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Iran says draft US deal includes oil sanctions waiver, nuclear limits and
asset release
By Parisa Hafezi <https://www.reuters.com/authors/parisa-hafezi/>
June 14, 20266:24 AM EDTUpdated 1 hour ago
[image: A man walks next to a symbolic mock-up of an Iranian missile, on a
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in Tehran, Iran, June 11, 2026. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News
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DUBAI, June 14 (Reuters) - A senior Iranian official told Reuters a final
draft of the memorandum of understanding with the U.S. covered a range of
issues, from Tehran=E2=80=99s nuclear work to reopening the =E2=80=8CStrait=
 of Hormuz and
U.S. waivers on oil sanctions, with a final deal to be discussed in the 60
days following agreement by the two sides.
The Iranian official said the draft memorandum included the following:

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STRAIT OF HORMUZ:
* Iran immediately reopens the Strait of Hormuz to all commercial vessels,
while the U.S. =E2=81=A0lifts its naval blockade on Iranian ports. The lift=
ing of
the U.S. blockade would begin immediately after the memorandum is signed
and be completed within 30 days.
FINANCIAL:
* The U.S. agrees not to impose any new sanctions on Iran until a final
deal is reached.
* Following a final agreement, all U.S. and U.N. sanctions on Iran would be
lifted according to an agreed timetable.
* The U.S. will waive oil sanctions on Iran for a specified period,
allowing Tehran to sell oil and receive revenue.
* The =E2=80=8CU.S. =E2=81=A0agrees to release $25 billion of Iran=E2=80=99=
s frozen assets,
including via direct cash transfers, cooperation among regional countries,
and financial credit lines.
* Washington, in coordination with its regional allies, would prepare a
reconstruction and development plan for Iran, to be negotiated and agreed
with Tehran within =E2=81=A060 days.
NUCLEAR:
* Tehran agrees that it will neither produce nor acquire nuclear weapons.
* Pending a final agreement, Iran would maintain the current status of its
nuclear programme, refraining from further uranium enrichment =E2=81=A0and
expansion of nuclear facilities.
* The United States agrees to allow Iran to dilute its stockpile of highly
enriched uranium on Iranian soil under a future comprehensive =E2=81=A0agre=
ement.
* Iran=E2=80=99s nuclear programme, uranium enrichment activities and mecha=
nisms
for handling its stockpile of highly enriched uranium would be negotiated
within 60 days of the memorandum and addressed in a final agreement.

Reporting by Parisa Hafezi, Editing by Elaine Hardcastle

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ext to a symbolic mock-up of an Iranian missile, on a street in Tehran, Ira=
n, June 11, 2026. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS=
=C2=A0<a target=3D"_blank" href=3D"https://www.reutersconnect.com/item/a-ma=
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amily:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit">Purchase Licensing<sp=
an class=3D"gmail-link-module__suffix__ObiNY" style=3D"margin-inline-end: 2=
0px;">=C2=A0Rights</span><span style=3D"border:0px;height:1px;overflow:hidd=
en;padding:0px;width:1px;white-space:nowrap">, opens new tab</span></a></di=
v></div><div class=3D"gmail-article-body-module__content__bnXL1" style=3D"w=
idth:707.325px"><div class=3D"gmail-text-module__text__0GDob gmail-text-mod=
ule__dark-grey__UFC18 gmail-text-module__regular__qJJtA gmail-text-module__=
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body__gOmDf gmail-article-body-module__paragraph__Ts-yF" style=3D"font-size=
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ont-family:knowledge-regular,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);max-width=
:100%">DUBAI, June 14 (Reuters) - A senior Iranian official told Reuters a =
final draft of the memorandum of understanding with the U.S. covered a rang=
e of issues, from Tehran=E2=80=99s nuclear work to reopening the =E2=80=8CS=
trait of Hormuz and U.S. waivers on oil sanctions, with a final deal to be =
discussed in the 60 days following agreement by the two sides.</div><div cl=
ass=3D"gmail-text-module__text__0GDob gmail-text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 g=
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le-body-module__paragraph__Ts-yF" style=3D"font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 12=
px;padding:0px;letter-spacing:0px;line-height:24px;font-family:knowledge-re=
gular,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);max-width:100%">The Iranian offi=
cial said the draft memorandum included the following:</div><p class=3D"gma=
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ase__o--Cl gmail-body-module__small_body__gOmDf gmail-article-body-module__=
promo-box__hVl8h" style=3D"font-size:16px;margin:12px 0px 24px;padding:16px=
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al,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);max-width:720px;background-color:rgb(248,=
248,248);display:inline-block">The Reuters Power Up newsletter provides eve=
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inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit">here.</a></p><h2 class=3D"g=
mail-text-module__text__0GDob gmail-text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 gmail-tex=
t-module__medium__2Rl30 gmail-text-module__heading_6__u1KdJ gmail-heading-m=
odule__base__p-zaD gmail-heading-module__heading_6__-zrtS gmail-article-bod=
y-module__heading__KTJKz" style=3D"font-size:18px;margin:24px 0px 12px;padd=
ing:0px;letter-spacing:0px;line-height:26px;font-family:knowledge-medium,Ar=
ial,sans-serif;font-weight:500;color:rgb(64,64,64)">STRAIT OF HORMUZ:</h2><=
div class=3D"gmail-text-module__text__0GDob gmail-text-module__dark-grey__U=
FC18 gmail-text-module__regular__qJJtA gmail-text-module__small__sph8i gmai=
l-body-module__full_width__kCIGb gmail-body-module__small_body__gOmDf gmail=
-article-body-module__paragraph__Ts-yF" style=3D"font-size:16px;margin:0px =
0px 12px;padding:0px;letter-spacing:0px;line-height:24px;font-family:knowle=
dge-regular,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);max-width:100%">* Iran imm=
ediately reopens the Strait of Hormuz to all commercial vessels, while the =
U.S. =E2=81=A0lifts its naval blockade on Iranian ports. The lifting of the=
 U.S. blockade would begin immediately after the memorandum is signed and b=
e completed within 30 days.</div><div class=3D"gmail-article-body-module__e=
lement__5eCce" style=3D"width:707.325px;margin:24px 0px"></div><h2 class=3D=
"gmail-text-module__text__0GDob gmail-text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 gmail-t=
ext-module__medium__2Rl30 gmail-text-module__heading_6__u1KdJ gmail-heading=
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ody-module__heading__KTJKz" style=3D"font-size:18px;margin:24px 0px 12px;pa=
dding:0px;letter-spacing:0px;line-height:26px;font-family:knowledge-medium,=
Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:500;color:rgb(64,64,64)">FINANCIAL:</h2><div c=
lass=3D"gmail-text-module__text__0GDob gmail-text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 =
gmail-text-module__regular__qJJtA gmail-text-module__small__sph8i gmail-bod=
y-module__full_width__kCIGb gmail-body-module__small_body__gOmDf gmail-arti=
cle-body-module__paragraph__Ts-yF" style=3D"font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 1=
2px;padding:0px;letter-spacing:0px;line-height:24px;font-family:knowledge-r=
egular,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);max-width:100%">* The U.S. agre=
es not to impose any new sanctions on Iran until a final deal is reached.</=
div><div class=3D"gmail-text-module__text__0GDob gmail-text-module__dark-gr=
ey__UFC18 gmail-text-module__regular__qJJtA gmail-text-module__small__sph8i=
 gmail-body-module__full_width__kCIGb gmail-body-module__small_body__gOmDf =
gmail-article-body-module__paragraph__Ts-yF" style=3D"font-size:16px;margin=
:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px;letter-spacing:0px;line-height:24px;font-family:k=
nowledge-regular,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);max-width:100%">* Fol=
lowing a final agreement, all U.S. and U.N. sanctions on Iran would be lift=
ed according to an agreed timetable.</div><div class=3D"gmail-text-module__=
text__0GDob gmail-text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 gmail-text-module__regular_=
_qJJtA gmail-text-module__small__sph8i gmail-body-module__full_width__kCIGb=
 gmail-body-module__small_body__gOmDf gmail-article-body-module__paragraph_=
_Ts-yF" style=3D"font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px;letter-spac=
ing:0px;line-height:24px;font-family:knowledge-regular,Arial,sans-serif;col=
or:rgb(64,64,64);max-width:100%">* The U.S. will waive oil sanctions on Ira=
n for a specified period, allowing Tehran to sell oil and receive revenue.<=
/div><div class=3D"gmail-text-module__text__0GDob gmail-text-module__dark-g=
rey__UFC18 gmail-text-module__regular__qJJtA gmail-text-module__small__sph8=
i gmail-body-module__full_width__kCIGb gmail-body-module__small_body__gOmDf=
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n:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px;letter-spacing:0px;line-height:24px;font-family:=
knowledge-regular,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);max-width:100%">* Th=
e =E2=80=8CU.S. =E2=81=A0agrees to release $25 billion of Iran=E2=80=99s fr=
ozen assets, including via direct cash transfers, cooperation among regiona=
l countries, and financial credit lines.</div><div class=3D"gmail-text-modu=
le__text__0GDob gmail-text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 gmail-text-module__regu=
lar__qJJtA gmail-text-module__small__sph8i gmail-body-module__full_width__k=
CIGb gmail-body-module__small_body__gOmDf gmail-article-body-module__paragr=
aph__Ts-yF" style=3D"font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px;letter-=
spacing:0px;line-height:24px;font-family:knowledge-regular,Arial,sans-serif=
;color:rgb(64,64,64);max-width:100%">* Washington, in coordination with its=
 regional allies, would prepare a reconstruction and development plan for I=
ran, to be negotiated and agreed with Tehran within =E2=81=A060 days.</div>=
<div class=3D"gmail-article-body-module__element__5eCce" style=3D"width:707=
.325px;margin:24px 0px"></div><h2 class=3D"gmail-text-module__text__0GDob g=
mail-text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 gmail-text-module__medium__2Rl30 gmail-t=
ext-module__heading_6__u1KdJ gmail-heading-module__base__p-zaD gmail-headin=
g-module__heading_6__-zrtS gmail-article-body-module__heading__KTJKz" style=
=3D"font-size:18px;margin:24px 0px 12px;padding:0px;letter-spacing:0px;line=
-height:26px;font-family:knowledge-medium,Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:500;=
color:rgb(64,64,64)">NUCLEAR:</h2><div class=3D"gmail-text-module__text__0G=
Dob gmail-text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 gmail-text-module__regular__qJJtA g=
mail-text-module__small__sph8i gmail-body-module__full_width__kCIGb gmail-b=
ody-module__small_body__gOmDf gmail-article-body-module__paragraph__Ts-yF" =
style=3D"font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px;letter-spacing:0px;=
line-height:24px;font-family:knowledge-regular,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(6=
4,64,64);max-width:100%">* Tehran agrees that it will neither produce nor a=
cquire nuclear weapons.</div><div class=3D"gmail-text-module__text__0GDob g=
mail-text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 gmail-text-module__regular__qJJtA gmail-=
text-module__small__sph8i gmail-body-module__full_width__kCIGb gmail-body-m=
odule__small_body__gOmDf gmail-article-body-module__paragraph__Ts-yF" style=
=3D"font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px;letter-spacing:0px;line-=
height:24px;font-family:knowledge-regular,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,=
64);max-width:100%">* Pending a final agreement, Iran would maintain the cu=
rrent status of its nuclear programme, refraining from further uranium enri=
chment =E2=81=A0and expansion of nuclear facilities.</div><div class=3D"gma=
il-text-module__text__0GDob gmail-text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 gmail-text-=
module__regular__qJJtA gmail-text-module__small__sph8i gmail-body-module__f=
ull_width__kCIGb gmail-body-module__small_body__gOmDf gmail-article-body-mo=
dule__paragraph__Ts-yF" style=3D"font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 12px;padding=
:0px;letter-spacing:0px;line-height:24px;font-family:knowledge-regular,Aria=
l,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);max-width:100%">* The United States agrees=
 to allow Iran to dilute its stockpile of highly enriched uranium on Irania=
n soil under a future comprehensive =E2=81=A0agreement.</div><div class=3D"=
gmail-text-module__text__0GDob gmail-text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 gmail-te=
xt-module__regular__qJJtA gmail-text-module__small__sph8i gmail-body-module=
__full_width__kCIGb gmail-body-module__small_body__gOmDf gmail-article-body=
-module__paragraph__Ts-yF" style=3D"font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 12px;padd=
ing:0px;letter-spacing:0px;line-height:24px;font-family:knowledge-regular,A=
rial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);max-width:100%">* Iran=E2=80=99s nuclea=
r programme, uranium enrichment activities and mechanisms for handling its =
stockpile of highly enriched uranium would be negotiated within 60 days of =
the memorandum and addressed in a final agreement.</div><div class=3D"gmail=
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0px"></div><div class=3D"gmail-article-body-module__element__5eCce" style=
=3D"width:707.325px;margin:0px 0px 24px"><p class=3D"gmail-text-module__tex=
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14jun26 =E2=80=93 Alexandria, VA

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TACO. Yet again ! The concessions to Iran are astounding. Especially =
when you consider the damage His war on Iran has inflicted on the U.S. =
and global economy, notably inflation.

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Paul Horne

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Iran says draft US deal includes oil sanctions waiver, nuclear limits =
and asset release


By  <https://www.reuters.com/authors/parisa-hafezi/> Parisa Hafezi

June 14, 20266:24 AM EDTUpdated 1 hour ago

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A man walks next to a symbolic mock-up of an Iranian missile, on a =
street in Tehran, Iran, June 11, 2026. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia =
News Agency) via REUTERS  =
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DUBAI, June 14 (Reuters) - A senior Iranian official told Reuters a =
final draft of the memorandum of understanding with the U.S. covered a =
range of issues, from Tehran=E2=80=99s nuclear work to reopening the =
=E2=80=8CStrait of Hormuz and U.S. waivers on oil sanctions, with a =
final deal to be discussed in the 60 days following agreement by the two =
sides.

