CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) – One of North Carolina’s two U.S. senators criticized a potential Iran deal during a Sunday morning TV appearance, saying it could be “doomed to fail.”
President Donald Trump posted on his Truth Social on Saturday, May 23, and said a peace deal with Iran was “largely negotiated,” and claimed that “final aspects and details” would be “announced shortly.”
In that post, Trump claimed reopening the Strait of Hormuz was part of the deal.
The next day — Sunday, May 24 — Republican Sen. Thom Tillis was asked about the possible deal during an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“Look, we were told about 11 weeks ago by [Pete] Hegseth and the Department of Defense that they had obliterated Iran’s defenses and it was just a matter of time before we had the nuclear material,” Tillis said. “Now we’re talking about a posture where we may accept the nuclear material remaining in Iran. How does that make sense at all?”
“There are a lot of things that need to be explained … As I’ve said before, any agreement with Iran that isn’t subject to ratification is going, I think, to be doomed to fail, just like the agreement we’re trying to replace, which was the failed agreement by Obama.”
Later in the day on Sunday, Trump got back on social media, and wrote that a deal with Iran would be “a good and proper one, not like the one made by Obama.”
“Our deal is the exact opposite, but nobody has seen it, or knows what it is,” Trump posted Sunday afternoon. “It isn’t even fully negotiated yet. So don’t listen to the losers, who are critical about something they know nothing about. Unlike those before me who should have solved this problem many years ago, I don’t make bad deals!”
On Monday morning, Trump mentioned Tillis by name, calling him “weak and ineffective” in another post.
“The deal with Iran will either be a great and meaningful one, or there will be no deal,” Trump’s Monday post read in part.
The war with Iran was launched on Feb. 28. For weeks the United States and Israel bombed Iran before a ceasefire took hold on April 7. The “deal” Trump has referenced recently would seemingly bring an official end to the conflict.
North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis said Trump’s potential Iran deal could be “doomed to fail.”(AP photos)
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