Influential conservative commentator John Podhoretz has joined the wave of criticism of the emerging US-Iran agreement, calling it 'bad, bad, bad' — worse than the 2015 JCPOA and worse than the terms advanced by the Biden or Obama administrations, according to Israeli journalist Ariel Kahana (Israel Hayom). Criticism is mounting in Republican media as well, Kahana reports.
Conservative commentator John Podhoretz, a prominent voice in American conservative thought and former editor of Commentary magazine, sharply criticized the emerging US-Iran agreement in remarks relayed by Ariel Kahana (Israel Hayom) on Tuesday. According to the report, Podhoretz described the deal as 'bad, bad, bad' — worse than the 2015 JCPOA and surpassing even the proposals of the Biden and Obama administrations, which he had also opposed.
The criticism from Podhoretz adds a high-profile voice to a developing chorus of conservative skepticism aimed at the Trump-era nuclear negotiations. Kahana notes that the critique is growing within Republican media as well, with Podhoretz reportedly far from alone at the upper echelons of conservative opinion in holding this view.
The remarks align with a broader pattern of bipartisan and cross-factional criticism of the deal, as previously documented by The Zioneer. Over the past week, Israeli opposition figures including Naftali Bennett and Ehud Barak have described the accord as dangerous or 'shocking' for Israel, and a senior Israeli official told Israeli media that the deal is 'shocking' and met with uniform opposition across Israel's security establishment. The deal's exact terms remain officially undisclosed by the Trump administration.
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