The Iranian official said the draft memorandum included the following:

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ncludes-oil-sanctions-waiver-nuclear-limits-asset-2026-06-14%2F> here.


STRAIT OF HORMUZ:


* Iran immediately reopens the Strait of Hormuz to all commercial =
vessels, while the U.S. =E2=81=A0lifts its naval blockade on Iranian =
ports. The lifting of the U.S. blockade would begin immediately after =
the memorandum is signed and be completed within 30 days.


FINANCIAL:


* The U.S. agrees not to impose any new sanctions on Iran until a final =
deal is reached.

* Following a final agreement, all U.S. and U.N. sanctions on Iran would =
be lifted according to an agreed timetable.

* The U.S. will waive oil sanctions on Iran for a specified period, =
allowing Tehran to sell oil and receive revenue.

* The =E2=80=8CU.S. =E2=81=A0agrees to release $25 billion of =
Iran=E2=80=99s frozen assets, including via direct cash transfers, =
cooperation among regional countries, and financial credit lines.

* Washington, in coordination with its regional allies, would prepare a =
reconstruction and development plan for Iran, to be negotiated and =
agreed with Tehran within =E2=81=A060 days.


NUCLEAR:


* Tehran agrees that it will neither produce nor acquire nuclear =
weapons.

* Pending a final agreement, Iran would maintain the current status of =
its nuclear programme, refraining from further uranium enrichment =
=E2=81=A0and expansion of nuclear facilities.

* The United States agrees to allow Iran to dilute its stockpile of =
highly enriched uranium on Iranian soil under a future comprehensive =
=E2=81=A0agreement.

* Iran=E2=80=99s nuclear programme, uranium enrichment activities and =
mechanisms for handling its stockpile of highly enriched uranium would =
be negotiated within 60 days of the memorandum and addressed in a final =
agreement.

Reporting by Parisa Hafezi, Editing by Elaine Hardcastle


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inflicted on the U.S. and global economy, notably =
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style=3D'line-height:18.0pt'><span =
style=3D'font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#404040'>DUBAI, June 14 =
(Reuters) - A senior Iranian official told Reuters a final draft of the =
memorandum of understanding with the U.S. covered a range of issues, =
from Tehran=E2=80=99s nuclear work to reopening the =E2=80=8CStrait of =
Hormuz and U.S. waivers on oil sanctions, with a final deal to be =
discussed in the 60 days following agreement by the two =
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style=3D'line-height:18.0pt'><span =
style=3D'font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#404040'>The Iranian =
official said the draft memorandum included the =
following:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p =
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style=3D'font-family:"inherit",serif'>here.</span></a><o:p></o:p></span><=
/p><h2 =
style=3D'mso-margin-top-alt:.25in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:9.0pt;ma=
rgin-left:0in;line-height:19.5pt'><span =
style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#404040;fo=
nt-weight:normal'>STRAIT OF HORMUZ:<o:p></o:p></span></h2><div =
style=3D'margin-bottom:9.0pt;max-width:100%'><p class=3DMsoNormal =
style=3D'line-height:18.0pt'><span =
style=3D'font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#404040'>* Iran =
immediately reopens the Strait of Hormuz to all commercial vessels, =
while the U.S. </span><span style=3D'font-family:"Segoe UI =
Symbol",sans-serif;color:#404040'>=E2=81=A0</span><span =
style=3D'font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#404040'>lifts its naval =
blockade on Iranian ports. The lifting of the U.S. blockade would begin =
immediately after the memorandum is signed and be completed within 30 =
days.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><h2 =
style=3D'mso-margin-top-alt:.25in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:9.0pt;ma=
rgin-left:0in;line-height:19.5pt'><span =
style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#404040;fo=
nt-weight:normal'>FINANCIAL:<o:p></o:p></span></h2><div =
style=3D'margin-bottom:9.0pt;max-width:100%'><p class=3DMsoNormal =
style=3D'line-height:18.0pt'><span =
style=3D'font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#404040'>* The U.S. agrees =
not to impose any new sanctions on Iran until a final deal is =
reached.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div =
style=3D'margin-bottom:9.0pt;max-width:100%'><p class=3DMsoNormal =
style=3D'line-height:18.0pt'><span =
style=3D'font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#404040'>* Following a =
final agreement, all U.S. and U.N. sanctions on Iran would be lifted =
according to an agreed timetable.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div =
style=3D'margin-bottom:9.0pt;max-width:100%'><p class=3DMsoNormal =
style=3D'line-height:18.0pt'><span =
style=3D'font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#404040'>* The U.S. will =
waive oil sanctions on Iran for a specified period, allowing Tehran to =
sell oil and receive revenue.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div =
style=3D'margin-bottom:9.0pt;max-width:100%'><p class=3DMsoNormal =
style=3D'line-height:18.0pt'><span =
style=3D'font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#404040'>* The =
=E2=80=8CU.S. </span><span style=3D'font-family:"Segoe UI =
Symbol",sans-serif;color:#404040'>=E2=81=A0</span><span =
style=3D'font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#404040'>agrees to release =
$25 billion of Iran=E2=80=99s frozen assets, including via direct cash =
transfers, cooperation among regional countries, and financial credit =
lines.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div =
style=3D'margin-bottom:9.0pt;max-width:100%'><p class=3DMsoNormal =
style=3D'line-height:18.0pt'><span =
style=3D'font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#404040'>* Washington, in =
coordination with its regional allies, would prepare a reconstruction =
and development plan for Iran, to be negotiated and agreed with Tehran =
within </span><span style=3D'font-family:"Segoe UI =
Symbol",sans-serif;color:#404040'>=E2=81=A0</span><span =
style=3D'font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#404040'>60 =
days.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><h2 =
style=3D'mso-margin-top-alt:.25in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:9.0pt;ma=
rgin-left:0in;line-height:19.5pt'><span =
style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#404040;fo=
nt-weight:normal'>NUCLEAR:<o:p></o:p></span></h2><div =
style=3D'margin-bottom:9.0pt;max-width:100%'><p class=3DMsoNormal =
style=3D'line-height:18.0pt'><span =
style=3D'font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#404040'>* Tehran agrees =
that it will neither produce nor acquire nuclear =
weapons.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div =
style=3D'margin-bottom:9.0pt;max-width:100%'><p class=3DMsoNormal =
style=3D'line-height:18.0pt'><span =
style=3D'font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#404040'>* Pending a final =
agreement, Iran would maintain the current status of its nuclear =
programme, refraining from further uranium enrichment </span><span =
style=3D'font-family:"Segoe UI =
Symbol",sans-serif;color:#404040'>=E2=81=A0</span><span =
style=3D'font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#404040'>and expansion of =
nuclear facilities.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div =
style=3D'margin-bottom:9.0pt;max-width:100%'><p class=3DMsoNormal =
style=3D'line-height:18.0pt'><span =
style=3D'font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#404040'>* The United =
States agrees to allow Iran to dilute its stockpile of highly enriched =
uranium on Iranian soil under a future comprehensive </span><span =
style=3D'font-family:"Segoe UI =
Symbol",sans-serif;color:#404040'>=E2=81=A0</span><span =
style=3D'font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#404040'>agreement.<o:p></o=
:p></span></p></div><div style=3D'margin-bottom:9.0pt;max-width:100%'><p =
class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'line-height:18.0pt'><span =
style=3D'font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#404040'>* Iran=E2=80=99s =
nuclear programme, uranium enrichment activities and mechanisms for =
handling its stockpile of highly enriched uranium would be negotiated =
within 60 days of the memorandum and addressed in a final =
agreement.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div =
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*https://www.indianpunchline.com/india-signals-rethink-over-west-asia/
<https://www.indianpunchline.com/india-signals-rethink-over-west-asia/>*

*India signals rethink over West Asia*
*June 13, 2026
<https://www.indianpunchline.com/india-signals-rethink-over-west-asia/> by =
M.
K. BHADRAKUMAR <https://www.indianpunchline.com/author/inpunchline/>*
*Rare consensus-making effort. Ministry of External Affairs Spokesman
Randhir Jaiswal addresses Inter- Ministerial Briefing on Recent
Developments in West Asia, in New Delhi. *

*Make no mistake, Modi Government is squarely blaming the US
<https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/us-navy-attacked-3-merchant-vessels=
-with-indian-seafarers-these-strikes-must-stop-indias-firm-message-to-washi=
ngton/article71092047.ece>
for
the attack on ships in the Strait of Hormuz killing seven Indian sailors.
Protests have been lodged with the US charge d=E2=80=99affaires twice in 3 =
days,
the second demarche being in notably harsher tone despite the news
trickling from the Persian Gulf region,  Pakistan and US that an MOU has
been all but negotiated for signature lifting the American naval blockade
of Iranian ports.*

*The salience of the Indian demarche lies in the following directions: *

*1. The US was provoking Delhi, which has resolutely pushed back =E2=80=94
Washington=E2=80=99s silence in rebutting the Indian accusation  is deafeni=
ng. *

*2. There is no interest whatsoever in Delhi to adopt a median line
apportioning blame between DC and Tehran (contrary to what some Indian
newspapers have prioritised). *

*3. Stemming from the above, it stands to reason that Delhi has begun a
comprehensive review of its tilt toward the US-Israeli axis and the earlier
short-sighted delusional thinking that Abraham Accords would be the gateway
to peace in West Asia.*

*4. Conceivably, the door opens =E2=80=94 now that it is a matter of time b=
efore
sanctions against Iran are lifted =E2=80=94 for a full-throttle engagement =
of Iran
which is going to be a towering presence in the geopolitics of our region
<https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/06/08/770095/Iran-war-diplomacy-strateg=
y-Ghalibaf-message>,
that would, hopefully, correct the distortions that crept into India=E2=80=
=99s
foreign policy strategies in West Asia during the past decade.*

*5. No doubt, this is a major diplomatic shift on India=E2=80=99s part. Wor=
ld media
has taken note.
<https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/insight/india-summons-us-envoy-again-over-d=
eadly-ship-strikes/gm-GMFD50A7C0?gemSnapshotKey=3DGMFD50A7C0-snapshot-2&uxm=
ode=3Druby>
The
foreign policy establishment is adjusting with alacrity in real time =E2=80=
=94 an
extraordinary spectacle in itself, to put it mildly, considering the
manifest reluctance to indulge in public diplomacy critical of American
moves =E2=80=94 to the new imperatives of conducting a =E2=80=98transaction=
al relationship=E2=80=99
with the US that take into account not only the domestic sentiments but
also the global situation as well as the humiliating defeat =E2=80=94 argua=
bly,
the most far-reaching defeat in the modern history
<https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/06/12/770335/Iran-United-States-MoU-Ara=
ghchi>=E2=80=94
of the Americans in West Asia. *

*6. Finally, most important, Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi=E2=80=99s stanc=
e on
West Asian developments seeking a course correction to the illogical pro-US
tilt in India=E2=80=99s foreign policies stands  vindicated, which in turn =
would
necessitate a jettisoning of unilateralism in foreign policy moves and a
return to the process  of consensus-making, which had served India=E2=80=99=
s
interests historically and used to be integral to the country=E2=80=99s pol=
itical
culture and civilisational traits.*

