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Rubio Undermines Vance Deal?

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Marco Rubio rushing to the Middle East to try and undermine the MOU and get JD Vance fired. Get 20% off all IQBAR products. Text TRUTH to 64000. (Message a...

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of understanding between the United States and Iran. Rubio refused to show up at the Switzerland Technical Talks, following the memorandum of understanding because he didn't want to be associated with the document. After progress was made in Switzerland, Rubio was working behind the scenes

with the Neocons and Warhawks, who want to try to destroy the MOU. Now he's taking a trip to meet with the UAE, Bahrain and Kuwait to try to undermine the MOU. Since he's traveled to the UAE, he's made numerous statements that directly contradict the wording of the MOU.

And he's doing that to try to insight Iran and to try to be provocative to cause breaches of the memorandum of understanding. Let's talk about what went down. As I'm sure you know by now, Marco Rubio refused to participate in the Technical Talks in Switzerland.

That is quite literally the job description of the Secretary of State to attend talks like this. Iran's foreign minister, Iran, she was there. So is there leading negotiator who's the head of their parliament, MB Gallaboff, but Rubio showed division right away

within the U.S. negotiating team, which is of course a sign of weakness

when your Secretary of State basically protests,

even showing up in the first place. So he doesn't go to Switzerland. There appears to be some progress made in Switzerland and a deconfliction cell, as it's called, is created in order to try to deconflict to enforce the ceasefire in Lebanon

as Netanyahu continued to attack within Lebanon killing lots of innocent people. And the Lebanon file, as they call it, pretty much got removed away from Rubio Netanyahu and Lebanon in that kind of structure.

And it got moved towards Iran, Qatar, Pakistan, Lebanon, United States, working together as part of a deconfliction cell. And so Rubio viewed that also as, are you trying to take away the Lebanon file from me? J.D. Vance, no, I am going to be dealing with Lebanon.

Well, you could have showed up at Switzerland

if you want to do and been involved in those talks,

but you were trying to sabotage it then as well. So what Rubio's done though is he's announced that he's going to take a trip and he's on that trip right now to the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Bahrain. You see the US Department of State post right here.

Secretary Rubio's traveled to the UAE, Kuwait and Bahrain, June 23rd through June 25th. Here's how they describe it on the State Department website again. He couldn't be bothered with the Switzerland talks, but now he's going to meet with the UAE Kuwait and Bahrain.

And it says the Secretary will discuss a range of regional priorities, including the memorandum of understanding with Iran, efforts to secure full and free safe transit through the straightive or moves, and the importance of peace and stability in the region.

In Bahrain, the Secretary will also meet

with the Gulf Cooperation Council to discuss shared priorities across the region. Now we know from reporting from MSNow New York Times, Washington Post and others that Rubio refused to show up and have any association with the memorandum of understanding

and the technical talks. Here's how it's being described in this article from MSNow. The choice of advance and anti-interventionists with limited high level foreign policy experience as the lead negotiator and defender of the 14.0 into a memorandum

of understanding, surprise them inside the White House and its orbit. One White House official who was granted anonymity to speak openly about internal dynamics, said Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, avoided becoming the face of the deal,

because he understood how unlikely it was to succeed. Vance by contrast believes that triumphant deal with Iran is not out of reach the official told MSNow.

I think that goes and tells you what low character Marco Rubio

is. I'm not trying to defend J.D. Vance here, but as the Secretary of State you're supposed to be in talks like this, instead he went to the United Arab Emirates Bahrain in Kuwait.

And here he is as he lands in Abu Dhabi

and Rubio basically start saying that the MOU

and the subsequent technical discussion that Rubio didn't show up at are meaningless because there are super secret agreements that he says Iran agreed to that aren't in writing, but he says they being Iran know what they agreed to.

And so they better deal with it or else Donald Trump will have an important decision to make in the next 60 days. So Rubio saying the MOU and the subsequent joint statement that came out of Switzerland don't look at the writing, look at the secret deal that Rubio knows about.

And again, this is provocative language intended to incite Iran that previously said, we're gonna go by what's in writing and do not listen to these provocateurs who were trying to sabotage the deal.

Watch what Rubio said as he was landing in Abu Dhabi.

Let's play it. - Yes, we're the Iranians that they had not agreed to expect to fly in the 188th century, but we know what they agreed to. I don't know why they have to say the things they say, whatever their internal or domestic politics is,

I guess don't navigate it. But we know what they agreed to do and now though either do it or they won't. And if they do, the process moves forward and if they don't, the president will have some decisions to make.

