FOX Business host Larry Kudlow discusses what’s next in efforts to end the Iran conflict on ‘Kudlow.’
With all the fake news about some kind of $300 billion reparations fund for Iran, and President Obama’s ridiculous statements that nothing has changed and nothing will change about Iran, it is important to remember how badly America has crippled Iran’s military and its economy.
Here is President Trump in this bag of fake news: “We are not investing in Iran, by the way. That rumor that came out there yesterday, it was a joke. We have the right to come in one day and do if I want to do something or if somebody wants to do something, but we are not investing any money. We have no obligation to invest any money in Iran.”
Mr. Trump added: “We’re not paying them – there was a statement” that “we’re going to spend $300 billion. No, we’re allowed to invest if we want. Someday, in the future. We’re not responsible at all.”
Between the B-2 bombers that went down last year in Operation Midnight Hammer, and the incredible damage done to the Iran war, and the factories of Operation Epic Fury, and the great economic and financial hardships placed on Iran by Economic Fury, the simple fact is that Iran has been able to do anything.
The Heritage Foundation’s Victoria Coates and Ronald Reagan Institute Director Roger Zakheim compare the Trump administration’s deal with Iran and the Obama-era JCPOA to ‘Kudlow.’
And that includes their nuclear power. Their navy is stationed at the bottom of the Arabian Gulf. The country has no air defense. There is actually no radar. All this without boots on the ground. Money is nothing. The economy is rapidly deteriorating. Inflation is a few percent. If nothing else ever happened in the way of agreements or arrangements, or fines, or anything, Mr. Trump has been out for maybe twenty years. And that might be an understatement.
Now, if we completely eliminate their nuclear weapons, if we get our hands on the enriched uranium, and destroy it, that will be a great gift to the Middle East and to all of humanity. Even if all of Trumpian’s red line goals are not fully met, however, we have still dislodged Iran from its Middle Eastern base. It is not the country that Mr. Obama was committed to.
What Mr. Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with their beheadings and bombings, at least ended Iranian power in the Middle East. That country, even with its crazy Islamists is still at least partially functional, yet it is a small shadow of its former self because of what America has done to it.
Therefore, as we await the outcome of the memorandum of understanding and the subsequent technical release from this memo, while I still believe that Mr. Trump will make good on his red line promises and promises, let’s not forget how far Iran has been brought in the past year since the president began his campaign to truly end the evils of Iran.
