Ben Shapiro

Okay, how about terrorism?

Now, again, the United States has a large scale interest in all these things.

In Iran, a terror state that hates America in the West, not developing a nuke, not developing ballistic missiles to threaten us, our allies, and say vital waterways like the Strait of Hormuz.

and in preventing terrorism.

Because it turns out, if you wish to touch off a regional war, the easiest way to do it in the Middle East is to activate a terror group, typically an Iranian terror group like Hamas or Hezbollah or the Houthis or Iranian-backed militias in Iraq.

There are zero provisions in this document that touch support for terrorism.

None.

Zero.

In fact, the only provision that theoretically touches on anything terrorism-related

is being interpreted by the Iranians to bar the Israelis from taking on a terrorist group.

So in other words, that would be a concession from the United States to the terror group Hezbollah, according to the Iranians, to tell its own ally, again, the allies that were flying in the skies with us, bombing Tehran, like weeks ago.

It is a concession to a group of people who were firing explosive-laden drones at American helicopters last week

that no one should touch their terror friends.

According to Article 1, this is literally the first thing in the agreement, quote, the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States, together with their allies in the current war, that would include Saudi, UAE, and of course Israel, none of whom are signatories to this deal, by the way.

declare upon the signing of this memorandum of understanding an immediate and permanent end to the war on all fronts, including Lebanon, and undertake that from now on, they will not launch any hostile action against each other and will refrain from the threat or use of force against each other.

The final agreement will confirm the provisions of this article and the remaining articles.

The Iranians are claiming that what this means is that essentially Hezbollah wins.

Hezbollah gets to control Lebanon and Hezbollah gets to fire on Israel without any sort of actual retaliation.

That is what Iran is claiming.

Now, Mike Huckabee, the ambassador to Israel, says that's not true.