Biden adviser: Iran deal ‘may be the best of the very bad outcomes’

Former national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Friday blasted the Trump administration’s approach to negotiating with Iran but said the tentative deal that U.S. officials are considering may be their best option left.

Sullivan, who helped negotiate the Obama administration’s 2015 Iran nuclear deal, said in an interview on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe” that he thinks President Trump is looking seriously at the deal because “he does not have a good alternative.”

“He tried to bomb Iran, he tried to blockade Iran, he tried to bully Iran, and he is stuck,” Sullivan said. “So, this may be the best of the very bad outcomes available to him, and it just shows you what a misbegotten war this was from the beginning.”

The tentative deal, first reported by Axios on Thursday, would be a 60-day memorandum of understanding (MOU) to extend the fragile ceasefire and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which would begin to relieve the........

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