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;"><div style=3D"margin:0px;max-width:100%;display:inline"><b><font color=
=3D"#000000"><span style=3D"margin:0px;max-width:100%"><a href=3D"https://w=
ww.indianpunchline.com/india-signals-rethink-over-west-asia/" rel=3D"bookma=
rk" style=3D"text-decoration:none;margin:0px;max-width:100%;display:inline"=
 target=3D"_blank">June 13, 2026</a></span><span style=3D"margin:0px;max-wi=
dth:100%"><span>=C2=A0</span>by<span>=C2=A0</span><span style=3D"margin:0px=
;max-width:100%"><a href=3D"https://www.indianpunchline.com/author/inpunchl=
ine/" style=3D"text-decoration:none;margin:0px;max-width:100%;display:inlin=
e" target=3D"_blank">M. K. BHADRAKUMAR</a></span></span></font></b></div></=
div><h6 style=3D"margin:1em 0px;max-width:100%;clear:both;font-family:&quot=
;Times New Roman&quot;"><img src=3D"https://www.indianpunchline.com/wp-cont=
ent/uploads/2026/06/PTI06_11_2026_000263B.jpg" alt=3D"" width=3D"412" heigh=
t=3D"232" style=3D"margin:0.5em 0px 0.5em auto;display:block;clear:both"><i=
 style=3D"max-width:100%"><font size=3D"2" color=3D"#000000">Rare consensus=
-making effort. Ministry of External Affairs=C2=A0Spokesman Randhir Jaiswal=
 addresses Inter- Ministerial Briefing on Recent Developments in West Asia,=
 in New Delhi.<span>=C2=A0</span></font></i></h6><p style=3D"max-width:100%=
;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"><b><font color=3D"#000000">Make n=
o mistake, Modi Government is<span>=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://www.theh=
indu.com/news/national/us-navy-attacked-3-merchant-vessels-with-indian-seaf=
arers-these-strikes-must-stop-indias-firm-message-to-washington/article7109=
2047.ece" style=3D"text-decoration:none;max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank">s=
quarely blaming the US</a><span>=C2=A0</span>for the attack on ships in the=
 Strait of Hormuz killing seven Indian sailors. Protests have been lodged w=
ith the US charge d=E2=80=99affaires twice in 3 days, the second demarche b=
eing in notably harsher tone despite the news trickling from the Persian Gu=
lf region, =C2=A0Pakistan and US that an MOU has been all but negotiated fo=
r signature lifting the American naval blockade of Iranian ports.</font></b=
></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"><b=
><font color=3D"#000000">The salience of the Indian demarche lies in the fo=
llowing directions:<span style=3D"max-width:100%">=C2=A0</span></font></b><=
/p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"><b><=
font color=3D"#000000">1. The US was provoking Delhi, which has resolutely =
pushed back =E2=80=94 Washington=E2=80=99s silence in rebutting the Indian =
accusation =C2=A0is deafening.<span style=3D"max-width:100%">=C2=A0</span><=
/font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&=
quot;"><b><font color=3D"#000000">2. There is no interest whatsoever in Del=
hi to adopt a median line apportioning blame between DC and Tehran (contrar=
y to what some Indian newspapers have prioritised).<span style=3D"max-width=
:100%">=C2=A0</span></font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;font-family:&=
quot;Times New Roman&quot;"><b><font color=3D"#000000">3. Stemming from the=
 above, it stands to reason that Delhi has begun a comprehensive review of =
its tilt toward the US-Israeli axis and the earlier short-sighted delusiona=
l thinking that Abraham Accords would be the gateway to peace in West Asia.=
</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman=
&quot;"><b><font color=3D"#000000">4. Conceivably, the door opens =E2=80=94=
 now that it is a matter of time before sanctions against Iran are lifted =
=E2=80=94 for a full-throttle engagement of Iran which is going to be a<spa=
n>=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/06/08/770095/I=
ran-war-diplomacy-strategy-Ghalibaf-message" style=3D"text-decoration:none;=
max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank">towering presence in the geopolitics of o=
ur region</a>, that would, hopefully, correct the distortions that crept in=
to India=E2=80=99s foreign policy strategies in West Asia during the past d=
ecade.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;font-family:&quot;Times New=
 Roman&quot;"><b><font color=3D"#000000">5. No doubt, this is a major diplo=
matic shift on India=E2=80=99s part.<span>=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://w=
ww.msn.com/en-in/news/insight/india-summons-us-envoy-again-over-deadly-ship=
-strikes/gm-GMFD50A7C0?gemSnapshotKey=3DGMFD50A7C0-snapshot-2&amp;uxmode=3D=
ruby" style=3D"text-decoration:none;max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank">World=
 media has taken note.</a><span>=C2=A0</span>The foreign policy establishme=
nt is adjusting with alacrity in real time =E2=80=94 an extraordinary spect=
acle in itself, to put it mildly, considering the manifest reluctance to in=
dulge in public diplomacy critical of American moves =E2=80=94 to the new i=
mperatives of conducting a =E2=80=98transactional relationship=E2=80=99 wit=
h the US that take into account not only the domestic sentiments but also t=
he global situation as well as the humiliating defeat =E2=80=94 arguably, t=
he<span>=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/06/12/77=
0335/Iran-United-States-MoU-Araghchi" style=3D"text-decoration:none;max-wid=
th:100%" target=3D"_blank">most far-reaching defeat in the modern history</=
a>=E2=80=94 of the Americans in West Asia.<span style=3D"max-width:100%">=
=C2=A0</span></font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;font-family:&quot;Ti=
mes New Roman&quot;"><b><font color=3D"#000000">6. Finally, most important,=
 Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi=E2=80=99s stance on West Asian developments=
 seeking a course correction to the illogical pro-US tilt in India=E2=80=99=
s foreign policies stands =C2=A0vindicated, which in turn would necessitate=
 a jettisoning of unilateralism in foreign policy moves and a return to the=
 process =C2=A0of consensus-making, which had served India=E2=80=99s intere=
sts historically and used to be integral to the country=E2=80=99s political=
 culture and civilisational traits.</font></b></p></div></div>
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They astound only if you credit the president's and the mainstream media's
delusional depiction of the US as the victor in this foolish war.  We are
witnessing the 'art of the capitulation' in awkward process.  It turns out
that the defeated cannot impose terms.  What a surprise!  Best not to pick
fights you can't win!

The result of this war is Iranian control of the Strait of Hormuz, the
almost certain eviction of the U.S. from the bases the Golf Arabs have
loaned us, a barely disguised rupture with Israel, the Iranian adoption of
a tit-for-tat disproportionate retaliation standard to match that of
Israel, the probable tipping of the global economy into recession or worse,
impending food shortages, the creation of a greatly expanded market for
Chinese renewable energy technology and products, the depletion of the
weaponry needed for other contingencies or contracted by allies and
partners, a convincing demonstration of the limits of U.S. military power
and the 'might makes right' notion, and proof of the crippling of US
government competence that DOGE and the selection of personnel for their
political subservience and sycophancy rather than their experience and
expertise have imposed in Washington.  Oh, yes, killing all the Iranian
leaders opposed to building a nuclear weapon may have unfortunate
consequences too. And the value of the U.S. word has been permanently
devalued by yoyo public diplomacy accompanied by no real diplomacy.

The results are indeed amazing!  The U.S. and Israel will have to live with
a rearrangement of regional geopolitics that is decidedly to Iran's
advantage.

Chas

On Sun, Jun 14, 2026 at 9:44=E2=80=AFAM <horne.jp@verizon.net> wrote:

> 14jun26 =E2=80=93 Alexandria, VA
>
>
>
> TACO. Yet again ! The concessions to Iran are astounding. Especially when
> you consider the damage His war on Iran has inflicted on the U.S. and
> global economy, notably inflation.
>
>
>
> Paul Horne
>
>
>
> *From:* Salon <salon-bounces@listserve.com> *On Behalf Of *Chas Freeman
> via Salon
> *Sent:* Sunday, June 14, 2026 9:36 AM
> *To:* salon@listserve.com
> *Subject:* [Salon] Iran says draft US deal includes oil sanctions waiver,
> nuclear limits and asset release
>
>
> Iran says draft US deal includes oil sanctions waiver, nuclear limits and
> asset release
>
> By Parisa Hafezi <https://www.reuters.com/authors/parisa-hafezi/>
>
> June 14, 20266:24 AM EDTUpdated 1 hour ago
>
> [image: A man walks next to a symbolic mock-up of an Iranian missile, on =
a
> street in Tehran]
>
> A man walks next to a symbolic mock-up of an Iranian missile, on a street
> in Tehran, Iran, June 11, 2026. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News
> Agency) via REUTERS Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab
> <https://www.reutersconnect.com/item/a-man-walks-next-to-a-symbolic-mock-=
up-of-an-iranian-missile-on-a-street-in-tehran/dGFnOnJldXRlcnMuY29tLDIwMjY6=
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>
> DUBAI, June 14 (Reuters) - A senior Iranian official told Reuters a final
> draft of the memorandum of understanding with the U.S. covered a range of
> issues, from Tehran=E2=80=99s nuclear work to reopening the =E2=80=8CStra=
it of Hormuz and
> U.S. waivers on oil sanctions, with a final deal to be discussed in the 6=
0
> days following agreement by the two sides.
>
> The Iranian official said the draft memorandum included the following:
>
> The Reuters Power Up newsletter provides everything you need to know abou=
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> the global energy industry. Sign up here.
> <https://www.reuters.com/newsletters/reuters-power-up/?location=3Darticle=
-paragraph&redirectUrl=3D%2Fbusiness%2Fenergy%2Firan-says-draft-us-deal-inc=
ludes-oil-sanctions-waiver-nuclear-limits-asset-2026-06-14%2F>
> STRAIT OF HORMUZ:
>
> * Iran immediately reopens the Strait of Hormuz to all commercial vessels=
,
> while the U.S. =E2=81=A0lifts its naval blockade on Iranian ports. The li=
fting of
> the U.S. blockade would begin immediately after the memorandum is signed
> and be completed within 30 days.
> FINANCIAL:
>
> * The U.S. agrees not to impose any new sanctions on Iran until a final
> deal is reached.
>
> * Following a final agreement, all U.S. and U.N. sanctions on Iran would
> be lifted according to an agreed timetable.
>
> * The U.S. will waive oil sanctions on Iran for a specified period,
> allowing Tehran to sell oil and receive revenue.
>
> * The =E2=80=8CU.S. =E2=81=A0agrees to release $25 billion of Iran=E2=80=
=99s frozen assets,
> including via direct cash transfers, cooperation among regional countries=
,
> and financial credit lines.
>
> * Washington, in coordination with its regional allies, would prepare a
> reconstruction and development plan for Iran, to be negotiated and agreed
> with Tehran within =E2=81=A060 days.
> NUCLEAR:
>
> * Tehran agrees that it will neither produce nor acquire nuclear weapons.
>
> * Pending a final agreement, Iran would maintain the current status of it=
s
> nuclear programme, refraining from further uranium enrichment =E2=81=A0an=
d
> expansion of nuclear facilities.
>
> * The United States agrees to allow Iran to dilute its stockpile of highl=
y
> enriched uranium on Iranian soil under a future comprehensive =E2=81=A0ag=
reement.
>
> * Iran=E2=80=99s nuclear programme, uranium enrichment activities and mec=
hanisms
> for handling its stockpile of highly enriched uranium would be negotiated
> within 60 days of the memorandum and addressed in a final agreement.
>
> Reporting by Parisa Hafezi, Editing by Elaine Hardcastle
>

