Former U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene renewed her public break with President Donald Trump on Monday, saying he “should have stuck with his campaign promise of no more foreign wars,” in a post on X that came hours after Iranian officials declared they would refuse to negotiate with the Trump administration for the remainder of his term.
“Trump should have stuck with his campaign promise of no more foreign wars. It was so simple and so popular,” Greene wrote in a post published at 11:06 a.m. on August 10, 2026.
Greene’s post was a direct reply to a report detailing remarks from Majid Shakeri, an adviser to Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who said Tehran has “completely ruled out any future negotiations with the Trump administration” and intends to “wait out” Trump’s presidency until January 20, 2029. “Trump will not reach an agreement with us. We will accompany him until his term ends,” Shakeri said, according to Iranian outlets. He added that Iran’s strategy going forward would rely on “denial, ambiguity, and strategic patience” rather than open negotiation or continued conflict.
The post Greene responded to also reiterated Iran’s standing conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz: $300 billion in compensation, the release of frozen Iranian assets, and the withdrawal of U.S. forces from the region. Until those terms are met, the post said, “the Strait stays closed.”
A Pattern of Public Dissent
Monday’s post is the latest in a string of statements Greene has made breaking with Trump over his handling of the Iran conflict, which began in February. Greene, who resigned from Congress in January, was once among Trump’s most prominent congressional allies and campaigned extensively for him, but has grown increasingly critical of his foreign policy in the months since the war began.
In June, Greene told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins that members of Trump’s team were “making him look like a fool” by failing to hold him to his own past statements opposing new wars. She pointed to Trump’s remarks to ABC’s Kristen Welker, in which he said, “I didn’t guarantee no war, why would I have built the strongest military in the world,” and countered that ending foreign wars “was a major campaign promise in 2024.”
Greene has also framed the war as a political liability for Republicans heading into the November midterms. In a June interview with NewsNation, she said “many people are very furious and frustrated about this war because it was a key campaign promise in 2024 — no more foreign wars,” and noted that voters were “fed up with inflation” and high gas prices under the previous administration, only to see both climb again under a new conflict.
Earlier this month, Greene shared a photograph on X with fellow conservatives Tucker Carlson, Thomas Massie and Joe Kent, writing that the group had supported Trump “because he made that promise” of no more foreign wars, but that “he’s betrayed us all.”
In March, after Trump authorized what the administration has called Operation Epic Fury against Iran, Greene wrote on X that Trump’s “MAGA agenda included these key promises: NO MORE FOREIGN WARS. NO MORE REGIME CHANGE. WORLD PEACE,” and described the strikes as “a complete bait and switch to please the neocons, warmongers, military industrial complex contracts.”
Iran’s Escalating Demands
Greene’s latest post follows a week of hardening rhetoric out of Tehran. On August 8, Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, issued a formal list of conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran effectively closed after the U.S. and Israel struck the country in February. Zolghadr demanded that the United States lift its naval blockade and sanctions, withdraw military forces from around Iran, pay war reparations, release frozen Iranian assets, and permanently end attacks on Iran’s regional allies. “Until America corrects its behavior, the Strait of Hormuz will not open,” he said in a statement carried by state media.
The demands upended expectations that a separate agreement between Iran and Oman over managing traffic through the strait was close to being finalized, and threw into question the prospect of easing global energy prices ahead of the midterms. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Saturday that Iran and Oman were “very close” to an agreement on the waterway itself, but stressed that any reopening remained “contingent on other conditions, including the United States compensating for its violations” of the June cease-fire, known as the Islamabad Memorandum.
That June cease-fire, brokered by Pakistani mediators, called for reopening the strait and temporarily lifting oil sanctions, but the two sides diverged sharply on its terms. The U.S. backed a shipping route along Oman’s coastline that avoided Iranian waters; Iran responded by warning and striking vessels that used it, and the arrangement collapsed within weeks, prompting Washington to reimpose its naval blockade of Iranian ports.
Trump’s Response
President Trump on Monday rejected Iran’s compensation demand and instead called for Tehran to pay reparations of its own, telling Axios the U.S. was only “semi-negotiating” with Iran and signaling he would let economic pressure continue to build on the country. Trump said he had instructed his representatives to seek compensation “for all of the people” Iran has “killed and gravely wounded with their roadside bombs and many conflicts,” and said compensation should also go to the families of protesters killed by the Iranian government.
Vice President JD Vance, addressing the standoff over the weekend on Fox News, described the U.S. as still in “the middle of the game” on the strait negotiations, focused on setting up a safe traffic scheme for commercial vessels that would include demining efforts and assurances from Iran that it would not fire on ships. He did not detail what, if anything, the U.S. might offer Iran in return, instead arguing Tehran was “hurting in a big way” and wanted the conflict to end.
Toll on Shipping and the Broader Region
The disruption to the Strait of Hormuz has had a measurable effect on global shipping. According to maritime data firm Kpler, just over a dozen ships per day have passed through the strait in the past week, down from an average of roughly 130 daily crossings before the war began. Some vessels have disabled their tracking transponders to avoid detection by American or Iranian forces enforcing rival blockades, complicating efforts to verify traffic levels.
The conflict has also shown signs of spreading. Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen struck the government-held port city of Mocha twice within 24 hours over the weekend, raising concerns the war could expand into the Red Sea shipping corridor as well.
A Wider Rift Within MAGA
Greene is not alone in her criticism. She has aligned herself in recent months with other prominent Trump-aligned figures who have broken with the administration over the war, including Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly and Candace Owens. In May, Greene warned of a potential “political revolution” in the country if Trump continued down the current path, and in an NBC News interview described watching a steady stream of foreign leaders visit the White House while, in her view, Americans’ priorities went unaddressed. “No one cares about the foreign countries,” she told NBC News. “One of the big campaign issues is Americans were fed up with foreign wars.”
As of Monday afternoon, the White House had not issued a direct response to Greene’s latest post. With the Strait of Hormuz still closed, Iran signaling it is prepared to wait out the remainder of Trump’s term, and Republicans facing voters in November, the dispute over the administration’s Iran policy shows no sign of resolving in the near term.