"The worst foreign policy blunder in decades" : in the United States, the signing of the agreement between Iran and the United States strongly criticized in the Trump camp

A signing that took everyone by storm. The American and Iranian presidents each signed remotely, Wednesday June 17, the memorandum of understanding in which Tehran undertakes to immediately reopen the Strait of Hormuz and, as part of future negotiations, to dilute its enriched uranium in exchange for the lifting of sanctions international. The signing was initially planned in Geneva.

In the United States, however, few people applaud this agreement which initially seems to benefit Iran. For several weeks, Donald Trump had already alienated all those in his camp who believed that this war was useless. With this signature, he now disappoints those who wanted Tehran to capitulate. Washington and Tehran have in fact agreed to this agreement to end the conflict launched on February 28 by the United States and Israel against the Islamic Republic, which left thousands dead, mainly in Iran and Lebanon.

The influential conservative commentator Mark Levin, for example, details the concessions he deplores in the agreement, such as the promise of a $300 billion fund to rebuild Iran. “It’s too absurd to understand“, he quips. Senator Bill Cassidy, one of the rare Republicans to criticize Trump, goes further: “Reagan must be rolling over in his grave, this is the worst foreign policy blunder in decades.”.

Obviously, elected officials and pro-Trump media continue to extol the merits of the agreement, but the gap between the stated objectives and the signed text is obvious. The Strait of Hormuz was open before the war, the nuclear issue is not resolved, the Iranian regime is still in place and could even obtain a total lifting of sanctions…

There remains the threat of new bombings brandished by Trump if the negotiations go badly, but we do not see how the American president could reactivate such an unpopular war.