House Speaker Mike Johnson resorted to verbal gymnastics as he was put on the spot over President Donald Trump’s extraordinary concessions in his deal with Iran.
Johnson was long a critic of President Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal with Iran and applauded Trump for abandoning the deal and imposing sanctions on the country during his first term in 2018.
But the Republican leader has found himself in a bind after Trump, desperate to end his war with Iran, struck a peace deal with the country’s regime that has lifted sanctions on Iranian oil for the first time in decades and paves the way for the eventual removal of all sanctions.
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