President Donald Trump just announced that a deal with Iran was signed electronically yesterday, on Sunday, June 14, right before the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains, France — and unlike the last guy's "deal," this one doesn't come with a $1.7 billion cash bribe. The man they said would start World War III is closing nuclear agreements while the so-called diplomacy experts are rage-tweeting from their think tanks.
Remember when the entire foreign policy establishment told us Trump was too reckless, too unhinged, too orange to handle Iran? Good times.
Trump took to Truth Social to lay out the contrast in terms even a CNN anchor could understand. The JCPOA — Barack Hussein Obama's masterpiece of surrender — was, in Trump's words, "an easy, beautiful, smooth road to a Nuclear Weapon." That deal gave Iran a six-year runway to a nuke, plus $1.7 billion in "green, cold cash" hand-delivered on pallets because apparently we run a nuclear concierge service now.
Trump's deal? "The exact opposite. A WALL TO NO NUCLEAR WEAPON!" His words, his caps lock, his victory.
And he didn't stop there. Trump confirmed that "immediately after it is signed, the Hormuz Strait is OPEN TO ALL" — that's the chokepoint through which one-fifth of the world's oil flows. He also made clear that "no money will exchange hands," which is a refreshing change from the Obama-era strategy of paying hostile regimes to pretend they like us.
The backstory here matters. A year ago, in June 2025, Trump launched Operation Midnight Hammer — B-2 Bomber strikes on Iran's nuclear sites at Natanz, Fordow, and Esfahan. That operation turned Iran's enriched uranium stockpile into rubble. As Trump put it, "we will go in and get the Nuclear Dust." That's not a metaphor. That's what happens when you negotiate from strength instead of from a faculty lounge.
Pakistani Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar and Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan have been part of the broader diplomatic framework, as reported by Breitbart. The region is watching. And for once, what they're watching is American strength producing results.
The G7 leaders will gather in France this week, and Trump walks in with a signed Iran deal in his back pocket. Meanwhile, the "experts" who championed the JCPOA are writing op-eds nobody reads and booking cable news hits to explain why peace is actually bad.
Let me be clear about what happened here. Obama paid Iran $1.7 billion in cash, got a deal that expired like milk, and called it diplomacy. Trump bombed their nuclear sites, reopened the Strait of Hormuz, and got a deal where no money changes hands. One of those approaches works. The other one got its own Netflix documentary.
Sunday, deal signed. No hostage payments. No secret cargo flights. No six-year countdown to a mushroom cloud. Just a deal — the kind you get when the other side knows you're not bluffing.