{"id":7121,"date":"2026-06-18T01:45:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T22:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/?p=7121"},"modified":"2026-06-18T01:45:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T22:45:27","slug":"iran-the-obscene-jubilation-of-the-anti-trumpers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/iran-the-obscene-jubilation-of-the-anti-trumpers\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: The Obscene Jubilation of the Anti-Trumpers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <em>Causeur<\/em>, French commentators have rushed to declare President <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> the clear loser in the military confrontation that began on February 28 and was suspended on June 14. Yet the facts suggest a more complex outcome that undermines the narrative of American humiliation being promoted across Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement, which sources indicate will be formally confirmed in Geneva on Friday, includes significant concessions from the Iranian regime. Beyond the ceasefire itself, the text reportedly ensures the restoration of free navigation through the Strait of Hormuz and commits the mullahs to renouncing nuclear weapons. A sixty-day window has been established to consolidate these commitments.<\/p>\n<p>French diplomatic circles had dismissed the possibility that Iran would sign any agreement on Trump&#8217;s birthday as absurd, with former ambassador <strong>G\u00e9rard Araud<\/strong> mocking the notion on French television the day before the deal was announced. Yet that is precisely what occurred, representing what could be characterized as a diplomatic gift to the American president.<\/p>\n<h2>French Hostility on Full Display<\/h2>\n<p>The French government&#8217;s attitude toward the United States has grown increasingly antagonistic. At Monday&#8217;s G7 meeting in Evian, President <strong>Emmanuel Macron<\/strong> kept his left hand casually in his pocket during a handshake with Trump, who maintained a stern expression and did not make eye contact with his French counterpart. The working dinner scheduled for Wednesday evening at Versailles appears designed to smooth over tensions.<\/p>\n<p>French political figures have openly questioned the transatlantic alliance. <strong>Val\u00e9rie Hayer<\/strong> stated in March that under Trump, the United States could no longer be considered a French ally. This sentiment reflects a broader European satisfaction at what they perceive as American setbacks in the region.<\/p>\n<p>France&#8217;s position toward Israel has proven equally hostile. At Eurosatory, the global defense and security trade show in Paris, approximately a dozen Israeli companies were concealed behind barriers on orders from French authorities, as <em>Causeur<\/em> reports, in what amounted to a public display of antagonism toward the Jewish state.<\/p>\n<h2>The Real Stakes in Iran<\/h2>\n<p>The Iranian dictatorship has certainly survived 24,000 strikes during what has been termed the hundred-day war. Whether Trump erred in halting the offensive and distancing himself from Israeli Prime Minister <strong>Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s<\/strong> more aggressive strategy remains an open question that history will ultimately answer.<\/p>\n<p>However, the oppressed Iranian population remains the true judge of this intervention. The notion advanced by lazy commentators that Iranian civil society has rallied behind its leadership under attack represents a fiction designed to obscure reality. The Iranian people remain the primary opponents of their oppressors, even if Western audiences have forgotten them.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has demonstrated to the world what a small but determined nation can accomplish when fighting for its survival. The Jewish state&#8217;s resolve, including its determination to dismantle Hezbollah after Hamas, stands in stark contrast to France&#8217;s willingness to accommodate totalitarian Islam.<\/p>\n<h3>European Capitulation<\/h3>\n<p>The jubilation displayed by France and the European Union over America&#8217;s perceived difficulties reveals what <em>Causeur<\/em> characterizes as a cowardly posture. Nothing has become more conventional than distancing oneself from the United States and Israel, to the satisfaction of Tehran&#8217;s apocalyptic regime and the Islamist extremists celebrating on social media.<\/p>\n<p>While the agreement remains fragile, reporting indicates that conservative factions within the Iranian regime have protested the rapprochement between the Revolutionary Guards and Washington. This internal resistance suggests the deal represents more than a simple victory for Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>The Western world owes gratitude to the two leaders who chose to confront obscurantist Islam and its collaborators, even if their execution proved imperfect. The alternative of continued appeasement championed by European capitals serves only to embolden forces hostile to Western civilization and democratic values.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><em>With information from <a href=\"https:\/\/causeur.fr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Causeur<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French media celebrate a perceived American defeat in the Iran conflict, but the deal includes significant Iranian concessions including nuclear weapons renunciation and Strait of Hormuz navigation rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[196,55,96,2733,280,324,209],"nfg_topic":[135],"class_list":["post-7121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-france","tag-iran","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-tehran","tag-united-states","nfg_topic-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7300,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7121\/revisions\/7300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7121"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=7121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}