The roots of the current Middle Eastern crisis are traced back to Trump's 2018 withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA). Fuentes explains how China brokered a peace deal between Saudi Arabia and Iran in 2023, which the U.S. and Israel have sought to sabotage. The segment posits that the October 7th attacks were used as a pretext to expand the war and prevent a resurrection of the nuclear deal by the Biden administration.