{"id":1881,"date":"2026-06-19T04:11:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T04:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=1881"},"modified":"2026-06-19T04:11:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T04:11:51","slug":"its-not-the-same-thing-anchor-grills-gop-lawmaker-over-support-of-iran-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=1881","title":{"rendered":"‘It\u2019s not the same thing’: Anchor grills GOP lawmaker over support of Iran deal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins took Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) to task over his support of President Donald Trump\u2019s widely panned Memorandum of Understanding, forcing him to defend several of the plan’s more outrageous points.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMy point of view is that we have to give peace a chance to get done,\u201d Moreno told Collins. \u201cWe have absolutely not made Iran stronger. We’ve killed almost 80 of their top leaders. We’ve destroyed their army, their navy, their ballistic missile program. Like I said, they are absolutely in a dramatically worse position as a result of president Trump’s actions. And he prevented them from actually using a nuclear weapon that they could have cobbled together.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c[But] this deal lets them have waivers,\u201d Collins pointed out. \u201cThey can start selling oil tonight. Eventually it will potentially unfreeze billions of dollars, hundreds of billions of dollars in frozen assets. Iran is still a state sponsor of terrorism, according to the United States. Do you have an issue with the U.S. doing things that allows them to have money to potentially rebuild all of those things that you just mentioned?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat’s the alternative, Kaitlan?” Moreno demanded. “What would you want the president to do? Allow them to have built a nuclear weapon?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat’s a question for some Republicans, too, it sounds like,\u201d said Collins, referring to many GOP critics who find the deal offensive. She also pointed out that Iran now stands \u201cmake more money because they’re selling it at competitive market prices to buyers with more attractive currencies.\u201d<\/p>\n

She also reminded Moreno that he said in April that money from Iran\u2019s oil sales doesn’t \u201cgo to the people. It goes to a corrupt leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAren’t you worried that corrupt leadership is now going to get tens of billions of dollars from these sales?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYeah, but we’ll be watching exactly what they do with the money,\u201d said Moreno.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the president pledged not to get involved in their domestic affairs in the MOU that he signed,\u201d Collins quickly countered, to which Moreno could only repeat: \u201cWe’re going to make certain that they behave, and they do exactly what they need to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moreno then made a comparison to Trump\u2019s intervention in Venezuela, saying Trump \u201csaved Latin America,\u201d and promised \u201cyou\u2019re gonna see that happen in Cuba.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not the same thing. You can\u2019t really compare the two,\u201d said Collins, before then asking Moreno about the plight of the Iranian people. <\/p>\n

\u201c[Trump] told that Iranian people that this was their chance to rise up and take back their government. Their government is being run by the former leader\u2019s son. Do you think that they have been left hung out to dry here?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLook, I don’t know what’s going to happen there,\u201d said Moreno. \u201cAgain. We don’t know.\u201d<\/p>\n

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