Trita Parsi

They got the worst rhetoric from Trump.

They got efforts to, you know, assassinate leaders inside the countries and the weapons.

There's nothing on the wish list of these warmongers that have not been tried.

And it has failed miserably.

Yet they're in a panic over the fact that their miserable failure is now going to be abandoned and they're going to go in a different direction.

But in that context, for him to be able to say, look, I'm doing it because all of these regional leaders are asking me to do this, is very important, not just to be able to show the regional anchoring of this, but also to be able to deflect of the criticism that invariable become, which is you abandoned Israel.

Well, perhaps Israel had abandoned the United States by manipulating the United States into this war in the first place.

But nevertheless, Israel is not the only country in the region that the United States has some form of a partnership with.

And it cannot be the only country that counts.

And he's there listing all of these different countries that are telling him to go in this direction, seek a peace, put an end to this conflict, because it's devastating for the entire region and for the global economy.

So all of this, I think, in and of itself was showing this is much more serious than the previous instances.

And then we do have confirmation, both from some of these leaders in the region, as well as from the Iranians, that something is very imminent.

I think the main problems are going to come in the second phase, because if we take a look at what this memorandum of understanding ultimately does, it really brings us back to where we were supposed to be when the first ceasefire was struck.

It was supposed to be regional.

Lebanon was supposed to be included.

There was not supposed to be a blockade of the blockade.

The strait was going to be open, but it will be under Iranian control for that moment.

So we're going back to where we were supposed to be before FDD sold Trump on this idea of a blockade of the blockade, which then created all of these additional problems and further weakened the U.S.

's position.

And then we have now, but on top of that, there's two other things.