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<div dir=3D"ltr">They astound only if you credit the president&#39;s and th=
e mainstream media&#39;s delusional=C2=A0depiction of the US as the victor =
in this foolish war.=C2=A0 We are witnessing the &#39;art of the capitulati=
on&#39;=C2=A0in awkward process.=C2=A0 It turns out that the defeated canno=
t impose terms.=C2=A0 What a surprise!=C2=A0 Best not to pick fights you ca=
n&#39;t win!<div><br></div><div>The result of this war is Iranian control o=
f the Strait of Hormuz, the almost certain eviction of the U.S. from the ba=
ses the Golf Arabs have loaned us, a barely disguised rupture with Israel, =
the Iranian adoption of a tit-for-tat disproportionate retaliation standard=
 to match that of Israel, the probable tipping of the global economy into r=
ecession or worse, impending food shortages, the creation=C2=A0of a greatly=
 expanded market for Chinese renewable energy technology and products, the =
depletion of the weaponry needed for other contingencies or contracted by a=
llies and partners, a convincing demonstration of the limits of U.S. milita=
ry power and the &#39;might makes right&#39; notion, and proof of the cripp=
ling of US government competence that DOGE and the selection of personnel f=
or their political subservience and sycophancy rather than their experience=
 and expertise have imposed in Washington.=C2=A0 Oh, yes, killing all the I=
ranian leaders opposed to building a nuclear weapon may have unfortunate co=
nsequences=C2=A0too. And the value of the U.S. word has been permanently de=
valued by yoyo public diplomacy accompanied by no real diplomacy.=C2=A0=C2=
=A0</div><div><br></div><div>The results are indeed amazing!=C2=A0 The U.S.=
 and Israel will have to live with a rearrangement of regional geopolitics =
that is decidedly to Iran&#39;s advantage.</div><div><br></div><div>Chas</d=
iv></div><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir=3D"l=
tr" class=3D"gmail_attr">On Sun, Jun 14, 2026 at 9:44=E2=80=AFAM &lt;<a hre=
f=3D"mailto:horne.jp@verizon.net">horne.jp@verizon.net</a>&gt; wrote:<br></=
div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;bor=
der-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class=3D"msg-198=
0293378385908863"><div lang=3D"EN-US" style=3D"overflow-wrap: break-word;">=
<div class=3D"m_-1980293378385908863WordSection1"><p class=3D"MsoNormal">14=
jun26 =E2=80=93 Alexandria, VA<u></u><u></u></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal"><u><=
/u>=C2=A0<u></u></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal">TACO. Yet again ! The concession=
s to Iran are astounding. Especially when you consider the damage His war o=
n Iran has inflicted on the U.S. and global economy, notably inflation.<u><=
/u><u></u></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal"><u></u>=C2=A0<u></u></p><p class=3D"Ms=
oNormal">Paul Horne<u></u><u></u></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal"><u></u>=C2=A0<u=
></u></p><div style=3D"border-width:1pt medium medium;border-style:solid no=
ne none;border-color:rgb(225,225,225) currentcolor currentcolor;padding:3pt=
 0in 0in"><p class=3D"MsoNormal"><b><span style=3D"font-size:11pt;font-fami=
ly:Calibri,sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style=3D"font-size:11pt;font-f=
amily:Calibri,sans-serif"> Salon &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:salon-bounces@listse=
rve.com" target=3D"_blank">salon-bounces@listserve.com</a>&gt; <b>On Behalf=
 Of </b>Chas Freeman via Salon<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, June 14, 2026 9:36 A=
M<br><b>To:</b> <a href=3D"mailto:salon@listserve.com" target=3D"_blank">sa=
lon@listserve.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [Salon] Iran says draft US deal in=
cludes oil sanctions waiver, nuclear limits and asset release<u></u><u></u>=
</span></p></div><p class=3D"MsoNormal"><u></u>=C2=A0<u></u></p><div><div><=
div><h1 style=3D"margin:0in;line-height:36pt"><span style=3D"font-size:30pt=
;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-weight:normal">Iran =
says draft US deal includes oil sanctions waiver, nuclear limits and asset =
release<u></u><u></u></span></h1><div style=3D"margin-top:6pt;display:grid"=
><div><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"line-height:18pt"><span class=3D"m_-1=
980293378385908863gmail-text-moduletext0gdob"><span style=3D"font-family:Ar=
ial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64)">By=C2=A0</span></span><span style=3D"fo=
nt-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64)"><a href=3D"https://www.reut=
ers.com/authors/parisa-hafezi/" target=3D"_blank"><span style=3D"color:rgb(=
64,64,64);text-decoration:none">Parisa Hafezi</span></a><u></u><u></u></spa=
n></p></div><p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span class=3D"m_-1980293378385908863gma=
il-date-line-moduledateq468b">June 14, 20266:24 AM EDTUpdated 1 hour ago</s=
pan><u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div><div><div><div style=3D"margin-bott=
om:0.25in"><div><div><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"background:rgb(208,208=
,208)"><span style=3D"font-size:13.5pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&qu=
ot;,serif;color:black"><img border=3D"0" width=3D"5499" height=3D"3667" sty=
le=3D"width: 57.2847in; height: 38.2013in;" id=3D"m_-1980293378385908863_x0=
000_i1025" src=3D"https://www.reuters.com/resizer/v2/VUYVTTAU5BPVLNPHDX53ZD=
DUTA.jpg?auth=3D738f16ec648b526f389a708efb20163d97f467a9d52a8f80720401e9025=
76ca8&amp;width=3D1920&amp;quality=3D80" alt=3D"A man walks next to a symbo=
lic mock-up of an Iranian missile, on a street in Tehran"></span><span styl=
e=3D"font-size:13.5pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:b=
lack"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><div style=3D"margin-top:3.75pt;=
max-width:100%"><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"line-height:12pt"><span sty=
le=3D"font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64)">A man=
 walks next to a symbolic mock-up of an Iranian missile, on a street in Teh=
ran, Iran, June 11, 2026. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via=
 REUTERS=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.reutersconnect.com/item/a-man-walks-ne=
xt-to-a-symbolic-mock-up-of-an-iranian-missile-on-a-street-in-tehran/dGFnOn=
JldXRlcnMuY29tLDIwMjY6bmV3c21sX1JDMklSTEFaOFc3WQ%3D%3D/?utm_medium=3Drcom-a=
rticle-media&amp;utm_campaign=3Drcom-rcp-lead" target=3D"_blank"><span styl=
e=3D"font-family:&quot;inherit&quot;,serif">Purchase Licensing<span class=
=3D"m_-1980293378385908863gmail-link-modulesuffixobiny">=C2=A0Rights</span>=
<span style=3D"border:1pt windowtext;padding:0in">, opens new tab</span></s=
pan></a><u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><div><div style=3D"margin-bott=
om:9pt;max-width:100%"><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"line-height:18pt"><s=
pan style=3D"font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64)">DUBAI, June =
14 (Reuters) - A senior Iranian official told Reuters a final draft of the =
memorandum of understanding with the U.S. covered a range of issues, from T=
ehran=E2=80=99s nuclear work to reopening the =E2=80=8CStrait of Hormuz and=
 U.S. waivers on oil sanctions, with a final deal to be discussed in the 60=
 days following agreement by the two sides.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><=
div style=3D"margin-bottom:9pt;max-width:100%"><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=
=3D"line-height:18pt"><span style=3D"font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb=
(64,64,64)">The Iranian official said the draft memorandum included the fol=
lowing:<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><p class=3D"m_-1980293378385908863gma=
il-text-moduletext0gdob1" style=3D"margin:0in;line-height:18pt;background:r=
gb(248,248,248);display:inline-block"><span style=3D"font-family:Arial,sans=
-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64)">The Reuters Power Up newsletter provides everyt=
hing you need to know about the global energy industry.=C2=A0Sign up=C2=A0<=
a href=3D"https://www.reuters.com/newsletters/reuters-power-up/?location=3D=
article-paragraph&amp;redirectUrl=3D%2Fbusiness%2Fenergy%2Firan-says-draft-=
us-deal-includes-oil-sanctions-waiver-nuclear-limits-asset-2026-06-14%2F" t=
arget=3D"_blank"><span style=3D"font-family:&quot;inherit&quot;,serif">here=
.</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></p><h2 style=3D"margin-right:0in;margin-b=
ottom:9pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:19.5pt"><span style=3D"font-size:13.5=
pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-weight:normal">STR=
AIT OF HORMUZ:<u></u><u></u></span></h2><div style=3D"margin-bottom:9pt;max=
-width:100%"><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"line-height:18pt"><span style=
=3D"font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64)">* Iran immediately re=
opens the Strait of Hormuz to all commercial vessels, while the U.S. </span=
><span style=3D"font-family:&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;,sans-serif;color:rg=
b(64,64,64)">=E2=81=A0</span><span style=3D"font-family:Arial,sans-serif;co=
lor:rgb(64,64,64)">lifts its naval blockade on Iranian ports. The lifting o=
f the U.S. blockade would begin immediately after the memorandum is signed =
and be completed within 30 days.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><h2 style=3D=
"margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:9pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:19.5pt"><sp=
an style=3D"font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,6=
4);font-weight:normal">FINANCIAL:<u></u><u></u></span></h2><div style=3D"ma=
rgin-bottom:9pt;max-width:100%"><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"line-height=
:18pt"><span style=3D"font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64)">* T=
he U.S. agrees not to impose any new sanctions on Iran until a final deal i=
s reached.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div style=3D"margin-bottom:9pt;ma=
x-width:100%"><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"line-height:18pt"><span style=
=3D"font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64)">* Following a final a=
greement, all U.S. and U.N. sanctions on Iran would be lifted according to =
an agreed timetable.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div style=3D"margin-bot=
tom:9pt;max-width:100%"><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"line-height:18pt"><=
span style=3D"font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64)">* The U.S. =
will waive oil sanctions on Iran for a specified period, allowing Tehran to=
 sell oil and receive revenue.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div style=3D"=
margin-bottom:9pt;max-width:100%"><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"line-heig=
ht:18pt"><span style=3D"font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64)">*=
 The =E2=80=8CU.S. </span><span style=3D"font-family:&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&=
quot;,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64)">=E2=81=A0</span><span style=3D"font-f=
amily:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64)">agrees to release $25 billion o=
f Iran=E2=80=99s frozen assets, including via direct cash transfers, cooper=
ation among regional countries, and financial credit lines.<u></u><u></u></=
span></p></div><div style=3D"margin-bottom:9pt;max-width:100%"><p class=3D"=
MsoNormal" style=3D"line-height:18pt"><span style=3D"font-family:Arial,sans=
-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64)">* Washington, in coordination with its regional=
 allies, would prepare a reconstruction and development plan for Iran, to b=
e negotiated and agreed with Tehran within </span><span style=3D"font-famil=
y:&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64)">=E2=81=A0</sp=
an><span style=3D"font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64)">60 days=
.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><h2 style=3D"margin-right:0in;margin-bottom=
:9pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:19.5pt"><span style=3D"font-size:13.5pt;fo=
nt-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-weight:normal">NUCLEAR:=
<u></u><u></u></span></h2><div style=3D"margin-bottom:9pt;max-width:100%"><=
p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"line-height:18pt"><span style=3D"font-family=
:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64)">* Tehran agrees that it will neither=
 produce nor acquire nuclear weapons.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div st=
yle=3D"margin-bottom:9pt;max-width:100%"><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"li=
ne-height:18pt"><span style=3D"font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64=
,64)">* Pending a final agreement, Iran would maintain the current status o=
f its nuclear programme, refraining from further uranium enrichment </span>=
<span style=3D"font-family:&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;,sans-serif;color:rgb=
(64,64,64)">=E2=81=A0</span><span style=3D"font-family:Arial,sans-serif;col=
or:rgb(64,64,64)">and expansion of nuclear facilities.<u></u><u></u></span>=
</p></div><div style=3D"margin-bottom:9pt;max-width:100%"><p class=3D"MsoNo=
rmal" style=3D"line-height:18pt"><span style=3D"font-family:Arial,sans-seri=
f;color:rgb(64,64,64)">* The United States agrees to allow Iran to dilute i=
ts stockpile of highly enriched uranium on Iranian soil under a future comp=
rehensive </span><span style=3D"font-family:&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;,san=
s-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64)">=E2=81=A0</span><span style=3D"font-family:Ari=
al,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64)">agreement.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div=
><div style=3D"margin-bottom:9pt;max-width:100%"><p class=3D"MsoNormal" sty=
le=3D"line-height:18pt"><span style=3D"font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:r=
gb(64,64,64)">* Iran=E2=80=99s nuclear programme, uranium enrichment activi=
ties and mechanisms for handling its stockpile of highly enriched uranium w=
ould be negotiated within 60 days of the memorandum and addressed in a fina=
l agreement.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div style=3D"margin-bottom:0.25=
in"><p class=3D"m_-1980293378385908863gmail-text-moduletext0gdob1" style=3D=
"margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;line-height:15pt;max-wi=
dth:100%"><span style=3D"font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;colo=
r:rgb(64,64,64)">Reporting by Parisa Hafezi, Editing by Elaine Hardcastle<u=
></u><u></u></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></bl=
ockquote></div>

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An MoU Is Not Peace=E2=80=94It Is Misleading Language That Paves the Way fo=
r More
War
<https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=3D2767872&post_id=3D2018=
42458&utm_source=3Dpost-email-title&utm_campaign=3Demail-post-title&isFreem=
ail=3Dtrue&r=3D390az&token=3DeyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo1NDU5MTQ3LCJwb3N0X2lkIjoyMDE4ND=
I0NTgsImlhdCI6MTc4MTQ0NTM3OSwiZXhwIjoxNzg0MDM3Mzc5LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMjc2Nzg3M=
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NQ>What
an MoU means in the context of a war is confusing and misleading. Is the
war over when it is signed? Or is it a pause until there is a
misunderstanding?

Kathy Gannon <https://substack.com/@kathygannon>
Jun 14
<https://substack.com/@kathygannon>





<https://substack.com/redirect/386ed4d8-f5d7-4b6e-a1f7-cf3032539afc?j=3DeyJ=
1IjoiMzkwYXoifQ.63a58n3zMjmmr0mkOuevC7O6Kp_vfHJv1Esns2iQXZc>
Pakistan=E2=80=99s
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif meets Iran=E2=80=99s Foreign Minister Abbas A=
raghchi
in Islamabad in April, Photo by Government of Pakistan.

As with so much surrounding the Iran war, which the United States and
Israel began in February, truth has been elusive and words have lost much
of their meaning.

A cease fire agreement does not cease the firing. A peace agreement is not
an agreement. Instead it is a Memorandum of Understanding.

Pakistan=E2=80=99s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and U.S. President Donald =
Trump
have been claiming *on social media, of course *that there is an agreement
on the Iran war and says Sharif =E2=80=9Cpeace has never been this close as=
 it is
now.=E2=80=9D

What exactly an MoU is in the context of a war is a bit of a mystery. Also
an MoU has an inoffensive, business-like sound to it. It=E2=80=99s as if th=
e brutal
reality of war, the deaths of innocents, homes destroyed, children killed,
is made invisible behind the inoffensive MoU. It is manipulative and it
should be more than a little offensive to anyone who values words and
reality.

And what does it even mean?

Is the war over when it is signed? Or is it on pause until/if the
Memorandum of Understanding is misunderstood? Who decides whether there is
a misunderstanding?

Can an MoU be interpreted as a peace agreement? Would breaking an MoU be a
declaration of war? If it is, would the U.S. administration this time be
required to seek permission to go to war?

The reality is that this MoU, if it is signed, is not a peace agreement. It
does not end the Iran war, a war that has killed nearly 4,000 Iranians,
destroyed homes, and devastated countless lives. Nothing is over. It is
simply a pause in fighting while the warring sides agree to talk about the
issues, they have been unable to resolve until now, like the Strait of
Hormuz and Iran=E2=80=99s nuclear enriched material.

If one peels away the layers, this MoU, if it is signed, appears to be
little more than a 60-day breathing space for President Donald Trump, who
is desperate for an off ramp. This MoU allows him to kick the war down the
road until he can recover some political ground at home ahead of the
November mid-term elections in the United States?

If the MoU opens the Strait of Hormuz to unfettered traffic and gas prices
at the pumps in America (which really is all that matters to most
Americans), Trump will be able to tell mid-term voters he was right all
along: The pain at the pumps was temporary.

This latest *=E2=80=9Cpeace has never been this close=E2=80=9D* moment is n=
ot hopeful=E2=80=94it is
manipulative, detached from reality, and dangerously effective at
normalizing memorandums as a substitute for real peace.

If this is where we are headed, wars may no longer end at all. They will
simply be deferred=E2=80=94one evasive compromise, one sanitized memorandum=
, one
future battlefield at a time=E2=80=94while innocents are killed, families a=
re torn
apart, and homes are reduced to rubble beneath the deceptively harmless
language of an MoU.


