Excerpt from Brennans' book:
It was not long before Bannon and Priebus were again calling and texting me to come into the White House in
some capacity, as they sought to overcome the mismatches between Trump, McMaster, and Tillerson. The most
palpable manifestation of the problems was Iran, specifically the 2015 nuclear deal, which Obama considered a
crowning achievement (the other being Obamacare). The deal was badly conceived, abominably negotiated and
drafted, and entirely advantageous to Iran: unenforceable, unverifiable, and inadequate in duration and scope.
Although purportedly resolving the threat posed by Iran’s nuclear-weapons program, the deal did no such thing. In
fact, it exacerbated the threat by creating the semblance of a solution, diverting attention from the dangers, and
lifting the economic sanctions that had imposed substantial pain on Iran’s economy, while allowing Tehran to
proceed essentially unimpeded. Moreover, the deal did not seriously address other threats Iran posed: its ballistic- missile program (a thinly disguised effort to develop delivery vehicles for nuclear weapons); its continuing role as
the world’s central banker for international terrorism; and its other malign activity in the region, through the
intervention and growing strength of the Quds Force, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’s external military
arm, in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, and elsewhere. Freed from sanctions, benefiting from the transfer of $150
million in “cash on pallets” in cargo airplanes and the unfreezing of an estimated $150 billion in assets globally,
Tehran’s radical ayatollahs were back in business.
Pretty neat recap. 150 million downplayed - 1.7 B is more accurate.