America Just Gave Iran What It Wanted | Asher Fredman

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This is a moment that calls for American leadership. But if the Iran MOU gives Tehran legitimacy before dismantling its nuclear threat — and the UN system empowers America’s adversaries while America pays for it — what kind of leadership is the West actually getting?

In this episode of EylON the Record, Eylon Levy speaks with Asher Fredman, Executive Director of the Misgav Institute and former senior official in Israel’s Prime Minister’s Office, Ministry of Public Security, and Ministry of Strategic Affairs, about the Trump administration’s memorandum of understanding with Iran, the strategic consequences for Israel, and Misgav’s new report arguing that the United States should withdraw from much of the UN system and build better alternatives. Together, they ask whether American power is being used to lead — or to legitimize institutions and agreements that reward America’s adversaries.

In this episode, we discuss:

- Why it’s problematic for the Iran MOU to give Tehran sanctions relief and hard cash before Iran dismantles its nuclear threat

- The Misgav Institute’s report, From UN Bureaucracy to American Global Leadership, and its case for why the United States should disengage from the UN

- How China and other adversarial powers use the UN system to constrain America while relying on American funding

- Why anti-Israel bias at the UN is not only an Israeli problem, but a warning for every democracy fighting terror

Read the Misgav Institute report discussed in this episode:

Beyond the headlines, this conversation is about whether America can still shape the international order — or whether it is funding, legitimizing, and deferring to systems that now work against its own interests. For Israel, the question is even sharper: when diplomacy rewards Tehran and the UN gives hostile actors a global platform, Israel may have to rely less on being understood, and more on becoming indispensable.

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“At the end of the day, it doesn't matter whether people understand us, it doesn't matter whether they like us, it matters whether they need us.”

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