Mohammad Ali Shabani

So if I were to outline anything that's very important about this MOU, it's the number one

It's not a final deal, and it outlines 60 days for negotiations on things like the nuclear program.

But apart from that, the provisions within the MOU, which have stirred a lot of contention, include things like the extent of the Iran-US ceasefire.

So this is a document between Iran and the United States.

There are no other signatories to this apart from Pakistan as the mediator.

And it does say essentially that this truce or this cessation of hostilities extends to their allies, their respected allies in this war.

And that's very important because that means essentially Israel is a party to this document, even though Israel hasn't been in the negotiations, Israel didn't sign this.

And one of the provisions in paragraph one, for instance, is that Lebanon's territorial integrity and sovereignty must be ensured.

And that, for instance, fighting extends to, for instance, Lebanon as well.

And this is going to be one big test, I think, for this MOU, one of the initial tests, which is Israel is going to adhere to paragraph one.

It can argue that, for instance, that this still has nothing to do with us.

We didn't sign this document, and we're not going to put up with it.

And that's going to be a big problem for Trump, I think.

How is he going to deal with that, especially with the domestic political firestorm he's facing right now for having agreed to the ceremony?

So that's just one of many points that I would raise.

So, you know, we reported a couple of days ago on this provision in paragraph one that got to do with Lebanon specifically.

It's about the, again, ensuring the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Lebanon.

And the Iranian side kind of insisted that they had managed to get that language in there as a direct result of the Israeli attack on Beirut.

So just as a kind of quick backdrop, Iran had put out a red line saying that any Israeli attack on the Lebanese capital would warrant a direct response from Iran against Israel.

This kind of triangular pattern.