. The reality being the new Iranian regime is playing hardball. It is proving to be more intractable than the contractors Don used to cheat during construction projects.

Hundreds Claim Donald Trump Doesn't Pay His Bills in Full​

Dozens of lawsuits allege the businessman didn't pay what he owed.

www.nbcnews.com

As far as the negotiations go, this has a feeling of familiarity. Can anyone guess why?
The U.S. and Iran are negotiating over a three-page plan to end the war, with one element under discussion being that the U.S. would release $20 billion in frozen Iranian funds in return for Iran giving up its stockpile of enriched uranium, according to two U.S. officials and two additional sources briefed on the talks.
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/17/iran-us-deal-20-billion-frozen-funds-uranium

AI Overview

Yes, under the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Iran agreed to ship out or dilute over 98% of its enriched uranium stockpile, reducing it to a maximum of 300kg at 3.67% purity, down from 11 tons. They also dismantled over 13,000 centrifuges.

American democrats join Iranian terrorists to slander Trump for every little thing he says and does. Lefties and Muslim terrorists are kindred deranged spirits.

 

[teddyearp]

Obama was bombing Libya for 7 months.

That resulted in Benghazi.

He was bombing Yemen and Syria for years which resulted in millions of refugees flooding Europe.

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Again, all to plan. Obama's plan to remake the west.

 

[pknopp]

Obama did not consult with Congress or courts before deciding on his own to settle the 4 decade old dispute about the Shah's money. Obama decided to give the money to the terrorists just weeks before the SCOTUS ruled that the money was to go instead to American victims of Iranian terrorists.

Courts decided it.

 

[mudwhistle]

IOW, the answers to all my questions is none.

Maybe if you took your head out of your ass you'd know that I answered your question.

Most of the Muslims that flooded Europe and the United States came from all of the bombing we did during the Obama administration.

But because it wasn't widely reported by our corrupt media....you could care less.

Anything you refuse to condemn your guy for will only get worse with the next.

When are you going to do the same?

 

[Lesh]

Obama had Muslim sympathies and was incompetent.

You’re insane

 

[mudwhistle]

Courts decided it.

Obama paid blackmail money to Iran.