As U.S. and Iranian delegations arrived in Switzerland for talks on the end to the war between the countries, Beni Sabti, a senior Iran analyst at Tel Aviv's Institute for National Security Studies and a former IDF intelligence officer of some three decades, quote-posted the commentator Jason Brodsky, adding in a horrific call for an attack on the USA.

Brodsky was lamenting the new U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding, the one signed on 17 June, whose first clause commits both states to a permanent end to military operations on all fronts, Lebanon included. To Brodsky, folding Lebanon into the deal was the USA "acquiescing to Iranian demands," one of the biggest mistakes Washington could make. Despite the fact that Israel and Lebanon had a preexisting ceasefire agreement.