On Sunday night, Israelis went to bed expecting to be woken by sirens. The Israeli Air Force had bombed a Hezbollah base in Beirut, and Iranian leaders lined up to promise immediate, dramatic, punishing revenge before dawn.
Instead of a barrage of Iranian missiles, the country woke up to what may be worse news: the Trump administration and the Iranian regime had agreed on a deal.
Yesterday morning, the Iranian news channel Mehr shared what it claimed was in the “Memorandum of Understanding” and it seemed to be more or less correct: the US agrees that Iran gets control of the Strait of Hormuz, in return for Iran agreeing to let ships pass. Iran gets broad sanctions relief, an end to the US naval siege, all their frozen assets back and up to $300 billion in “reconstruction” money. Iran gets almost everything it wants.
Israel says it’s not a party to any US-Iran business and needs to defend its northern border
The US gets basically nothing. There was nothing in the deal on missiles, nothing on the nuclear program. When it comes to Iran’s regional proxies, the US gets less than nothing: the deal explicitly protects Hezbollah in Lebanon.
