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If there's one thing Donald Trump has been clear about about the US deal with Iran, it's promising that it will be better than the one Barack Obama signed in 2015.
"We didn't pay it like Obama did. He paid billions of dollars ," President Trump told reporters at the G7 summit in France this morning.
However, both agreements include sanctions relief and the unblocking of Iranian money, although the current White House says all of this will depend on Iran fulfilling its obligations under the agreement.
We were also told that one of the proposals still being discussed is a $300 billion fund to help rebuild Iran. Who would pay for this was uncertain, but the president has now dismissed the idea as "fake news."
There is certainly some overlap. Both Trump's deal and Obama's Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) included inspections to ensure that Iran did not develop a nuclear weapon.
What neither agreement has directly addressed is the difficult political situation of the Iranian people; they are no freer than before.
The notable difference, of course, is that Barack Obama never bombed Iran. Donald Trump did, and said that US strikes have destroyed most of the country's nuclear facilities and buried its uranium stockpile.
But the war has come at a cost. Iran has launched attacks on many of its neighbors in the region, including Israel, further destabilizing an already volatile Middle East. It has also closed the Strait of Hormuz, raising energy and fertilizer prices worldwide, a new and extremely damaging move.
That's why Trump's deal, at least in the first phase announced this week, focuses less on the details of limiting Iran's nuclear program and more on the content of a conflict.
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