Gerry Arthurs

It's very stark and it's telling the Israelis what many people internationally have been saying to them

but very few in the United States have articulated.

Now, at the moment, there are still exchanges of fire in the territory of Lebanon itself.

And we're not sure whether these are just the, if you like, the dying embers of the conflict because they have agreed a ceasefire or whether or not this is a deliberate provocation by the Israelis hoping that they'll get a response that will scupper the deal.

Now, the situation that President Trump finds himself in with oil prices and therefore prices at the pump very high in the United States and that contributing to inflation.

I mean, he said famously a week and a half ago, I love inflation.

I mean, what kind of a daft thing it was to say and a red rag to many of the Republicans who don't want to have to fight on that particular plank.

So all of this is a desperate attempt to get prices at the pump down in time for the midterms.

Absolutely.

In terms of his own political support, they tend to watch television and follow social media in an echo chamber.

They only follow the people who are going to say what they want to hear.

But even news media like Fox News are challenged by this deal in trying to pretend that it's something that is good for America.

Now, it's very interesting when you think of the Obama deal, which was the original cessation of nuclear development by Iran, which was scuppered by Trump once he was elected to the White House for his first term.

No matter what emerges from this, it will be compared to the Obama deal, will it not?

But this had to be comprehensive.

It was comprehensive because it had international agreement.

The International Atomic Agency were going to be involved in all of this to make sure the Iranians didn't misbehave.

And it would appear that until Trump scuppered it, that they weren't misbehaving.

Now, there's a lot of talk about the money that will be forthcoming.

And Vance and Trump himself have said not one American dollar is going to be paid to the Iranians.