White House Aides Blast Pompeo, Cruz Over Iran Deal Criticism as Trump Pursues 1 Peace Push
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Updated · Fox News · May 24
White House Aides Blast Pompeo, Cruz Over Iran Deal Criticism as Trump Pursues 1 Peace Push
4 articles · Updated · Fox News · May 24
Steven Cheung, Sebastian Gorka and Alex Bruesewitz publicly attacked Mike Pompeo and Ted Cruz after both warned a possible Trump-Iran deal could amount to appeasement.
Pompeo said the floated terms resembled the Obama-era playbook and urged a harder line, while Cruz warned Iran could gain billions of dollars, uranium enrichment and leverage over the Strait of Hormuz.
Gorka escalated the clash by saying Pompeo had no authorized knowledge of secret talks and suggesting any such information would have been illegally shared.
The dispute exposed resistance on Trump’s right flank even as he pressed regional calls and late-stage diplomacy aimed at a peace and denuclearization agreement with Iran.
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