Trump Puts Bibi in His Place & Neocon Heads Implode Over Peace in Iran. Tucker & Piers Morgan React.

**Tucker Carlson** (0:00)
In your mind's eye, you imagine the American Empire ending someday, probably in like a conflagration, in some sort of conflict with another great power. And if you had to pick one, you would imagine the end might come in a dispute over Taiwan. Formerly, for most of the island off mainland China, that China considers part of its country. There's been a dispute about this for almost 80 years. And the United States has sort of informally suggested that it would defend Taiwan sovereignty. And periodically, that part of the world, South China Sea, pops into the news and you think, wow, that could be a big deal if we actually had a war with China because every year they get stronger. They now have a bigger economy than ours. And you can kind of imagine some reckless American leader destroying American power over Taiwan. But you probably never imagine that the end of American Empire would come in a little over 100 day conflict with a little rogue state on the Persian Gulf that has the 34th largest economy in the world, a country called Iran. Generations of Americans have been raised to believe as crazy and dangerous, but basically irrelevant and certainly not civilized, and in no way capable of affecting America's place in the global hierarchy. You just couldn't imagine that would happen. But something like that apparently has happened, and we know because we now have the text of the MOU, the Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and Iran, that unless something happens is going to be signed in two days this Friday, in Switzerland by both countries. Now, versions of this have been circulating for the past three days. And earlier today, apparently on background, members of the Trump administration read the 14 points in the MOU to a bunch of different reporters at a bunch of different news organizations. They immediately appeared online and you read this and you think that can't really be real.
And then within the last hour, sources in Iran released their version of the MOU. And it turns out to be identical to the one that members of the administration, these unnamed officials, gave to American reporters. So both countries releasing the same text of the agreement. Therefore you can't be certain really of anything, but you can be highly persuaded, you can consider it overwhelmingly likely that this document is real. At least as of right now, this MOU is real. 14 points to be signed on Friday. It's pretty short and it's worth reading at least in part because it tells you everything, not just about how this war might end. It's not ended yet, but how it could end, but it tells you even more about the relative place of the United States and Iran in the global order going forward. It's really kind of an amazing document. To get right to the point, you can see why Neocons are upset. I mean, they have caused to be upset. Not taking their side, but just being honest here, wow. Here's part of what it says. Paragraph 1 The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran and their allies in the current war, by signing this MOU, declare the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including Lebanon, and undertake from now on, not to initiate any war or any military operation against each other, and to refrain from the threat or use of force against each other, and ensuring the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Lebanon. The final deal will confirm with permanent termination of war on all fronts, including in Lebanon.
Okay, so that's the first paragraph of the agreement. Israel is not mentioned, but Lebanon is mentioned three times. Lebanon, what does Lebanon have to do with this war? Well, strictly speaking, nothing. And when it began on February 28th, we were told by the administration, this was purely about disarming Iran and preventing this rogue terror state from getting a nuclear weapon, which would be prima facie threat to the world.
But very shortly after this war commenced, Israel decided, oh, wait, we're going to take this opportunity not to achieve the goals that they convinced President Trump to tell our nation about, but instead to do something we've wanted to do for a long time, which is steal southern Lebanon. And so very shortly after this war began, Israel started a new war with American weapons paid for by American taxpayers designed to take land from Lebanon, all the land south of the Latani River, which kind of bisects the country diagonally, and then starts hitting Beirut on the Mediterranean, an ancient and beautiful city, maybe the most beautiful city in the world, and Israeli warplanes started blowing up civilians in the middle of Beirut, while the United States was occupied, tied down really, both fighting this war that Israel inspired. We followed Israel's lead into the war, according to the Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and tied up defending mainland Israel from the response to that war from Iran. And Israel takes this opportunity to use our money to start a new war to steal land.