{"id":87778,"date":"2026-06-18T07:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opinionpublica.tv\/portada\/?p=87778"},"modified":"2026-06-18T07:41:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:41:01","slug":"trumps-deal-with-iran-opens-new-rifts-in-g-o-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.opinionpublica.tv\/portada\/trumps-deal-with-iran-opens-new-rifts-in-g-o-p\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s deal with Iran opens new rifts in G.O.P."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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President Trump\u2019s agreement with Iran opened new fissures in his party on Wednesday, with Republicans on Capitol Hill and beyond questioning whether his administration had secured adequate concessions from Iranian leaders after months of a costly and unpopular war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the Trump administration released the text of the arrangement on Wednesday, some Senate Republicans reacted with fierce criticism, skepticism and alarm. Prominent members of the G.O.P.\u2019s old guard from outside Congress also sounded dubious notes. And even some of the president\u2019s allies in the conservative news media voiced concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cReagan is rolling over in his grave,\u201d Senator Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican who lost in a primary last month after Mr. Trump targeted him for defeat, wrote on social media. He said that Iran\u2019s nuclear ambitions \u201cwere not curbed\u201d and that the country had learned that it could leverage the Strait of Hormuz, the oil shipping corridor that has been closed during the war and is set to reopen under the deal, to extract concessions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reactions underscore a challenge Mr. Trump faces five months ahead of the midterm elections, as he works to free Republicans from the political albatross of the war while navigating varying views about it within his own party. While Mr. Trump has won praise for the deal from some Republican allies, consolidating support in a party with competing factions is proving to be a difficult task.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the start of the conflict, Mr. Trump angered some \u201cAmerica First\u201d isolationists within the Make America Great Again movement who felt he was breaking his promise of starting \u201cno new wars.\u201d Now, as he tries to bring an end to the fighting, he is facing pushback from more traditional conservatives who wonder if he has struck a deal that will ultimately be better than the one President Barack Obama reached with Iran a decade ago. (Mr. Trump pulled the United States out of that framework in 2018.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The preliminary agreement would lift sanctions on Iran and release billions of dollars in frozen Iranian assets. It would push talks about Iran\u2019s nuclear program into a 60-day negotiation period that could be extended by \u201cmutual consent.\u201d And it states that the United States and its regional partners would develop a $300 billion reconstruction plan for Iran. Some Republicans have said they were nervous about the prospect of such a fund; Mr. Trump on Wednesday insisted that the United States would not invest in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIs it giving $300 billion to the Iranian ayatollah?\u201d Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, asked on his podcast. \u201cI hope not. I pray not,\u201d he said, even as he praised Mr. Trump\u2019s decision to take the United States to war, saying the president had \u201cutterly destroyed the Iranian military.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of the most vocal criticism came from Republicans who have been pushed to the margins of the party by Mr. Trump. Senator Thom Tillis, a North Carolina Republican who is retiring, said there was \u201ca lot of work to be done to convince me that we\u2019re on the right path.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican who was once one of Mr. Trump\u2019s most vocal supporters but has since broken with him, criticized the president in a video on social media for what she called a \u201ctotally unnecessary\u201d war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis, apparently, is what winning looks like,\u201d Ms. Greene said, sarcastically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nikki Haley, who served as U.N. ambassador in Mr. Trump\u2019s first administration and lost to him in the 2024 Republican presidential race, wrote on social media that \u201cHitting Iran\u2019s nuclear and missile sites was the right move.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But she added: \u201cIt\u2019s a huge mistake to pay to rebuild the threat we just destroyed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pushback has also shown up in other settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Wednesday morning, the front page of The New York Post offered a critical view of the administration. \u201cTrump devastated Iran, now he hits them with a \u2026 LOVEBOMB,\u201d the right-leaning tabloid\u2019s front page blared, above an image of a burning American flag and text saying that Mr. Trump\u2019s deal showered Iran\u2019s leaders with \u201ccash \u2014 and no sanctions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mark Levin, who hosts a Fox News program, said he found \u201cmuch to be concerned about\u201d in the agreement and wanted to see it amended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Trump attacked critics of the deal on Wednesday, calling them \u201cstupid and bad people,\u201d and declared that he had the support of the international community. He said carrying on the war would have \u201csatisfied a group of 10 percent of the people,\u201d but would have \u201cbeen the wrong thing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere are some people, some writers, that I thought were friends of mine, but I don\u2019t want them as friends anymore,\u201d the president said of his critics as he addressed reporters at the Group of 7 summit in France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Trump has shifted his objectives for the war with Iran over time, and some critics appeared to be holding him to the goals he set in launching strikes on Iran in late February, including changing its regime, eliminating Iran as a global threat and stopping its nuclear program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the same time, many Republicans were eager to move on from the conflict before what could be a challenging election for their party. Republican operatives say their party\u2019s performance in November will depend heavily on whether energy prices fall in the coming months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe lower the gas prices are in November, the better Republicans will do,\u201d said Corry Bliss, a Republican strategist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The price of a gallon of gasoline is up nearly a dollar over last year\u2019s, according to the AAA motor club. And energy prices overall are up 23.5 percent from a year earlier, according to the Consumer Price Index.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Democrats have invested in advertisements pinning higher costs at the pump on the conflict. Republican lawmakers in swing districts had said for weeks that they were eager to see a swift end to the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some Republicans on Capitol Hill have hailed the deal as a significant achievement. Senator Tim Scott, the South Carolina Republican who leads the Senate Republicans\u2019 campaign arm, said on social media earlier this week that Mr. Trump had secured a \u201cmajor victory for American security and global stability.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senator John Cornyn, a Texas Republican who recently lost a primary to a Trump-backed rival, took a more measured position, saying the president \u201cshould be congratulated for degrading their capability of waging war against the West and Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s just an intermission in the continuing conflict that\u2019s been going on since 1979, and I wish we would, basically, incapacitate them, but that hasn\u2019t been possible,\u201d he told reporters on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina who had long pushed for the United States to strike Iran, was initially skeptical about the deal when Mr. Trump announced it on Sunday without disclosing details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am somewhat concerned that Iran\u2019s view of the agreement seems different than what the American negotiating team is claiming,\u201d Mr. Graham said Sunday on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Wednesday, he expressed some degree of optimism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhether or not the United States can reach an acceptable, verifiable deal with Iran regarding its nuclear program and other issues is yet to be determined,\u201d he wrote on social media, \u201cbut I see little downside to trying.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n