00:00:01.000The president, vice president, and leader of the Iranian parliament, a man named Mohammed Khalibaf, all signed a memorandum of understanding on Sunday night.
00:00:09.000And we still have no idea what is in it.
00:00:12.000So tonight, we're going to continue to talk about what we know and what we don't know and what we should expect next.
00:00:23.000All right, so we still don't have much information at this point.
00:00:27.000Like no text to the MOU could have been released.
00:01:09.000President Trump's foreign policy in the Middle East is the best of my lifetime, bar none, no close competitors.
00:01:14.000No one else would have been able to do the Abraham Accords.
00:01:17.000No one else would have gone after Soleimani.
00:01:19.000No one else would have had the courage to deliver Operation Midnight Hammer last year, directed at the Fordow nuclear facility, let alone Operations Epic Fury and Economic Fury this year.
00:01:29.000However, as with any war, the question is the endgame.
00:01:34.000And we are being told that we're in the endgame.
00:01:36.000So we just have to sort of analyze based on what we know and what we don't.
00:01:57.000The key one to me remains this one right here The Memorandum of Understanding sets a finite window to finalize the deal, no open ended timeline for Iran to exploit.
00:02:07.000President Trump knows the regime stalls and uses talks to buy time.
00:02:24.000Obviously, if President Trump is still holding out the possibility that if Iran doesn't do what we want them to do, then we clock them again, or we have alternative plans, that would be a good thing.
00:02:34.000And the president has shown willingness to do that before.
00:02:36.000In my opinion, he's going to have to show willingness to do that again in the very near future because I'll just put it this way I do not trust the Iranian government.
00:02:43.000I do not see why anyone would trust the Iranian government given their 47 year long history of Takiyah to lying to everyone they negotiate with, of pursuing terrorism, of pursuing violence, of pursuing the building of nuclear capabilities under the radar and ballistic missile facilities and all the rest.
00:03:03.000Well, again, we do not have a big, fully written out document here.
00:03:08.000The vice president himself, JD Vance, and this is JD's deal.
00:03:10.000Let's be very clear this is the vice president's deal, it does not have support.
00:03:14.000Apparently, according to Axios from the Secretary of State or the Secretary of Defense or the head of the CIA, this is the Vice President's deal.
00:03:20.000He's the one who negotiated it, along with Jared Kushner and Steve Woodcock.
00:03:23.000And the Vice President says that it's an MOU, a memorandum of understanding, that is one and a half pages.
00:03:28.000He says it is very general, which is somewhat disquieting.
00:03:33.000Is it fair to say that it's not spelled out that they have to end their ballistic missile program or end their funding of the Houthis and Hamas and Hezbollah, that that's left purposely vague?
00:03:46.000And then the U.S. will come later and say, you know that we expected this and you're not behaving accordingly.
00:03:53.000I'm just trying to understand how the deal is written.
00:03:57.000Yeah, so the MOU, Jake, is about a page and a half.
00:03:59.000So it is a very general document, but this has been very much part of the conversations that we've had with the Iranians.
00:04:07.000So it's an agreement to agree to agree.
00:04:22.000And according to Mohammed Pazeshkin, who is the president of Iran, he said what has been agreed upon is an important step towards stopping the war and beginning negotiations.
00:04:29.000A final agreement has yet to take shape.
00:04:31.000So, again, all the talk about we've reached a final deal, not even close.
00:04:34.000The Islamic Republic of Iran has prepared itself for all options.
00:04:36.000The government's focus, with or without an agreement, is sincere service to the people.
00:04:40.000The Iranian nation has learned from its martyred Imam not to submit to humiliation.
00:04:44.000So, does any of this give me a lot of hope that something long term is going to happen here?
00:04:54.000And that doesn't have anything to do with Vance.
00:04:56.000Treating the Iranians as reasonable partners here, as people who are telling us the truth, as people who are committed to peace, is foolish.
