President Donald Trump discusses U.S. military operations in Iran in the Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., April 6, 2026.(Evan Vucci/Reuters)
The extremism of the reaction to an announced "memorandum of understanding" between the U.S. and Iran has been something to watch. Rumors of $300 billion that Gulf states might invest in postwar Iran, if it meets certain criteria, were immediately misinterpreted. Marjorie Taylor Greene put a post up on X that subtly implied but did not outright say that this $300 billion was direct foreign aid — pallets of American cash.
The fact is that many Iran hawks are committed to a view that the Iranian regime cannot be bargained with at all, that it must be removed. No deal would ...
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