Pence rips Trump’s Iran deal: ‘A plan to make a plan’

Former Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday tore into President Trump’s tentative deal between the U.S. and Iran as he deemed the agreement to be a “plan to make a plan.”

Pence started an op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal by commending Trump for “acting decisively” by launching a military campaign against Iran. He wrote that all Americans should welcome peace, as nobody “wants another prolonged war in the Middle East, despite the flippant accusations from isolationists on the populist right.”

“But the memorandum of understanding with Iran signed last week falls well short of what is required to end the Iranian threat. It smacks of the kind of appeasement the president rightly rejected during our first term,” Pence continued. “It isn’t the deal a defeated Iran should be getting. It isn’t even a deal—it’s a plan to make a plan.”

Pence wrote that the 14-point memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the U.S. and Iran does not “capitalize” on the debilitated state of Iran’s military capabilities as a result of the conflict.

But he said it was “most troubling” that the MOU does not require Iran........

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