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Trump slams 'false' report on $300B Iran investment, warns US could resume bombing 87%
By Robert McGreevy0%
6/17/2026, 11:29:03 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 25 faulty reasoning types, including Overconfidence Bias, Appeal to Emotion, and Confirmation Bias, with Post Hoc (False Cause) as the most egregious example at 24.1% saturation with 165 hits. Analysis detected 1,175 faulty-reasoning hits from 685 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 79.8% and a BS Rank of 87% (2,860 of 21,886 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 86.90% of the article peer group.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday refuted "false" reports about a $300 billion investment in Iran, saying no deal is final and "if they don't behave, we'll go right back to dropping bombs right smack in the middle of their head."
Speaking to reporters at the G-7 summit in France, Trump said he has not asked Arab allies to invest in any such fund.
He warned Iran that the memorandum of understanding is not final and "if they don't behave, we'll go right back to dropping bombs right smack in the middle of their head."
Trump said the Strait of Hormuz would be open "in full" in the "next day or two," noting how oil prices are "tumbling down."
He said the "alternative would be a worldwide depression."
Crude oil prices have plummeted since the U.S. and Iran announced a ceasefire framework on Monday, falling below $80 per barrel for the first time since March.
Leaders from the U.S. and Iran are expected to formally sign the memorandum in Switzerland on Friday.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday called reports of a leaked memorandum of understanding between the U.S. and Iran "false" and said the U.S. would not be giving Iran any money as part of the ceasefire framework.
Asked by Fox News' Peter Doocy about reports of a $300 billion investment and reconstruction fund funded by Gulf allies, Trump responded, "It's false.
False."
"You can invest if you want.
I mean, what am I going to do, say nobody's ever allowed to invest?
No, we're not investing.
We're not putting up $0.10.
And, people can decide to do that, but that's up to them.
I mean, do you want me to say nobody's ever allowed to invest in in a country?"
Trump said.
"We are not investing in it and we do not have a fund," Trump said.
Doocy asked Trump if he was asking Gulf countries to invest in any such fund.
The president replied, "No, I'm not."
"If they do it, fine.
But I would say they won't be doing it for a while until they find out the behavior.
It's a behavior thing, but we are not investing.
That's a false story that got picked up incorrectly," Trump said.
Trump also said that the memorandum of understanding is not final and that if Iran does not behave that the U.S. would return to bombing the country.
"No, it's not final it's a memorandum of understanding and if I don't like it, we'll go back to shooting at them, dropping bombs on their head," he said.
"If I don't like it, if they don't behave, we'll go right back to dropping bombs right smack on the middle of their head, ok?
Because they've misbehaved for 47 years."
President Donald Trump said he expects the Strait of Hormuz to be opened "in full" within two days while speaking to reporters at the G7 Summit in France on Wednesday.
Referring to an agreed upon memorandum of understanding to end hostilities between the U.S. and Iran, Trump said "It's a very strong deal, nobody knows what it is, but it's very strong."
"Most people seem to be very happy.
Who's really happy is the market, because the market's gone up thousands of points over the last four or five days since hearing about it and the Strait is going to be opening, it's already partially opened, it's gonna be opening up soon in full, over the next day or two," Trump said.
"And the market has gone wild and oil has come tumbling down.
Oil is at $73, $74 and it's getting very close to where it was before the crisis, the difference is now we have Iran without a nuclear weapon," he said.
The average price of crude oil futures plummeted below $80 for the first time since March after the U.S. and Iran announced they had reached a memorandum of understanding on Monday.
"There's nothing so smart as the market," Trump added.
"The alternative would be a worldwide depression," he also said.
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