On Thursday, June 18th Tablet hosted a live recording of the Barbarians podcast, as an exclusive event for Tablet subscribers. This week, Tablet Liel Leibovitz was joined by columnist Lee Smith, news editor Tony Badran, and Scroll senior writer Park MacDougald in making sense of the MOU, or the memorandum of understanding, Trump just signed with Iran.

Why is Trump lashing out at Israel for fighting Hezbollah? And why does Vice President J.D. Vance sound a lot like Barack Obama these days, applauding a deal that rewards the mullahs in Tehran with far more resources and regional influence than anything even the Democrats were ever willing to concede?

As always, the Barbarians riffed on these and other topics and took questions from our subscribers.

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