'This is defeat': MS NOW says Trump just made Iran 'more radical, more enraged and richer'
MS NOW's Joe Scarborough dumped cold water on an agreement President Donald Trump has reached to end his war in Iran.Iranian officials confirmed an agreement has been finalized, and Trump has said Strait of Hormuz will reopen Friday once the deal has been signed, but the "Morning Joe" host slammed the president for starting the war in the first place and questioned what had been gained in relation to the steep cost."Everybody around these talks believe that 60 days in, they're going to start charging tolls, and then you look at the sanctions relief they're going to get, which, again, the Trump administration, as you know, constantly berated Joe Biden's administration for lifting sanctions against Iran from time to time," Scarborough said. "They're going to do it, and we have talk of reconstruction. If Iran behaves well down the road, I mean ... and again, the devil's in the details. We're really glad there's a possibility that this war, which should have never started, comes to an end.""But let's just tell it like it is, whether if people want to be lied to, go to another channel because I can tell you which channel to go to," Scarborough added. "They will be lying through your teeth to you right now telling you how wonderful this is. But if you want to know the truth of what's happening right here, the fact is, people in the neighborhood around Iran have every reason to be scared to death right now because this is a more radical, a more enraged and soon to be richer Iran thanks to this war."Co-host Jonathan Lemire agreed and echoed Scarborough's comments. "Yeah, well, tell it like it is," Lemire agreed. "This is a defeat for the United States. Iran is stronger now than they were at the beginning of the war. We heard, how often [have] we heard not just President Trump complaining about the sanctions relief that the Biden administration gave Iran, but think about how the pallets of cash that he would blast the Obama team for sending Tehran, that's going to be dwarfed by the amount of money that's likely going there now on the Strait of Hormuz. Not only is A., after 60 days, Iran has indicated they believe they'll charge for tolls, but B., despite President Trump's celebration last night about the strait being open and free for everyone to use. That obviously, that's temporary, but also it already was before the war. That was the status quo that's how things existed. He made things worse.""We now have a hardline regime, embittered and certainly no reason to ever trust the United States again because we keep bombing them during the midst of negotiations," Lemire added. "Let's think about the cost here, not just the billions upon billions in terms of dollars the United States spent, but also the lives lost civilians, including a girls school and the first hours of the war. This is a significant you know, the United States looks significantly weaker right now in that region than before, and Iran's ability to close the Strait of Hormuz and hit its neighbors seems, you know, unchecked." - YouTube youtu.be
