Trita Parsi

More importantly, though,

When you take a look at all the different world leaders that he consulted with before coming to this conclusion, it's very important because it shows, I mean, what he's trying to do over here is to say, look, we're doing this in tandem with a lot of these different world leaders.

And it is true.

Many of them have been pushing very hard for this.

Some of them have played a crucial role in the background to mediate this compromise that is being reached.

Pakistan and Qatar in particular in the later phases of this.

But it also gives them a certain degree of protection here in Washington.

We saw the massive meltdown of warmongers last night when this was first announced.

And even before it was announced, when they were getting

noticed that this was coming.

They were, you know, they were just in a public panic.

And this is despite the fact that they got two wars.

They got every conceivable sanction in place.

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.