Is Trump’s Iran deal any good?
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It's an understanding, an agreement before a deal, and it hasn't been signed yet. But this is the closest Donald Trump has come to ending the Iran war, which in the President's words will see the oil flowing again through the Strait of Hormuz. Today, international relations expert Rajan Menon on whether the ceasefire will halt. I'm Sam Hawley on Gadigal land in Sydney. This is ABC News Daily.
Rajan, Donald Trump, he turned 80 and he got a ceasefire agreement on the same day.
Yes, it was touch and go for a while, Sam, because the Iranians wouldn't say anything and they raised some doubts about whether it would be signed. It's not clear whether that was just to put pressure on Trump to make him look bad or, and there's some indication of this, that there are divisions within Iran itself. over the agreement because some of the hardliners think it gives away too much. But yes, they have said now that they've reached an agreement.
Well, the vice president, JD Vance, speaking on Fox News, he said the agreement will transform the Middle East for decades to come.
If the Iranians comply with his deal, it is going to fundamentally transform the Middle East for the next 50 years. It's going to end the war. It's going to make the Middle East more investable. It's going to mean a lot of prosperity, lower energy prices for the American people.
But as you point out, this is a memorandum of understanding. So it's an agreement before an actual deal, right?
Correct. And I have no idea what Vance means.
What is the significance of the new Iran deal proposed by Trump?
I mean, the White House spin machine is in full gear now. I have no idea what Vance means by transforming the Middle East for years to come because before the war started, the Strait of Hormuz was open and free for shipping. And now Trump has announced, well, I am pleased to authorize the opening of the Straits of Hormuz. He can't authorize anything. It's because the Iranians have agreed to allow shipping through, but they have made it clear, and Trump doesn't mention this, that it will be under the shared authority of Oman, which is on the other side of the Gulf, and Iran. There's some talk of whatever they call it, fee, toll, or what have you. There'll be some fee levied on ships that go in and out.
And that was a degree of control that they never had before and never really thought they would have.
So you think there will be a toll because Donald Trump, he says there won't be a toll.
He says many things which the Iranians then contradict promptly. But they have the advantage of geography and they have the advantage of control. It ends the war. That's a good thing. But there is another big sticking point, namely, the Iranians have set a ceasefire on all fronts. The Iranians want the ceasefire to extend to Lebanon, but the red line is that Beirut, the capital, should not be hit. And today, the Israelis hit a southern suburb called Dahiya, which is a Shiite neighborhood and a kind of bastion of Hezbollah. So if that continues, this could come unstuck. Trump somehow managed, I think, to talk the Iranians down from what they were about to do, which was to engage in a retaliation against Israel.
That could have spun out of control. And then Trump would have had two choices, either to abandon Israel to its own fate, which no president has done in a very long time, or to jump in and help them and have the ceasefire blow up in his face because the Iranians wouldn't have signed it then.
Donald Trump is clearly increasingly frustrated with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, isn't he? He's had some very unkind words, in fact, to say about him.
Well, that's a kind way of putting it. Yeah, he had a very expletive-laced conversation with him.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–2:36
2
What is the significance of the new Iran deal proposed by Trump?
2:36–8:04
3
What concessions did the U.S. make to Iran for the ceasefire?
8:04–12:02
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How might the ceasefire impact the Middle East's geopolitical landscape?
12:02–15:44