'This war was instigated by decades of repeated Israeli pressure, exaggerations and lies about Iran’s unproven threats to the US and the region that successive White House leaderships swallowed. It was finally triggered by Trump and a few fellow circus-vintage dramatists — who also never consulted Congress as constitutionally required, and did not reflect the wishes of the American people, two-thirds of whom oppose the war...

This historic agreement represents the first time a Middle Eastern country has single-handedly checked the massive war-making capabilities of the US and Israel. At immense cost, Iran has revealed its human talent, technological prowess, and political will to stand up to the US-Israel axis, stopped their aggressive assault, and forced them to negotiate according to Iran’s checklist of essential outcomes that satisfy both sides and international law dictates that US-Israeli officials and armies destroyed during the past half century...

Long-term success beyond this ceasefire requires acknowledging a critical fact that the West has ignored to date: resolving the Palestine issue is central to achieving several connected goals -to contain Zionism and Israeli expansionist aims, end US imperial actions and Israeli hegemonic ones, and allow all states in the Middle East to live in peace with equal rights and sovereignty.'