'US imperialist hubris damaged': Netizens weigh in on Iran-US war-ending MoU

As the 14-point memorandum of understanding officially takes effect between Iran and the United States, social media users from across the political spectrum deliver a sharp verdict on the MoU, largely echoing that it had dealt a blow to US imperialist hubris.

The memorandum of understanding between Tehran and Washington was formally signed by the presidents of both countries early on Thursday, with the text finalized and the agreement officially in effect. It was finalized on Sunday, following months of intensive negotiations mediated by Pakistan, with support from other regional countries.

Under the MoU, the war on all fronts, including in Lebanon, has ended immediately, and the US naval blockade against Iran has been lifted. It also provides for the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz to commercial shipping.

Lebanese journalist Rania Khalek took a swipe at all of the people who have expressed their anger at the concessions that Washington was forced to make in the MoU, emphasizing that the US lost the war against Iran and sustained a defeat.

“All of the people angry at the concessions the U.S. was forced to make in the Iran-US MOU don’t seem to realize that the Americans lost this war,” she write on her X account.

“Losing is of course a humiliating experience, but these warmongers are in serious denial,” she said.

In a post on his X account, Director of the Electronic Intifada Ali Abunimah pointed to the release of the MoU text by the United States as evidence of Washington's retreat, saying President Donald Trump had made massive concessions to Tehran.

“Trump made massive concessions to Iran, which reflects the actual balance of power after the US-Israeli defeat,” he said.

English broadcaster and journalist Piers Morgan said the Iran deal is the furthest thing from "unconditional surrender" in the history of Planet Earth.

He, however, welcomed Trump's exit from the "fiasco" he had created and said, “I bet if he had his time again, he’d have never got into it or believed Netanyahu’s bullsh*t.”

Vice President of Center for International Policy Matt Duss described Trump's war as a “strategic defeat.”

He noted that the MoU could be a positive step if it “puts the US and Iran on path to a more normal relationship”.

American influencer HasanAbi argued that Iran won the war the moment it closed the Strait of Hormuz in response to the US attack, something it had refused to do throughout decades of American and Israeli pressure and the US sanctions.

He reminded critics that Tehran was “willing to do diplomacy the entire time.”

He urged warmongers to “stop demanding more war.”

Setareh Sadeqi, assistant professor at the University of Tehran, said the MoU clearly demonstrates Iran's victories on both the battlefield and in diplomacy.

“Iran also knows the U.S. and its regional military outpost do not respect agreements and can return to war at any moment,” she wrote.

She, however, asserted that the deal showed that US imperialist hubris has been dealt a damaging blow.

Breaking Points host Saagar Enjeti drew attention to the economic disparity between the two arch-foes, noting that Israel's total GDP stands at $540 billion while Iran's heavily sanctioned rump economy sits at $437 billion.

“An unsanctioned and reconstructed Iran will be many times more economically & strategically important to the world than Israel,” he argued.

He explained that this is the reason that “Israel finds a deal intolerable.”

American far-right political commentator Nicholas J. Fuentes declared that with the MoU signed on Friday, the United States has officially lost the war on Iran.

He said the US is paying Iran “hundreds of billions of dollars to open the Strait of Hormuz” which is now under Iran's ‘permanent control”.

“The only silver lining is if this defeat decouples the US from Israel forever,” he emphasized.

Drop Site reporter Ryan Grim drew attention to Trump's "common-sense" yet shocking remarks, including questioning why Iran should be denied ballistic missiles while everybody else have them.

He admitted that the US president had no choice but to end the war with oil depletion and market collapse looming, or he would have become Herbert Hoover in a few weeks, referring to the 31st American president, who many blamed for the Great Depression and criticized his efforts to solve the crisis. 

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