=C2=A9 2026 Kathy Gannon

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reign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Islamabad in April, Photo by Government of=
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ight:26px">As with so much surrounding the Iran war, which the United State=
s and Israel began in February, truth has been elusive and words have lost =
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5);line-height:26px">A cease fire agreement does not cease the firing. A pe=
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stan=E2=80=99s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and U.S. President Donald Trum=
p have been claiming=C2=A0<strong>on social media, of course=C2=A0</strong>=
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as never been this close as it is now.=E2=80=9D</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0=
px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px">What exactly an MoU is in the=
 context of a war is a bit of a mystery. Also an MoU has an inoffensive, bu=
siness-like sound to it. It=E2=80=99s as if the brutal reality of war, the =
deaths of innocents, homes destroyed, children killed, is made invisible be=
hind the inoffensive MoU. It is manipulative and it should be more than a l=
ittle offensive to anyone who values words and reality.</p><p style=3D"marg=
in:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px">And what does it even=
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6px">Is the war over when it is signed? Or is it on pause until/if the Memo=
randum of Understanding is misunderstood? Who decides whether there is a mi=
sunderstanding?</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);line=
-height:26px">Can an MoU be interpreted as a peace agreement? Would breakin=
g an MoU be a declaration of war? If it is, would the U.S. administration t=
his time be required to seek permission to go to war?</p><p style=3D"margin=
:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px">The reality is that thi=
s MoU, if it is signed, is not a peace agreement. It does not end the Iran =
war, a war that has killed nearly 4,000 Iranians, destroyed homes, and deva=
stated countless lives. Nothing is over. It is simply a pause in fighting w=
hile the warring sides agree to talk about the issues, they have been unabl=
e to resolve until now, like the Strait of Hormuz and Iran=E2=80=99s nuclea=
r enriched material.</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55)=
;line-height:26px">If one peels away the layers, this MoU, if it is signed,=
 appears to be little more than a 60-day breathing space for President Dona=
ld Trump, who is desperate for an off ramp. This MoU allows him to kick the=
 war down the road until he can recover some political ground at home ahead=
 of the November mid-term elections in the United States?</p><p style=3D"ma=
rgin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px">If the MoU opens th=
e Strait of Hormuz to unfettered traffic and gas prices at the pumps in Ame=
rica (which really is all that matters to most Americans), Trump will be ab=
le to tell mid-term voters he was right all along: The pain at the pumps wa=
s temporary.</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-he=
ight:26px">This latest=C2=A0<strong>=E2=80=9Cpeace has never been this clos=
e=E2=80=9D</strong>=C2=A0moment is not hopeful=E2=80=94it is manipulative, =
detached from reality, and dangerously effective at normalizing memorandums=
 as a substitute for real peace.</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;color:r=
gb(54,55,55);line-height:26px">If this is where we are headed, wars may no =
longer end at all. They will simply be deferred=E2=80=94one evasive comprom=
ise, one sanitized memorandum, one future battlefield at a time=E2=80=94whi=
le innocents are killed, families are torn apart, and homes are reduced to =
rubble beneath the deceptively harmless language of an MoU.</p><p style=3D"=
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Donald Trump Just Invoked Nuclear Weapons Against Iran. That Was a Big
Mistake

Buried at the end of Trump=E2=80=99s announcement that the Iran war ends Su=
nday was
a line that had nothing to do with the signing =E2=80=94 and alarmed far mo=
re. The
United States, he wrote, holds the =E2=80=9Cultimate alternative, hopefully=
 never
to be used again.=E2=80=9D Only one weapon fits that phrase.
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[image: President Donald Trump participates in a Kennedy Center Board
Meeting, Monday, March 17, 2025, at the John F. Kennedy Center Performing
Arts Center in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by Daniel
Torok)]
President Donald Trump participates in a Kennedy Center Board Meeting,
Monday, March 17, 2025, at the John F. Kennedy Center Performing Arts
Center in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)

President Donald J. Trump announced earlier today that the war with Iran
ends tomorrow. In a Truth Social post, he said the agreement is scheduled
to get signed Sunday, with the Strait of Hormuz =E2=80=9COPEN TO ALL=E2=80=
=9D the moment
the ink dries. Within hours, Iran=E2=80=99s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Cor=
ps said
the opposite, calling Sunday a date on which signing is =E2=80=9Cdefinitely=
 not
happening=E2=80=9D
<https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/13/world/live-news/iran-war-trump-israel> and
describing the announcement as a test aimed at its own negotiators. One
hundred and five days into a war that has closed the world=E2=80=99s most i=
mportant
oil chokepoint, the two governments cannot agree on whether the war is
about to be over, and the gap between Trump=E2=80=99s certainty and Tehran=
=E2=80=99s denial
is the most important fact in the conflict tonight.
*Signed Tomorrow Versus Definitely Not Happening: The Two Versions Of June
14*

Trump=E2=80=99s account is unequivocal. He has said for two days that a mem=
orandum
of understanding has been approved at the highest level of Iranian
leadership, that he canceled a third round of strikes on Thursday because
the deal=E2=80=99s final points were agreed upon, and that Vice President V=
ance
would represent the United States at a signing ceremony in Europe over the
weekend.

Today, he fixed the date: Sunday, June 14, with Hormuz
<https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/irans-foreign-minister-says-it-plainly=
-control-of-hormuz-will-no-longer-be-the-same-theres-the-toll/>
reopening
immediately afterward.

Iran=E2=80=99s account contradicts nearly every operational detail. The Rev=
olutionary
Guard
<https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/irans-irgc-just-struck-a-u-s-base-in-k=
uwait-and-the-iran-war-ceasefire-is-collapsing/>,
through its affiliated outlets, said the memorandum has not been finalized,
and that signing on Sunday will not occur, framing Trump=E2=80=99s timeline=
 as
pressure on Iran=E2=80=99s negotiating team rather than a reflection of whe=
re the
talks actually stand.
[image: President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the Department of
Justice in Washington, D.C., Friday, March 14, 2025. (Official White House
Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)]

President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the Department of Justice in
Washington, D.C., Friday, March 14, 2025. (Official White House Photo by
Joyce N. Boghosian)

The Guard noted pointedly on Telegram that June 14 is Trump=E2=80=99s birth=
day and
suggested he wants the signing to serve as a personal publicity event.

Iran=E2=80=99s Foreign Ministry struck a more measured note without resolvi=
ng the
contradiction: spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said there are no plans to travel
to Geneva or anywhere else in the coming days and that the exact timing
should be awaited, while allowing that the two sides have never been this
close to an understanding.

The logistics remain unsettled enough that officials on both sides have
floated a remote signing rather than a ceremony, which is an unusual way to
conclude a war.

The disagreement is not a matter of interpretation
<https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/even-if-the-iran-deal-is-signed-this-w=
eek-the-thing-it-broke-wont-be-fixed/>.
Either a document gets signed tomorrow, or it does not, and the United
States and Iran
<https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/the-u-s-military-reportedly-planned-to=
-send-troops-into-iran-to-seize-its-uranium-then-trump-hit-pause/>
are
telling the world different answers on the eve of the date.
*The =E2=80=9CUltimate Alternative=E2=80=9D: A President Alludes To Nuclear=
 Use*

The most alarming line in Trump=E2=80=99s announcement was not about the si=
gning.

He closed the post with a warning about what follows if the process does
not go smoothly: the United States, he wrote, has the =E2=80=9Cultimate
alternative, hopefully never to be used again.=E2=80=9D
<https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/06/13/trump-iran-deal-strait-of-hormuz.html>

The White House did not respond to a request to clarify what the phrase
meant. The clarification is not really necessary. The only weapon that has
been used and then, by deliberate restraint, never used again is the atomic
bomb, and =E2=80=9Cnever to be used again=E2=80=9D is an allusion no other =
construction
fits.
[image: Little Boy Atomic Bomb]

Little Boy Atomic Bomb. Image Credit: Harry J. Kazianis/National Security
Journal.

A sitting president, in writing, on a social media feed, in the middle of a
negotiation, gesturing at nuclear use against a non-nuclear adversary, is a
break from how American presidents have handled the subject for 80 years,
and this is the second time in recent memory he has done this with Iran.

Nuclear signaling has happened before =E2=80=94 privately, through ambiguit=
y,
through the movement of forces =E2=80=94 and even the Trump =E2=80=9Cfire a=
nd fury=E2=80=9D warning
aimed at North Korea
<https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/iran-is-running-the-north-korea-playbo=
ok-stall-negotiate-and-build-a-nuclear-bomb-anyway/>
in
2017 stopped short of invoking a weapon =E2=80=9Cnever to be used again.=E2=
=80=9D Doing it
openly, against a country with no nuclear weapons of its own, as leverage
to close a deal, abandons the restraint that every administration since
1945 has treated as a floor. The recklessness is in the allusion itself,
regardless of intent.

And the intent almost certainly does not extend to actual use. Nothing
about the strategic situation
<https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/22-ships-late-at-night-no-lights-the-p=
resident-just-confirmed-the-ghost-fleet-running-hormuz/>
suggests
Trump is preparing a nuclear strike
<https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/even-as-missiles-fly-trump-says-iran-h=
as-agreed-to-give-up-its-pursuit-of-a-nuclear-weapon/>
on
Iran, and reading the line as a genuine operational threat misunderstands
what it is for. The line is part of a long line of pressure instruments,
the rhetorical equivalent of carrier deployments, more sanctions, and
conventional strikes =E2=80=94 an attempt to make Iran believe the cost of =
not
signing is unbounded. That it is a theater rather than a plan does not make
it responsible.

A president who treats the most catastrophic weapon ever built as a
negotiating prop normalizes its invocation for every leader and every
crisis that follows, and the damage to the norm is done whether or not a
single warhead ever moves.
*Maximum Pressure By Press Release: Why Trump Keeps Announcing A Deal*

The announcement fits a pattern that has defined Trump=E2=80=99s entire app=
roach to
this war, and understanding the pattern explains why tomorrow=E2=80=99s sig=
ning may
not happen on schedule.

Trump has repeatedly declared a deal imminent =E2=80=94 final points approv=
ed, the
supreme leader on board, a ceremony days away =E2=80=94 and the declaration=
s
function as a tool of pressure in their own right, sitting alongside the
sanctions, the naval blockade, the diplomatic isolation, and the military
strikes
<https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/irans-state-media-kept-count-38-times-=
a-deal-was-declared-imminent-the-39th-came-with-a-difference/>
.

Announcing that a deal is essentially done creates a fact on the ground
that Iran must then either accept or be seen to reject. It puts Tehran in
the position of either signing close to American terms or publicly walking
away from a settlement the world has been told already exists, absorbing
the blame for prolonging the war.
[image: President Donald Trump departs the White House Easter Egg Roll on
the South Lawn, Monday, April 21, 2025. (Official White House Photo by
Daniel Torok)]

President Donald Trump departs the White House Easter Egg Roll on the South
Lawn, Monday, April 21, 2025. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)

The timing of the birthday is the tell that this is stagecraft as much as
diplomacy. Setting the signing for June 14 turns the end of a war into a
personal milestone, and the choice of date reveals an announcement built
for effect rather than dictated by the state of the talks. The =E2=80=9Cfak=
e news=E2=80=9D
episode earlier this week points the same way: when Iranian media published
purported terms =E2=80=94 frozen assets released, sanctions suspended, the =
blockade
lifted =E2=80=94 Trump dismissed them as bearing no relation to what was ag=
reed =E2=80=9Cin
writing,=E2=80=9D
<https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/12/dishonorable-trump-says-leaked-ir=
an-ceasefire-terms-fake>
and
Vance insisted no cash was being released for a signature. The
administration is managing the narrative of the deal as aggressively as its
substance, because the narrative is itself a lever.

Maximum pressure has always been the strategy. Announcing a finished deal
that is not finished is simply the latest form of it.
*Iran=E2=80=99s Bet: Outlast The President*

Tehran=E2=80=99s denials are not only about the calendar. They reflect a
calculation that time favors Iran, and that the longer it holds out, the
better the terms it can extract or the more likely the pressure dissipates.
The Revolutionary Guard=E2=80=99s framing of the Sunday date as a =E2=80=9C=
test=E2=80=9D for Iran=E2=80=99s
negotiators signals a regime that believes it can absorb the announcement,
deny the timeline, and wait.

The maximalist terms that surfaced in Iranian media this week =E2=80=94 rep=
orted
demands including the release of roughly $24 billion in frozen assets,
suspension of sanctions on oil sales, a complete lifting of the naval
blockade in place since April 13, a 60-day window for nuclear negotiations
rather than immediate concessions, and reconstruction commitments on the
order of $300 billion =E2=80=94 describe what Iran wants the final deal to =
contain,
not what it has conceded. A government preparing to capitulate tomorrow
does not float a $300 billion reconstruction bill today.

The bet rests on Trump=E2=80=99s own constraints. Iran is watching the same
American clock everyone else is: a president with an approval rating
battered by inflation, a war that has driven energy prices and grown
unpopular, and a midterm election approaching in which the governing party
is already trailing. Tehran appears to believe that Trump needs the deal
more than Iran does =E2=80=94 that he wants the war ended, and Hormuz reope=
ned
badly enough to keep improving his offer, and that waiting costs Iran less
than it costs him.
[image: President Donald J. Trump tours the Hall of Prayer of Good Harvest
with President Xi Jinping of the People=E2=80=99s Republic of China, Thursd=
ay, May
14, 2026, at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing. (Official White House Photo
by Daniel Torok)]

President Donald J. Trump tours the Hall of Prayer of Good Harvest with
President Xi Jinping of the People=E2=80=99s Republic of China, Thursday, M=
ay 14,
2026, at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing. (Official White House Photo by
Daniel Torok)

Whether that bet is sound is a separate question, because the blockade is
genuinely strangling Iran=E2=80=99s economy
<https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/iran-is-still-standing-after-a-devasta=
ting-war-the-audit-shows-why-it-cant-stay-standing-for-long/>
and
the strikes have genuinely wrecked its military. The point is that Iran is
playing for time, and a regime playing for time does not sign on the other
side=E2=80=99s birthday because the other side announced it would.
*What Is Actually In Dispute*

The substance behind the dueling announcements remains genuinely
unresolved, which is the strongest evidence that Sunday is optimistic.
Israel, whose war against Iran runs alongside the American one, stated
through Prime Minister Netanyahu=E2=80=99s office that it is not a party to=
 the
memorandum of understanding
<https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5920985-trump-iran-memorandum/=
amp/>
=E2=80=94
a direct dissonance with Trump=E2=80=99s framing of a comprehensive settlem=
ent =E2=80=94
and Netanyahu listed what a more durable agreement would still require:
removal of enriched material, dismantling of enrichment infrastructure,
limits on missile production, and an end to Iran=E2=80=99s support for its =
regional
proxies. That those elements are described as belonging to a future deal
means they are not in the current one. Asked directly whether he had
secured agreement on Iran=E2=80=99s nuclear material, Trump said only that =
he had,
=E2=80=9Cconceptually,=E2=80=9D which is the language of a framework, not a=
 signed accord.

The gap is wide and concrete. The two sides have leaked incompatible
versions of the terms. The United States insists the Iranian version is
fabricated, Iran insists its negotiators have agreed to nothing final,
Israel
<https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/trump-says-the-iran-deal-is-in-its-fin=
al-throes-israels-warplanes-tell-a-very-different-story/>
says
the hardest nuclear provisions remain unwritten, and no venue or signing
logistics have been confirmed with a day to go.

