President Trump’s deal to end the Iran war, details of which have emerged over the weekend, is being heavily criticized by Republicans who would prefer a tougher stance to be taken against Tehran.
Sen. Ted Cruz, said the president’s decision to strike Iran was the “most consequential” of his second term and that he should maintain pressure on the Islamic regime.
“If the result of all that is to be an Iranian regime—still run by Islamists who chant ‘death to America’—now receiving billions of dollars, being able to enrich uranium & develop nuclear weapons, and having effective control over the Strait of Hormuz, then that outcome would be a disastrous mistake,” Cruz wrote on X.
Sen. Lindsay Graham voiced similar concerns and said Iran must not be allowed to remain the dominant force in the region.
Sen. Roger Wicker, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said the proposed 60-day ceasefire would be a “disaster.”
“Everything accomplished by Operation Epic Fury would be for naught!” he said.
The deal was also criticised by members of the first Trump administration.
“Not remotely America First,” Mike Pompeo said on X. He claimed the deal was the same as the Obama deal from which President Trump withdrew during his first term.
“If news reports about the impending Iran deal are correct, the ayatollahs will have won a significant victory,” John Bolton, a former national security advisor, wrote on X.
“They will be back on the road to nuclear weapons, supporting global terrorism and repressing their own people.”
President Trump, meanwhile, has urged his supporters not to “listen to the losers, who are critical about something they know nothing about.”
The President said his deal is “THE EXACT OPPOSITE” of the Obama deal.
It’s now being reported that Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has agreed “in principle” to surrender his stocks of enriched uranium as part of a peace deal.
The deal could still take days to ratify, as both sides pick apart the wording, but it’s believed the deal will reopen the Strait of Hormuz for traffic, easing global energy prices.
“They will open up the strait in exchange for us lifting the blockade, and they will agree in principle to dispose of the highly enriched uranium, but then there’s a question about how precisely to do that,” a senior US official said.
“We feel quite confident that the supreme leader has signed off on the broad template.”
The Strait would be reopened immediately without a toll system, but would leave major issues to be resolved in further talks.
Relief from US sanctions would be tied to Iran’s progress in relinquishing its nuclear material and all further attempts at enrichment—“no dust, no dollars,” said the official.
The official warned, however, that Iran has “national pride considerations” about its nuclear ambitions.
“A lot of this debate is not really what happens to the stockpiled material, but it’s how the Iranians can sell it to their own hardliners and to their own population in a way that gets us what we need as well,” the official said.
“No one disputes that the stockpiled enriched material will be disposed of. It’s a question about how. And then simultaneously, while we’re figuring out that question of how, we’re going to have this thing where the straits open, the blockade is lifted and we get the economy some breathing room.”
Some Iranian officials have disputed claims that Khamenei—who still hasn’t been seen in public since being badly wounded in the opening US-Israeli strikes—has agreed to any limits of Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has insisted his country doesn’t want nuclear weapons, but also vowed that the country’s “negotiating team will not compromise when it counts to our country’s dignity and sovereignty.”
“We are ready to assure the world that we are not seeking nuclear weapons. We are not seeking instability in the region,” Pezeshkian said.
The US official also said that domestic and foreign actors are trying to sabotage the deal.
“I would say, by and large, most people in the Iranian system don’t love the deal, but they also don’t like the idea of going back to war,” the official explained, adding that the Trump administration believes information about the deal has been leaked a number of times “because somebody is trying to kill this thing or is trying to derail our progress.”
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Jones $ Fuentes, the dynamic duo of disinfo. They’re hoping to get a tiny piece of Trumpy Bear’s golden statue.
Look at all the zionist agents now attacking Trump for talking to both sides. Look how they speak up and whine immediately.
If Trump does make a deal, he will be under attack. I will have no pity for him, since he has allied himself with the very people who will attack him.
Cruz is a big globalist, with his wife a NA Union strategist. Cruz says anyone that does not think “Jews” are the chosen ones is going to hell. He also called the J6 protesters terrorists.
Ted “AIPAC” Cruz.
I think he can be defeated next time he runs. As a conservative, I would never vote for him.
If voting made a difference they’d make it illegal.
I think Canadians should be repatriated back to Canada. Buh bye bye Teddy !
…negotiating team will not compromise when it counts to our country’s dignity and sovereignty.”
Childish VANITY statement right there.
Egotism, boastfulness, swelled head, vainglory, let’s get diplomatic and just call it amour propre.
I would just call it INEPTITUDE or CACK HANDEDNESS.
…negotiating team will not compromise when it counts to our country’s dignity and sovereignty.”
Childish VANITY statement right there.
Egotism, boastfulness, swelled head, vainglory, let’s get diplomatic and just call it amour propre.
I would just call it INEPTITUDE or CACK HANDEDNESS.
Just about all of the current Republican base are AIPAC bought and paid.
“Hardline Republicans” is the new name for politicians who work for a country other than the US of A.