Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Victor Davis Hanson: Trump Just Proved the ‘Apostate Right’ and the Left Dead Wrong on Iran




In Trump’s deal, the Islamic Republic of Iran isn’t getting a penny, except billions in ‘humanitarian aid’

If this is true, Trump’s deal will be far, far worse than the Obama deal that a younger Trump so devastatingly and correctly derided. Our only hope is that the Iranian leadership, in its arrogance and fanaticism, will reject this deal, or that this report is false. Lending it credibility, however, is the fact that Vance recently said that Iran wouldn’t receive any money, and then in practically the same breath, started talking about economic benefits it would receive:

The money that would flow to the Islamic Republic if it can fool the State Department (easy enough) into thinking it’s meeting its obligations would almost certainly be earmarked “humanitarian aid.” Western leaders who constantly dole out “humanitarian aid,” even to avowed enemies of our nation, apparently hope we don’t realize that when you give someone money and tell him not to do anything evil with it, he can just take money he was going to spend on essentials and use it for the evil purposes he has in mind. “Humanitarian aid” to an evil regime is support for that evil regime, and there is no getting around that.

And that isn’t even close to all. 

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