That collapse – it was expected – would ripple through, and take down several connected Axis of Resistance fronts, according to the analysis of Mossad and interlinked Israeli power centres in the US (Certain US officials did, however, entertain doubts).

The prediction of a popular uprising in Iran has proved to have been a strategic mistake of such bearing that per contra, it catalysed a stronger, more defiant and assertive Republic. Even Israeli experts admit that the false premise underlying the war has generated a new balance of power in the Middle East. Until then, a top Israeli military commentator (Alon Ben David) could say, Israel was the "go-to" address in the Middle East for the world's interests; but that from now on, the "go-to" state is, and will be, Iran. That comment exemplified the extent to which a Rubicon had been crossed.

So the collective pro-Zionist bloc has shifted to plan "B" – a "deceit" based on the MoU, which were Trump's interpretations to be accepted by Iran (unlikely), would effectively lead to the disarming of Iran through a nuclear agreement that would strip the state naked by virtue of its "verification" requirements: Intrusive, "go-anywhere" surprise IAEA inspections of "secret underground sites" and interrogations of scientists and research academies. All would (again) be exposed.

Taken in tandem with Plan "B"s wider Israeli hegemonic aspiration, the aim would be to concurrently lobotomise Hizbullah through a separate disarmament agreement effected through compliant Lebanese government factions pressing down on the movement from the north, whilst Israel pursued "desertification" in the south.

In parallel, the plan envisages the sterilisation of Palestinian resistance by drawing from the Vietnam "Strategic Hamlet Programme" forerunner of forced relocation into sterilised, fenced "concentration camps."

The third component comprises the cauterisation of the Iraqi Resistance via a compliant new American installed Prime Minister, Ali al-Zaidi, who under the cover of anti-corruption campaign, with US support, is demanding the disarmament of the Iraqi resistance by 30 September. The neutralisation of the Iraqi resistance is seen as key to facilitating a Syrian incursion by President Jolani's jihadist militia into northern Lebanon to complete the vice closing in on Hizbullah.

All in all, Plan "B" seemingly suggests a very comprehensive regional pacification project, especially when taken in conjunction with US efforts to try to force open an "American Corridor" on the Omani side of the Hormuz Strait.

Likely, the regional pacification scheme will be viewed as a clever move by Trump to mitigate the pressure exerted on him by the neo-con anger at his MoU "concessions" to Iran.

But is it so clever? Marco Rubio was instructed to oversee the Beirut establishment making pretty with Israel in their shared antagonism towards Hizbullah. But the resulting "bout de papier" for the disarming of Hizbullah enjoys no legitimacy; it contradicts the Lebanese Constitution and would require cabinet endorsement and parliamentary approval to have any validity or meaning.