Iran deal comes under fire from Democrats before it is inked
by Max Rego - 06/14/26 3:19 PM ET
Democratic lawmakers throughout the weekend have criticized a prospective deal between the U.S. and Iranian governments, before the two sides finalize an agreement.
Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said on “Fox News Sunday” that the U.S. would be receiving “less” under a proposed deal with Iran than it got from the Islamic Republic via the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which was the deal that the Obama administration negotiated to curb Tehran’s nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief.
Reed added that the President Trump “wants to give himself a birthday present” with the deal. The president turns 80 years old on Sunday.
“So, we have spent billions of dollars. We’ve lost 14 personnel killed in action, hundreds wounded, and we’ve disrupted the world economy. And we’re getting basically less than what we had under the JCPOA, which President Trump walked away from,” Reed told Fox News host Shannon Bream.
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5923658-democrats-criticize-us-iran-deal/
