Somebody is lying about the ceasefire. Iran has insisted that the agreement includes Israel stopping its military action in Lebanon. The US has made it clear that was never part of the deal. Vice President J.D. Vance was explicit that ‘we never made that promise.’ Benjamin Netanyahu, too, made a point of clarifying, almost as soon as the ceasefire was announced, that Lebanon was not part of the deal.

Who to believe: the tyrannical Islamic Republic regime of Iran, or the democratic, pro-freedom President of the United States and his team?

Who to believe: the tyrannical Islamic Republic regime of Iran, or the democratic, pro-freedom President of the United States and his team?

Who to believe: the tyrannical Islamic Republic regime of Iran, or the democratic, pro-freedom President of the United States and his team? Perhaps predictably, many members of the western commentariat, including key voices at the BBC and Sky News, opted for the former, because it helps them paint President Trump as the hapless, disastrous leader of a chaotic war instigated by the aggressive and expansionist Jewish state under the leadership of the evil Benjamin Netanyahu. That’s been their narrative all along, so it would be a stretch to change it now. Never mind the facts.

Meanwhile, those who went to great lengths not to take part in the war, nor the negotiations to pause it, have had plenty to say from the sidelines. Reaching for the usual opaque language of modern, fantasy........

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