Mohammad Ali Shabani

political support, military support, having actual US forces stations inside Israel, operating missile defense, et cetera, things like that.

So it's putting him in an awkward position.

Having said that, I think what we need to really keep in mind, again, I hate to be repetitive, that this is a MOU.

It's not a final deal.

There are a lot of negotiations ahead.

There are a lot of heated reactions right now to a lot of the provisions in there.

What we need to just try to keep in mind, again, is that this story, this episode about how this language about Lebanon was inserted there, it holds an important lesson.

that maybe on the previous US administrations, Israel was quite adept at playing the White House, frankly, to try to kind of threaten something and get something out of them.

And now Iran is kind of doing the opposite, right?

And it's interesting that just yesterday, I think the day before, Hillary Clinton went out and essentially said that the Israelis doing her term as Secretary of State, you know, they used to do this kind of stuff all the time, saying that we're going to attack Iran.

We have planes on the tarmac.

And she would just say, you know, you guys go ahead.

And it'd be interesting if Trump were to do the same thing now after this incident in Beirut.

If Netanyahu is to say, no, I don't care what you guys are going to do.

I'm going to go ahead and bomb Beirut.

And what if Trump just says, go ahead?

Yeah, be our guest.

We have reports saying that Hezbollah apparently has been informed by the Iranians that a final deal, again, keep in mind, this is not the final deal, this is MOU, the final deal with

with the United States will entail an Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.

And that's where the language about territorial integrity and sovereignty come in.