Matt Frei
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 17 Aug
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Well, I think first of all, I'd like to quote a seasoned Iran observer, Ali Vaez, who said, this stops the bleeding, but it doesn't heal the wound.
And I think it's very important to understand that this is a memorandum of understanding.
It is not a full peace deal.
It is the starter course for the main course, which is still to come.
it only extends the ceasefire by 60 days although that might well trickle into longer time the iranians would have every interest in trying to spin this out and as perhaps the americans as well and then within the compromise agreement you have the iranians will not pursue a nuclear weapon uh they uh will open the strait of hormuz without charging ships at all in return they will get a gradual release of funds which have been frozen by the west
which they desperately need for their economy so there are incentives built in on both sides but the trust between both sides has been eroded by this war the iranians have realized that they have an enormous amount of leverage over the world trade uh through the strait of our moves they have tasted that and they've rather liked it and remember that inside iran
even though the americans are saying that this is you know a massive concession from the iranians and that they've won this war inside iran the government the regime the rump regime is battling voices from the hard line as we're saying this is outright capitulation we should never agree to any of this we should carry on charging uh ships in the state of hormuz and holding the world economy in a stranglehold so it it it's better than it was
But ultimately, we're kind of back to where we were in 2015 with the Obama agreement.
They have bombed an awful lot and killed quite a few people in order to get back to a status quo that we had before.
Well, we don't know how many facilities have been damaged.
I mean, some of them would have been, but they will be working very hard to get that up and running as quickly as possible.
Crucially, according to the memorandum of understanding, sanctions against Iran selling oil have been lifted by the Americans.
So this is a very important revenue stream that will come on board.
Remember, Iran needs the money desperately, as Lee said.
They're running between 75% and 84% inflation.
uh it was inflation and economic trouble that led to the uprising at the beginning of the war in which thousands of people perhaps as many as 10 000 or more people protesters were killed on the streets of tehran and of course this agreement leaves a whole number of really important questions you mentioned one of them will israel which is not a signatory to the memorandum of understanding
abide by it, or will they, as has happened in recent weeks, happened just yesterday, will they start bombing Beirut or southern Lebanon again, indeed, or continue occupying it because of the threat posed by Hezbollah to them?
This is something that has got Donald Trump incensed in the past.
triggering a whole string of expletives from him against his supposedly best friend Prime Minister Netanyahu.
I am not sure whether the Israelis will abide by that and they're not obliged to abide by it according to the memorandum of understanding.
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