{"id":498080,"date":"2026-06-17T23:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T23:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/498080\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T23:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T23:20:08","slug":"top-republican-decries-trumps-iran-deal-reagan-is-rolling-over-in-his-grave-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/498080\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Republican decries Trump\u2019s Iran deal: \u2018Reagan is rolling over in his grave\u2019 | Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"

A handful of Senate Republicans have sharply criticized the agreement Donald Trump<\/a> reached with Iran, accusing the administration of committing \u201cthe worst foreign policy blunder in decades\u201d.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, the Trump administration released<\/a> the text<\/a> of an interim deal between Washington and Tehran to end the 110-day conflict, framing it as a \u201cmajor win\u201d for the US \u2013 even as the 14-point accord made significant political and financial concessions to Iran to reopen the strait of Hormuz and prevent a \u201cworldwide depression\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cReagan is rolling over in his grave,\u201d the Republican senator Bill Cassidy declared, in a statement posted on X.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran\u2019s nuclear ambitions were not curbed, and they have learned that threatening the strait of Hormuz works and will undoubtedly leverage it in the future,\u201d the outgoing Louisiana senator wrote<\/a>. \u201cNow, Iran gets to build brand-new infrastructure under this deal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Senior administration officials said the deal would help prevent Iran<\/a> from obtaining a nuclear weapon, pointing to a concession in the MOU in which Iran sats its enriched uranium stockpile \u201cwill be destroyed\u201d through \u201cdown-blending\u201d. But critics argue that the deal achieves less than the one Barack Obama negotiated with Iran in 2015.<\/p>\n

\u201cBefore the war, the strait was open, Iran was being crushed by sanctions, and 13 service members were still alive,\u201d Cassidy said. \u201cNow, 13 Americans are dead<\/a>, families have paid billions at the pump, sanctions will be lifted, and the bombing has stopped. This is the worst foreign policy blunder in decades.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cassidy lost his primary last month when voters in Louisiana opted instead to advance two challengers to a runoff election after an extraordinary intervention<\/a> by Trump to oust the incumbent. Trump has publicly feuded with Cassidy for years, after the Republican senator voted in favor of Trump\u2019s impeachment after the January 6 insurrection.<\/p>\n

Before the Louisiana Senate primary election, Trump repeatedly disparaged Cassidy on social media, calling him \u201ca disloyal disaster\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Republican senator Lindsey Graham, one of Trump\u2019s most vocal congressional allies, said<\/a> in the immediate aftermath of the deal\u2019s announcement he was \u201csomewhat concerned that Iran\u2019s view of the agreement seems different than what the American negotiating team is claiming\u201d.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Graham seemed to take a less skeptical view of the memorandum of understanding (MOU) following a \u201cvery lengthy and productive\u201d conversation with the US special envoy Steve Witkoff.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter this discussion, it is my opinion that signing the MOU will be beneficial to the United States, in as much as the strait of Hormuz will begin to open, and the hostilities with Iran will stop,\u201d Graham wrote<\/a> on social media.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhether or not the United States can reach an acceptable, verifiable deal with Iran regarding its nuclear program and other issues is yet to be determined, but I see little downside to trying.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vice-President JD Vance, who has maintained a complicated<\/a> but publicly supportive stance on the war, responded<\/a> to the post by thanking Graham for his statement.<\/p>\n

The Republican senator Thom Tillis said<\/a> it was \u201cconcerning\u201d that the Trump administration is considering a $300bn fund for Iran as part of the agreement.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m hearing a $300bn number and that\u2019s concerning to me, so I just need the details,\u201d Tillis told MS Now reporters on Wednesday. \u201cI also need to know the methodology. I\u2019m not interested in just an agreement that gets us through two and a half years, which is how much longer this administration lasts.\u201d<\/p>\n

The MOU, due to be formally unveiled later this week at a ceremony in Switzerland, gives both sides 60 days to negotiate a comprehensive final agreement.<\/p>\n

The conflict with Iran has cost thousands of lives<\/a> and devastated the world economy, prompting a handful of Republicans to break with Trump on the issue. Earlier this month, the House of Representatives voted 215 to 208 in favor of the war powers resolution<\/a>, as four Republicans voted with Democrats to curb Trump\u2019s authority in Iran.<\/p>\n

Trump defended<\/a> his ceasefire deal on Wednesday at the G7 summit, further promising that if Iran misbehaved he would \u201cgo back to dropping bombs right smack in the middle of their head\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A handful of Senate Republicans have sharply criticized the agreement Donald Trump reached with Iran, accusing the administration…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-498080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}