Iran deal officially ends US empire, exposes limits of American power: Tucker Carlson

American conservative commentator Tucker Carlson says the memorandum of understanding between Iran and the United States marks a historic turning level, stressing that Washington’s incapability to impose its will on Tehran indicators the start of the tip of the American empire.

Commenting on the Iran-US memorandum of understanding remotely signed by US President Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Wednesday, Carlson burdened that the MoU represents an acknowledgment by Washington that Iran has emerged as a regional energy that can not be subdued by means of navy stress.

“With this, the United States has officially acknowledged that Iran is a player. And that changes everything, in the same way that the 1956 Suez crisis, another crisis, another war over a narrow waterway, through which commerce flows, ended the British Empire,” he emphasised.

Carlson famous that the Suez Crisis didn’t create Britain’s decline however uncovered a loss of energy that had already taken place.

“Now, of course, you argue the British Empire really kind of ended with the armistice in 1918, at the end of the First World War, you could definitely argue that it was done by 1945 when they ‘won World War II.’ But like a lot of fading empires, it wasn’t obvious to the rest of us, so there was muscle memory involved. And Britain had ruled the world. And so it was fading, but not dead,” he added.

Expanding on the historical parallel, Carlson argued that Britain’s inability to shape events during the Suez Crisis revealed the true limits of its power.

“But within the house of a really brief interval of time with that pretty complicated disaster, Britain was completed? Why? Because within the Suez disaster of 1956, Britain made it actually clear that it doesn’t matter what they mentioned or wished, they could not really have an effect on the result. They did not have the facility to settle issues the best way they wished. The US did,” he further said.

According to Carlson, the current MoU with Iran could represent a similar moment for the United States. While Washington has long dominated security and political arrangements across West Asia, he has argued that the outcome of the confrontation with Tehran demonstrates that military superiority alone no longer guarantees strategic success.

“And so America, possibly not formally, however definitely, virtually, took Britain’s place because the ruler of the Middle East. With this, the United States has proven that it doesn’t have, regardless of possessing the world’s finest or largest or definitely most generously funded navy, doesn’t have the navy energy to impose its will on the thirty fourth largest financial system on the planet,” he stressed.

The 14-point memorandum of understanding, signed remotely by Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Trump on Wednesday, calls for a permanent end to hostilities across all fronts, including Lebanon, the phased lifting of US sanctions, the removal of the naval blockade on Iran within 30 days, and the restoration of commercial traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.

The draft agreement also includes a reconstruction and economic development plan for Iran worth at least $300 billion, oil export waivers, the release of Iran’s frozen assets, and a renewed Iranian commitment not to develop nuclear weapons, while further negotiations continue over Tehran’s enriched uranium stockpile.

The agreement has triggered sharp criticism in Washington, where many lawmakers argue that months of military escalation imposed high costs on the United States while yielding significant gains for Iran.