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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Kenneth Axl

Why Lawmakers on Both Sides of the Aisle Are Calling Donald Trump's Iran Deal a 'Political Disaster'

Why Lawmakers on Both Sides of the Aisle Are Calling Donald Trump's Iran Deal a 'Political Disaster' (Credit: The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Donald Trump's tentative Iran deal was thrown into fresh turmoil on Friday in Washington and the Gulf, after Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps declared the Strait of Hormuz would remain closed, defying a central term of the agreement the president signed in Versailles earlier this week.

The public rebuke from Tehran left the Trump Iran deal looking shaky just as US lawmakers from both parties were already sharpening their attacks and branding the accord a 'political disaster.'

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