The West Doesn't Make Peace; It Offers Pauses — at Best

At the time of writing, the critical details of the “Memorandum of Understanding” (MoU) signed electronically between the US and Iran on June 15 are unclear. Lebanon’s inclusion, Iran’s access to stolen funds, “maintenance fees” for the Strait of Hormuz and other disputed issues are yet to be clarified. 

Even if the US accedes to Iran’s demands on all these issues up to and including an Israeli withdrawal from South Lebanon, to call this round of conflict a victory for Iran would be inaccurate. US policy makers planned for a long Path to Persia, and a pause or a detour doesn’t mean they’ve changed their destination.  

As long as the Greater Israel project exists, the Epstein class in control of the West will plot to destroy the Islamic Republic of Iran - whether through more “colour” counter-revolutions, bombing campaigns, invasion, economic isolation or blockades. We saw in Syria that they never give up. Without gaining escalation dominance militarily or significant economic relief from Beijing, the future of Iran remains uncertain and unsafe. 

The Irreparable Damage Done to Iran

The murder of a nation’s leader is no small matter, even more so when such a leader has a spiritual role. The double strike on the schoolgirls of Minab can’t be undone. Nor can the lives of thousands of Iranians be reclaimed, nor can the emotional cost to their families be repaid. 

Strikes on Iran - from Israel, the US, the UAE and maybe more - have been normalised. There were nine months between the two campaigns. Iran initiated neither. Nor are they likely to initiate the next round.

Likewise, the January colour protests contributed to the normalisation of insurrection. Meanwhile, the Western public has become accustomed to streets filled with exuberant diaspora Zionist demonstrations. 

Civilian infrastructure was targeted heavily, as were hospitals. While IRGC resolve is yet to be tested in a ground war, the performance of their air defence was underwhelming. The US and Israel struck Western Iran with relative impunity for 40 days with strike drones, fighter jets and cruise missiles. Western media accept at least 42 U.S. aircraft were lost or damaged - 8 of which the US destroyed itself during the so-called rescue mission which was more than likely a botched ground invasion.

Iranian missile strikes in Israel and the Gulf lacked the necessary impact for escalation dominance. They were, however, powerful enough to be a contributing factor to the US decision to take a pause in the dismantling of Iran. Whether they were more influential than the price of oil, arms rationing, the World Cup and domestic political pressure in the US is hard to say. The Epstein class were prepared to offer the lives of a few dozen soldiers stationed across the region, and unfortunately for humanity, that is all they have paid for their crimes. US bases in the region are expendable from their perspective, and so too are the nations that host them.

In short, Iran didn’t fight its way to victory. It fought its way to a pause - one which no one can condemn them for taking. These pauses - or ceasefires, as they are called - benefit the West more than the nation resisting. If Iran was winning, they wouldn’t grant these terrorists a reprieve until they are rooted from the region. 

It is still too early to say whether this MoU will even lead to a pause, as Israel is adamant they will retain freedom of action against the Axis of Resistance in Lebanon. What is certain is that the MoU is incapable of delivering lasting peace. What peace could be achieved while the genocide of Palestine continues? The Islamic Republic is the region’s indigenous antithesis to imperialist-imposed Zionism. There is no room for co-habitation - either Israel goes or the Islamic Republic falls. 

“One-way” Ceasefires - A Modern Oxymoron

We needn’t look back far in time or distance from Iran to see the futility of such “deals” with the West. 

The United Nations counted more than 10,000 Israeli violations of the ceasefire signed with Hezbollah from November 2024 to April 2026. They refused to fully withdraw from Lebanese territory occupied in October 2023. Following the latest ceasefire agreement signed on April 17, 2026, the area of the zones under Israeli military control in southern Lebanon reached about 570sq km.   

The Gaza “ceasefire” is a similar farce. According to the maps of the October 2025 agreement, Israel’s “Yellow Line” covered about 53 percent of Gaza’s total area. Nevertheless, Israel violated the ceasefire agreement at least 3,201 times from October 10, 2025 to June 9, 2026. During this period, Israel has killed at least 981 Palestinians and injured 3,104, according to the latest figures from the Palestinian Ministry of Health. 

To reiterate, Hezbollah, Hamas and the Islamic Republic of Iran cannot be faulted for signing these deals. Both the empire’s global hegemony and technological supremacy are unprecedented. To fight at all in this era of cowardice is a testament to the moral strength of such nations. 

The members of the Axis of Resistance were forced to sign these deals after relentless, genocidal attacks and under the threat of worse. In order to draw the required lessons, anti-zionists everywhere must accept this reality as it is.

And although the one-way ceasefire is a particularly Israeli iteration of Western arrogance, the use of diplomacy as an extension of war is hardly new in the imperial tradition.

War now, or sign and war later - The Western diplomatic dichotomy

European colonists in America repeatedly made and broke agreements with natives when their resources for ethnic cleansing were stretched. 

The colonisation of Africa, too, is riddled with stories of settlers making peace when weak and breaking agreements when strong. Most famously, the British used a private agreement for limited mining rights as the legal basis for their conquest of the Ndebele Kingdom (1893-1894) in modern Zimbabwe. 

Closer to home, the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 was agreed under the threat of total war against Ireland. Our negotiators conceded partition, our ports, independence, legal sovereignty and more in order to avoid that total war.  If Michael Collins lived long enough, he would have seen the treaty was no “stepping stone” to Irish independence. 100 years later we are still part-occupied. The “Republic” is still run on behalf of global capitalism by the Gombeen class that the British armed to kill revolutionaries in the Civil War of 1922-23. Ireland could not be further from the standard set in the 1916 Proclamation of “cherishing all of the children of the nation equally”. 

Into the modern era, the Russians won’t ever forget when the U.S. Secretary of State James Baker told Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev that NATO would move "not one inch eastward" if the USSR agreed to Germany reuniting within NATO. Nor should they ever forget Minsk I, Minsk II, and the Steinmeier Agreement  - all of which stipulated a Ukrainian military withdrawal from the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics which, of course, never happened.

The JCPOA, signed between Iran and the US in 2015, is another textbook example of Western duplicitous diplomacy. On the world stage, the reformist government of Iran legitimised US regulation of Iranian nuclear power. They also gave Western propaganda a new narrative to beat Iran with called “non-compliance”.  In return Iran received limited and temporary sanctions relief until the ongoing “Maximum Pressure” sanctions campaign began in 2017.

Strategic Sequencing Rolls on

The Epstein class, and their employees in electoral politics, are not as irrational as they appear. They know they can’t win a three-front war against Iran, Russia and China. That’s why they use Strategic Sequencing, pivoting here and delegating there to remain dominant everywhere.

The zionist tumour is still spreading in Palestine, Syria, Lebanon and beyond. US exceptionalism remains unchecked. China will not provide military protection to its allies. The president of Venezuela is in a US prison with P Diddy. The people of the West have either no will or no way to hold the Epstein class in government accountable. Iran, at the fulcrum of the Axis of Resistance in the contested Middle East, is taking heavy blows. This is where we’re at in June of 2026.