Jesse Watters: Israel needs to relax
Jesse Watters analyzes the Trump-brokered deal with Iran, highlighting immediate successes, such as lower oil prices and open trade through the Strait of Hormuz. Iran is crippled financially and militarily and faces new sanctions if it does not comply.
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As Americans remain divided over the memorandum of understanding to end the war in Iran, star athletes representing two of the countries most affected by the deal have shared their opinions.
The memo establishes a 60-day negotiation period during which the United States and Iran will try to reach a more comprehensive agreement.
The agreement also includes provisions aimed at restoring commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz and provides limited services sanction exemptions linked to the continuation of negotiations. Later talks are expected to address several of the most contentious issues, including the long-term future of Iran’s nuclear program.
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Iran fans pose with a pre-revolutionary Iranian flag attached to an Israeli flag during the 2026 FIFA World Cup Group G match between Iran and New Zealand at Los Angeles Stadium on June 15, 2026. (Sebastián Frej/Getty Images)
But Iran’s current regime will remain in power, for the time being.
Former Iranian youth wrestling champion Sardar Pashei, who won the Asian Youth Wrestling Championships in 1998 for Iran, expressed his disappointment at the survival of the current regime.
“Many believed that under President Trump, the Islamic Republic would become history. Instead, it was handed one of the greatest opportunities in its history to survive. The regime was given financial lifelines and political respite as millions of Iranians sank further into poverty, unemployment and uncertainty,” Pashei told Pak Gazette Digital.
“This agreement gives the regime room to rebuild its machinery of repression: new centers of arrest, torture and intimidation. When an agreement offers nothing to the Iranian people, why would the regime hesitate to intensify its repression?
«Some claim that a regime change has already occurred in Iran. What change? Has power been transferred to the people? Have the executions ended?
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“Desperation, abandonment and the feeling of being alone with a regime that knows no moral limits. A regime not weakened, but emboldened, one that can now use billions to build more prisons, erect more gallows and silence more voices.”
Meanwhile, Israelis have been among the harshest critics of the deal, warning that it does not do enough to safeguard Israel’s security.
Team Israel skeleton and Olympic bobsled athlete AJ Edelman, who was born in the United States but who represented Israel at the 2026 and 2022 Winter Olympics, called the deal “a disgrace.”
“We emboldened the regime,” Edelman told Pak Gazette Digital.
“If the Democrats needed to recognize Obama’s ‘red line,’ the Republicans and Trump need to recognize that ‘help is on the way.’ The latter was arguably much worse, because we actually got involved and practically won. It was the cost of gas and summer air conditioning bills that left the Iranian people stranded.
“How did you lose the war with Iran? Literally, a Tomahawk missile on Kharg Island would have toppled the regime. Trump has been talking tough about it for 40 years! Gas prices went up, the summer was about to get brutal. The midterm elections. America. Hard to believe.
“Compromising was an act of extraordinary political courage. It is a shame and a stain on the image of American exceptionalism to first snatch defeat from the jaws of victory because of high gas prices.”
Pak Gazette Digital has reached out to the White House for comment.
President Donald Trump has described the deal as a way to avoid a broader conflict as he seeks what he called a “grand bargain” with Tehran.
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He has also argued that the deal could help stabilize energy markets by reopening the Strait of Hormuz, a critical global shipping route, while creating an opportunity to negotiate additional restrictions on Iran’s nuclear activities.
The president added that he accepted an agreement to avoid an “economic catastrophe.”
“I didn’t want to see an economic catastrophe. If this had continued, that could have happened,” he said. Reporters at the G7 Summit. in France.
Meanwhile, the vice president J.D. Vance scrapped plans to travel to Switzerland on Friday for the next round of US-Iran talks, the White House confirmed Thursday evening, highlighting ongoing uncertainty over the timing and logistics of negotiations with Tehran.
“As the vice president said in his press conference, plans for the upcoming technical talks have not been finalized and the U.S. delegation has been prepared to depart at the first available opportunity,” the spokesperson said.
“But the logistics of these negotiations have never been simple or predictable. For the moment, the vice president will not leave tonight,” they added.
“We will inform you as soon as we have a concrete update on the next steps. We hope to begin technical discussions as soon as possible.”
The comments came in the wake of a newly signed memorandum of understanding, in which negotiators originally planned to finalize a deal between the United States and Iran within 60 days.
