So all the anonymous officials saying Lebanon wasn’t in the deal yesterday were lying. What else were they lying about? Release the deal.

Has anyone yet written the complete history of how Pride went from a vibrant counterculture to a civil rights movement to a sort of unofficial corporate-sponsored state religion whose observance is subsidized by taxpayer dollars and sometimes compelled by law

hoping this is not the document

Total BS, Iran never got US tax dollars, not even under Obama; it was their money. Iran will get $300 Billion to rebuild its terror infrastructure. This is what counts, and everything else is spin.

🚨N12: Israel asked to see the MOU of the Iran deal and was refused.

Why NY's pied-à-terre tax could leave entire co-ops on hook for massive bills: 'Whole building suffers' trib.al/uFpOu9B

Jolani’s forces have slaughtered Christians in Syria as part of an ethnic cleansing. Lebanon is still 35% Christian. I don’t even know what Trump thinks he means here.

🚨 Trump is downplaying getting Iran's enriched uranium: "You could make the case, why even bother? It’s not very valuable stuff.”

⭕ The IRGC is now “rational people,” the same IRGC that has been killing Americans for 47 years and killed 42,000 Iranians in less than a month, and still executing Iranian demonstrators are “rational people ". …SMH

I agree that this is mind-boggling and casts doubt on any sophisticated analysis anyone might do regarding Trump's plans in the region.

A Coalition of 44 Countries have signed on to a resolution requesting that the United States attack them also. Because they could use the money.

When Marco Rubio is silent and JD Vance is all over the media, you know bad things are happening

The three things Iran would count as victories: 1. Controlling the Strait 2. Restricting Israeli freedom of action in Lebanon 3. Receiving money upfront. They're getting all three, judging from what has leaked. 1. Iran won't impose a toll on Strait traffic for 60 days -- which is another way of saying Iran controls the Strait for 60 days. 2. Israel can respond to Hezbollah only in "self-defense," but not go after leadership, etc. See Trump's comment today at the G7. 3. "Small gesture(s)," Jared called the money upfront on the background call, to build trust.