00:05:05.000Again, the whole point of millenarian Islamic terrorism is that it is inherently unreasonable.
00:05:10.000It is a belief system rooted in ideas that are foreign to the West, like that the whole world ought to be Islamic and that Iran is destined to be a global power, and that any agreement that gives up any of those interests is a violation of religious principle.
00:05:25.000These are members of the top levels of the Iranian government, including, for example, the IRGC Quds Force commander, a man named Ismail Khani, who literally said yesterday, Without even a single Kalishnikov bullet being fired over the Red Sea, in the end, American warships did not dare to cross through the Bab el Mandib Strait.
00:05:43.000This is the greatness of the resistance.
00:05:45.000Iran's resistance in the Strait of Hormuz immensely increased the courage of our brothers in the resistance to confront America in various strategic locations around the world.
00:05:53.000This time, if the Americans ever want to aggress against Muslim youths in a different part of the world, they will have to fear not only the Strait of Hormuz and Bab el Mandib, but many other places as well.
00:06:04.000So, again, they are making very clear that they see this as an Iranian victory.
00:06:08.000And that they see it as an opportunity to strengthen the Iranian hold on crucial choke points across the world.
00:06:15.000The mayor of Tehran, a person named Ali Reza Zakhani, says The war continues.
00:06:22.000Our war with America is an existential war.
00:06:24.000This war has been ongoing for 47 years.
00:06:26.000It operates on various dimensions, meaning it has an intelligence, security, military, economic, cultural, media, and diplomatic aspect.
00:06:33.000It is a multifaceted war, but in its military dimension, it is existential because the Iranian nation has rejected the structured order established after the Second World War.
00:06:42.000The Iranian revolution has trampled upon it.
00:06:45.000And America cannot accept that a country would emerge to become a role model and an inspiration for others, preventing the great Satan from exercising its devilish design.
00:06:52.000So, again, am I deeply, deeply hopeful that people who say that they are pursuing a new Islamic civilization, this direct quote, new Islamic civilization, which serves as a prelude to the appearance of the 12th Imam, right?
00:07:06.000This is the idea that there's going to be a 12th Imam who comes back and ushers in sort of the eschaton, and it's the end of the world.
00:07:12.000We hold a civilizational outlook and we consider its prerequisite to be the building of a strong Iran and do not want this strong Iran to take shape.
00:07:19.000Again, this is the thing they are saying.
00:07:20.000So, do I think a long term deal is in the offing here?
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00:08:58.000Now, the vice president is skeptical, too, of at least the Iranian version of what is being pushed publicly in the deal.
00:09:03.000Here was the vice president on Good Morning America.
00:09:07.000And I had to caution Lindsey Graham and anybody else not to believe the hardliner propaganda in Iran, but to believe what's actually in the agreement.
00:09:15.000But we'll be releasing the text this week.
00:09:17.000And what everybody will see is that Iran doesn't get a dime of money unless they perform their obligations.
00:09:24.000And the money that we're talking about is fundamentally sanctions relief.
00:09:28.000Not a single dollar of American money will go to Iran.
00:09:31.000But what we are saying, George, is we're willing to give significant sanctions relief if the Iranians make the kind of long-term commitments that are necessary to be a normal country, to give up their nuclear weapons program, to stop funding, uh, terrorist activities all over the Middle East.
00:10:06.000This is a very interesting thing about these negotiations you see people, both the hardliners, but also the more political people, saying, our relationship with the United States over the past 47 years has been a mistake.
00:10:20.000We're, of course, going to verify that they actually mean it.
00:10:23.000But if they're willing to turn over a new leaf, the president of the United States has said, we want them to be a successful country.
00:10:28.000You know, they want to turn over a new leaf.
00:10:30.000That's, you know, like some dude who just got out of rehab and is trying to fix his life.
00:10:33.000I mean, sure, that guy just slaughtered 42,000 people in the streets six months ago and fired missiles into Israel, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Iraq, and Jordan and initiated massive terror waves by proxy groups and also mined the Strait of Hormuz and is still doing all those things.
