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Is Trump's deal with Iran worse than Obama's JCPOA? Dan Schueftan tells Jonathan Sacerdoti how it emboldens every Iranian proxy from Hezbollah to the Houthis, and leaves Israel in one of the most precarious positions in its history.

Both sides are claiming victory. But beneath those claims are harder questions. Has Iran been given a free pass to rearm? Has Israel lost the cover it needed to act? What does this mean for the Gulf states, for Lebanon, for the Iranian people desperate to be rid of their regime — and for the West's credibility as a civilisation willing to defend itself?

In this conversation, Jonathan Sacerdoti speaks with Dr. Dan Schueftan — strategic analyst and former director of the National Security Studies Center at the University of Haifa — about what the Trump-Iran deal actually contains, why a president who built his identity on winning may have handed Iran a historic victory, what Israel can still do alone, and why the West's retreat from confrontation is the most dangerous signal it can send.

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👁️‍🗨️ Watch if you want to understand what the Trump-Iran nuclear deal really means for Israel, for the Middle East, and for any country that still believes in the willingness to fight for its interests.

🎙️ We Discuss:

🔴 Why Dan Schueftan calls this deal a capitulation worse than Obama's — and what Iran actually received

🇮🇷 How Iran keeps uranium enrichment, faces no limits on ballistic missiles, and its proxies remain intact

🇮🇱 What Israel can do now — alone, without the American cover it depended on

🔫 Why Hamas and Hezbollah will never disarm — and why that was never a realistic goal with or without the US

🌍 How the Gulf states, Lebanon's non-Hezbollah population, and Iran's own people were also abandoned by this deal

📉 Why Trump — a man who defines himself entirely by winning and losing — may not yet grasp what he gave away

⚔️ The 1930s parallel: how Western unwillingness to fight emboldened Hitler, and what today's retreat signals to today's barbarians

🏛️ Why Western democracy can no longer produce leaders like Churchill or FDR — and what that means for civilisation

🇮🇱 Why Israel's combination of open society and willingness to fight makes it unique in the Western world — and uniquely resented

💡 Dan's "smart optimism": why things will get worse, but Israel will grow stronger faster than things deteriorate

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💬 Comment below — is there something going on in this deal that Trump knows and we don't, or has the self-proclaimed master dealmaker just made the worst deal of his career?