Trump Says the Iran Deal Signs Sunday — and Every Faction Still Has Something to Hate

President Donald Trump announced Saturday, June 13, that a peace agreement between the United States and Iran is scheduled to be signed on Sunday, June 14, with the Strait of Hormuz — one of the world’s most critical oil shipping lanes — set to reopen immediately after. Trump posted on Truth Social: “The Deal is scheduled to get signed tomorrow, and immediately after it is signed, the Hormuz Strait is OPEN TO ALL” [1]. Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, whose government co-brokered the negotiations, said Friday that a deal was “closer than ever before” and expected to be finalized within 24 hours; British Prime Minister Keir Starmer welcomed the progress during a call with Trump on Saturday [2, 3].

Under reported terms, Iran would commit to not enriching uranium for 15 to 20 years and to dismantling its nuclear sites, while the United States would lift oil sanctions, end its naval blockade, and release Iran’s frozen funds — with financial relief staggered over time and tied to compliance milestones [4]. Iran’s state-linked Mehr News Agency described 14 draft provisions, but Tehran said publicly it would “wait and see” on the precise signing date [3]. The deal comes after Trump launched what he called “major combat operations” against Iran in February 2026, involving large-scale joint US-Israeli airstrikes on military and infrastructure sites, followed by a two-week ceasefire in April and failed initial talks in Pakistan before negotiations resumed through Omani channels [4, 5].

Why It Sucks:

Conservatives (Iran Hawks)

• Iran gets relief before the nukes are verified gone. Financial sanctions relief under the deal arrives in stages tied to “compliance milestones,” but the actual dismantlement of Iran’s nuclear sites is a long-term process — and Trump’s own remark about recovering “nuclear dust” at “the appropriate time, when all is calm” signals that the most critical verification step is still deferred indefinitely [1, 4].
• A regime that survived US strikes will rebuild. The Iranian government endured months of US and Israeli strikes on its military and infrastructure and is now set to receive unfrozen assets and sanctions relief; hawks argue that a regime with institutional memory of weapons development will simply reconstitute its nuclear program once Western attention turns elsewhere [4].
• Proxy forces are untouched by any agreement. The reported deal addresses Iran’s nuclear capacity and the Strait of Hormuz but does not appear to require Tehran to dismantle Hezbollah, the Houthis, or other regional proxy forces — leaving Iran’s ability to project military power through surrogates completely intact [3, 5].

Democrats / Progressives

• Trump started the war this deal now ends. Before February 2026, the United States had no active military conflict with Iran; Trump launched airstrikes without a formal Congressional authorization for use of force, creating the very crisis that his deal now claims to resolve — a diplomatic achievement the White House would not have needed without igniting the conflict in the first place [5].
• Thousands died for a deal that could have come earlier. Months of US-Israeli strikes on Iranian military, governmental, and civilian infrastructure resulted in mass casualties and displacement; critics argue that a comparable diplomatic framework was available before the war began, making the human cost of the military path difficult to justify against the terms now being accepted [4, 5].
• Congress was bypassed on war and on peace. Both the decision to bomb Iran and the decision to grant it sanctions relief have been conducted as executive actions; the legislative branch was effectively sidelined on a decision to initiate, fight, and end a major military conflict — setting a precedent that wars can be started and settled without a vote [5].

Iranian Citizens

• Sanctions relief is staggered and conditional — again. Iran has lived through multiple rounds of nuclear diplomacy in which sanctions relief was promised, only to fail to fully materialize or get snapped back by a subsequent US administration; the deal’s “sequenced to compliance” structure means Iranian households will face continued economic hardship while the government proves its commitment to a skeptical Washington [2, 4].
• The country was bombed into the negotiating position. Iranian infrastructure, military installations, and civilian areas were struck repeatedly in a campaign that began in February 2026; for ordinary Iranians, the deal does not undo physical destruction, displacement, or loss of life — it only stops additional rounds of the same [4].
• Nuclear deterrence is surrendered for uncertain guarantees. Under the reported terms, Iran would dismantle its nuclear sites and forgo uranium enrichment for up to 20 years; from the perspective of Iranian security analysts and the public, this removes the country’s primary deterrent against future military strikes, leaving Iran reliant on American assurances that could be reversed by the next US administration with a stroke of the pen [1, 3].

Sources & Citations:

[1] CNBC: Trump says Iran deal will be signed Sunday, Strait of Hormuz to open immediately after
[2] NBC News: U.S.-Iran deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz could be signed within days, both sides say
[3] CBS News: Live Updates: U.S.-Iran peace deal to be signed Sunday, Trump says
[4] Washington Times: What we know about a possible deal to end the Iran war
[5] NPR: U.S. and Iran peace deal within reach, Pakistan’s prime minister says