A senior House Democrat tore into the emerging U.S.-Iran peace framework, calling it a net loss for the United States that fails to justify the cost of the war.

Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) spoke out Saturday after President Trump announced that a peace framework would be signed Sunday, with the Strait of Hormuz set to reopen to all shipping immediately upon signing.

“This is a terrible deal,” Moulton told MSNBC. “It’s basically a surrender document from Donald Trump to the Supreme Leader of Iran.”

Moulton, who sits on the House Armed Services Committee, argued that the planned agreement offers Iran significant concessions in exchange for reopening the Strait of Hormuz while leaving key questions about Tehran’s nuclear program unresolved.

“$100 billion of taxpayer money already put into this war, 14 Americans dead, and we get a deal that just reopens a strait that was already open before he started this stupid war,” Moulton said.

He also raised concerns about the financial terms of the agreement, noting reports of roughly $24 billion in unfrozen Iranian assets. “When Obama unfroze just $1.7 billion, Trump and MAGA said that was treason. Now we’re giving Iran $24 billion to just start negotiations about the nuclear situation?” he said.

Moulton characterized the overall agreement as a loss on every front. “This is just lose, lose, lose across the board for Trump and the United States of America,” he said.

Despite his harsh assessment, Moulton stopped short of opposing any deal outright. “Stopping this war and getting out of it is the best that we can do at this point,” he said. “And so that’s why we are still hoping for a deal, even though we have to admit it’s a losing deal for America.”

Moulton also noted that the president has teased imminent Iran deals “countless times” before. “It really sounds like Donald Trump wants a deal,” he said. “It sounds like the Iranians are pretty content dragging out negotiations because guess what? They have a stranglehold on the world economy by closing the strait.”

Moulton was not alone in his skepticism. Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said the pattern of announcements itself tells a story. “Every time the President talks about how eager Iran is for a deal, it’s basically a reveal, that he’s talking about his own eagerness for a deal,” Schiff said. “All I can say is I hope that he has more to show for it than an Iranian promise not to develop a bomb. That is something that we could never rely on in the past.”

According to a U.S. official, the emerging agreement involves a 60-day ceasefire extension, during which the Strait of Hormuz would be reopened and Iran would be permitted to freely sell oil, with negotiations on curbing Iran’s nuclear program to follow.

Iran’s government offered a conflicting timeline on when any signing would take place. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei told Iran’s Tasnim News Agency that a signing “will not be tomorrow,” while adding that “the possibility that it will happen in the coming days is not ruled out.” He cautioned that “due to the other party’s instability, we must be cautious about any statements regarding this process.”

Pakistan, which has served as a mediator in the negotiations, said the U.S. and Iran are “closer to a peace deal than ever before,” with Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar saying the electronic signing ceremony was scheduled for Sunday.

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