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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

Anger among Iranian hardliners at terms of deal agreed with US

A woman in a black headscarf walks past a billboard displaying Iran's national flag in a mosaic-style pattern in Tehran’s Enghelab Square
‘The majority of the Iranian people support the regime’s will for the agreement,’ the Khorosan newspaper claimed. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Iranian hardliners have mounted a rearguard rejection of a deal with the US as as they say it does not guarantee sanctions relief, compensation or control of the strait of Hormuz.

“The fact that they say we won and America has retreated is a blatant lie,” said the Iranian MP Kamran Ghazanfari. Meysam Nili, the managing director of Rajanews and brother-in-law of the hardline former president Ebrahim Raisi, called the deal on the table a catastrophic capitulation. He urged Iranians not to sit quietly.

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