Sen. Bill Cassidy, the Louisiana Republican whose re-election bid Trump killed, was criticizing a leaked draft of the plan as ‘not a very good plan” even before the White House unveiled the official one. By Wednesday afternoon, his assessment was even more withering. “Before the war, the strait was open, Iran was being crushed by sanctions, and 13 service members were still alive. Now, 13 Americans are dead, families have paid billions at the pump, sanctions will be lifted, and the bombing has stopped,” he wrote on social media. “This is the worst foreign policy blunder in decades.”
Reacting to the early leaks, Nikki Haley, Trump’s former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, who ran for President in 2024 on a largely tough-on-Iran platform, urged skepticism that the emerging deal would leave Trump in a stronger position. “If this is true, Iran wins,” Haley wrote on social media on Tuesday. (The issue she was referring to—that the agreement would immediately allow Iran to begin exporting crude oil again—are in the official text.)
