New Delhi, June 19 -- Troubles are mounting for US President Donald Trump over his interim Iran peace deal. For the last four months, his administration has faced questions about the rationale for waging war on Iran alongside Israel in late February - a conflict that drove up gasoline prices. On Thursday (local time), the preliminary agreement he signed in Versailles, France, drew scathing criticism from his own Republican party.

According to a Reuters report, several Republican senators and pro‑Republican commentators openly questioned the deal, which Trump signed on Wednesday night while attending the Group of Seven (G7) leaders' dinner hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron. As copies of the memorandum of understanding circu...