A memorandum of understanding, even if one exists, is not the end of the
war; it is an agreement to keep talking under agreed-upon principles, and
those principles are still contested in public.
[image: B-2 Bomber at USAF Museum National Security Journal Image]

B-2 Bomber at USAF Museum National Security Journal Image. All Rights
Reserved.
*No Deal, And An Oil Shock Waiting*

The most likely outcome over the next twenty-four hours is that no
agreement will be signed on schedule, because the gap between what Trump
has announced and what Iran has confirmed is too wide to bridge on a date
chosen for symbolism.

A framework may exist, the two sides may indeed be closer than they have
ever been, and a signing may eventually come. Tomorrow is a different
claim, and the Revolutionary Guard=E2=80=99s flat denial, the unsettled log=
istics,
and the unresolved nuclear terms all point against it. Trump has announced
finished deals before in this war. The war has continued after each one.

The stakes of the impasse extend far past Tehran and Washington. The Strait
of Hormuz
<https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/an-oil-crisis-is-coming-donald-trumps-=
strait-of-hormuz-pandoras-box-is-the-ultimate-national-security-nightmare/>=
,
which Trump has promised will reopen the instant a deal is signed,
carries roughly
a fifth of the world=E2=80=99s oil supply
<https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R45281>, and it has been effectively
closed for much of the war, with the American naval blockade compounding
the disruption since April. Every week without a deal is a week the
chokepoint stays shut, and the longer the closure runs, the closer the
global economy moves to a genuine oil supply shock =E2=80=94 the kind that =
drives
fuel prices into territory that reorders economies and topples governments.

That pressure is precisely why Trump wants the deal and why he keeps
announcing it, and it is also why Iran believes it has leverage, because
Tehran knows the closed strait hurts the world that is leaning on it. The
announced signing and the denied signing meet at the same chokepoint, and
until one version proves true, the war grinds on, with the world=E2=80=99s =
oil
supply held hostage to a strait that opens only when a document neither
side can yet produce is signed.
*About the Author: Harry J. Kazianis*

*Harry J. Kazianis
<https://theweek.com/author/harry-j-kazianis> (@Grecianformula
<https://x.com/grecianformula>) was the former Senior Director of National
Security Affairs at the Center for the National Interest (CFTNI), a foreign
policy think tank founded by Richard Nixon based in Washington, DC. Harry
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/harry-kazianis-b8048a28/> has over a decade
of experience <https://asiatimes.com/author/harry-j-kazianis> in think
tanks and national security publishing
<http://amazon.com/stores/Harry-Kazianis/author/B0DKTQ25L5?ref=3Dap_rdr&isD=
ramIntegrated=3Dtrue&shoppingPortalEnabled=3Dtrue>.
His ideas have been published
<https://www.foxnews.com/person/k/harry-j-kazianis> in the NY Times
<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/25/world/asia/north-korea-ballistic-missil=
es.html>,
The Washington Post
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/north-korea-announc=
es-test-oftactical-weapon/2019/04/17/1f27d682-615f-11e9-9412-daf3d2e67c6d_s=
tory.html>,
The Wall Street Journal, CNN
<https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/15/politics/north-korea-negotiations-intl>,
and many other outlets
<https://www.newsweek.com/authors/harry-j-kazianis> worldwide. He has held
positions at CSIS, the Heritage Foundation, the University of Nottingham,
and several other institutions related to national security research and
studies. He is the former Executive Editor of the National Interest and the
Diplomat <https://thediplomat.com/authors/harry-kazianis>. He holds a
Master=E2=80=99s degree focusing on international affairs from Harvard Univ=
ersity.*

