“US Israel Iran War”

The anti-Trump view of world affairs, dictated this week by the Iranian mullahs, will hold that U.S. President Donald Trump has surrendered. It is worth remembering that when Hamas invaded Israel and massacred 1,200 people and kidnapped about 250 others on Oct. 7, 2023, Iran was well on its way toward developing nuclear weapons, hoped that the Hamas invasion of Israel would raise a general revolt in the West Bank and that a flying column would threaten Jerusalem, and stood ready to activate a powerful Hezbollah that had an estimated 150,000 rockets ready to fire at Israel. Hamas had 20,000 to 30,000 armed and trained terrorists in Gaza to conduct the war that had been unleashed.

A first reaction to US President Donald J. Trump’s “Memorandum of Understanding” (MOU) has already come from Tehran’s terrorist proxy, Hamas. The Iranian-backed group responsible for the October 7, 2023 massacre in Israel is openly calling to escalate attacks against Israel and signaling its intention to shift the center of its jihad (holy war) from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank.

The timing is not a coincidence.

The US-Iran memorandum of understanding announced on Wednesday amounts to a reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, and a deal to try to reach a final agreement on almost everything else.

President Donald Trump framed it as a major win for the US in a lengthy press conference at the G7 summit in France.

Both countries later confirmed the memo had been signed electronically on Wednesday and was now in effect.

Trump’s Iran deal driven by economics, fear of midterm defeat, not ideology – analysis

US President Donald Trump reportedly received a warning in recent weeks that keeping the Strait of Hormuz closed would “trigger a global recession – not just in the US, but across the entire world.”

The warning came from several economists and senior Trump administration officials.

Donald Trump’s Iran deal met with anger, relief and incredulity

Pakistan’s prime minister has hailed the “peaceful resolution” of the conflict between the US and Iran, while congratulating the leadership of both countries for signing an agreement that he claimed would immediately reopen of the strait of Hormuz.

But amid the celebrations from Shehbaz Sharif – who has served as mediator for the deal – the release of the memorandum of understanding (MOU) that gets the ball rolling on the next 60 days of negotiations between Iran and the US, has proven more divisive, eliciting a mixture of outrage, bewilderment, and relief.

Senior allies of Donald Trump have reportedly expressed doubts about the “memorandum of understanding” between the US and Iran.

John Ratcliffe, Donald Trump’s CIA director, Marco Rubio, the secretary of state and Pete Hegseth, the defence secretary, have apparently raised concerns.

The three men, all prominent members of Mr Trump’s inner circle, are said to be sceptical about how willing Iran genuinely is to make concessions on its nuclear programme, according to Axios.

🚨 BREAKING — IT'S OFFICIAL: President Trump has SIGNED the Memorandum of Understanding with Iran while at the Palace of Versailles in France

Iran has signed off as well, per Axios, and the deal is in effect IMMEDIATELY.

Warmongers are about to start screeching even LOUDER 🤣… pic.twitter.com/zs0E181Nxv

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) June 17, 2026

For the past two years, a steady stream of world leaders has flocked to Israel to cajole and pressure the only democracy in the Middle East into stopping its self-defense against Iran’s proxies in Gaza — Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad — who carried out the October 7 massacres and have launched more than 10,000 rockets into Israel, attempting to perpetrate mass slaughter. Let us hope that with US President Donald J. Trump’s new “Iran deal,” this abuse will stop. It is to be hoped that liberating Lebanon from Hezbollah will still be possible.

US officials have unveiled the full text of the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding to extend the ceasefire, open the Strait of Hormuz and, they hope, end the conflict between the two countries nearly four months after it began.

The Trump administration has described the 14-point agreement as “performance-based”, with Iran benefitting only if it complies with its commitments.

Speaking at the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains in France, President Donald Trump said that the deal will be formally signed “shortly” – potentially as soon as Thursday.

President Donald Trump gave a cryptic answer Wednesday that cast doubt on Friday’s planned signing ceremony for the U.S.-Iranian 60-day ceasefire deal.

Trump spoke to reporters Wednesday during his bilateral meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, where he defended the memorandum of understanding ending the Iran war.

BREAKING: "If I don't like it, we'll go back to shooting at them, dropping bombs on their head."

