WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he was willing to send his interim deal to end the war with Iran for review by the US Congress, as lawmakers, including many of his fellow Republicans, said they were largely in the dark about the pact.

The US-Iran agreement, announced on Sunday, would extend a tenuous ceasefire announced in April by another 60 days and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a major shipping route effectively blocked since the US and Israel launched the war against Iran on February 28, according to officials from both countries.

But the details remain unclear and the text of the pact has not been released or sent to Congress, though there have been leaked reports of its purported terms.

Trump also insisted on Tuesday that Iran would abandon its nuclear weapons program. Iran has long maintained that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, though it has enriched uranium to levels that have no peaceful application, while regularly threatening to flatten Israeli cities.

Democrats have questioned Trump’s latest promise of a peace deal.

“We’ve been told dozens of times that the war is over and dozens of times we’ve been disappointed,” Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York said as he opened the Senate session on Tuesday.

“It’s been two days since Trump claimed he had reached an ‘understanding’ with Iran and he still hasn’t released any details… about what it actually is,” Schumer said.

Schumer called on the Trump administration to hold a classified briefing for Congress’s “Gang of Eight,”........

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