While critics on the political left and right see a bad deal, investigative journalist and author Peter Schweizer sees hope in the Trump administration’s tentative deal with the Iranian regime.
“I think they’re lacking in imagination for what Trump is trying to do here,” Schweizer told Fox News’s Jesse Watters. “Everybody wants there to be a final solution – to have the Iran problem solved – but that’s not in the cards. The question is: Where do you go from here?”
Schweizer, whose own investigative work is based on “following the money,” noted that the administration’s deal is structured so any released Iranian funds for rebuilding their devastated infrastructure will go “through the Gulf Cooperation Council states – Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the U.A.E among them – who would pay the American, Japanese, or Korean contractors building approved projects directly. So, no cash lands in Iranian banks the way it did under Obama,” he said.
He told Watters he believes this deal will not be the end of military action, however. “I think it’s possible we’re going to have more military strikes against Iran. I think they [the Iranian regime] can’t help themselves in terms of violating this deal. But it is worth the effort.”
“They are a fanatical regime, but fanatics believe in self-preservation as well,” Schweizer said.
