Supporters of Hezbollah in Lebanon, who have been somewhat dismayed at what seemed like Israel’s recent thrashing and the IDF’s ability to occupy much of the Lebanese territory, have seen the tides turn and the armed resistance group appears to be on a winning streak after the U.S. signed the memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Iran that includes an end to the fighting in Lebanon.
20 JUNE 2026: President Donald Trump last week faced bipartisan backlash over his decision to sign the memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Iran that puts the countries on a pathway to end war permanently because there was a feeling in Washington that he had abandoned Israel.
20 JUNE 2026: President Donald Trump spent much of last week doing his best to present the memorandum of understanding (MOU) that he signed with Iran as a better framework for a long-term deal than the 2015 Obama-era agreement known as the JCPOA.
President Donald Trump warned Iran on Sunday not to impede shipping in the Strait of Hormuz during the summit in Switzerland and said if the strategic waterway is closed “you won’t have a country.”
Friday came on Wednesday. Last night the Memorandum of Understanding that was supposed to be signed tomorrow in Switzerland was signed digitally by the US and Iranian presidents.
The week started on a positive note with President Donald Trump uncharacteristically declaring that a “memorandum of understanding” (MOU) had been achieved by US and Iranian negotiators assisted by Pakistani and Qatari mediators to suspend military action and begin sixty days of discussions in pursuit of a peace agreement.
Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s top diplomat, said Tuesday that the ceasefire deal between the United States and Tehran hinges on whether Israel continues to attack Lebanon because that war has become “connected to the war with Iran, and the two fronts became intertwined and dependent on one another.”
The United States and Russia learned that major powers cannot simply walk over smaller powers and impose their will on countries that, on paper, stand no chance to defend themselves.
“I love the inflation.”—Donald Trump (June 2026). America has become an occupied nation.
When President Donald Trump appointed an obviously unqualified friend, a home builder executive, to be acting director of national intelligence, he inadvertently triggered attention to Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.