Franklin Chancey

Father, Attorney, Skier, Philosopher, Husband, blessed.

[Franklin Chancey @FranChan1963]

https://t.co/Fs9x2gRM4w
Stunning

[John Brennan @jmbprime]

The comments Trump is making about Hamas and Iranian leadership is not only disturbing but frightening. There is something terribly wrong with President Trump's mental health and it needs to be addressed by Congress.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

The MOU with Iran is nothing short of a complete surrender. Regardless of whether you support the war or not, there is not reason to have given Iran everything it wanted, to get NOTHING but 60 more days to talk. I’m sorry America, because this is an EPIC FAILURE.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Trump completely capitulated to the Iranians.

I did not have a big enough imagination to believe we would sign a deal respecting theocratic dictatorship and then giving those killers billions and billions to strengthen their autocratic repression.

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

We’re about to spend $300,000,000,000 rebuilding Iran after spending $80,000,000,000 destroying it, while telling Americans on Medicaid to take a hike.

America First.

[Franklin Chancey @FranChan1963]

We are the laughingstock of the world. #humiliation

[Chase Passive Income @chasedownleads]

Kansas just renamed itself Iran to unlock $300 billion in federal funding

This is a genius

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: US officials have now confirmed in a briefing that Iran will get full access to a total of $100 billion in frozen funds and the $300 billion reconstruction fund, both included in the deal with implementation now underway, per WSJ.

More than $150 billion of the fund has already been committed, directly contradicting Trump's claims that the US would not contribute to the $300 billion fund, per Reuters.

[Barry R McCaffrey @mccaffreyr3]

End of fighting good. Opening oil flow thru Straits good. Devastation of Iranian conventional forces good. No deal except to make a deal. $24 billion to Iran next 60 days. No Iran nuke constraints. No constraints on Hezbollah. A strategic disaster.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

It's only Tuesday and Trump has fucked up a pool for $14 Million, lost a war agreeing to pay Iran $300 Billion, and ballooned his already expensive ballroom budget by another $200 Million.

Where are the Republicans screaming about "waste, fraud and abuse"?

[Franklin Chancey @FranChan1963]

So much respect #Trumploser

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Former deputy PM John Manley: We used to always refer to the president of the United States as the leader of the free world. Donald Trump is not the leader of anything other than about the 37% of Americans that still support him. If anything, intellectually at least, Mark Carney has become the leader of the free world, the countries that believe in democracy and the rule of law.

[VoteVets @votevets]

BREAKING: In a SCATHING statement, Major General (Ret.) Paul Eaton just called out Donald Trump's War In Iran for what it is: a complete and utter FAILURE.

[Sky News @SkyNews]

Trump's Iran war is one of the greatest strategic blunders in US history.

Analysis from Sky's @DominicWaghorn ⬇️ https://t.co/lrwck9jgJP

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Wow. https://t.co/8hGS1t0rtW

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

American soldiers died. Several hundred more in the region were killed, including children in Iran. U.S. taxpayers paid tens of billions for ammunition used, all to reopen a strait that was open before Trump's war began.

A colossal foreign policy failure so far.

Hoping Phase 2 is more meaningful.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Reminder

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Need MAGA to explain to the rest of us with brain cells how giving Iran $300 Billion is different or somehow better than giving Iran $1.7 Billion?

Explain it to us like we're at a @EricTrump level of intelligence.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

BREAKING: JD Vance confirms that Iran could gain access to a $300 billion reconstruction fund:

“That’s the sort of thing they could have access to, so long as they honor their end of the obligation.”

[Franklin Chancey @FranChan1963]

We are committing 300 billion to rebuild Iran. Trump is a disaster and the weakest President in 50 years. #disaster

[Dan Shapiro @DanielBShapiro]

Until the text of the US-Iran deal is signed and released, there is going to be a lot of spin on both sides. But here is my initial take.

This war was a mistake, and it needs to end. The President thought that the Iranian regime would collapse quickly, but it did not. In fact, it has been strengthened strategically by its survival against a heavy US-Israeli assault and carrying out some effective counterstrikes. Many countries in the region are now courting Iran and looking to deescalate and rebuild ties. A sign of which way the wind is blowing.

Getting the Strait of Hormuz open is the most important outcome of this MOU. Of course, the Strait was open before the war. Now we are paying to reopen it with sanctions relief. Iran has taken a theoretical point of leverage and turned it into a very real and powerful one, imposing costs across the global economy and rattling President Trump.

As for the nuclear issues, there really is no agreement, other than to negotiate over the HEU stockpile and an enrichment moratorium. Iran knows how to drag out those negotiations, and try to pocket concessions along the way. It is possible that no deal will every be reached, and very likely that if one is reached, it will be worse than what we could have achieved through diplomacy before the war.

Iran is not likely to take seriously that the US would return to war, certainly before the US midterms. So that means we will be conducting diplomacy without a credible threat of force.

If any agreement ultimately reached actually safely puts Iran's nuclear ambitions out of reach, I'll acknowledge it. It's just too early to make that judgment.

Trump is mainly focused on comparing his deal favorably to the JCPOA. But we are a long way from being able to make that comparison, and it may end up no better, or weaker than that deal.

But in some ways, Trump's deal and the JCPOA are already similar. Nothing on ballistic missiles, nothing on proxies, nothing on weakening the regime or helping the Iranian people. And plenty of sanctions relief that will strengthen the regime, and be poured into the missile program and proxy network. Honest critics of the JCPOA will not twist themselves into pretzels to defend Trump's approach.

Israelis are deeply disappointed in this outcome, but they should not be surprised. After some initial overlap of Trump's and Netanyahu's interests, there was a strong divergence. The United States needed this war to end. Netanyahu wanted to continue.

Trump's claim to include Lebanon in the ceasefire and his harsh shutting down Israeli attacks on Hezbollah is also a win for Iran. After the JCPOA was signed, Obama and Netanyahu worked together to strengthen Israel's campaign of strikes in Syria to intercept Iranian weapons shipments to Hezbollah in Lebanon.

So let's hope we see the removal of Iran's enriched uranium and a long-term suspension of enrichment, with full verification. But to achieve those goals, Trump's team is going to need to engage in far more sophisticated diplomacy, backed by qualified experts, than they have to date. If it is a phase one splash with no follow-up on implementation of later phases, like in Gaza, we will be much worse off after, and because of, this war.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

I don't like being wrong but I am not too proud to admit when I am

I did not in a million years expect that Trump would end up signing a deal with the Iranian regime that is far worse than the Obama deal

But there you have it