Why Trump Signed the MOU — and What’s Going to Happen When All That Iranian Oil Hits the Marketplace
Scott Pinsker | 1:59 PM on June 18, 2026
Tales of Deceptive PR, Chapter 26: About fifteen years ago, I worked in-house for a billionaire who had just bought his own private club in Tampa Bay. The bayside property had been in and out of bankruptcy, and the billionaire hoped to rebrand it as exclusive, ultra-elite, and high-end.
The trouble was that the club had embarrassingly low, dirt-cheap membership rates because it was so desperate for members. It directly undercut our desired branding.
So I had the club create a brand-spanking-new “international corporate” membership category that cost foreign businesses $1 million a year.
Nobody ever paid for an “international corporate” membership, of course. (No foreign businesses were club members!) But that wasn’t the point: I just wanted to be able to tell the media that club membership rates ranged from surprisingly affordable to $1 million annually.
Technically, I didn’t lie — but I deliberately created a false impression. I used a big, impressive number to distract our target audience.
Today, the exact same strategy is at play with the just-revealed U.S.-Iranian memorandum of understanding (MOU), and the shocking number that has tongues wagging, the $300 billion Iranian investment fund.
It’s a huge number. Enormous! It dwarfs the billions in President Barack Obama’s 2015 deal. And because money is a fungible commodity, the $300 billion could be spent on anything — weapons, terrorism, you name it.
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