by Michael Snyder, End Of The American Dream:
There seems to be a tremendous amount of confusion about what has just transpired. The United States and Iran have not agreed to a permanent peace deal. What the United States and Iran have agreed to is a 60 day ceasefire extension and the beginning of a 60 day period of negotiations regarding Iran’s nuclear program. This “memorandum of understanding” essentially puts us into a position that is very similar to where we were just prior to the start of the war. Before the war began traffic through the Strait of Hormuz was flowing normally, there was no U.S. naval blockade, and we were engaged in complicated negotiations regarding Iran’s nuclear program. The “memorandum of understanding” gets us back to that point, but it also gives the Iranians a bonus of having $25,000,000,000 in frozen assets released. So we are all the way back to square one with Iran, the only difference being that now the Iranian regime has access to a whole lot more money.
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The Iranian nuclear program was the main reason we went to war, and nothing has been resolved on that front.
All of the really sticky issues are still there.
So I don’t understand why everyone is so excited.
In the end, the Iranians are never going to agree to do what the United States and Israel want them to do.
And now since the Iranians will have an extra 25 billion dollars to play around with, they will have much less incentive to compromise.
But at least for today, the world is rejoicing.
Just a little while ago, the Iranians confirmed that they have agreed to the final text of the memorandum of understanding…
Iran’s deputy foreign minister Kazem Ghribabadi said the immediate and permanent end of the war and military operations on multiple fronts, including Lebanon, will be announced starting tonight.
He added that negotiations on a final agreement between Tehran and Washington would take place over a 60-day period.
“The text of the memorandum of understanding will be published shortly, and the public will be able to see Iran’s achievements and commitments,” he said. “Our commitments are not comparable to our gains.”
Everybody is so giddy about this.
But if the original ceasefire didn’t stop the fighting, why should we believe that a 60 day extension of that ceasefire will stop the fighting?
Everyone has been violating the original ceasefire over and over again.
For example, in recent days Hezbollah has just kept firing rockets into northern Israel. In response, the IDF hit more than 70 different Hezbollah targets in Lebanon on Saturday…
The Israel Defense Forces on Saturday said it struck over 70 Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon, targeting rocket launchers and buildings allegedly used by the terror group to advance attacks, after the army issued evacuation warnings for over 20 locations.
The military added that it killed several Hezbollah operatives identified in areas of southern Lebanon where troops were operating.
Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reported airstrikes in several areas covered by the evacuation warnings, including the villages of Rihan and Sujud, located not far from the city of Nabatieh, which is considered to be a Hezbollah stronghold.
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