Pelosi on Trump’s Iran deal: A ‘gift to the Iranians’

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday said Americans “paid the price” for President Trump’s “mistake” in taking military action against Iran, describing the U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding (MOU) as a “real gift to the Iranians.”

“The current occupant of the White House tearing that up and then going forward with an agreement that it fails on every score until the certainty of them not producing a weapon in terms of us now having to come up with our share of $300 billion, lifting sanctions, waivers on their settlement oil,” Pelosi, while attending the opening of the Barack Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, told The Hill’s sister network NewsNation.

“And what did we do?” the former Speaker added. “It cost us over $100 billion. More importantly, it cost us 13 lives. And it cost the average American hundreds and hundreds of dollars at the pump. They paid the price for his mistake.”

She praised the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the Obama administration’s deal with Iran to limit its nuclear program and prevent it from developing a nuclear........

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