{"id":3705,"date":"2026-05-29T11:35:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T08:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/moulton-biden-admin-negotiating-unconditional-surrender-to-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T11:35:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T08:35:32","slug":"moulton-biden-admin-negotiating-unconditional-surrender-to-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/moulton-biden-admin-negotiating-unconditional-surrender-to-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Moulton: Biden Admin Negotiating &#8216;Unconditional Surrender to Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Massachusetts congressman made the remarks during an appearance on CNN, where he accused the administration of pursuing what amounts to America&#8217;s unconditional surrender to the Islamic Republic, according to <em>Breitbart News<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Seth Moulton<\/strong> did not mince words in his assessment of the negotiations, declaring that <em>this is not a deal. It&#8217;s a surrender document<\/em>. He argued that President Trump initiated military confrontation with Iran without a coherent strategy for victory or resolution, and is now backing down from his initial demands for Iran&#8217;s unconditional surrender.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrat lawmaker described the situation as a total loss for American interests. He contended that Trump had called for Iran&#8217;s complete capitulation but now appears to be offering America&#8217;s own unconditional surrender instead.<\/p>\n<p>When pressed by CNN guest host Kate Bolduan on whether a flawed agreement might still be preferable to no agreement at all, Moulton acknowledged that despite its shortcomings, some deal remains necessary. He explained that absent a full-scale invasion and occupation of Iran\u2014which would require approximately 300,000 American troops to control a nation double the size and population of Iraq\u2014negotiation represents the only viable path forward.<\/p>\n<p>Moulton took a swipe at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, suggesting that even the former Army Ranger would not support such a massive military commitment. He insisted that diplomatic engagement at the negotiating table constitutes the sole realistic alternative, though he maintained that the administration is failing even in those discussions.<\/p>\n<p>The congressman further criticized Trump by suggesting the president&#8217;s best hope now is to salvage some version of the nuclear agreement originally negotiated by the Obama administration\u2014the very deal Trump withdrew from during his first term in office.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><em>With information from <a href=\"https:\/\/breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breitbart News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Representative Seth Moulton criticized Trump&#8217;s Iran policy as capitulation, calling the proposed agreement a surrender document rather than a diplomatic achievement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[3875,96,2511,277,3507,1326,209],"nfg_topic":[135],"class_list":["post-3705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-foreign-policy","tag-iran","tag-nuclear-negotiations","tag-operation-in-iran","tag-seth-moulton","tag-trump-administration","tag-united-states","nfg_topic-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3705"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=3705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}