Mohammad Ali Shabani

And I think just when the US and Iran were on the cusp of signing this MOU, the Israelis launched this attack on Beirut, probably calculating, probably knowing that

Iran is going to hit back.

And Iran that night was loading its missiles.

The launchers were being loaded, and it was on that level, apparently.

And they managed through the direct intervention of Trump, a number of concessions by the United States come to an agreement, and they did not fire anything on Israel that night.

So that kind of gambit by Netanyahu seems to have backfired in the sense that some of these concessions that you outlined, including Lebanon specifically, appear to have been a direct result

of this kind of gambit by Netanyahu, trying to goad Iran into attacking and then for him to then strike back at Iran, obviously, get that dynamic going and kind of try to derail Iran-US diplomacy.

That's the kind of essence of the dynamic there.

I think another thing he attempted with that operation by hitting Beirut was to say, essentially what he's doing now, that

Hezbollah is for us a national security issue.

It's got nothing to do with the United States.

Anything you sign with Iran is not going to apply to us.

We're not going to pay attention to that.

And he has a right to do that.

He's the leader of Israel.

He's the leader of a different country.

But then he needs to also accept that there's going to be costs for that.

Israel's ability to fight this war relies a lot on the United States.

If he doesn't want the U.S.

involved in any kind of diplomacy to do with Israel or the region, then it would be difficult for him to argue that you need to give me all the possible support