{"id":49814,"date":"2026-06-19T08:33:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T02:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=49814"},"modified":"2026-06-19T08:33:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T02:48:00","slug":"us-iran-deal-redraws-the-middle-east-iran-gains-rivals-alarmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/us-iran-deal-redraws-the-middle-east-iran-gains-rivals-alarmed\/","title":{"rendered":"US-Iran deal redraws the Middle East: Iran gains, rivals alarmed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Reuters :\u00a0 The U.S.-Iran agreement \u2014 the first signed by an American and an Iranian president since Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution \u2014 is being hailed by its backers as the deal of the century.<\/p>\n

But for Tehran’s \u200badversaries across the Middle East \u2014 from Israel to Gulf states and factions in Lebanon \u2014 it looks more like the curse of the century: an accord that could leave Iran more secure, more \u200clegitimate and ultimately more influential.
\nU.S. President Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed the interim deal on Wednesday, ending a three-month war. Trump chose to formalise it at Versailles, on the sidelines of the G7 summit \u2014 a setting widely seen as symbolic of the remaking of international order after conflict.<\/p>\n

The 14-point agreement extends a ceasefire by 60 days, including in Lebanon, to allow negotiations on a permanent settlement and address issues such as Iran’s nuclear programme.<\/p>\n

“For Washington and Tehran, this is a grand bargain \u2014 the deal of the century, with \u200bno turning back,” said Lebanese commentator Sarkis Naoum. “The probability of success outweighs the risk of failure. Iran cannot endure further economic pain under sanctions, and Trump has no incentive to start a new war.”<\/p>\n

Israeli analyst Danny Citrinowicz described the agreement as a strategic “catastrophe”. What had been framed as a joint U.S.-Israeli campaign to weaken, or even topple \u2060the Islamic Republic has, in his view, flipped into American recognition of Iran.<\/p>\n

“We went to topple the regime with U.S. backing and ended with Washington effectively giving legitimacy and strengthening the same regime we wanted to bring \u200bdown,” said Citrinowicz, a senior Iran researcher at Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies.<\/p>\n

He says the deal delivers none of Israel’s core demands: no curbs on Iran’s missile programme or proxies and no clear path to dismantling its \u200bnuclear facilities. Even Israel’s campaign in Lebanon has been constrained by the ceasefire framework imposed at Iran’s insistence.<\/p>\n

The fallout is both political and strategic. The deal undercuts Netanyahu’s narrative on Iran and exposes the limits of his leverage with a U.S. president seen as closely aligned with Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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