Trump revives claim Obama sent 'plane loads of cash' to Iran in $1.7B payment: 'That was a disaster'
President Trump: “I terminated Barack Hussein Obama’s Iran nuclear deal that was a disaster. Obama gave them $1.7 billion in cash, green, green cash. Took it out of banks in Virginia, D.C., and Maryland.”
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WASHINGTON, DC: President Donald Trump addressed the nation for around 19 minutes on the night of Wednesday, April 1, mostly discussing the Iran war and why it was important.
During his address, he once again criticized his predecessor, Barack Obama, and claimed that the former president gave Tehran billions of dollars as part of a nuclear deal.
Trump calls Obama’s Iran nuclear deal a disaster
“I terminated Barack Hussein Obama’s Iran nuclear deal that was a disaster,” the Republican leader boasted, further asserting that Obama “gave them $1.7 billion in cash, green, green cash. Took it out of banks in Virginia, DC, and Maryland.”
In his speech, Trump also said that the massive amount of money was sent “by airplanes in an attempt to buy their respect and loyalty, but it didn't work. They laughed at our president and went on with their mission to have a nuclear bomb.”
The US commander-in-chief went on to insist that if his administration had not intervened and waged war against Iran, the deal “would have led to a colossal arsenal of massive nuclear weapons for Iran, and they would have had them years ago, and they would have used them. It would have been a different world.”
“There would have been no Middle East and no Israel right now, in my opinion,” Trump added.
Trump calls Iran nuclear program a 'cancer'
The 79-year-old leader had earlier also criticized Obama, accusing him of giving Iran “the right to have a nuclear weapon at the highest level within a very short period of time.”
“I terminated that agreement as soon as I came to office. If I didn't terminate it, that weapon would have been used a long time ago,” he claimed a few days ago.
Trump even went on to call Iran's nuclear program a cancer, stating, “We had no choice, but I thought it would be much worse... In the short term, what we had to do was get rid of the cancer. We had to cut out the cancer. The cancer was Iran with a nuclear weapon. We have cut it out. Now we are going to finish it off.”
