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GOP senators criticized provisions including a plan to set up a $300 billion fund meant to rebuild Iran.<\/strong><\/p>

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Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill early this month. (J. Scott Applewhite\/AP)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

Senate Republicans are finally learning the details of the agreement<\/a> that President Donald Trump struck with the Iranian government days ago to end the war \u2014 and many of them are not happy.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration initially kept the memorandum of understanding that it signed on Sunday a secret, before making it public Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The agreement immediately drew loud protests from Democrats \u2014 but Republican senators also criticized many provisions, including the <\/b>lifting of U.S. sanctions on Iran\u2019s oil exports and its plan to set up a $300 billion fund to rebuild Iran.<\/p>\n

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he was concerned <\/b>that \u201ccertain aspects of this deal are a step in the wrong direction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cotton criticized lifting U.S. sanctions on Iran\u2019s oil exports, which he estimated would allow the country to bring in between $4.5 billion and $6 billion a month.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a lot of money,\u201d Cotton said Thursday on Fox News. \u201cAnd we know that this terrorist revolutionary regime is not going to spend that money on day care or on hospitals. They\u2019re going to use it to rebuild their drone stockpiles, their missiles, to fund Hamas and fund Hezbollah.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Mississippi), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, lambasted <\/b>the $300 billion fund. While the administration has said it will be funded by other countries in the region rather than the United States, Wicker said it makes the $1.7 billion that the Obama administration sent to Iran as part of a 2015 nuclear deal \u201clook like a pittance by comparison.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wicker also raised concerns about the agreement\u2019s declaration that all military operations would cease in Lebanon, which Israel has occupied as part of its campaign against Hezbollah, the militant group allied with Iran. Israel was not involved in negotiating the agreement, and many Israelis have denounced it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI also oppose the U.S. lifting any sanctions on Iran, or unfreezing Iranian funds, in exchange for Iran\u2019s mere agreement to negotiate for another 60 days,\u201d Wicker said in a statement. \u201cThe Iranian regime has not renounced its ultimate goal \u2014 \u2018Death to America, Death to Israel.\u2019 The regime will invest every penny it receives to further that aim.\u201d<\/p>\n

The pushback was notable because neither Cotton nor Wicker are frequent critics of the administration.<\/p>\n

The criticism from Republicans recalled <\/b>in some ways the dissatisfaction among some Democrats when President Barack Obama struck a deal in 2015 meant to prevent Iran from building a nuclear weapon, although most Democratic senators did not oppose Obama\u2019s deal. Just four Senate Democrats joined Republicans<\/a> that year in voting to take up a resolution rejecting the deal.<\/p>\n

Unlike the Obama administration\u2019s deal with Iran, the Trump administration\u2019s memorandum of understanding is not a final deal. Instead, it is meant to kick off negotiations between the U.S. and Iran on a more enduring agreement that addresses Iran\u2019s nuclear program and other issues.<\/p>\n

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-South Dakota), who was briefed on the deal Thursday, days after requesting a briefing from the administration, described it as a step in the right direction because it is expected to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the crucial shipping lane that Iran closed as it sought leverage during the war.<\/p>\n

\u201cI view this as a first step in what will probably be a somewhat long \u2014 and continue to be a contentious \u2014 conversation about what a final deal looks like,\u201d Thune told reporters Thursday.<\/p>

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Vice President JD Vance defended the deal<\/a> Thursday during a White House news briefing. The only way Iran will benefit from the proposed $300 billion fund, he said, is by changing its behavior.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou really have a win-win situation for the United States of America,\u201d Vance said. \u201cIf the Iranians don\u2019t change their behavior, their military and their nuclear program is still destroyed. If they do change their behavior, then they are going to have a transformative relationship with the Middle East, and the Middle East will have a transformative relationship with the people of Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some Republicans echoed Thune in praising the deal or reserving judgment on it. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), a leading Iran hawk, said<\/a> he thought the agreement would benefit the U.S. by opening the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n

\u201cI read the memorandum of understanding between the United States and Iran,\u201d Sen. John Neely Kennedy (R-Louisiana) said on the Senate floor. \u201cI read it twice. And for what it\u2019s worth, here\u2019s my conclusion: I think we ought to give peace a chance, and that\u2019s all I\u2019m saying today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Others joined Cotton and Wicker in raising concerns. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana) called the agreement<\/a> \u201cthe worst foreign policy blunder in decades.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Nebraska), a senior member of the Armed Services Committee, urged the administration not to lose sight of Trump\u2019s aim to make sure that Iran cannot develop a nuclear weapon.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe president has put us in a position of strength,\u201d Fischer said in a statement. \u201cWe cannot afford to squander it. I want more details from the administration on how the final deal will put America first, limit the regime\u2019s ballistic missiles, and verifiably ensure Iran turns over its highly enriched uranium.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) told reporters she wanted to give the agreement the benefit of the doubt but said it was hard to see how it \u201cleaves Iran in a worse place and the United States in a better place\u201d than they were before the war.<\/p>\n

Democrats, who have repeatedly forced votes in Congress to try to force Trump to end the war, also panned the agreement.<\/p>\n

Sen. Jack Reed (Rhode Island), the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he was relieved the war was ending but faulted the specifics of the agreement for failing to achieve Trump\u2019s war aims. He described the lifting of U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil as \u201cgross negligence.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEconomic relief should be conditioned on demonstrated compliance, yet the Trump Administration is offering it as an opening bid,\u201d Reed said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) \u2014 who opposed Obama\u2019s Iran deal in 2015 \u2014 told reporters that the pushback from Republicans underscored the flaws in Trump\u2019s agreement.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is so bad that even Republicans who cringe and knock their knees before criticizing Trump have no choice but to say what a bad deal this is,\u201d Schumer said.<\/p>

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Noah Robertson contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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