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break-word;margin:0px auto 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:basel=
ine;line-height:1.55;max-width:660px;font-family:Vollkorn,sans-serif;font-s=
ize:1.25rem">President Donald J. Trump announced earlier today that the war=
 with Iran ends tomorrow. In a Truth Social post, he said the agreement is =
scheduled to get signed Sunday, with the Strait of Hormuz =E2=80=9COPEN TO =
ALL=E2=80=9D the moment the ink dries. Within hours, Iran=E2=80=99s Islamic=
 Revolutionary Guard Corps said the opposite, calling Sunday<a href=3D"http=
s://www.cnn.com/2026/06/13/world/live-news/iran-war-trump-israel" style=3D"=
box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0=
px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);opacity:1;text-decoration:none"=
>=C2=A0a date on which signing is =E2=80=9Cdefinitely not happening=E2=80=
=9D</a>=C2=A0and describing the announcement as a test aimed at its own neg=
otiators. One hundred and five days into a war that has closed the world=E2=
=80=99s most important oil chokepoint, the two governments cannot agree on =
whether the war is about to be over, and the gap between Trump=E2=80=99s ce=
rtainty and Tehran=E2=80=99s denial is the most important fact in the confl=
ict tonight.</p><h2 style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;ma=
rgin:0.5rem auto;padding:1rem 0px;border-width:0px 0px 2.5px;border-style:n=
one none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor rgb(221,221,221);font=
-size:2.074rem;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.2;font-weight:100;lett=
er-spacing:-0.02em;overflow:hidden;width:660px;text-transform:capitalize;ma=
x-width:660px"><strong style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word=
;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Signed Tomorrow=
 Versus Definitely Not Happening: The Two Versions Of June 14</strong></h2>=
<p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;margin:0px auto 20p=
x;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.55;max-width=
:660px;font-family:Vollkorn,sans-serif;font-size:1.25rem">Trump=E2=80=99s a=
ccount is unequivocal. He has said for two days that a memorandum of unders=
tanding has been approved at the highest level of Iranian leadership, that =
he canceled a third round of strikes on Thursday because the deal=E2=80=99s=
 final points were agreed upon, and that Vice President Vance would represe=
nt the United States at a signing ceremony in Europe over the weekend.</p><=
p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;margin:0px auto 20px=
;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.55;max-width:=
660px;font-family:Vollkorn,sans-serif;font-size:1.25rem">Today, he fixed th=
e date: Sunday, June 14, with=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://nationalsecurityjourn=
al.org/irans-foreign-minister-says-it-plainly-control-of-hormuz-will-no-lon=
ger-be-the-same-theres-the-toll/" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break=
:break-word;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color=
:rgb(0,0,0);opacity:1;text-decoration:none">Hormuz</a>=C2=A0reopening immed=
iately afterward.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-wor=
d;margin:0px auto 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-=
height:1.55;max-width:660px;font-family:Vollkorn,sans-serif;font-size:1.25r=
em">Iran=E2=80=99s account contradicts nearly every operational detail. The=
=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/irans-irgc-just-struck=
-a-u-s-base-in-kuwait-and-the-iran-war-ceasefire-is-collapsing/" style=3D"b=
ox-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0p=
x;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);opacity:1;text-decoration:none">=
Revolutionary Guard</a>, through its affiliated outlets, said the memorandu=
m has not been finalized, and that signing on Sunday will not occur, framin=
g Trump=E2=80=99s timeline as pressure on Iran=E2=80=99s negotiating team r=
ather than a reflection of where the talks actually stand.</p><div id=3D"gm=
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center"><img aria-describedby=3D"caption-attachment-46200" class=3D"gmail-w=
p-image-46200" src=3D"https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/wp-content/upload=
s/2026/06/Donald-Trump-White-House-Flickr-Photo-Creative-Commons.jpg" alt=
=3D"President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the Department of Justice in=
 Washington, D.C., Friday, March 14, 2025. (Official White House Photo by J=
oyce N. Boghosian)" width=3D"1200" height=3D"675" style=3D"box-sizing: bord=
er-box; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; pad=
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auto; backface-visibility: hidden; contain-intrinsic-size: 3000px 1500px;">=
<p id=3D"gmail-caption-attachment-46200" class=3D"gmail-wp-caption-text" st=
yle=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;margin:0px 0px 20px;padd=
ing:8px 20px 0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(136,136,136);=
line-height:1;max-width:none;font-family:Vollkorn,sans-serif;text-align:rig=
ht;width:920px;font-size:1.25rem">President Donald Trump delivers remarks a=
t the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., Friday, March 14, 2025. (O=
fficial White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)</p></div><p style=3D"box-s=
izing:border-box;word-break:break-word;margin:0px auto 20px;padding:0px;bor=
der:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.55;max-width:660px;font-famil=
y:Vollkorn,sans-serif;font-size:1.25rem">The Guard noted pointedly on Teleg=
ram that June 14 is Trump=E2=80=99s birthday and suggested he wants the sig=
ning to serve as a personal publicity event.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:bord=
er-box;word-break:break-word;margin:0px auto 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;ve=
rtical-align:baseline;line-height:1.55;max-width:660px;font-family:Vollkorn=
,sans-serif;font-size:1.25rem">Iran=E2=80=99s Foreign Ministry struck a mor=
e measured note without resolving the contradiction: spokesman Esmaeil Bagh=
aei said there are no plans to travel to Geneva or anywhere else in the com=
ing days and that the exact timing should be awaited, while allowing that t=
he two sides have never been this close to an understanding.</p><p style=3D=
"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;margin:0px auto 20px;padding:0=
px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.55;max-width:660px;font=
-family:Vollkorn,sans-serif;font-size:1.25rem">The logistics remain unsettl=
ed enough that officials on both sides have floated a remote signing rather=
 than a ceremony, which is an unusual way to conclude a war.</p><p style=3D=
"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;margin:0px auto 20px;padding:0=
px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.55;max-width:660px;font=
-family:Vollkorn,sans-serif;font-size:1.25rem">The disagreement is not a ma=
tter of=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/even-if-the-ira=
n-deal-is-signed-this-week-the-thing-it-broke-wont-be-fixed/" style=3D"box-=
sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;v=
ertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);opacity:1;text-decoration:none">int=
erpretation</a>. Either a document gets signed tomorrow, or it does not, an=
d the United States and=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://nationalsecurityjournal.org=
/the-u-s-military-reportedly-planned-to-send-troops-into-iran-to-seize-its-=
uranium-then-trump-hit-pause/" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:br=
eak-word;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rg=
b(0,0,0);opacity:1;text-decoration:none">Iran</a>=C2=A0are telling the worl=
d different answers on the eve of the date.</p><h2 style=3D"box-sizing:bord=
er-box;word-break:break-word;margin:0.5rem auto;padding:1rem 0px;border-wid=
th:0px 0px 2.5px;border-style:none none solid;border-color:currentcolor cur=
rentcolor rgb(221,221,221);font-size:2.074rem;vertical-align:baseline;line-=
height:1.2;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:-0.02em;overflow:hidden;width:660=
px;text-transform:capitalize;max-width:660px"><strong style=3D"box-sizing:b=
order-box;word-break:break-word;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-=
align:baseline">The =E2=80=9CUltimate Alternative=E2=80=9D: A President All=
udes To Nuclear Use</strong></h2><p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-bre=
ak:break-word;margin:0px auto 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:ba=
seline;line-height:1.55;max-width:660px;font-family:Vollkorn,sans-serif;fon=
t-size:1.25rem">The most alarming line in Trump=E2=80=99s announcement was =
not about the signing.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:brea=
k-word;margin:0px auto 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;=
line-height:1.55;max-width:660px;font-family:Vollkorn,sans-serif;font-size:=
1.25rem">He closed the post with a warning about what follows if the proces=
s does not go smoothly: the United States, he wrote, has<a href=3D"https://=
www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/06/13/trump-iran-deal-strait-of-hormuz.html" style=3D=
"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:=
0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);opacity:1;text-decoration:none=
">=C2=A0the =E2=80=9Cultimate alternative, hopefully never to be used again=
.=E2=80=9D</a></p><div style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word=
;margin:0px auto 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:1.125rem;vertical-al=
ign:baseline;line-height:1.55"></div><p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word=
-break:break-word;margin:0px auto 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-alig=
n:baseline;line-height:1.55;max-width:660px;font-family:Vollkorn,sans-serif=
;font-size:1.25rem">The White House did not respond to a request to clarify=
 what the phrase meant. The clarification is not really necessary. The only=
 weapon that has been used and then, by deliberate restraint, never used ag=
ain is the atomic bomb, and =E2=80=9Cnever to be used again=E2=80=9D is an =
allusion no other construction fits.</p><div id=3D"gmail-attachment_22459" =
class=3D"gmail-wp-caption gmail-aligncenter" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box=
;word-break:break-word;margin:0px auto;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:1.1=
25rem;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:0;width:1210px;max-width:100%;tex=
t-align:center"><img aria-describedby=3D"caption-attachment-22459" class=3D=
"gmail-wp-image-22459" src=3D"https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/wp-conten=
t/uploads/2025/08/Little-Boy-Atomic-Bomb.jpg" alt=3D"Little Boy Atomic Bomb=
" width=3D"1200" height=3D"675" style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; word-break=
: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border:=
 0px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%; height: auto; backface-vis=
ibility: hidden; contain-intrinsic-size: 3000px 1500px;"><p id=3D"gmail-cap=
tion-attachment-22459" class=3D"gmail-wp-caption-text" style=3D"box-sizing:=
border-box;word-break:break-word;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:8px 20px 0px;b=
order:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(136,136,136);line-height:1;max-=
width:none;font-family:Vollkorn,sans-serif;text-align:right;width:920px;fon=
t-size:1.25rem">Little Boy Atomic Bomb. Image Credit: Harry J. Kazianis/Nat=
ional Security Journal.</p></div><p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-bre=
ak:break-word;margin:0px auto 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:ba=
seline;line-height:1.55;max-width:660px;font-family:Vollkorn,sans-serif;fon=
t-size:1.25rem">A sitting president, in writing, on a social media feed, in=
 the middle of a negotiation, gesturing at nuclear use against a non-nuclea=
r adversary, is a break from how American presidents have handled the subje=
ct for 80 years, and this is the second time in recent memory he has done t=
his with Iran.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;m=
argin:0px auto 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-hei=
ght:1.55;max-width:660px;font-family:Vollkorn,sans-serif;font-size:1.25rem"=
>Nuclear signaling has happened before =E2=80=94 privately, through ambigui=
ty, through the movement of forces =E2=80=94 and even the Trump =E2=80=9Cfi=
re and fury=E2=80=9D warning aimed at=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://nationalsecur=
ityjournal.org/iran-is-running-the-north-korea-playbook-stall-negotiate-and=
-build-a-nuclear-bomb-anyway/" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:br=
eak-word;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rg=
b(0,0,0);opacity:1;text-decoration:none">North Korea</a>=C2=A0in 2017 stopp=
ed short of invoking a weapon =E2=80=9Cnever to be used again.=E2=80=9D Doi=
ng it openly, against a country with no nuclear weapons of its own, as leve=
rage to close a deal, abandons the restraint that every administration sinc=
e 1945 has treated as a floor. The recklessness is in the allusion itself, =
regardless of intent.</p><div style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:bre=
ak-word;margin:0px auto 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:1.125rem;vert=
ical-align:baseline;line-height:1.55"></div><p style=3D"box-sizing:border-b=
ox;word-break:break-word;margin:0px auto 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertic=
al-align:baseline;line-height:1.55;max-width:660px;font-family:Vollkorn,san=
s-serif;font-size:1.25rem">And the intent almost certainly does not extend =
to actual use. Nothing about the=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://nationalsecurityjo=
urnal.org/22-ships-late-at-night-no-lights-the-president-just-confirmed-the=
-ghost-fleet-running-hormuz/" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:bre=
ak-word;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb=
(0,0,0);opacity:1;text-decoration:none">strategic situation</a>=C2=A0sugges=
ts Trump is preparing a=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://nationalsecurityjournal.org=
/even-as-missiles-fly-trump-says-iran-has-agreed-to-give-up-its-pursuit-of-=
a-nuclear-weapon/" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;mar=
gin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);opa=
city:1;text-decoration:none">nuclear strike</a>=C2=A0on Iran, and reading t=
he line as a genuine operational threat misunderstands what it is for. The =
line is part of a long line of pressure instruments, the rhetorical equival=
ent of carrier deployments, more sanctions, and conventional strikes =E2=80=
=94 an attempt to make Iran believe the cost of not signing is unbounded. T=
hat it is a theater rather than a plan does not make it responsible.</p><p =
style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;margin:0px auto 20px;p=
adding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.55;max-width:66=
0px;font-family:Vollkorn,sans-serif;font-size:1.25rem">A president who trea=
ts the most catastrophic weapon ever built as a negotiating prop normalizes=
 its invocation for every leader and every crisis that follows, and the dam=
age to the norm is done whether or not a single warhead ever moves.</p><h2 =
style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;margin:0.5rem auto;pad=
ding:1rem 0px;border-width:0px 0px 2.5px;border-style:none none solid;borde=
r-color:currentcolor currentcolor rgb(221,221,221);font-size:2.074rem;verti=
cal-align:baseline;line-height:1.2;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:-0.02em;o=
verflow:hidden;width:660px;text-transform:capitalize;max-width:660px"><stro=
ng style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;margin:0px;padding:=
0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Maximum Pressure By Press Release: =
Why Trump Keeps Announcing A Deal</strong></h2><p style=3D"box-sizing:borde=
r-box;word-break:break-word;margin:0px auto 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;ver=
tical-align:baseline;line-height:1.55;max-width:660px;font-family:Vollkorn,=
sans-serif;font-size:1.25rem">The announcement fits a pattern that has defi=
ned Trump=E2=80=99s entire approach to this war, and understanding the patt=
ern explains why tomorrow=E2=80=99s signing may not happen on schedule.</p>=
<p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;margin:0px auto 20p=
x;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.55;max-width=
:660px;font-family:Vollkorn,sans-serif;font-size:1.25rem">Trump has repeate=
dly declared a deal imminent =E2=80=94 final points approved, the supreme l=
eader on board, a ceremony days away =E2=80=94 and the declarations functio=
n as a tool of pressure in their own right, sitting alongside the sanctions=
, the naval blockade, the diplomatic isolation, and the=C2=A0<a href=3D"htt=
ps://nationalsecurityjournal.org/irans-state-media-kept-count-38-times-a-de=
al-was-declared-imminent-the-39th-came-with-a-difference/" style=3D"box-siz=
ing:border-box;word-break:break-word;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vert=
ical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);opacity:1;text-decoration:none">milita=
ry strikes</a>.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;=
margin:0px auto 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-he=
ight:1.55;max-width:660px;font-family:Vollkorn,sans-serif;font-size:1.25rem=
">Announcing that a deal is essentially done creates a fact on the ground t=
hat Iran must then either accept or be seen to reject. It puts Tehran in th=
e position of either signing close to American terms or publicly walking aw=
ay from a settlement the world has been told already exists, absorbing the =
blame for prolonging the war.</p><div style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-b=
reak:break-word;margin:0px auto 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:1.125=
rem;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.55"></div><div id=3D"gmail-attach=
ment_8233" class=3D"gmail-wp-caption gmail-aligncenter" style=3D"box-sizing=
:border-box;word-break:break-word;margin:0px auto;padding:0px;border:0px;fo=
nt-size:1.125rem;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:0;width:1210px;max-wid=
th:100%;text-align:center"><img aria-describedby=3D"caption-attachment-8233=
" class=3D"gmail-wp-image-8233" src=3D"https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/=
wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Donald-Trump-YMCA-Dance.jpg" alt=3D"President Do=
nald Trump departs the White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn, Monda=
y, April 21, 2025. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)" width=3D"1=
200" height=3D"675" style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word=
; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertic=
al-align: baseline; max-width: 100%; height: auto; backface-visibility: hid=
den; contain-intrinsic-size: 3000px 1500px;"><p id=3D"gmail-caption-attachm=
ent-8233" class=3D"gmail-wp-caption-text" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;wo=
rd-break:break-word;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:8px 20px 0px;border:0px;ver=
tical-align:baseline;color:rgb(136,136,136);line-height:1;max-width:none;fo=
nt-family:Vollkorn,sans-serif;text-align:right;width:920px;font-size:1.25re=
m">President Donald Trump departs the White House Easter Egg Roll on the So=
uth Lawn, Monday, April 21, 2025. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Tor=
ok)</p></div><p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;margin=
:0px auto 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1=
.55;max-width:660px;font-family:Vollkorn,sans-serif;font-size:1.25rem">The =
timing of the birthday is the tell that this is stagecraft as much as diplo=
macy. Setting the signing for June 14 turns the end of a war into a persona=
l milestone, and the choice of date reveals an announcement built for effec=
t rather than dictated by the state of the talks. The =E2=80=9Cfake news=E2=
=80=9D episode earlier this week points the same way: when Iranian media pu=
blished purported terms =E2=80=94 frozen assets released, sanctions suspend=
ed, the blockade lifted =E2=80=94 Trump dismissed them as bearing<a href=3D=
"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/12/dishonorable-trump-says-leaked-ir=
an-ceasefire-terms-fake" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-wo=
rd;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,=
0);opacity:1;text-decoration:none">=C2=A0no relation to what was agreed =E2=
=80=9Cin writing,=E2=80=9D</a>=C2=A0and Vance insisted no cash was being re=
leased for a signature. The administration is managing the narrative of the=
 deal as aggressively as its substance, because the narrative is itself a l=
ever.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;margin:0px=
 auto 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.55;=
max-width:660px;font-family:Vollkorn,sans-serif;font-size:1.25rem">Maximum =
pressure has always been the strategy. Announcing a finished deal that is n=
ot finished is simply the latest form of it.</p><h2 style=3D"box-sizing:bor=
der-box;word-break:break-word;margin:0.5rem auto;padding:1rem 0px;border-wi=
dth:0px 0px 2.5px;border-style:none none solid;border-color:currentcolor cu=
rrentcolor rgb(221,221,221);font-size:2.074rem;vertical-align:baseline;line=
-height:1.2;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:-0.02em;overflow:hidden;width:66=
0px;text-transform:capitalize;max-width:660px"><strong style=3D"box-sizing:=
border-box;word-break:break-word;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical=
-align:baseline">Iran=E2=80=99s Bet: Outlast The President</strong></h2><p =
style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;margin:0px auto 20px;p=
adding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.55;max-width:66=
0px;font-family:Vollkorn,sans-serif;font-size:1.25rem">Tehran=E2=80=99s den=
ials are not only about the calendar. They reflect a calculation that time =
favors Iran, and that the longer it holds out, the better the terms it can =
extract or the more likely the pressure dissipates. The Revolutionary Guard=
=E2=80=99s framing of the Sunday date as a =E2=80=9Ctest=E2=80=9D for Iran=
=E2=80=99s negotiators signals a regime that believes it can absorb the ann=
ouncement, deny the timeline, and wait.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:border-bo=
x;word-break:break-word;margin:0px auto 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertica=
l-align:baseline;line-height:1.55;max-width:660px;font-family:Vollkorn,sans=
-serif;font-size:1.25rem">The maximalist terms that surfaced in Iranian med=
ia this week =E2=80=94 reported demands including the release of roughly $2=
4 billion in frozen assets, suspension of sanctions on oil sales, a complet=
e lifting of the naval blockade in place since April 13, a 60-day window fo=
r nuclear negotiations rather than immediate concessions, and reconstructio=
n commitments on the order of $300 billion =E2=80=94 describe what Iran wan=
ts the final deal to contain, not what it has conceded. A government prepar=
ing to capitulate tomorrow does not float a $300 billion reconstruction bil=
l today.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;margin:=
0px auto 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.=
55;max-width:660px;font-family:Vollkorn,sans-serif;font-size:1.25rem">The b=
et rests on Trump=E2=80=99s own constraints. Iran is watching the same Amer=
ican clock everyone else is: a president with an approval rating battered b=
y inflation, a war that has driven energy prices and grown unpopular, and a=
 midterm election approaching in which the governing party is already trail=
ing. Tehran appears to believe that Trump needs the deal more than Iran doe=
s =E2=80=94 that he wants the war ended, and Hormuz reopened badly enough t=
o keep improving his offer, and that waiting costs Iran less than it costs =
him.</p><div id=3D"gmail-attachment_44696" class=3D"gmail-wp-caption gmail-=
aligncenter" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;margin:0p=
x auto;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:1.125rem;vertical-align:baseline;li=
ne-height:0;width:1210px;max-width:100%;text-align:center"><img aria-descri=
bedby=3D"caption-attachment-44696" class=3D"gmail-wp-image-44696" src=3D"ht=
tps://nationalsecurityjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Donald-Trump-i=
n-China.jpg" alt=3D"President Donald J. Trump tours the Hall of Prayer of G=
ood Harvest with President Xi Jinping of the People=E2=80=99s Republic of C=
hina, Thursday, May 14, 2026, at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing. (Official=
 White House Photo by Daniel Torok)" width=3D"1200" height=3D"675" style=3D=
"box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word;=
 margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; max-widt=
h: 100%; height: auto; backface-visibility: hidden; contain-intrinsic-size:=
 3000px 1500px;"><p id=3D"gmail-caption-attachment-44696" class=3D"gmail-wp=
-caption-text" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;margin:=
0px 0px 20px;padding:8px 20px 0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:=
rgb(136,136,136);line-height:1;max-width:none;font-family:Vollkorn,sans-ser=
if;text-align:right;width:920px;font-size:1.25rem">President Donald J. Trum=
p tours the Hall of Prayer of Good Harvest with President Xi Jinping of the=
 People=E2=80=99s Republic of China, Thursday, May 14, 2026, at the Temple =
of Heaven in Beijing. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)</p></div=
><p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;margin:0px auto 20=
px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.55;max-widt=
h:660px;font-family:Vollkorn,sans-serif;font-size:1.25rem">Whether that bet=
 is sound is a separate question, because the blockade is genuinely=C2=A0<a=
 href=3D"https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/iran-is-still-standing-after-a=
-devastating-war-the-audit-shows-why-it-cant-stay-standing-for-long/" style=
=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;margin:0px;padding:0px;bord=
er:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);opacity:1;text-decoration:n=
one">strangling Iran=E2=80=99s economy</a>=C2=A0and the strikes have genuin=
ely wrecked its military. The point is that Iran is playing for time, and a=
 regime playing for time does not sign on the other side=E2=80=99s birthday=
 because the other side announced it would.</p><div id=3D"gmail-ld-67-5574"=
 style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;margin:0px auto 20px;=
padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:1.125rem;vertical-align:baseline;line-heig=
ht:1.55"></div><h2 style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;mar=
gin:0.5rem auto;padding:1rem 0px;border-width:0px 0px 2.5px;border-style:no=
ne none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor rgb(221,221,221);font-=
size:2.074rem;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.2;font-weight:100;lette=
r-spacing:-0.02em;overflow:hidden;width:660px;text-transform:capitalize;max=
-width:660px"><strong style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;=
margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">What Is Actually=
 In Dispute</strong></h2><p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break=
-word;margin:0px auto 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;l=
ine-height:1.55;max-width:660px;font-family:Vollkorn,sans-serif;font-size:1=
.25rem">The substance behind the dueling announcements remains genuinely un=
resolved, which is the strongest evidence that Sunday is optimistic. Israel=
, whose war against Iran runs alongside the American one, stated through Pr=
ime Minister Netanyahu=E2=80=99s office that it is<a href=3D"https://thehil=
l.com/homenews/administration/5920985-trump-iran-memorandum/amp/" style=3D"=
box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0=
px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);opacity:1;text-decoration:none"=
>=C2=A0not a party to the memorandum of understanding</a>=C2=A0=E2=80=94 a =
direct dissonance with Trump=E2=80=99s framing of a comprehensive settlemen=
t =E2=80=94 and Netanyahu listed what a more durable agreement would still =
require: removal of enriched material, dismantling of enrichment infrastruc=
ture, limits on missile production, and an end to Iran=E2=80=99s support fo=
r its regional proxies. That those elements are described as belonging to a=
 future deal means they are not in the current one. Asked directly whether =
he had secured agreement on Iran=E2=80=99s nuclear material, Trump said onl=
y that he had, =E2=80=9Cconceptually,=E2=80=9D which is the language of a f=
ramework, not a signed accord.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-br=
eak:break-word;margin:0px auto 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:b=
aseline;line-height:1.55;max-width:660px;font-family:Vollkorn,sans-serif;fo=
nt-size:1.25rem">The gap is wide and concrete. The two sides have leaked in=
compatible versions of the terms. The United States insists the Iranian ver=
sion is fabricated, Iran insists its negotiators have agreed to nothing fin=
al,=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/trump-says-the-iran=
-deal-is-in-its-final-throes-israels-warplanes-tell-a-very-different-story/=
" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;margin:0px;padding:0=
px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);opacity:1;text-decor=
ation:none">Israel</a>=C2=A0says the hardest nuclear provisions remain unwr=
itten, and no venue or signing logistics have been confirmed with a day to =
go.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;margin:0px a=
uto 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.55;ma=
x-width:660px;font-family:Vollkorn,sans-serif;font-size:1.25rem">A memorand=
um of understanding, even if one exists, is not the end of the war; it is a=
n agreement to keep talking under agreed-upon principles, and those princip=
les are still contested in public.</p><div id=3D"gmail-attachment_19928" cl=
ass=3D"gmail-wp-caption gmail-aligncenter" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;w=
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align:center"><img aria-describedby=3D"caption-attachment-19928" class=3D"g=
mail-wp-image-19928" src=3D"https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/wp-content/=
uploads/2025/07/B-2-Bomber-at-USAF-Museum-National-Security-Journal-Image.j=
pg" alt=3D"B-2 Bomber at USAF Museum National Security Journal Image" width=
=3D"1200" height=3D"673" style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break=
-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; v=
ertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%; height: auto; backface-visibility=
: hidden; contain-intrinsic-size: 3000px 1500px;"><p id=3D"gmail-caption-at=
tachment-19928" class=3D"gmail-wp-caption-text" style=3D"box-sizing:border-=
box;word-break:break-word;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:8px 20px 0px;border:0=
px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(136,136,136);line-height:1;max-width:n=
one;font-family:Vollkorn,sans-serif;text-align:right;width:920px;font-size:=
1.25rem">B-2 Bomber at USAF Museum National Security Journal Image. All Rig=
hts Reserved.</p></div><h2 style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-=
word;margin:0.5rem auto;padding:1rem 0px;border-width:0px 0px 2.5px;border-=
style:none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor rgb(221,221,22=
1);font-size:2.074rem;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.2;font-weight:1=
00;letter-spacing:-0.02em;overflow:hidden;width:660px;text-transform:capita=
lize;max-width:660px"><strong style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:bre=
ak-word;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">No Deal,=
 And An Oil Shock Waiting</strong></h2><p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;wo=
rd-break:break-word;margin:0px auto 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-al=
ign:baseline;line-height:1.55;max-width:660px;font-family:Vollkorn,sans-ser=
if;font-size:1.25rem">The most likely outcome over the next twenty-four hou=
rs is that no agreement will be signed on schedule, because the gap between=
 what Trump has announced and what Iran has confirmed is too wide to bridge=
 on a date chosen for symbolism.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-=
break:break-word;margin:0px auto 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align=
:baseline;line-height:1.55;max-width:660px;font-family:Vollkorn,sans-serif;=
font-size:1.25rem">A framework may exist, the two sides may indeed be close=
r than they have ever been, and a signing may eventually come. Tomorrow is =
a different claim, and the Revolutionary Guard=E2=80=99s flat denial, the u=
nsettled logistics, and the unresolved nuclear terms all point against it. =
Trump has announced finished deals before in this war. The war has continue=
d after each one.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-wor=
d;margin:0px auto 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-=
height:1.55;max-width:660px;font-family:Vollkorn,sans-serif;font-size:1.25r=
em">The stakes of the impasse extend far past Tehran and Washington. The=C2=
=A0<a href=3D"https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/an-oil-crisis-is-coming-d=
onald-trumps-strait-of-hormuz-pandoras-box-is-the-ultimate-national-securit=
y-nightmare/" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;margin:0=
px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);opacity:=
1;text-decoration:none">Strait of Hormuz</a>, which Trump has promised will=
 reopen the instant a deal is signed, carries<a href=3D"https://www.congres=
s.gov/crs-product/R45281" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-w=
ord;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0=
,0);opacity:1;text-decoration:none">=C2=A0roughly a fifth of the world=E2=
=80=99s oil supply</a>, and it has been effectively closed for much of the =
war, with the American naval blockade compounding the disruption since Apri=
l. Every week without a deal is a week the chokepoint stays shut, and the l=
onger the closure runs, the closer the global economy moves to a genuine oi=
l supply shock =E2=80=94 the kind that drives fuel prices into territory th=
at reorders economies and topples governments.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:bo=
rder-box;word-break:break-word;margin:0px auto 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;=
vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.55;max-width:660px;font-family:Vollko=
rn,sans-serif;font-size:1.25rem">That pressure is precisely why Trump wants=
 the deal and why he keeps announcing it, and it is also why Iran believes =
it has leverage, because Tehran knows the closed strait hurts the world tha=
t is leaning on it. The announced signing and the denied signing meet at th=
e same chokepoint, and until one version proves true, the war grinds on, wi=
th the world=E2=80=99s oil supply held hostage to a strait that opens only =
when a document neither side can yet produce is signed.</p><h2 style=3D"box=
-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;margin:0.5rem auto;padding:1rem 0p=
x;border-width:0px 0px 2.5px;border-style:none none solid;border-color:curr=
entcolor currentcolor rgb(221,221,221);font-size:2.074rem;vertical-align:ba=
seline;line-height:1.2;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:-0.02em;overflow:hidd=
en;width:660px;text-transform:capitalize;max-width:660px"><strong style=3D"=
box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0=
px;vertical-align:baseline">About the Author: Harry J. Kazianis</strong></h=
2><p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;margin:0px auto 2=
0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.55;max-wid=
th:660px;font-family:Vollkorn,sans-serif;font-size:1.25rem"><em style=3D"bo=
x-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px=
;vertical-align:baseline"><a href=3D"https://theweek.com/author/harry-j-kaz=
ianis" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;margin:0px;padd=
ing:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);opacity:1;text-=
decoration:none">Harry J. Kazianis</a>=C2=A0(<a href=3D"https://x.com/greci=
anformula" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;margin:0px;=
padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);opacity:1;t=
ext-decoration:none">@Grecianformula</a>) was the former Senior Director of=
 National Security Affairs at the Center for the National Interest (CFTNI),=
 a foreign policy think tank founded by Richard Nixon based in Washington, =
DC.<a href=3D"https://www.linkedin.com/in/harry-kazianis-b8048a28/" style=
=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;margin:0px;padding:0px;bord=
er:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);opacity:1;text-decoration:n=
one">=C2=A0Harry</a>=C2=A0has over a decade of<a href=3D"https://asiatimes.=
com/author/harry-j-kazianis" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:brea=
k-word;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(=
0,0,0);opacity:1;text-decoration:none">=C2=A0experience</a>=C2=A0in think t=
anks and national security<a href=3D"http://amazon.com/stores/Harry-Kaziani=
s/author/B0DKTQ25L5?ref=3Dap_rdr&amp;isDramIntegrated=3Dtrue&amp;shoppingPo=
rtalEnabled=3Dtrue" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;ma=
rgin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);op=
acity:1;text-decoration:none">=C2=A0publishing</a>. His ideas have been<a h=
ref=3D"https://www.foxnews.com/person/k/harry-j-kazianis" style=3D"box-sizi=
ng:border-box;word-break:break-word;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;verti=
cal-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);opacity:1;text-decoration:none">=C2=A0p=
ublished</a>=C2=A0in the<a href=3D"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/25/world=
/asia/north-korea-ballistic-missiles.html" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;w=
ord-break:break-word;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:basel=
ine;color:rgb(0,0,0);opacity:1;text-decoration:none">=C2=A0NY Times</a>, Th=
e<a href=3D"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/north-ko=
rea-announces-test-oftactical-weapon/2019/04/17/1f27d682-615f-11e9-9412-daf=
3d2e67c6d_story.html" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;=
margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);=
opacity:1;text-decoration:none">=C2=A0Washington Post</a>, The Wall Street =
Journal,<a href=3D"https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/15/politics/north-korea-nego=
tiations-intl" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;margin:=
0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);opacity=
:1;text-decoration:none">=C2=A0CNN</a>, and many other<a href=3D"https://ww=
w.newsweek.com/authors/harry-j-kazianis" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;wor=
d-break:break-word;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baselin=
e;color:rgb(0,0,0);opacity:1;text-decoration:none">=C2=A0outlets</a>=C2=A0w=
orldwide. He has held positions at CSIS, the Heritage Foundation, the Unive=
rsity of Nottingham, and several other institutions related to national sec=
urity research and studies. He is the former Executive Editor of the Nation=
al Interest and<a href=3D"https://thediplomat.com/authors/harry-kazianis" s=
tyle=3D"box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;margin:0px;padding:0px;=
border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);opacity:1;text-decorati=
on:none">=C2=A0the Diplomat</a>. He holds a Master=E2=80=99s degree focusin=
g on international affairs from Harvard University.</em></p></div></div><br=
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*https://thecradle.co/articles/thousands-of-palestinian-victims-under-rubbl=
e-in-gaza-may-never-be-identified-report
<https://thecradle.co/articles/thousands-of-palestinian-victims-under-rubbl=
e-in-gaza-may-never-be-identified-report>*

