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Tillis slams emerging Iran deal, offers sharp criticism for Pete Hegseth

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) on Sunday added his voice to other Republicans criticizing an emerging peace deal with Iran, saying he would not support it based on his understanding of what it includes.

“It doesn’t make sense to me,” Tillis said of the deal, arguing it was a mistake to leave nuclear material in Iran.

“I’m not too far away from where Pompeo is to be honest with your and I support what Chairman Wicker says,” Tillis said during an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) are among the current and former office-holders to criticize the emerging deal, which Wicker warned would be a disaster.

The Trump administration has pushed back on the criticism, particularly from Pompeo.

Tillis was also blistering in his criticism of Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth, who he accused of giving bad advice on the war to Trump.

“We were told about 11 weeks about by Hegseth and Department of Defense that they had obliterated Iran’s defenses and it was just a matter of time before we had the nuclear material. Now we are talking about a posture where we may accept the nuclear material remaining in Iran? How does that make sense at all?,” Tillis said.

The deal being discussed between Iran and the U.S. appears to be one that would allow ships carrying oil to move through the Strait of Hormuz. The war has cut off traffic for that route, through which 20 percent of the world’s supply is delivered. That has led to high gas prices in the U.S., which has put greater pressure on Trump in an election year.

Though details on the proposal have been few, it does not appear the 60-day cease fire being discussed would put any limitations on Iran’s nuclear program. Instead, that would be left for future talks. Nuclear material held in Iran would be part of those discussions.

Hegseth questioned having a 60-day ceasefire in which terms of the nuclear deal would be subject to later negotiations, an argument also made by Pompeo, Wicker and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). He also called questionable a deal in which the U.S. would be holding Iran to promise to clear the Strait of Hormuz.

Tillis also said any deal should be ratified by Congress.

Tillis sharply criticized Hegseth.

“When you tell the president that you have obliterated Iran and you’re in a position to pretty much dictate terms, and now you see what we have,” said Hegseth, who argued owns the war given his position as secretary of Defense.

Tillis criticized Hegseth’s handling of the Russian war with Ukraine and troop deployments to Poland.

“When you see these mistakes made by Hegseth, actually, with all these mistakes in total, it’s beginning to make Kristi Noem look like a five-star recruit,” Tillis quipped, referring to the former Homeland Security secretary who was fired by Trump earlier this year amid intense criticism from congressional Republicans.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate...V1&brid=YWdncwE5vr4G31ghxyNRUtXPzYi2

It seems as if some of them are starting to catch on.

In that case I wish you all the best moving forward with your consulting service. AI may help your business be much more profitable and efficient.

I have spent my life adapting my consulting services to fit the market I see, with current technology. Its what I have been doing for 35 years. I dont have a job. I have a consulting service. The reason I am successful is I provide a service that is valuable to my clients. That service has always been changing. Prime example I use to be the autocad expert. I could not do a project in autocad today. I transitioned to being a revit consultant. I will just use AI to make my services more valuable to my clients. I will use AI. it is just a tool. I will decide how to use it to best fit the needs of my clients.

I wish you all the best with that.

It is a small part of my job. It frees up time to do other more productive work. I am not afraid of AI. I will continue to see how I can use it to make me more valuable to my clients.

And that may be exactly what ends up putting you out of a job.

If "thoughts" and prayers meant anything we would no longer have school shootings. I was taught decades ago that actions speak louder than words. NATO has refused to help in a war they do not consider in defense of themseves or their allies. Full stop.


Yet that's exactly what's being done now by the trump administration and was successfully done by the Obama administration. You know, until trump pulled out of the nuclear deal in May of 2018.


I get it. When someone gives you an apples to apples comparison you call it a deflection. That seems to a very popular thing these days.

Once again, they did not have weapons grade uranium and they have zero delivery systems that could reach U.S. shores. It appears Europe doesn't share your views or they would have been supportive. They were not. But you know, according to you getting oil is more important to the than mass nuclear destruction.

