Top Foreign Relations Democrat on Trump’s Iran deal: ‘Catastrophically bad outcome’

The top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee slammed the reported contents of the deal between the U.S. and Iran, calling them a “catastrophically bad outcome.”

“The White House has not released the memorandum of understanding, so neither Congress nor the American people can fully assess what the Administration agreed to. If the reported details of the Iran agreement are accurate, this would represent a catastrophically bad outcome for a war that should have never happened,” Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) said in a Wednesday statement.

“At the cost of 14 service members’ lives and hundreds of injuries, significant damage to our embassies and military bases, billions of dollars and higher prices for Americans, President Trump has offered concession after concession to the Iranian regime for next to nothing in return,” she added.

Last weekend, President Trump announced a deal with Iran, a breakthrough that came after three months of on-again, off-again fighting that devastated the region, stressed the global economy and raised the prices of oil and gas.

The president had said the text of the agreement to end the war would not be unveiled until it is signed in person by Washington and Tehran at the end of the week. However, multiple outlets said they obtained the 14-point memorandum of understanding.

On a Wednesday call with reporters, senior Trump officials read out the terms of the deal, which includes “the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts” and the U.S. committing “to terminate all types of sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran.”

Trump’s deal has also received strong pushback from Senate Republicans, who have advised that giving Tehran access to billions of dollars in economic relief would be a major “blunder.”

The Hill has reached out to the White House for comment.