A preliminary agreement between the U.S. and Iran may include a $300 billion reconstruction fund, The New York Times reported May 28.
An Iranian official told the outlet that the “nonaggression pact” includes a U.S.-facilitated “international investment fund” for the country’s redevelopment. Other officials contacted by The New York Times (NYT) would not confirm an amount.
“This proposal appears to be an iteration of an earlier idea floated by Mr. Trump’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, and Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law. Both are real estate investors, and some mediators said they had suggested promoting real estate projects in Tehran and an investment fund in the event a deal was reached,” the NYT reported.
Trump appointed Steve Witkoff as Special Envoy to the Middle East in November 2024. Kushner began to assist Witkoff in late 2025 amid U.S.-led negotiations between Israel, Hamas and other Middle Eastern states.
“No money will be exchanged, until further notice,” the president wrote in a Friday post to Truth Social.
“Iran must agree that they will never have a Nuclear Weapon or Bomb. The Hormuz Strait must be immediately open, no tolls, for unrestricted shipping traffic, in both directions,” the post reads. “Other items, of far less importance, have been agreed to. I will be meeting now, in the Situation Room, to make a final determination.”
Trump launched Operation Epic Fury on February 28, killing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini and other Iranian officials. Peace negotiations began early April alongside a ceasefire agreement.
“Iranian officials said they had proposed to American negotiators that U.S. companies, including major oil and energy corporations, could enter Iran for investments and joint venture deals,” the NYT reported.
The Trump administration previously invited U.S. energy companies to invest in Venezuela after Operation Southern Spear resulted in the successful arrest of then-president Nicolás Maduro.
“The Iranian official described it [the investment fund] as a ‘reconstruction program’ that would be promised to Iran in the event a final agreement was signed,” the NYT reported. “Earlier in the negotiations, Tehran had demanded reparations for bombardment damage that some Iranian officials estimate at $300 billion to $1 trillion.”
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I will be extremely disappointed if any deal includes reparations, period. Iran has cost the World’s people $-trillions and thousands of deaths with their proxy wars. Let the UN oversee the return to a monarchy, a form of government that the people of Persia understand. And let them rebuild themselves, with funds that they earn by being good citizens of the civilized World.
If this is true, then this whole venture was either a fake war, or Trump Fd us! Either this war was not winnable from the start, and this administration knew that, or this was done to get deals for our oil companies, Iran’s oil, and for real estate deals for Trump’s son-in- law? Soldiers died and families lost loved ones for this?
This was so Iran could never have a nuke, then it was regime change (which couldn’t be done without land troops), and now it’s about oil, real estate ventures, and the taxpayer paying hundreds of billions more?
And if this deal goes through, we are supposed to believe Iran won’t try for a nuke ever again? After all the rhetoric over the last 50 years, this I’m supposed to believe? What is this 1984?
If this is real, then Trump is just another Fn failure in office, like all the rest. We have been had! WTF!
MAGA! Our leader has Fn sold us out for real estate deals in Iran! He’s covered up the Epstein files for his friends! He cares nothing about the debt. He claims our economy will grow us out of our debt! That’s is a Fn joke! You don’t get out of debt buy a bigger economy, not if your spending doesn’t shrink! You have to cut spending to get out of debt! Try this at home. If you get a raise and keep spending more, does that get you out of debt?
I don’t know what happened here! This second term is turning into a fn joke! Trump even said any MAGA still questioning about Epstein isn’t MAGA to him. He wants nothing to do with them! Epstein is about pedophilia! There isn’t much, if anything more important then protecting our children! We are tired of pedophiles being exposed ( in this case not being exposed) and then hearing nothing about it again! NO! Not anymore! We want pedophiles in jail for a long time! Nothing less! None of this is what we voted for!! WTF!