I thought people such as yourself were against the U.S. being the world police? Bad for the world as a whole? We watched how a preemptive strike turned out in Iraq based on overly sensationalized fear tactics. Maybe that's how our allies and NATO learned their lesson?

The source is in the link at post #2138225. Then your links were also sources for my argument. You took part of a timeline out of context and ignored the context I provided. What wasn't accurate?

I think comparing Iranian leadership to Trump helps my argument more than yours.

I don't want Trump to have Nukes, either, but he is slightly less likely to use them on the US.

Re: NATO's thoughts: "European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen officially welcomed progress toward an agreement between the U.S. and Iran, emphasizing that any lasting deal must stop Iran's nuclear ambitions and curtail its regional proxy actions." link Unfortunately, the EU is highly dependent on imported oil, so they want the situation resolved as quickly as possible now, and don't want to risk becoming embroiled in a long conflict. Yet, diplomatic agreements won't change the underlying problem of Iran's nuclear ambitions and support of terrorism. The EU sees the big problem, but they are more worried about their short term problem. They want their oil now.

It'd be great if things could be done diplomatically, but some people are just extremists and are willing to lie if it gets them closer to their goals.

Deflect, deflect, deflect. Pointing that Trump is bad all over, doesn't have anything to do with the premise that Iran with nuclear capability is bad for the United States (and our allies, and the world as a whole) and had/has to be stopped.

The animation above was done with pictures of me . I just told chatgp to make me bronze and put into a museum. Then i went to a more sophisticated ai video creation app and made the video with another pic of me and explanation of the scene.

The images below are typical work application. The grey model is in revit an architectural modeling software. This takes a long time. It is a full scale model of what will be built. The color rendering is something that I could spend a day doing. Chatgp did this in a couple minutes.

But you have to admit this is rather humorous in and embarrassing kind of way........

March of 2022 watson was signed by the Browns. They claimed they had their QB of the future and finally had a franchise QB.

March of 2025 Browns co-owner Jimmy Haslam said the team "took a big swing-and-miss" in acquiring QB Deshaun Watson.

May of 2026 watson is #1 on the QB depth chart.

It's as if this team has a bad case of being bipolar.

So just like every other place where you have a large concentration of people in a small area?

Atlanta doesn't even rank in the top 25....................

Most Dangerous Places in the U.S. in 2026-2027

Crime rate can be one of the deciding factors of where families settle down. Based on each city's murder and property crime rates per 100,000 people, determined by FBI crime reports, these are the most dangerous places to live in the United States.

https://realestate.usnews.com/places/rankings/most-dangerous-places

You made a list of assertions with zero sources to present a story with no context. I pointed out the timeline of those events that made it evident that picture you were trying to paint was in no way an accurate one.


You'll have to ask trump how you negotiate with them. He was doing it before he attacked them twice and he is doing it again now. I can show you a very long list of things the U.S. has said they will do that they haven't done either if that makes you feel any better. Or are you saying we can trust trump's word any more than theirs? And allow me to remind you first of what he said on April 17th of this year.................

Trump says Iranians have "agreed to everything," including removal of enriched uranium

Updated on: April 17, 2026 / 4:28 PM EDT / CBS News

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-...g-including-removal-of-enriched-uranium/

You do realize they were still allowing inspections and it was known of their uranium enrichment levels since 2021, right? Is that what you call ""informally" obfuscating and evading for much longer"?


Just because you don't start a war and attack a country doesn't mean you are supporting them. Or is that what you claim all the other nations of NATO are doing? As I said, the world is watching and they aren't lining up to support trump's actions. According to you that must mean they are supporting terrorists?

Meanwhile as Putin is bombing Ukraine.......

What was Iran "doing" other than their conflict with Israel? What exactly do you claim they were "doing" to the U.S when trump attacked them?


You don't mean to tell me they are a nation with a crazy leader who says crazy things are you? Hmmmm, why does that sound so familiar?

But that isn't what was happening. There were still inspections going on through June of 2025 when their nuclear program was bombed. The amount and levels of their uranium enrichment was known. They had no uranium enrichment that could produce weapons grade material. Not to mention they have no long range delivery system that can reach the U.S.

