It seems that once again the President Biden is negotiating with himself in public.

Yesterday I was told that they're going to come out, there's going to be a 21-day cessation of hostilities.

I heard that the Iranians had signed on.

It made it sound as if there had been an Israeli sign on as well.

But then immediately find out that, of course,

there's yet another effort by the Biden administration

to try to publicly coerce the Israelis to take that position,

go along with it by having everyone else lined up.

But then when the Israelis don't, you blame everyone else.

Hi, everybody, and welcome back to another episode of the Magdisi Street podcast.

I'm Karim, and I was joined, of course, by my brothers, Sari and Osama, who are in California.

We are very happy today to have with us so we can have a discussion on what's going on today,

these days in Lebanon, in particular, the

Israeli assault and attack and invasion of Lebanon, in the backdrop to this larger genocide

in Gaza, and to the kind of international diplomacy that is now taking place at the United Nations.

Treata Parsi is going to join us, and he's, I think he's an expert in particular on

Iran and U.S.-Iranian relations and on, in fact, on U.S.-Iranian-Israeli relations,

as well as Iranian foreign policy and the geopolitics in the Middle East.

He's authored three books on Iran or sort of things that related to Iran.

The first is called Tretcherous Alliance, the Secret Dealings of Iran, Israel, and the United States.

That's with Yale University Press. His second book is a single role of the dice Obama's

diplomacy with Iran, also the Yale University Press. And this

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