Who would pay for Trump's proposed $300 billion Iran reconstruction fund?

Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif speaks alongside U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Qatar's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani during a meeting between the United States, Iran, Pakistan and Qatar at the Buergenstock resort in Obbuergen, Switzerland, June 21. Nathan Howard/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Nathan Howard/Getty Images A proposed $300 billion reconstruction fund for Iran is a key provision in the Trump administration's preliminary agreement with Tehran. Jake Sullivan, who served as national security adviser to President Joe Biden, told Morning Edition that the fund would be backed by outside investment rather than direct U.S. payments, though he said major questions remain about where the money would come from, calling the whole approach "something entirely new." Sullivan explained that the memorandum does not explicitly rule out U.S. participation in the fund. While President Trump has said American taxpayers would not pay for it, Sullivan said Iran is expecting $300 billion from outside sources and that the United States has committed to helping secure it. "That is something that never happened in the Obama-era deal," Sullivan told NPR's Michel Martin. The comparison is to the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement, known as the JCPOA, or the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. Under that deal, the United States did not provide Iran with American money. …