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🤣No, mate. You’re the American voice of Netanyahu.

Dr. Foad Izadi, a professor of American Studies at the University of Tehran and a prominent analyst of U.S.-Iran relations has shared a detailed critique of the purported 14-point U.S.-Iran framework agreement. Izadi says the draft effectively asks Tehran to surrender its greatest strategic asset, control over the Strait of Hormuz, before receiving any irreversible concessions in return. 🔸Izadi argues that reopening Hormuz would immediately lower oil prices, help solve Trump’s political and economic problems, allow the United States to refill its strategic petroleum reserves, and give Washington and Israel time to repair and rebuild military capabilities damaged during the war. In his view, this would simply recreate the cycle of “attack, ceasefire, negotiations, attack,” while giving Trump ample opportunity to abandon the deal later. 🔸He further argues that meaningful sanctions relief cannot be guaranteed because the most important sanctions are imposed by Congress, not the White House, and that under the INARA framework, any agreement would require congressional approval that the pro-Israel lobby could block. 🔸Rather than sign the agreement, Izadi proposes Iran to keep the Strait of Hormuz closed for at least two more months, arguing recent oil sales provide enough revenue to weather the economic costs. He also urges Tehran to begin collecting transit fees from shipping through the strait, saying those revenues would eventually exceed Iran’s oil income. 🔸And Izadi calls for the publication of a list of regional desalination plants and oil facilities that would become “legitimate military targets” if Iran is attacked again. He says if U.S. or Israel attack Iran again, those facilities should be struck in a way that would take at least two years to rebuild, and not just damaged symbolically. Limited destruction would simply create reconstruction contracts for U.S. companies, he says, whereas prolonged disruption would keep global oil and gas prices elevated, crash the regional energy economy, and ensure that the cost of any future attack on Iran remains intolerably high.

⚡️⭕️ Lebanon/Syria: In a meeting with Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, Syrian President Ahmad Al-Sharaa advised Lebanon not to negotiate with Israel He warned Salam of ‘repeating the same mistake as Syria’, which involved granting concessions without receiving guarantees and reciprocal compensation. Al-Sharaa stated that Israel’s strategy is pushing you toward granting gradual concessions without providing any guarantees, while simultaneously keeping open margins that allow it to expand the scope of its future aggressions.

Governor Ron DeSantis has come out in support of James Fishback and levies criticism against the Florida GOP for not hosting Fishback for a debate. “It’s counterproductive when you try to engineer an outcome.”