
Mark Fitzpatrick
Associate Fellow at International Institute for Strategic Studies; former US diplomat with 26 years of non-proliferation expertise.
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Jun 24, 2026
Mark Fitzpatrick | Iran, the Versailles Memorandum, and How the US Lost Its Leverage
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Vladimir BobetićHOST
How will Prime Minister Netanyahu respond to Washington's diplomatic endgame? I mean, I was reading Israeli press in the last three, four days, and it doesn't look good.

Mark FitzpatrickGUEST
Uh, it's clear that, uh, Netanyahu is not happy with the memorandum of understanding and even less happy with the, uh, prospect for a final, uh, nuclear deal with Iran that, uh, is even, uh, more lenient toward Iran than was President, uh, Obama's Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action in 2015.

Mark FitzpatrickGUEST
Um, first of all, the memorandum of understanding has, as its first point, um, main- uh, the, um, uh, the sovereignty of, uh, of Lebanon and says that, um, the, uh, there will be a sustained ceasefire there.

Mark FitzpatrickGUEST
Well, Netanyahu can decide that there won't be a, a ceasefire and that the sovereignty of Lebanon will continue to be violated.
9 MINS LATER

Vladimir BobetićHOST
Did the White House sign this deal, uh, from a position of strength or because it concluded that military pressure alone would not achieve its objectives?