Dr. Emma Shortis

And so I think the timing in that sense, we should be fairly sceptical of.

And I think it's entirely possible as well that the Iranian regime has given him this in order to extract further concessions.

Look, I think certainly on balance, Iran has managed to extract a significant amount of concessions from the United States.

Everything we know about this deal so far suggests that it is significantly worse for the United States than the Obama-era JCPOA deal.

And that's true, I think, of the nuclear issue.

Iran will reaffirm its commitment to non-proliferation, which already exists, but any detail around that has been handballed off into a 60-day negotiating process.

And again, I think we should be very sceptical that anything of any substance or any real detail could be negotiated within that period.

But it's also true in other areas.

So, for example, Iranian state media is reporting in their version of this deal that it includes $300 billion in effectively reparations payments for Iran, you know, to pay for reconstruction, which is significantly more money than came with the Obama-era deal.

And that's not even counting what this war has actually cost the United States.

And also around the Strait of Hormuz, you know, there's no indication really that materially the Strait is open.

And again, it says in this, in what we know about this deal, that this will happen under Iranian arrangements.

So the Iranian regime knows that they can maintain effective control of the Strait and have an enormous impact on the global economy there.

So in that sense, I think we have to ask, as we've needed to ask from the very start of this illegal war, what was the point?

What was the point of all this?

And I don't think we can answer that.

There hasn't been an official response from the Israeli government, but we already know that Lebanon is a significant issue in this deal.

It has been, of course, for...

a very long time.

The Iranian regime has insisted that Lebanon is included in the ceasefire agreement.