Trump’s cuts to foreign aid could benefit US position in Iran negotiations, expert says

President Donald Trump's determination to chopped overseas assistance backing could fortify the president’s bargaining presumption arsenic helium looks to incorporate Iran.

"I look astatine the USAID cutoff and the praise that the Iranians person fixed arsenic portion of President Trump’s negotiating skills," EJ Kimball, manager of Policy & Strategic Operations astatine the U.S. Israel Education Association, told Fox News Digital.

The comments travel aft Trump’s arguable determination to halt backing for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and nonstop astir of the employees of USAID packing, portion of the administration’s program to weed retired what it considers wasteful authorities spending.

Despite the controversy, the determination has received praise from the Iranian regime, who person traditionally viewed U.S. assistance to Iran arsenic a menace to the country’s government.

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Iran's Supreme ruler Ali Khamenei, left, and President Donald Trump. (AP)

According to a study from The Associated Press connected Wednesday, Trump’s determination has been "lauded" successful Iranian authorities media, who presumption the cuts to overseas assistance arsenic a stroke to pro-democracy activists Iran believes person benefited from U.S. overseas aid.

The favorable cognition of Trump’s determination by Iran comes astatine a captious time, with Trump precocious renewing the U.S.’s "maximum pressure" run connected Iran and reaffirming the U.S. presumption that Iran tin ne'er beryllium allowed to person nuclear weapons.

While Trump has utilized harsh rhetoric connected Iran successful caller days, including a vow to "obliterate" the state if it successfully carries retired an alleged crippled to assassinate him, the president has besides urged the authorities to statesman negotiating for a "nuclear bid agreement" with the United States.

"I privation Iran to beryllium a large and palmy Country, but 1 that cannot person a Nuclear Weapon. Reports that the United States, moving successful conjunction with Israel, is going to stroke Iran into smithereens ARE GREATLY EXAGGERATED," Trump wrote successful a station connected societal media Wednesday.

President Donald Trump arrives astatine an predetermination nighttime ticker enactment astatine the Palm Beach Convention Center connected Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024 successful West Palm Beach, Florida. (Evan Vucci/AP)

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Kimball believes Trump tin usage the cuts to overseas assistance arsenic a bargaining spot successful those imaginable negotiations, noting the president could alteration his caput and resume the backing if the Iranians neglect to scope an acceptable deal.

"I would accidental that he’s teasing the Iranians astatine the moment, knowing that truly astatine immoderate moment’s notice, helium could instantly crook backmost connected the spigot of backing to the absorption groups if helium doesn’t consciousness similar they’re acquiescing to his demands oregon negotiation," Kimball said.

"It seems to maine that he’s got a carrot-and-stick attack with the Iranian regime, and pausing backing for authorities critics, teasing a deal, but besides threatening sanctions, and talking to Israel astir a subject onslaught and however Iran volition not get atomic weapons is portion of his maestro negotiating skills to support his opponents disconnected balance," Kimball added.

A large banner depicting Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is placed adjacent to a ballistic rocket successful Baharestan Square successful Tehran, Iran, connected Sept. 26, 2024. (Photo by Hossein Beris / Middle East Images / Middle East Images via AFP)

In the end, Kimball believes Trump’s eventual extremity is to chopped a woody that would destruct Iran’s atomic programme without putting U.S. work members successful harm's mode successful different overseas conflict.

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"It’s been precise wide helium does not privation to nonstop U.S. troops to war, but he’s besides not going to beryllium brushed astir it and let the taking of a atrocious woody to debar war," Kimball said. "The extremity end for President Trump is simply a woody that removes the menace that Iran poses to the United States, to Israel, to the region, and truly to the full world, not conscionable successful their atomic program, but successful their ballistic rocket improvement and transportation systems to guarantee that Iran tin beryllium large again."