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President Donald Trump threatened to fold The New York Times' Iran war reporting into his existing $15 billion defamation lawsuit against the paper, calling the coverage "treasonous" — a charge carrying a maximum penalty of death under U.S.
law — while the sharper debate inside his own party centered on the deal's financial terms: a planned $300 billion Iranian asset unfreeze and a 60-day oil sanctions waiver estimated to generate roughly $10 billion in Iranian crude revenue.
Iran Deal's Financial Fault Lines The agreement drew Republican criticism less for its military outcomes than for its economic concessions.
GOP senators were particularly vocal about two terms: the planned release of $300 billion in frozen Iranian assets and the 60-day oil sanctions waiver already in effect, a window that could allow Tehran to earn approximately $10 billion from open-market crude sales.
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