Even Fox News is panning JD Vance's Iran clean-up act

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Even Fox News is panning JD Vance’s Iran clean-up act
MAGA media is attacking the administration's deal with Iran — and the vice president is the primary target

By Sophia Tesfaye
Senior Writer
Published June 22, 2026 1:40PM (EDT)


(Salon) We have arrived at a moment where the vice president of the United States is accusing Fox News contributors of carrying water for Tehran, and those same contributors are blasting a deal agreed to by the president they support, with one calling it “Hillbilly Obama foreign policy.”

After four months of a grinding, costly military conflict with Iran, the White House’s sudden pivot toward an economic and diplomatic settlement has triggered a highly public fracture within the conservative media ecosystem. For years, the loudest voices in right-wing media could be counted on for one reliable reflex: a demand for more American military aggression in the Middle East. Now the Trump-Vance administration is currently trapped in a political crisis of its own making, caught between the hard realities of international diplomacy and the unyielding demands of a right-wing media apparatus it spent a decade making more extreme.

At the center of this firestorm is JD Vance. The talk-radio hosts and MAGA-aligned commentators who spent years demanding a scorched-earth policy toward Tehran are now turning their weapons toward the vice president, openly mocking and condemning what they view as his historic capitulation. Meanwhile, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced Monday that the U.S. had issued a “temporary 60-day general license authorizing the production, delivery, and sale of Iranian oil,” stripping decades of U.S. sanctions policy in one fell swoop. Today, the administration is struggling to explain a glaring contradiction: why a regime that warranted a full-scale military campaign four months ago now suddenly deserves massive economic incentives and frozen asset releases, even though its fundamental regional ambitions remain entirely unchanged.

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Instead of receiving a hero’s welcome for securing a diplomatic breakthrough, Vance has become a lightning rod for the right’s collective fury after Trump spent years escalating tensions before launching a military campaign that was sold to the public as necessary to stop an existential threat. ....................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2026/06/22/even-fox-news-is-panning-jd-vances-iran-clean-up-act/

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1. So Trump/Vance are bragging that they negotiated the same terms Trump ripped up and gave even more?