00:10:47.000But they really, really, really want to turn over our newly.
00:11:00.000The United States, the most powerful military in the history of the world, should not need to pull rabbits out of hats in order to achieve our ends with regard to Iran.
00:11:08.000But hey, maybe the vice president was able to do it without further military action.
00:12:00.000It would look like the opposite of that continued nuclear development or the possibility of breakout, continued ballistic missile development, funding of terrorism continued abroad, continued Iranian tolling and control over the Strait, and funding going into Iran while all of that happens.
00:12:14.000That's what a bad deal would look like.
00:12:15.000So now we get to go through these factors one by one and we will determine.
00:12:24.000But all we can do, because the text has not been released, is to read the tea leaves and the public comments and the media reports, the credible media reports of the coverage and what the VP is saying, among others.
00:12:38.000According to Axios, on the nukes, the CIA director, John Ratcliffe, told President Trump and other senior officials that intelligence gathered by U.S. intelligence agencies raised serious doubts about Iran's willingness to make the nuclear concessions the United States is seeking in any final deal.
00:12:53.000According to three sources familiar with those discussions, the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, and the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, have both expressed concerns and raised questions about the deal in internal discussions.
00:13:03.000The source says the intelligence reflects the Iranian intentions are not in line with their commitments under the deal.
00:13:08.000Okay, so the White House is trotting out a talking point.
00:13:12.000Their talking point is that Iran has committed to no nuclear weapon.
00:13:17.000That Iran has committed in writing to no nuclear weapon that the IAEA, the International Atomic Energy Agency, will return to verify.
00:13:58.000President Trump told the New York Times on Sunday, quote, they were still negotiating over whether Iran would suspend its enrichment for 20 years.
00:14:05.000Trump hinted he might settle for a 15 year suspension, but did not want to negotiate via the press.
00:14:10.000He also insisted that Iran would be forever limited to enriching at low levels that could never be used by the military.
00:14:14.000Well, that is not no enrichment, is it, actually?
00:14:18.000Meanwhile, JD Vance says, you remember that, all that stuff about the nuclear dust?
00:14:21.000The president saying we're going to go get the nuclear dust, it's a condition of ending the war and all of that.
00:14:25.000Well, turns out, here's what the vice president had to say.
00:14:31.000The technical details are one of the things that we're going to work on when we start those technical talks on Friday.
00:14:36.000But absolutely, we're talking about working with the IAEA and working with the Iranians to go in and destroy that enriched stockpile of material.
00:14:45.000Whether we play an observer role or whether we play a more active role, these are the sorts of things that we'll figure out in technical talks.
00:14:51.000But what the president has made very clear is the United States will be there to confirm that that enriched stockpile of material is destroyed.
00:15:03.000Now, the question becomes Will the Iranians actually do all of that stuff?
00:15:07.000And there is a big difference between the United States will be present at some point during the process and it will be shipped out of the country, for example, or the Iranians get to sit there and then so called water it, water down the nuclear stock, which is basically the same thing as the JCPOA.
00:15:45.000Again, the outside indicators suggest that this deal does not concern Iranian support for terrorism.
00:15:51.000The White House put out its talking points, and actually, it seems to achieve the reverse of stopping the Iranian support for terrorism.
00:16:00.000The MOU, according to the White House, ends the fighting, including in Lebanon.
00:16:04.000Quote President Trump brought it inside the peace instead of leaving it to reignite the war, meaning that military operations ended on all fronts, explicitly including Lebanon for the first time.
00:16:15.000The ceasefire has to hold before anything else moves forward.
00:16:17.000The end of the fighting is not a hope, it is a precondition.
00:16:20.000Okay, but just the other day, Hezbollah literally attacked northern Israel.
00:16:25.000Israel then went after Dahiya, which is where Hezbollah's leadership lives.
