Trump promises farmers they will get to sell crops to 'lovely country of Iran' after war

Source: The Independent

Friday 26 June 2026 08:09 EDT


President Donald Trump has promised American farmers they will soon be able to sell their crops to the “lovely country of Iran” now that he has signed a memorandum of understanding to end his war.

Speaking in the White House Rose Garden Thursday, the president said: “After years of getting ripped off by other countries on trade, we’ve reduced the agricultural trade deficit, just this year, by 42 percent, opening markets to the American exports, and all over the world, we’re opening up markets for the farmers.

“And we have another one, a new market, coming up. And that’s called the lovely country of Iran. It’s a beautiful place. Would anybody like to go there? “Uh, the Islamic Republic of Iran, uh, they’re having a hard time with food, and we’re gonna be taking some of their money and we’ll spend it, and we’re gonna be buying wheat, soybeans, and corn – a lot of it – and, uh, that process is gonna be starting pretty soon. It’s gonna be pretty big, too. I think it’s gonna be very big.”

Trump made the same promise on Truth Social Tuesday, saying that Iran is facing a “humanitarian crisis” because of the war and that he would be removing sanctions on Iranian assets and releasing funds “for the purchase of food and medical supplies, exclusively from the United States.”

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