Vice President JD Vance pushed back Saturday on criticism that the deal signed between President Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian would hand Tehran economic benefits without requiring meaningful changes in the terror-sponsoring nation's behavior.In a morning interview on "Fox & Friends," Vance brushed aside concerns raised by Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and other Republicans who say Iran could eventually use the memorandum of understanding's economic incentives to rebuild its military and nuclear programs.The MOU is meant to serve as a framework for a long-term peace agreement."I like Roger, he's a friend of mine, but I think that he's wrong on this," Vance said.
"What the MOU says is that if the Iranians behave over a long period of time, they could get some of the benefits of this bargain."Critics on both sides of the aisle have charged that the agreement signed earlier this week misses key objectives for the United States, including the dismantling of Iran’s nuclear weapons capabilities and enriched uranium stockpiles, limits on its ballistic missile program and a requirement that Tehran end its support for regional proxy groups such as Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis.Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Sen.JD Vance joined family members at Ground Zero in New York City on Sept.
11, 2024, to honor victims of the Sept.11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
(Michael M.Santiago/Getty Images)TRUMP'S IRAN DEAL 'GIVING A LOT MORE TO GET A LOT LESS' THAN OBAMA'S, SENATOR SAYSWicker claimed that the 60-day ceasefire agreement set forth in the MOU undermines the United States' victories in Operation Epic Fury "in ways that are completely out of step with the president’s goals.""Specifically, the $300 billion fund for the reconstruction and economic development of Iran – though not funded by U.S.
taxpayers – would make Iran’s payoff under President Obama’s 2015 deal look like a pittance by compa...