00:16:28.000And President Trump called up the prime minister of Israel and yelled at him.
00:16:32.000According to President Trump, speaking to Barack Ravid at Axios, that does not sound as though terrorism is going to stop in any way, shape, or form.
00:16:45.000The White House says, quote, with the fighting ended on every front, Iran enters a dialogue with its neighbors to settle conflicts decades in the making.
00:16:51.000Many presidents tried to unite this region, none could.
00:16:53.000President Trump is doing it again, building on the Abraham Accords.
00:16:56.000Okay, the notion that Iran is going to be a part of the Abraham Accords.
00:17:00.000Okay, that's weird because I'm noticing that Mohammed Khalibaf, who will apparently on Friday be literally in a photo op with the vice president of the United States, I cannot express to you how stomach turning that is.
00:17:12.000I don't care who the vice president is.
00:17:16.000Leaders of the United States of America.
00:17:18.000In a photo op with a mass murdering terrorist supporter like Mohammed Khalibaf, shaking hands six months after he blew away 42,000 innocent people in the streets, and weeks after he was, his administration was firing missiles at literally all of our allies in the region, and continues to support every terrorist group in the region, and is currently continuing to control the Strait.
00:17:43.000Like right now, it is not fully open for business unless the Iranians have, quote unquote, decided it is.
00:17:50.000And as we will get to when it comes to the Strait of Hormuz, totally unclear what happens next.
00:17:54.000Mohammed Khalibaf is literally still praising the struggle of Lebanon's brave fighters.
00:17:59.000Quote, they can never catch any part of the pillars of resistance alone and isolated.
00:18:03.000The valiant struggles of Lebanon's brave fighters and the powerful diplomacy of the Islamic Republic of Iran guarantee the sovereignty and territorial integrity of dear Lebanon and will dismantle the crazy antics and warmongering of the Israeli elite, spin as we spin.
00:18:15.000And now, again, one of the things worth pointing out here is that they're not defending Lebanon, they're defending Hezbollah.
00:18:20.000There's a legitimate state called Lebanon, it has a government.
00:18:22.000Hezbollah is a part of the government because they are a terrorist group that has forced their way in, but they are not the military of Lebanon.
00:18:29.000They're a terrorist group holding the entire country of Lebanon hostage.
00:18:59.000I think you would like to see the MOU.
00:19:00.000Hell, I think we'd all like to see the MOU.
00:19:03.000But here is JD Vance suggesting that Israel has been participating in the talks with Iran and that they expect everyone to honor the agreement.
00:19:10.000Okay, if Israel is not a party to the actual talks, which they are not, they have not been included in the talks.
00:19:16.000If Israel is not a signatory to the agreement, which they are not, how in the world could you tie Israel's hands when it comes to self defense in Lebanon while Hezbollah is firing?
00:19:26.000Rockets and drones over the border at Israeli citizens.
00:19:38.000They've been participating in this peace agreement.
00:19:41.000They've been participating in our talks with Iran.
00:19:44.000They understand where our perspective is.
00:19:47.000And what the president has said is that we expect everybody to honor this agreement.
00:19:51.000There are always, Gail, these bumpy moments with these ceasefires.
00:19:55.000Sometimes someone will fire and sometimes somebody responds.
00:19:58.000We think right now that there are probably people within Iran because of the internet blackout that are not even aware that this deal has happened.
00:20:05.000So we certainly expect the Israelis are going to be a participant in this peace process.
00:20:10.000But we think it's going to be good for them.
00:20:22.000I would be a little surprised if the Israelis have not seen any MOU at this point, considering that the Iranians have seen it, and so has Qatar, and so has the UAE.
00:20:29.000Apparently, everyone in the region has already seen it.
00:20:32.000Shall we say that this is not a popular MOU from what I understand in Israel?
00:20:36.000And again, Israel, they were flying jets alongside American jets during this whole operation.
00:20:42.000Iran was firing at American soldiers during this whole operation.
