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Trump’s Iran deal secrecy was atrocious — and Vance’s dodging made it worse

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Why didn’t President Donald Trump initially want to share the full text of the framework agreement between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran?

The first reason is obvious: the memorandum of understanding is a capitulation to the clerics of the regime.

The second reason is also a scandal.

“I don’t, frankly, fully understand it, but there are sensitivities that exist in the Arab and Muslim world that we’re trying to be responsive to,” a coy JD Vance told podcaster Megyn Kelly this week.

But the vice president, who helped negotiate the framework, added that the “Iranians, Pakistanis and Qataris asked us to sequence this in the right way.”

It’s disgraceful that the administration was taking direction from the radical clerics of Iran and the Pakistani military dictatorship on the “right way” to share a “peace agreement” with the American people.

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When it comes to Europeans, Vance always gets a thrill out of playing the tough guy, lecturing them on free speech........

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