Financial Times report shows Quds Force operatives managed to purchase Chinese hardware for military use through a Dubai-based front company. Tehran used the technology it acquired to attack the United Arab Emirates.
The only real news in the emerging deal at this stage is the mutual reopening of the Strait of Hormuz to maritime traffic. All the other disputed issues are being deferred to negotiations that are supposed to begin between the sides at an unknown date. The Iranian regime achieved the goal it set for itself and survived. By contrast, the US administration has not achieved any of its declared objectives.
The inner cabinet discussed developments with Hezbollah late into the night, with much less focus on Iran. Israeli officials believe Iran has been significantly weakened and is unlikely to come under attack again soon. Senior Israeli official: “The new situation with Lebanon is terrible.”
Trump updated regional leaders that Iran has pledged to hand over its highly enriched uranium to the US and remove it from Iran. Israeli source says: "The significance of reaching an agreement under these terms is the start of the countdown to the next war. It may take a few years, but it will come."
In a statement issued after talks in the Oval Office at the White House, Trump said a series of leaders from the Middle East and the Muslim world had taken part. According to him, "the final aspects and details of the agreement are now being discussed and will be announced shortly." Pakistani Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar, who arrived in Tehran over the weekend with a Pakistani delegation, said the conversation showed that "a positive and sustainable outcome is within reach."
