Trita Parsi

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The Young Turks · New Greene Party - August 3, 2026 · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

The issue is that Lev Israel failed to defeat Lebanon or is uh Hezbollah at the time, and as a result, there wasn't a war.

Between Israel, the United States, and Iran back in 2006.

In fact, I remember the US military was actually very disappointed in the performance of the Israelis.

There was a war, however, in 2024, 2025, 2026, precisely because at that time Hezbollah had been dramatically weakened, particularly after the September 2024 pager attacks against Hezbollah.

So the Iranian sea.

Hezbollah as one of the guarantors that Israel will not attack them again.

So as a result, any peace deal that allows the Israelis to occupy um

Lebanon, southern Lebanon, or defeat Hezbollah is going to be a suicidal thing for the Iranians to sign in their minds because it will only enable Israel to down the road attack Iran again.

So re-establishing that type of a presence in southern Lebanon as a deterrence against Israel, I think is uh uh, you know, the Iranians will not accept anything unless that gets achieved.

And it was in the MOU.

This is one of the things that was quite surprising with.

The MOU that the Iranian line that there cannot be a ceasefire unless it is region-wide, meaning not only

That the US or that Israel will not attack Hezbollah or Hezbollah will not attack Israel, but also that Iran will not attack Israel.

Unless it's region wide, there's nothing to sign.

And this was actually adopted by the Trump administration.

Both Vance and Trump on a couple of occasions essentially said we want something that is region wide, otherwise, it will not work.

This is what absolutely infuriated the Israelis because it meant, in their view, and they're not wrong, the United States, for the first time, had accepted southern Lebanon essentially as a sphere of influence of Iran.

And that the Iranians would have a say in what happens there, which is, you know, again, one of those.

Uh, outcomes of this war that is exactly the opposite of what the Israelis and the Trump administration wanted.

So I think if this issue of the strait is resolved and we move towards the nuclear issue, we still have this other, even perhaps more difficult issue, which is the region, uh region-wide ceasefire.

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