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Since it was announced on Sunday that the U.S. and Iran had struck a peace deal, experts have found no shortage of shortcomings in the agreement. Now, reporters and Republican lawmakers are pointing out that confusing aspects of the deal may not only provide Iran with a major gift, but represent a major betrayal of President Donald Trump\u2019s own much-vaunted policies regarding the adversary. <\/p>\n

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This is according to Punchbowl News senior congressional reporter Andrew Desiderio in response to an assertion by Politico senior foreign affairs correspondent Nahl Toosi. After listening in on Trump officials\u2019 call regarding the Iran deal, Toosi declared<\/u> he was \u201cin some ways more confused now than before.\u201d He went on to list several aspects of the call that didn\u2019t add up, but one point stood out in particular. <\/p>\n

As he explained<\/u>, \u201cThey do not seem to have a good grasp of U.S. sanctions law. They laid out the possibility of a $300 billion investment fund for Iran. And one said at one point that \u2018the sanctions relief is not tied specifically to any particular conduct. It’s tied generally to them behaving more appropriately, and obviously the thing that we care the most about is the nuclear program.\u2019 But sanctions are specific to particular conduct.\u201d<\/p>\n

In other words, Trump officials claim that, in order to pay Iran $300 billion \u2014 the legality of which depends on the reduction of sanctions \u2014 it is going to relieve sanctions based on the vague concept of good behavior rather than specific actions. This is a problem, however, because the sanctions \u2014 which were set in place by Congress \u2014 are tied to specific actions. So the White House\u2019s claims in this regard are either illegal or nonsensical. <\/p>\n

And according to Desiderio<\/u>, it gets even more muddled as \u201cmany Republicans have pointed out to me that this type of sanctions relief likely requires the IRGC to be de-listed as a terrorist organization under U.S. law. As someone who covered the Rob Malley-led Senate briefings in 2022, not even the [former President Joe] Biden admin was willing to do this.\u201d<\/p>\n

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This refers to the Islamic Republican Guard Corps, the nation\u2019s top military body, which has been listed as a terror group since Trump deemed it so in 2019. Such a designation raises restrictions on what kind of resources can be provided to it. For Trump to backtrack on this policy \u2014 a move his administration bragged about vocally<\/u> at the time \u2014 not only suggests the failure of his foreign policy, but opens the Iranian regime to trade and support it\u2019s been denied for nearly a decade while lending it greater political legitimacy. <\/p>\n

The harms raised by de-listing the IRGC as a terror group are so widely understood that, as Desiderio noted, not even Biden \u2014 who overturned huge swaths of Trump\u2019s foreign policy \u2014 would make the change. Furthermore, this move would not only clash with U.S. allies in the EU \u2014 which declared the IRGC a terrorist organization after it massacred somewhere between 6,000 and 35,000 protesters in January \u2014 but also contradict one of the administration\u2019s other many suggested justifications for the war: protecting the Iranian people from its government. <\/p>\n

And as Toosi noted, there were several other contradictions revealed in the White House call. As he explained, \u201cThey seemed to act as if the US had won this confrontation, whereas the Iranians seem to think they have the upper hand.\u201d Officials asserted that troops would remain in the region en masse even though the deal calls for reductions. And they suggested that the new Iranian leadership was eager to give up nuclear capabilities, claiming that it was the previous Supreme Leader who had held up such a plan, which is the opposite of what most analysts believe. Then there was their seeming total ignorance regarding the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), otherwise known as the Iran Nuclear Deal, which Obama struck, then Trump tanked. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey said \u2018one of the really cool things and interesting things about this entire process is that we actually have a direct relationship with a number of people at the highest levels of the Iranian government. That really hasn’t happened in 47 years of our relationship with Iran,’\u201d posted Toosi. \u201cThis is not a huge thing, but it suggests they haven’t really done their research on US-Iran relations. (See: JCPOA talks.)…Why do I suspect they haven’t really studied the JCPOA and Iran-US history? Because of statements like this: \u2018If you go back to the JCPOA, the Supreme Leader just doesn’t sign these agreements.\u2019 But nobody signed the JCPOA. It was a political arrangement, not a signed accord.\u201d<\/p>\n

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