The US government plans to rename the compensation to Iran as the "Investment Fund" to bypass the Trump administration's political red line.

BlockBeats News, May 30th - A provision in the US-Iran War and Peace Agreement draft, involving a whopping $300 billion Iran reconstruction fund, has garnered attention. To avoid triggering a backlash in the US domestic opinion, the US deliberately avoided the terms "compensation" or "reparation" in the draft, opting instead for the term "International Investment Fund." The political logic behind this move is blunt and pointed: Trump himself spent a whole decade attacking the Obama administration's $400 million payment to Iran as "treason" and "ransom." Now, if he were to sign a multibillion-dollar agreement labeled as "war reparations," it would be akin to handing a weapon to his political opponents and base. Trump has privately informed his aides that he will not sign any agreement that appears to directly involve the US paying money to Iran, and has declared on social media, "There will be no funds exchanged until further notice."

The concept of this investment fund originated from Trump's Middle East envoys, Vitekov and his son-in-law Kushner—both real estate investors. The initial idea was to use the Tehran real estate project development and investment mechanism as an incentive for reconciliation. The idea was picked up by the Iranian side and evolved into a framework that allows US energy giants to enter the Iranian market through joint ventures, thus giving the fund a veneer of commercial logic.