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[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

The White House finally sent members of Congress the new Iran deal. It didn’t take very long to read. In short, I think it’s a joke. It hands Iran everything and gets almost nothing back.

Compare it to the 2015 nuclear deal Trump tore up. That agreement forced Iran to ship 97% of its enriched uranium out of the country, rip out two thirds of its centrifuges, and accept the toughest inspections ever placed on any nation, all while leaving in place non-nuclear sanctions against the regime. It was not perfect. But it bought verified distance from a bomb.

This new deal does the opposite. It allows Iran to stay exactly where it stands today, after years of secret progress that nearly created enough uranium for 10 nuclear bombs. The hard nuclear questions get pushed to talks that may never happen.

And look at what America gives up front. We immediately waive sanctions on Iranian energy exports that fund the regime. We release roughly $24 billion in frozen assets. We even promise to organize at least $300 billion to rebuild Iran and lift every single U.S. sanction. In return, Iran promises to negotiate later.

Missiles, human rights, and Iran’s terror proxies were dropped from the agenda entirely.

I will always support diplomacy over a war that Americans never asked for. But a deal the enemy is celebrating tells you all you need to know about who came out on top.

This agreement leaves America and its allies weaker. Senator Cassidy was spot on when he said yesterday that Reagan is rolling over in his grave.

[Average Joe @average_joe6515]

@SenSchumer Thank you!

[Average Joe @average_joe6515]

@FoxNews Vance seems to be responsible for this debacle.

[Average Joe @average_joe6515]

@Osint613 Witkoff is getting played. And that's assuming he's not straight up lying.

[Average Joe @average_joe6515]

@JakeWSimons Good! Vance is bad news for the US and a danger to the world.

[Average Joe @average_joe6515]

@WhiteHouse "Check out the Stock Market."

How far the US has fallen...

[Average Joe @average_joe6515]

@Osint613

[Average Joe @average_joe6515]

@WhiteHouse @VP Personally I don't mind if Vance commits political suicide.

[Average Joe @average_joe6515]

@Osint613 "my husband hasn't beat me for two nights!"

[Average Joe @average_joe6515]

@alexanderbolton *cough* Vance *cough*

[Ofer Binshtok - Kafir - עופר בינשטוק @Ofer_binshtok]

An explanation of Trump’s surrender deal with Iran:
A culture that cares more about the current economy and the next elections than about long-term survival is a culture that will die. It is a culture that sentences its own children and their children’s children to death. The Islamic Ummah thinks, plans, and carries out its moves with a mindset that looks dozens, hundreds, and thousands of years ahead. Any culture whose approach to life is shorter-term, like the one Trump represents, will be eliminated by the Islamic Ummah.

[Average Joe @average_joe6515]

@WhiteHouse History will forget that gas dropped from $4.50 to $4, but your surrender and humiliation in front of Iran will be remembered forever as one of the greatest foreign policy blunders in US history. All from the self-proclaimed "expert dealmaker", no less.

[Amjad Taha أمجد طه @amjadt25]

Greetings, President Trump,
You may have secured a temporary deal, but you've shaken the trust of almost everyone around you except perhaps JD Vance and Iran's Supreme Leader. Attacking friends who stood with you in wartime while defending an enemy that attacked both of you is how nations stop trusting you, even if they keep smiling for the cameras. The way many of us, including me, see it, Israel is America's biggest ally in the Middle East. Telling Israel not to hit Hezbollah for the sake of a deal with Iran is like telling America not to hit al-Qaeda because you're negotiating with Hamas.

And a deal that lasts only 60 days? That's not diplomacy, that's a ceasefire with an expiry date shorter than a carton of milk.

[Average Joe @average_joe6515]

@Osint613 I doubt even he believes what he's saying. Probably he has to say it or else he'll get fired. But it's still awful the level of cope in the admin.

[Average Joe @average_joe6515]

@Osint613 "our options" according to Vance = giving them more money

[Eyal Ofer אייל עופר @Eyalo365]

The biggest problem with Trump is this rare combination of extreme narcissism and below-average stupidity.

To justify his mistakes, he now claims that Iran has a permanent chokehold on the world economy - that without him, “the strait would never open and the world would sink into a worldwide depression.”

In his own words, he is elevating Iran to a superpower, simply to explain away his mistakes.

This comes at a time when the Iranian economy was already teetering on the verge of collapse before the war, and the blockade on Iran was working while CENTCOM was doing a great job degrading their ability to control the strait.

In effect, while believing he is saving the elections, he is turning himself into a lame duck before even completing two years in office - signaling to the entire world that the U.S. Navy’s 250-year tradition of maintaining freedom of navigation is ending. Iran, and later other countries, could challenge U.S. power whenever there is a weak or tired president.

[Adam Mossoff @AdamMossoff]

The real-world lessons of the Trump/Vance MOU with the Islamic regime of Iran:

Mullahs in Iran: we'll continue to build a nuke in semi-secret and Trump won't stop us, because we'll just threaten to shut down Hormuz

Hezbollah and Hamas: We can continue to kill Israelis and Americans with impunity, because Trump will stop Israel from responding and Trump won't do anything about it

China: We can invade Taiwan and Trump won't stop us - he'll beg for a ceasefire and then enter into a deal with us that will give us everything we want

This is an unmitigated disaster for America and its allies.

[Average Joe @average_joe6515]

@willchamberlain You're thinking about it too hard and coming up with weird mental gymnastics. A plain reading of the MoU shows that the US lost.

[Average Joe @average_joe6515]

@DavidShuster Good! I'm a 3x Trump voter who is beyond angry!

[Average Joe @average_joe6515]

@EmmanuelMacron Sounds like you're a big fan of surrendering!