- Now, Rubio also says, look, I'm here to talk to our partners like the UAE. And then he says, and when we talk about this MOU, there's really no deal yet. We're still one day out, two days out.

So no one can actually expect this thing to really be a binding deal. Again, think about the language that Rubio is using, which is, and he doesn't show up in Switzerland. This is the language of someone who's trying

to sabotage the deal. And he seems to be upset that there was some progress made in Switzerland, which has resulted in some more traffic coming out of the straightaway moves. I mean, not anywhere near pre-war level,

but here's what he says, play this clip.

- So are you all free to talk to us about these deals to do it here?

- Well, we have longstanding relationships and partnerships with the three countries on visiting. And we're here in the United Arab Emirates. This is, I don't know of anyone who's been strong with the United States or the last six months that's been phenomenal.

I mean, for a long time, it's only over the last six months. So we have an ongoing partnership that has been building for a number of decades now and continues to grow. So my sense is that we're gonna continue on that path, obviously taking into account the new regional dynamics

that are at play. But we really hear to hear from them more than we are to talk. We wanna hear, we wanna hear their thoughts, especially in the aftermath of this weekend in Switzerland. It makes sure that their views are taken into account

in every decision that we make, because they're our partners. - I'm both allies on board, at Iran, at least framework. - Well, I think all of our allies are on board with peace. Obviously, it all depends on the details of that piece as we work through, but it's a work in progress.

This is an issue that's been going on for 47 years. So the idea that somehow it's gonna get solved in a day and a half, I don't think anyone's been selling that. - Now, as you know, in the MOU,

there is the $300 billion fund that's supposed

to come from Arab nations that will be going to Iran to fund investment in Iran, right? That's in the MOU. Well, here, Rubio, landing in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, says no,

I'm not here asking the United Arab Emirates for any money.

That's not part of the deal.

Watch what he says, let's play this clip.

- And don't ally here to consider helping with that.

That's far down the road. It's a part of what's discussed that could happen. If Iran makes a decision, if it's leadership makes a decision,

that they want to be a country instead of a revolutionary movement

that exports terror, they're gonna have an opportunity to do incredible things in Iran. I'm not promising that that's the choice we're gonna make. I'm saying that that's the choice that they make, then there will be opportunity

and those opportunities could include investment. As you've seen other countries in this region benefit from investment, from foreign direct investment. It won't be our investment, it won't be our government money, but I think that is something

that's gonna have to depend on progress made on a host of other security issues that have to be confronted in the days to come. - So you see what he's doing here? More from Marco Rubio over here as well,

on his trip to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. Rubio then says, the Lebanon issue has nothing to do with the memorandum of understanding and has nothing to do with the subsequent talks in Switzerland

which were intended to implement the MOU.

He says that's something that I am going to be dealing with

with Lebanon directly. Sorry Rubio, that's very much in the MOU and it's also in the subsequent joint statement arising out of the MOU. But watch what Rubio says here, 'cause again,

he's doing this on purpose to sabotage the deal. Watch what he says, play this clip. - Meeting in Washington as we speak. Is he a position that that process should be separate from Iran's peace deal?

- Well, that process is separate. It's separate because Lebanon is a sovereign country. It has a government. And when it comes to Lebanon, what's happening inside of Lebanon,

we're gonna negotiate and deal directly with the Lebanese government. I spoke to President Ayun along with the Vice President a few moments ago spoke to him on Friday.

There are people out there now on the ground directly.

So the reason why that issue is over now, there's an Iranian issue with regard to Lebanon and that is their support and sponsorship of Hezbollah. And so that'll factor will be discussed as part of our conversation with Iranians.

But as far as the future of Lebanon, the future of Lebanon belongs to the Lebanese people through their sovereign elected government. And that's who we're gonna be working with. - And then the MOU also says that the control

of the straight of Hormuz will be under the supervision and part of the sovereign territorial rights of Iran and Oman. That is in the MOU. But here, Rubio and you can see Rubio's face looks angry. He looks like an angry guy right here.

And he's out there saying, no, they don't control it. It's an international waterway. They don't have any rights to say they control this straight of Hormuz. Whatever you think about what Rubio is saying is irrelevant

'cause that's what's in the MOU. That Rubio has refused to participate in the process. And in Switzerland, but now he wants to go to the UAE in Bahrain and Kuwait and say, look, I'm your guy. JD doesn't know what the hell he's doing.