President Trump warns Iran that any change to the peace agreement or failure to comply could bring an immediate military response.

"If they don't behave, we'll go right back to… pic.twitter.com/67JRcDptYS

— Fox News (@FoxNews) June 17, 2026

The US ceasefire agreement with Iran has presented Israel’s prime minister with a political nightmare, smashing the three cornerstones of Benjamin Netanyahu’s political career, and leaving him trapped in a new security dilemma.

How can the man who styled himself as the political whisperer of Washington, with real influence over American politicians, be sidelined quite so comprehensively and insulted so publicly by his key US ally?

How can the man who made taking on Iran the centre-piece of Israel’s security policy end the war with Iran’s regime arguably in a stronger position?

We do not yet know the full terms of the Iran deal but we know how President Trump interprets it. His achievement, as he sees it, would have come as a surprise to many of the war’s backers four months ago.

“Many presidents have tried to make peace with Iran,” he said on Sunday night. “All have failed before me.”

When an Israeli airstrike killed the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on the war’s first day, peace with the regime did not seem to be the end goal. Now Trump has not only made peace with the regime, he seems to have made peace with the idea that the regime is here to stay.

President Donald Trump announced Saturday that the United States has reached a peace deal with Iran, and the contrast with what Barack Obama handed the world in 2015 could not be starker. “The Deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran is now complete,” Trump posted on Truth Social Sunday. “Ships of the World, start your engines. Let the oil flow!” The naval blockade on Iranian ports has already lifted. The Strait of Hormuz is open. And for the first time in a long time, there’s an actual framework that puts nuclear weapons permanently off the table.

JERUSALEM — A “catastrophe.” A “bad deal.” An agreement that “throws a lifeline to the murderous regime in Tehran.”

Among Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s supporters and critics alike, in the press and on social media, the mood was clear as Israelis woke up Monday to news of a peace agreement between the United States and Iran: President Donald Trump’s deal is not one that many in Israel like. Iran, they say, will remain a threat.

More than two months after the US and Israel first began their war with Iran, the White House and the Iranian regime have agreed a framework deal to bring about a more long-term end to hostilities.

The Middle East crisis sent global oil prices soaring as the conflict effectively closed one of the world’s key water transport routes for oil, liquid natural gas and other essential commodities, limiting global supplies.

But experts warn a return to normal shipping through the Strait of Hormuz will take time, and the impact of the war will continue to affect the global economy for potentially months to come.

Getting to this point has taken weeks of careful negotiation, with Pakistani mediators balancing the competing, often contradictory, demands of Tehran and Washington.

In the end, they seem to have managed to get both sides to agree to the same deal, reopening the Strait of Hormuz and lifting the US blockade, according to Trump, and ending the fighting – including in Lebanon.

JPost – Trump announces US-Iran peace deal has been completed, Strait of Hormuz to reopen

Arutz Sheva – Trump announces deal with Iran is complete, signing scheduled for Friday

Telegraph – US and Iran have agreed peace deal, says Trump

Guardian – Donald Trump says deal with Iran ‘is now complete’

Donald Trump was forced to call for restraint on Sunday after Israel launched fresh airstrikes on Beirut as mediators sought to conclude negotiations on a preliminary peace deal between Iran and the US that would bring the three-month war in the Middle East to a definitive end.

Trump played down new Israeli strikes but said “all sides should stand down”.

We have seen in the last few weeks — and for the last 47 years — that Iran’s regime is not one with which any responsible actor should seek a deal. Iran’s rulers might sign a piece of paper — as Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Chairman Yasser Arafat did with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin with the 1993 Oslo Accord – but, like the PLO, its fundamental goals will not change.

Iran’s regime is fundamentally revolutionary. It seized power in 1979 with an identity rooted in anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism, and the suppression of Iranians seeking liberty. This identity defines it. Even if individual figures shift or new “moderates” appear at the negotiating table, the underlying revolutionary structure endures. The regime cannot abandon “Death to America” or “Death to Israel” without dissolving its own reason for being. Leaving it in place only ensures that it will dig its hooks in even deeper — especially after President Donald J. Trump leaves office and his successor possibly turns to interests more enjoyable than “enforcement.”