On Wednesday’s “CNN News Central,” Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) said, “Iran is under some economic pressure right now.” But “we have to cut our losses and go home.”
Moulton said: “[T]their war has been a failure every step of the way. And surprisingly, the Trump administration finally seems to realize this, and that’s why they’ve backed down, why they’ve backed down, why they’re pursuing a deal with Iran. Let’s be clear: it is not Iran that is asking for a deal. It’s the Trump administration. But it’s still the best course of action you can take right now, because escalating it only risks drawing us deeper into it and making it harder for us to back away. And, at this point, we are losing the war. We have to cut our losses and go home.”
He added: “Frankly, we don’t have a lot of leverage, but what we should do is, first of all, start by putting professional negotiators in charge, not Trump’s real estate friends, but people in the State Department who have negotiated with Iran for years, who understand how they work, who understand the levers they can pull behind the scenes to get what they want. Iran is under some economic pressure right now.”
He also stated that to prevent Iran from controlling the Strait of Hormuz, “they need to negotiate a much better deal than the one the Trump administration appears to be proposing here.”
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