Matt Frei

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The Claire Byrne Show · Trump confirms deal with Tehran · 15 Jun 2026 podcast

And then the other issue of course is regime change.

Remember this whole thing started

At the very beginning of the year, when Donald Trump said, help is on its way to the protesters on the streets of Tehran and 16 other cities, we will help you out to get rid of these ghastly ayatollahs after 47 years of their stranglehold on you.

And that is not a whisper about that anywhere, obviously.

And the regime can rightly say, look, we are still in charge.

We still have a pulse.

We are actually more hardline.

We've discovered the power that we hold over Iran.

our geography and the Strait of Hormuz and therefore the world economy, we can still fire missiles at our neighbors in the Gulf who are also extremely nervous about this agreement because they're at the receiving end of that Iranian ire.

So I think, as Lee said, as I think we both agree, there are many, many questions here that need to be answered and they could all be either lost in the next few months.

and there could be a resumption of fighting.

You just don't know.

However, we're in a better place today, or certainly will be on Friday if this thing is signed, which we assume it will be, than we were a week ago.

Well, I think, I mean, he was clearly very frustrated because here was the deal that he so desperately needed.

And Israel's interest in this war diverged.

They regard the 28th of February war as unfinished business.

They were hoping for regime change.

That's one of the reasons why they got involved at the very beginning with the assassination of the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

But they're also beholden to Donald Trump.

And what we don't know is what red lines did Trump throw down to the Israelis?

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