Did you miss the way trump has threatened to take over or annex other nations? To make them the "51'st state"? It appears as though Cuba may be next on his hit list. What excuses are you going to come up with then? He has already drawn up a road map........

The Trump administration's three-phase plan for Venezuela—outlined by Secretary of State Marco Rubio—consists of stabilization, recovery, and transition. The initial stabilization phase is currently underway following the U.S. capture of Nicolás Maduro.

It's odd how some people will look half way around the world to blame others while ignoring what's going on in their own home.

The only re-butting you did was metaphorically once again sticking your head somewhere unpleasant.

Yes, go ahead and start at 1953. I'm curious how you'll try to tie '53 to Trump.

Peaceful resolutions haven't worked. Iran hasn't done what they said they would do. How do you seriously negotiate with a terrorist supporting regime that can't be trusted? They "formally" stopped allowing access in 2025, but have been "informally" obfuscating and evading for much longer, while producing more enriched uranium than they agreed to, at much higher concentrations than they agreed to, all while simultaneously supporting terror groups.

We don't need to watch the people supporting terrorists? We should just let them do whatever?

A core pillar of official state sponsored ideology in Iran is "Death to America." We should just watch as we allow them to work toward a nuclear arsenal?

You sound just like one of those #triggered #snowflakes your kind claims the other side is. You can't man up and debate me so you've decided to be a cheerleader to get others not to do so either. You've got an entire little click like that on here. Maybe if you didn't try to make excuses for some man child all the time you wouldn't be in this situation.

You help elect a man convicted on 34 felony counts, who a jury found libel for sexually assaulting a woman, who was paying a porn star hush money for having sex with her while his wife was at home with heir small child, who pardoned people who assaulted over 100 police officers and now wants to give them cash rewards for their crimes.

That is all simply disgusting! I remember a time when you were a man who stood on principals. Who was for law and order. Who was for personal responsibility. trump got you to sell your values down the river for him. Don't blame me for that. I just point it out.

That sound more like a you problem.


They certainly can read. They can see as well. That's the part you are having trouble understanding. The entire globe can see. And we can see their reaction because they aren't desperate to make excuses for the actions of the U.S.


Wow! You really do need help don't you?

I watched this and was fascinated.

I rebutted the points you made with factual information you can't deny. If you wish to take the timeline all the way back to 1953 we can do that. But don' try to do what a lot of people have been trying to do and pretend the timeline started in 1979.

What I'm blaming someone for is creating a war that was not needed at the time. Not seriously negotiating a peaceful resolution first. You know, like normal world leaders do. Instead they would negotiate all week and say, "We'll see you back here Monday" and then bomb them over the week-end. They did that twice.

But please, do go on.

Just because Pit keeps arguing doesn't mean that he hasn't figured out he's wrong. Plus, other people read, too, and leaving his BS up unaddressed for others to potentially believe seems wrong.

Wasting time is relative. Posting on message boards in general could be seen as a waste of time. But, kind of like journaling, formulating arguments in text helps me clarify how I feel about things in my own mind. Rather than stewing on it alone, posting gives some sort of psychological relief. (And as enraging as his posts can be there's something borderline addicting in the strong feelings he can bring out as someone whose emotions are generally blunted.)

In case you missed it, the head of the biggest scam program in Minneapolis is a white woman. The people involved are being investigated, convicted and sent to prison for their crimes.

The slush fund is being used to reward people who have committed crimes.

What the hell is wrong with you that you can't see the difference?

I don't agree with giving rioters tax dollars that should stay in the pockets of the people who actually made the $. But I have less of an issue of Americans receiving the $ vs Somalians scamming our system and receiving the $.

I agree. There is no way he's NOT on the 53 this year barring another injury. I just hope that IF he's the starter it's because he is heads and shoulders above whomever else is there. Otherwise I'm going with a/the guy that 'might' be on the team for '27.

What does it have to do with baseball?

If you dislike Atlanta don't go there.

Don't waste your time.

You can probably take it in all ways, but primarily traffic, sprawl, crime.