Susan Rice defines the agreement signed with Iran as “the biggest national security mistake in decades”
Susan Rice, former national security adviser, describes the memorandum of understanding negotiated with Iran as “a staggering and horrendous surrender document”
Susan Rice, former national security advisor, joined the voices of well-known figures in US politics who consider the memorandum of understanding negotiated by the US government with the Islamic Republic to officially end the war as a serious mistake.
The key points of the document signed by President Donald Trump in Versailles are mainly summarized in: conclude the war and avoid future military actions and hostilities, not intervene in the internal affairs of both nations, establish a period of up to 60 days to reach a definitive agreement, lift naval restrictions and reduce its military presence in the area, allow vessel traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, promote a development program for Iran with an estimated financing of 300 billion dollars, eliminate the sanctions imposed on Iran and reaffirm the commitment of the Islamic Republic to completely renounce its nuclear program.
However, from the perspective of the Democrat who served as National Security Advisor in the Obama administration from 2013 to 2017, the memo for the United States represents “the biggest national security mistake in decades.”
"This is a staggering and horrendous surrender document, including hundreds of billions in reparations. It is the foreseeable result of incompetent negotiation and the reckless strategic catastrophe of starting and prolonging this disastrous war," he wrote on platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
In contrast, Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense, supported the work carried out by Donald Trump, first allegedly to dismantle the Iranian arsenal and then guaranteeing the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.
"This deal was reached after months of bombing and an impenetrable blockade. Iran was forced to come to the negotiating table and commit to this, and what President Trump has made clear from the beginning, as has the War Department, is that Iran cannot have nuclear weapons.
If, within the time frame provided for in these talks, Iran does not do what it says it is going to do: renounce nuclear weapons, abandon its nuclear ambitions, hand over its nuclear material and close nuclear facilities. In that case, the War Department is here and prepared,” he emphasized during a meeting with the press.