00:20:46.000So, playing halvesies is a bit strange.
00:20:49.000Coming up, we'll get to the Strait of Hormuz.
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00:22:39.000The Iranians are saying, sure, it's open right now, but at the end of the negotiation, we are going to toll it.
00:22:46.000We're not going to call it a toll, we'll call it an environmental fee, but we remain in control.
00:22:50.000And the vice president himself acknowledges there are a lot of details to talk about, which is weird because it turns out that's actually a really simple thing to talk about.
00:24:37.000You should recognize at this point that the Obama administration, when they sent pallets of cash to the Iranians, that was money that was quote unquote owed to Iran.
00:24:46.000That was the Obama administration's actual argument that that money was Iran's money and we had just unfrozen it.
00:24:51.000If you unfreeze money to a terrorist group, that is in fact money going to a terrorist group.
00:24:57.000It does not have to come from American.
00:25:00.000I was not earning the impression that you and I would be paying taxpayer dollars to go straight to Iran.
00:25:05.000But if we press people to release money to a terrorist state, In order for them to continue to toll the straight and to exert control whenever they feel threatened, or for them to rebuild their ballistic missile and nuclear capacities, that is a gigantic mistake.
00:25:23.000And playing a game where you say, well, at least it's not your money, it doesn't matter who the point of sanctions is to sanction everyone who is doing business with.
00:26:19.000Well, that's the sort of thing they could have access to, funded by the Gulf Coast Coalition, so long as they honor their end of the obligation.
00:26:27.000Okay, now let's just point out why in the world would the Gulf Coast start investing in Iran?
00:26:58.000They will tell you that that is not true.
00:27:01.000The only reason they would do that is under pressure or under the belief that they are being abandoned and they have to cut some sort of deal with the Iranians.
00:27:08.000Not only that, there's a report out from Israel Hayom today.
00:27:13.000It says, quote, U.S. secretly approved a financial and maritime arrangement between Qatar and Iran.
00:27:18.000Under which billions of dollars were paid to Tehran in exchange for free passage for Qatari tankers and ships through the Strait of Hormuz.
00:27:24.000So, in other words, if this report is correct, the United States gave the go ahead while this embargo was happening to allow Qatar to bribe Iran to take its ships out.
00:27:38.000According to Israel Hayom, this was a deliberate and conscious course of action by the U.S. administration, which allowed its Navy to turn a blind eye to the arrangement, in complete contradiction to its declared policy.
00:27:47.000The move was intended to ease the crisis in global energy markets and curb rising oil prices.
00:27:55.000Which the sources said was granted about a month ago, dovetailed with Qatar's interest in opening a direct channel of communication with Tehran.
00:28:01.000Again, Qatar has been the go between along with Pakistan.
00:28:04.000So you have an Iranian cutout and you have a Chinese cutout in Pakistan negotiating this deal.
00:28:09.000While the UAE and Saudi were being hit by missiles and UAV attacks, Qatar assisted Iran financially and remained completely protected.
00:28:17.000And now, a senior official briefing the assembled media, according to Adam Credo of the Free Beacon, this is almost certainly the VP, who is.
00:28:26.000Calling himself senior official for purposes of media coverage, said, We are prepared to release frozen funds and we are prepared to release sanctions.
00:28:34.000And we'll do some small gestures of that in the beginning if they make some small gestures to us that show they're willing to meet their commitments as well.
00:28:40.000So these will be kind of small aunties to kind of see the cards, but that'll be based on performance.
00:28:43.000And we're going to get together this week and talk about that.
00:28:47.000So just to go back to the five standards of a good deal versus a bad deal a bad deal would look like continued nuclear development, a bad deal would look like continued ballistic missile development.
00:28:58.000A bad deal would look like funding of terrorism abroad continuing.
00:29:02.000A bad deal would look like continued Iranian control over the Strait and tolling of the Strait.
00:29:08.000And a bad deal would look like more funding going into Iran.
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