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Posted on 05/23/2026 8:59:58 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Key Senate Republicans are raising concerns about a reported peace deal being negotiated with Iran, arguing it would be a disaster for the United States that would make meaningless the war launched by President Trump nearly three months ago.
“The rumored 60-day ceasefire — with the belief that Iran will ever engage in good faith — would be a disaster,” Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, wrote in a post on social platform X.
He said the effects of the joint military operation between the U.S. and Israel titled “Operation Epic Fury” would “be for naught” if the deal as he understood it went forward.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a close ally of President Trump who for years has pushed for U.S. military action against the Iranian regime, said a premature deal could fundamentally shift the balance of power in the Middle East in Iran’s favor.
“If a deal is struck to end the Iranian conflict because it is believed that the Strait of Hormuz cannot be protected from Iranian terrorism and Iran still possesses the capability to destroy major Gulf oil infrastructure, then Iran will be perceived as being a dominate force requiring a diplomatic solution,” Graham wrote Saturday in a post on X.
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Senator Ted Cruz expressed the same.
Go ahead and throw stones if you will, but we MUST have a true victory in Iran, or it has been a waste of time and energy!!
Something isn't right with President Trump. He is being snookered. This is the way forever wars start.
Factually, the only way to deal with those who practice taqiyya, is to obliterate them.
If limp-wristed Lindsey is against it, you know it’s a good idea.
The only hope is that this was done with this week’s Hajj in mind, to avoid any incidents happening during it.
Old Trump besides being bamboozled and full of crap as I think he has lost his nerve.
You may be right. The Hajj is that important on several levels that the Saudis may be insisting on a temporary truce just to get past it.
I have been saying, though, that if this ends with IRGC still in power it will have been a failure. I have to believe they came into this with a plan to bring them down.
same thing I thought.
Apparently the blockade is working, so why cave now to the nuclear material? That issue should be #1 on the deal. Period.
For once Linda says something right
Trump has lost his nerve And his mind go along with it if this is true
Yep.
Trump and Netanyahu need to finish the job so the Iranian people can take back their country and regain their freedom. Don’t be fooled, Iranian Islamists cannot be trusted thus world and Middle East peace is not possible unless and or until they are totally destroyed. It’s not rocket science.
November is coming up shortly...no way we'll keep Congress with the war still going on in Iran.
Somebody’s getting primaried...
Shortly? 60 days of more blockade and a good deal, instead of a maybe....that’s only August 1st. Those voting will reward the victory.
Iran is trying to run out the clock, know our weaknesses. The election, as you say, and overall distain for high gas prices.
It’s really a matter of who can outlast the other. I think an IRGC without income will collapse first.
At the two-week point, Trump demanded an “unconditional surrender” from Iran. That sounded good, but Iran is a country the size of Alaska with a population of 90 million people. It was never going to be that easy.
That’s my best clue that it will be a good deal if Wicker and Graham are lining up against it.
No kidding
Me agreeing with Linda and Wicker is extremely uncommon
Wicker is my home state
Feckless
It’s an asymmetric war. The only thing the asymmetric participants have to do to win is not die. Iran is 2.5 time the size of both Texas and Afghanistan, and it is 53% mountain fortress. Good luck killing them all.
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