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Doubt Over the Iran Peace Deal and US-Iran Negotiations

Monday, May 25, 2026
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Doubt Over the Iran Peace Deal and US-Iran Negotiations

Trump’s Republican allies in the Senate are starting to seriously doubt the whole peace deal with Iran. This came hours after the President claimed Washington wasn't rushing anything, even though negotiations are clearly still happening.

Earlier, Trump was talking about this Iran deal. He said it was “largely negotiated.” He insisted it would be a “good and proper one” for his administration. He even made it sound very different from that 2015 nuclear aGreement with Obama.

But the details are messy. Reports floating around suggest US and Iranian officials have been talking about extending the ceasefire by sixty days. That would mean reopening the Strait of Hormuz, and the US would pull back its naval blockade. That’s the core idea, at least.

Then you have the sticking points. US officials claim Iran would get rid of its highly enriched uranium. Tehran, though, says that part needs to be negotiated later. That gap is huge.

Senator Thorn Tillis, one of the voices pushing back, told CNN it just doesn’t make sense to him. He called Iran’s promise to open the Strait of Hormuz “questionable” unless a real peace deal is actually finalized. He said there are just “a lot of things that need to be explained.”

Roger Wicker, the guy chairing the Senate Armed Services Committee, posted something on social media. He basically said a 60-day ceasefire, assuming Iran would actually be good faith, would just be a disaster.

Even some of Trump’s own side—the closest allies—are starting to feel uneasy about this peace talk. Lindsey Graham, who’s always been a big supporter of the war against Iran, said striking a deal now would look like the US was admitting Iran was a dominant force. That, he argued, would be a “disaster for Israel.”

Trump shot back at those critics, naturally. He called any deal he’d negotiate “good and proper.” He threw shade, saying the criticism was coming from “losers, who are critical about something they know nothing about.”

The President had been optimistic about some interim framework to stop the fighting, but the White House later clarified that big issues were still hanging over everything.

And the blockade? It’s still there. The US naval restriction on Iranian shipping around the Strait of Hormuz remains fully in place until some formal aGreement is actually signed. That blockade started way back in April 2026, and it’s severely limited what Iran can move through those key ports. It’s a very real constraint.

Written by Gree News Team — Senior Editorial Board

Gree News Team covers international news and global affairs at Gree News. Our collective of senior editors is dedicated to providing independent, accurate, and responsible journalism for a global audience.

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