US official criticises Iran deal hardliners in Washington

US official criticises Iran deal hardliners in Washington A senior US official has criticised “hardliners” in Washington who oppose the agreement reached with Iran, accusing them of treating Iranian state-linked messaging as fact when it suits their argument. “One thing that I found to be the most comical is that you have a lot of people who are the hardliners [in the US] who say you can’t trust the Iranians — that they’re always going to lie. And then they take all the stuff put out in the IRGC channels as gospel,” the official told reporters during a briefing on the Iran deal.