“What we know is this agreement is going to make Israel safer, it’s going to make the entire region safer,” Vice President JD Vance told NBC News, adding that he “feels confident” Israel will join the U.S.-Iran deal “further down the road.” It is difficult to share Vance’s confidence when the rest of the cabinet has remained entirely silent on the matter. Though that isn’t entirely true. According to Axios’s Barak Ravid, CIA Director John Ratcliffe told Donald Trump and other senior officials that evidence gathered by U.S. intelligence agencies raises serious doubts about Iran’s willingness to make the nuclear concessions the U.S. is seeking in any final deal. He was joined by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, both of whom expressed concerns and raised questions about the memorandum of understanding—while Vance and the White House’s Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, advocated for it. I’ll try to sprinkle in some optimism and sweeten this bitter pill. But first, we should go through the details as they appear so far. Vance says the deal runs “about a page and a half.” That’s not a lot of room for an American victory—especially once you fit in all those Iranian concessions. Let’s look at what has been conceded so far: Just a week ago, Trump declared there was absolutely no way he would release frozen assets before a comprehensive peace deal was signed. Yet by Iran’s account, the regime gets a significant signing bonus the moment the ink is dry. “The agreement says they are not getting a single dime of American money,” Vance insisted on Fox—reassuring, I’m sure, for American taxpayers, but a strange thing to stress, since he’s calming a concern no one raised. The money in question was never America’s; it’s Iran’s own frozen assets. The administration insists they’ll be released only as Iran complies with the deal, but given how compliant the U.S. has been to Tehran’s demands so far, I don’t see it holding the line on a few billion the moment Iran threatens to walk. Trump also stated he would not agree to any arrangement that doesn’t include dismantling Iran’s proxies and halting their terrorism. No such language seems to appear anywhere in the MOU. In place of any written commitment to dismember the Axis of Resistance, the Americans simply claim the funds headed to the regime will be kept strictly out of terrorist hands. After all, the White House assured everyone, the bulk of the money is expected “to go into spending that improves the economy” they are under “intense pressure to deliver results at home”—whoops, that was Obama in 2015. Silly me. But we needn’t reach back that far: this is the oldest trick in the Hamas playbook—insisting Qatari or humanitarian aid serves purely legitimate, benevolent civilian needs, when in reality it just frees up other capital for far more nefarious ends. Trump also once insisted on the destruction of all Iranian nuclear facilities and zero uranium enrichment. Now he has told The New York Times that Iran would be permitted low-level enrichment—meaning “zero enrichment” won’t even make it to the negotiating table. The agreement reportedly requires Iran to “open” the strait. Vice President JD Vance asserts this means open and “toll-free” for the long term. Iranian officials and state media, however, claim they will merely pause fees for sixty days, but plan to resume charging “service fees” after that period, and maintain that keeping the strait “open” implies keeping it under Iranian and Omani management. Israel is far from thrilled with this deal—just ask the markets. On Wall Street, the signs of peace sent the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite up about 795 points, a three percent jump and its best day in months. In Tel Aviv, the mood was the opposite: as global markets rallied, the benchmark TA-35 slid roughly 1.3 percent, with banks and insurers falling harder still—local investors reading the agreement as more likely to bring war than peace. As Netanyahu told me yesterday: “You can stretch the rope with the Americans, but you must not tear it.” Israel can’t do much about the U.S.’s Iran policy—but it can still shape facts on the ground in Lebanon. In a public statement congratulating Iran on its diplomatic victory, Hezbollah noted that the deal includes a comprehensive ceasefire across all fronts, and framed it pointedly as “a prelude to completing the liberation” of Lebanon. Hezbollah continues to insist on a maximalist condition for any truce: the complete withdrawal of the IDF from southern Lebanon. One Hezbollah official told Reuters outright that the group rejects any IDF “freedom of movement” inside Lebanese territory, and Iranian media has amplified this line heavily, implying that an IDF withdrawal is built into the U.S.-Iran deal. U.S. officials, however, tell a different story: a senior official indicated that Israel will hold its current front lines—far forward of where they stood on the eve of the war—and retains the right to respond if attacked. That leaves a single point of contention: whether Israel may act preemptively against an emerging threat. By “emerging threat,” I mean spotting a weapons depot under construction or rockets being moved from place to place. In terms Israelis know all too well: are we back to the October 6 paradigm, watching them arm themselves and doing nothing? That remains to be seen. Here is the silver lining, thin though it is. The Iranian people took to the streets over a horrific economic crisis at the end of 2025 and early 2026. Since then, their economy has deteriorated even further, suffering at least $300 billion in damages—one trillion if you take Netanyahu’s numbers—alongside galloping inflation. Even if $12 billion, or a bit more, is unfrozen and the blockade is ended, it’s just a drop in the bucket. Economically, the Iranian public is now nostalgic for the terrible conditions of January. We can hope that eventually, the Iranian people might finish the job themselves. Unfortunately, we won’t be able to help them with that task—neither by supporting Kurdish factions nor through direct military strikes. It has been 165 days since Trump declared the U.S. would “come to their rescue,” and that has never looked further from the case. To read the rest of today's newsletter click here. newsletter.amitsegal.net/p/i…

🚨General Jack Keane: When I heard it (the details of the MOU) from the Iranians, I dismissed it, that is the same nonsense we always hear. But when they hear from administration sources, things that you have heard of what is in this deal, it makes no sense whatsoever

Today, you'll easily be able to discern who is carrying water and who is not by whom on TV and radio parrots this. I appreciate my friends in the conservative sphere wanting to be team players, but if the deal were a good deal, it'd be released already, and we wouldn't need multiple days for 5 measly talking points.

Hezbollah: Iran promised us that it will not sign a final deal with the United States if Israel does not withdraw from Lebanon.

NYPD Unions will continue to fund their own raises. They kept you out of contract for years. They spent years selling out the unborn. After that they used your healthcare savings fend and depleted it. Now they will sell out the retirees and their future selves for crumbs today. On top of that they allow the city to violate every aspect of your contract and pretend nothing is happening :OT, Tour Changes, Working Conditions, Vax, Transfers, Discipline etc……… Literally the most untrustworthy people alive. I’d make a handshake deal with a lifelong criminal before I did with any of these blood sucking frauds.

Yes, Jolani will do “better” than Israel against Hezbollah, of course he will. Animal ISIS fighters like Jolani’s won’t just kill Hezbollah fighters; they’ll behead them, cut out their hearts, and eat them, exactly like they did in Syria a few years ago. You’ll never get Israeli soldiers to fight that way, because Israel fights to secure its borders while ISIS fights to please Allah. The problem is where it ends: slave markets in Lebanon, stocked not only with Shia women but with Christian women too. This is catastrophic. Using the Sunnis against the Shia, exactly as the Shia were once used against the Sunnis, and the Christians end up paying the price.

Trump is reportedly considering dismissing several senior officials who opposed the Iran deal, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and CIA Director John Ratcliffe. Israel Hayom