The president didn’t name names, but some Republican senators have opined that it would be a mistake to leave Iran’s current regime in power.
President Donald Trump has responded to critics of a potential peace deal with Iran and said that no details have been confirmed.
“If I make a deal with Iran, it will be a good and proper one, not like the one made by Obama, which gave Iran massive amounts of CASH, and a clear and open path to a Nuclear Weapon,” he wrote in a Truth Social post on Sunday evening.
Trump was referring to a 2015 agreement between Iran, the United States, and several European nations. During his first term in office, Trump pulled the United States out of the agreement and said repeatedly that the deal was poorly conceived.
The U.S. president added that “nobody has seen” the contours of a new peace deal with Tehran or “knows what it is,” and that “it isn’t even fully negotiated yet.” He added that critics are commenting on “something they know nothing about.”
“Unlike those before me who should have solved this problem many years ago, I don’t make bad deals,” Trump said.
In the May 24 post, Trump did not specifically name the critics.
Several Republican senators, including Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who were prominent backers of Trump’s military actions against Iran that started in February, were critical of reports about the potential U.S.–Iran agreement.
“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 said in a May 23 post on X, responding to reports and Trump’s update the same day about a possible deal.
Graham, one of Trump’s allies in Congress, panned any arrangement that would leave Iran perceived as a dominant force in the region and in which it would retain its ability to destroy oil infrastructure throughout the Gulf.