I'm your guy. We'll come up with the plan when this MOU dissolves. Watch what he says here, play this clip. - Well, Hormuz, if possible,

can the US and Alas, can they? I've gone on to navigation. Freedom of navigation and this thing. Well, that's the law. These are international waterway.

No country is allowed to charge tolls or fees on an international waterway. That's existing international law. That's the way it is. And international waterways all over the world.

And that's the way we expect it'll be here. So I don't think we have anybody to convince around here in that regard. I think all the countries in this region would agree with it. - This episode is brought to you by IQ Bar,

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see terms for details. And then Rubio escalates even more. And then Rubio attacks her on. And he said, we can't have an end to these hostilities and conflicts as long as the Iranian proxies

are launching missiles and drones from Iraq and participating in terrorism like Hamas did and his ballad did. And so again here, regardless of what you think about what Rubio is saying,

we do a Rubio, we do have an end of hostilities

that we're trying to reach. It's in the MOU and it's in the technical talks that you don't want to be a part of. So Rubio is using the pre-war rhetoric and war rhetoric and not the let's re-translution rhetoric.

Now you may like Rubio's rhetoric better. I don't know. My only point is that's inconsistent with what the deal is that Trump signed in Versailles and held up while Rubio was behind him looking all angry.

Watch it Rubio says he or play this clip.

- I think a careful reading at the MOU will see that

when you talk about, for example, or complete an end of hostilities in the entire region. Well, that's not possible. You can't have the end of hostilities and conflicts in the region

as long as Iranian proxies are launching missiles and drones from Iraq and are participating in terrorism like Hamas did and like Hamas did. And just so you can see, we go into the writing here

of what's in the MOU, here's the Islamabad MOU between the United States, paragraph one. The United States of America and Iran and their allies in the current war are signing this MOU to declare the immediate and permanent

termination of the military operations on all fronts, including Lebanon and undertake from now on to initiate, to not initiate any war or military operation against each other. The final deal will confirm the permanent termination

of war on all fronts, including Lebanon and other provisions of this paragraph. It's built in to the MOU. Then we look at the deconfliction cell that's talked about in the joint statement

that came out of the lake or serenbergance.conference in Switzerland. Moreover, it's what it says. The Cotari and Pakistani mediators read the following statement. Moreover, the parties agreed on the creation of a deconfliction cell between the parties,

the Lebanese Republic and facilitated by the mediators. That means US, Iran, Lebanese, Pakistan, and Qatar. And Rubio saying, that's not actually happening. The technical talks will continue on that issue. And so as Hiba Nassar explained,

the Lebanese and Israelis were supposed to discuss deconfliction mechanism this week at the State Department. Instead, a new coordination cell has been announced that includes Lebanon, Iran, the United States,

and the mediators, but not Israel. Whether this was coordinated with Rubio remains unclear, but it raises an obvious question if these issues are now being handled through this new mechanism. What exactly are the Lebanese and the Israeli negotiators

supposed to discuss this week? In essence, the Israelis were cut out of the deconfliction cell because they were viewed by the parties in Switzerland as the conflict, as the cause of conflict by invading Lebanon.

And so Rubio, remember, the UAE and Bahrain are part of the Abraham Accords,

which is that alliance in the first Trump term

with Israel, Kuwait is not. But Rubio is trying to bring this back to be controlled by Israel, because that's when Netanyahu and Ben Gavir and Smutrich won.

As Margaret Brennan of CBS explained, a diplomat attending the talks in Switzerland said that an emergency session on the Hezbollah as rally ceasefire was added. VP Vance also mentioned it was one of the two main issues

tomorrow, though it had previously been handled by, quote, Marco. This is a strategy's trip, which had been trying to deal with the conflicts, and it wasn't dealing. And it was now part of the memorandum of understanding, because it's in there.

So that's what's going on behind the scenes.

Meanwhile, you have the Prime Minister Apocaston knows that Rubio will be working with the UAE and Bahrain and others to try to undermine this. And of course, with Netanyahu, Sharif says,

"There are spoilers all over the world

"who want to scuttle this piece deal. "They don't want the Iranian nation

"a great nation to come out of the ashes of war

"and touch the zenith of glory." Sharif also says, "The MOU doesn't mention ballistic missiles.

"It was never on the table.

