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The conservative editorial board of the Wall Street Journal raised questions about a key term included in the Memorandum of Understanding struck by President Donald Trump's administration and the Iranian regime over the weekend.

On Sunday, Trump announced that he had agreed to a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz immediately and for 60 days thereafter, as the administration and the Iranians continue negotiating to end the war. The Strait of Hormuz has been closed since the war began in late February, roiling the global economy and fueling inflation in the U.S.

President Donald Trump didn't just fail to accomplish all his objectives in Iran and damage the U.S. economy, former Republican speechwriter Tim Miller told MS NOW's Chris Hayes on Wednesday — he also left Israel in the lurch, after right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went all in on attaching himself to the U.S. president.

"Something happened, which is that they lost," said Hayes. "The leverage created by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz turned out to be the trump card."

President Donald Trump's administration admitted to Congress that Iran was still directly involved in financing terrorist activity, at exactly the same time the president was planning to give them money, Punchbowl News reported on Wednesday.

According to the report, the State Department "told Congress that Iran’s oil exports are a primary revenue source for the regime’s funding of terrorist activities — just hours after the United States and Iran electronically signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to lift oil sanctions."

CNN host Erin Burnett threw President Donald Trump's previous criticisms of former President Barack Obama's Iran deal back in his face on Wednesday, noting that Trump was now using the same talking points that he rebuked Obama for using.

Trump has described Obama's Iran deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), as giving away too much money to the Iranian regime and not preventing the regime from obtaining or developing a nuclear weapon. Burnett noted that those criticisms sound like an apt description of the deal Trump just signed with the regime over the weekend.

President Donald Trump floored onlookers on Wednesday after he dismissed a reporter's question about the bombing strike on an Iranian girls' school more than three months ago that left about 175 people dead, many of whom were children.

Trump was asked during a press conference at the G7 Summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, whether he would hold anyone in his administration accountable for the strike. Trump's ambivalent reply left some political analysts and observers stunned.

A swing-state senator targeted by President Donald Trump was not impressed with the obscene nickname the president had come up with for him.

Trump launched his new attack on Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) following a closely watched Republican primary runoff on Tuesday night that saw his preferred challenger, Rep. Mike Collins, get the Republican nomination to take him on.

Fox News host Mark Levin criticized President Donald Trump's Memorandum of Understanding with Iran across a series of posts on X, with his sharpest break coming over the deal's soft treatment of Hezbollah.

"On top of this, we do the unthinkable," wrote Levin, a longtime Trump defender who has broken with the president over the agreement. "We capitulate to Iran's demand to protect Hezbollah."

The U.S. may have narrowly avoided a Constitutional crisis after insiders in the Trump administration temporarily thwarted a plan to suspend habeas corpus, but the risks don't end there, one legal expert warned on Wednesday.

Earlier this week, the New York Times reported that White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller and President Donald Trump had cooked up an idea to suspend habeas corpus, the right that requires the government to explain why they have detained someone. The idea was to speed up Trump's deportation operations by arguing that illegal immigration constituted an "invasion" that required the president to enact his emergency powers, according to the report.