"It was never on the agenda. "There can't be a double standard "where some countries can have ballistic missiles "and Iran is not allowed to have them." Iran, of course, can have ballistic missiles.

Iran's foreign ministry spokesperson said, there's no plans to let the IAE inspect their nuclear facilities that's not in the MOU. We're not deviating from the MOU Iran's foreign ministry spokesperson also said,

Iran's going to do what Iran wants to do with the assets that are now in frozen. They're not going to be forced to buy agriculture produce, corn or other things from the United States of America. They may decide to do that,

but they're not required to do that. And then you have the al-ah-ah, our report, the following, Qatar to mediate indirect Israel has bullet talks as Lebanon folds into the U.S. Iran track. The Lebanese daily paper, the al-ah-ah-ah bar,

citing sources close to the talks reports that Lebanon's war has now been folded into the U.S. Iran negotiations. Qatar emerging as the lead mediator. The paper describes this as a defeat for the U.S. Saudi guardianship authority in Beirut.

It's term for Lebanon's Western Align political camp.

That's what Rubio is trying to fight for,

which says had wanted to negotiate directly with Israel and offer concessions. According to the report, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance told Lebanese President Joseph Ayun that Lebanon has become a central part

of a broader negotiation with Iran. It says the ceasefire is rally withdrawal in post-war arrangements, are no longer being handled solely by Lebanon Israel in the United States.

That was the Rubio track. But with an a new framework that includes Iran and the Hezbollah Qatar Pakistan, Al-akhbar adds that Hezbollah and Iran would join the body over seeing implementation

of the ceasefire and the Israeli withdrawal. And of course, Rubio Netanyahu, the Neo-Khan's, the Warhawks, want to avoid that from happening. I'll remind you of what they're pushing on regime media fox as well.

Some of them are attacking J.D. Vance from the Rubio camp, like Brian Kilmede, here, play this clip right here. A couple of things, if you look at Israel, I think J.D. Vance has to rethink

as attack on Israel. The only reason Israel attacks anyone is because they were attacked.

Four IDF soldiers died, that's why they hit it.

But ultimately, here's what J.D. Vance was saying.

You can hear for yourself a very different tone than what Rubio said. Let's play it. All right. Thank you, sir.

Jordan Conrad, so we can get away from that one to talk to the Lebanon component, material. There's a report in Axios that Nanyahu is filming over this. He doesn't, Israel doesn't feel bound to them

of you as their relates to Lebanon. If, as you mentioned, your frustration with Israel's right is Israel's right game in whole group in department buildings. If that continues, could it torpedo the field?

And what would the U.S. respond to B.T. or a paroder or being Lebanon popular in this world? Yeah, well, I don't want to get into hypothetical tools that could torpedo the deal. Because I think the president's expectation

is that all of our friends, the Israelis, the Arabs, and the region, we're going to work together and actually see this deal to completion. Now, I saw the Axios report, you know, that Netanyahu is filming.

That's not reflective of the conversations that I've had with him, but maybe he's saying something to somebody else that he's not saying to me. What I will say, and this does bother me, is that you've seen people within B.B.'s cabinet

who have come out and attacked the deal. And in some ways, very personally, attacked the president of the United States. And I guess my message to them would be twofold. Number one, Donald J. Trump, is the only head of state

in the entire world who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel at this moment in time. And he happens to be the head of state of the world's superpower. If I was in the cabinet of the Israeli government,

I might not be attacking the only powerful ally

that I have anywhere left in the entire world. And the second message I would give to some of those cabinet members. B.B. to his credit has not gone down this path. But to some of these cabinet members in Israel who were attacking the president of the United States,

the other thing that I would say is that over the last three months, two thirds of the defensive weapons that have protected your homeland have been built by American hands and paid for by American tax dollars. The problem for Israel is not Donald J. Trump.

And anybody in Israel who thinks their biggest problem is the president of the United States needs to wake up and smell the reality of the situation that country is in.

Thank you all.

[INTERPOSING VOICES] So there you have it.

That's what's going down behind the scenes.

And Rubio, about 12 days ago, the memorandum of understanding

that he signed was an MOU with the UFC and sports diplomacy, memorandum of understanding.

And that's what I'm not going to show you

the clips there.

But they held a whole MOU ceremony with Dana White

of the USC saying, look, we're doing sports diplomacy.

Important that we understand the subtleties

of what's happening behind the scenes here, OK? I know this isn't being reported on corporate news or anywhere out, but this is what we need to be focused on.

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