*Thousands of Palestinian victims under rubble in Gaza may never be
identified: Report*The death toll from over two years of relentless Israeli
bombardment is likely vastly higher than the roughly 72,000 reported by the
Gaza Health Ministry

*News Desk  *6/14/26

*The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has warned that
thousands of Palestinians buried beneath Gaza=E2=80=99s rubble may never be
identified, as recovery efforts remain slow and Israel continues to block
the entry of desperately needed equipment into the strip,
the Guardian reported
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/14/growing-risk-thousands-burie=
d-gaza-rubble-never-identified-red-cross>
on
14 June.*

*=E2=80=9CThere is no doubt that these bodies could soon become difficult t=
o
identify,=E2=80=9D said Pat Griffiths, the ICRC spokesperson in Jerusalem.*

*=E2=80=9CThe longer it takes for human remains to be recovered, the more d=
ifficult
it can be to identify them. The longer the deceased lie beneath the rubble,
the more likely they will be in advanced stages of decomposition =E2=80=93 =
even
skeletonized =E2=80=93 when eventually recovered.=E2=80=9D*

*He added that as more time passes, forensic experts lose access to
circumstantial evidence that helps to confirm a victim=E2=80=99s identity.*

*Israel mercilessly bombed Gaza for two years before a ceasefire was
reached between Hamas and Israel in October of last year. The bombing left
some 10,000 people buried beneath the rubble of destroyed homes, buildings,
hospitals, and schools, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.*

*Some experts believe the number of bodies yet to be recovered could be as
high as 14,000, the Guardian noted.*

*Since the ceasefire, Palestinians have begun the grueling task of digging
through an estimated 61 million tons of debris.*

*Progress is slow as rescue teams have been forced to rely on basic tools,
such as shovels, pickaxes, wheelbarrows, rakes, hoes, and even their bare
hands, to uncover bodies.*

*Israel has refused repeated requests to allow the entry of excavators and
other heavy machinery needed to remove the rubble, making the staggering
task many times slower and more difficult.*

*=E2=80=9CSearch and recovery teams need access to all sites where human re=
mains
are thought to be located,=E2=80=9D the ICRC spokesperson said. =E2=80=9CWe=
 know that much
of this machinery and equipment remains almost impossible to bring into
Gaza right now.=E2=80=9D*

*As more time passes, the chance of confirming victims=E2=80=99 identities
diminishes. Physical features that can help in identification, including
age, sex, height, fingerprints, dental records, and personal belongings,
are soon lost, the ICRC says.*

*Genetic material needed for DNA identification also deteriorates over
time. =E2=80=9CA genetic match that might have been rapid and highly reliab=
le a few
weeks earlier can become far more complex months later,=E2=80=9D explained =
Dr.
Cristina Cattaneo, a professor of forensic pathology at the University of
Milan.*

*Gaza=E2=80=99s devastated hospitals also lack the equipment for DNA testin=
g, and
Israel refuses to allow DNA testing materials to enter the strip.*

*The problems are made worse by Israeli military bulldozers working to
systematically demolish structures in Gaza, in a bid to prevent
Palestinians from ever returning to the their homes. While demolishing
buildings, the bulldozers may move and damage bodies still buried beneath
the rubble or bury them further.*

*For Palestinians, not knowing the fate of a missing loved one, whether
they are dead or detained in Israel=E2=80=99s prisons known for horrific to=
rture,
is devastating.*

*Saed al-Yazji told the Guardian that his brother, Sameh, 40, disappeared
on 7 October 2023 as Israel began the two-year bombing campaign in Gaza
that was soon recognized across the world as a genocide.*

*=E2=80=9CWe have had no information about him since that day,=E2=80=99=E2=
=80=99 said Yazji, 52.
=E2=80=9CWe still cling to the hope that he is alive because there has been=
 no
confirmation that he was killed or detained. We wait every day for news
that might finally bring peace to our hearts.=E2=80=9D*

*According to Gaza=E2=80=99s Health Ministry, Israeli forces have killed ov=
er
72,000 Palestinians in the strip. The majority are women and children.*

*However, independent estimates suggest the death toll is vastly higher. A
German and Spanish research team from the Max Planck Institute for
Demographic Research (MPIDR) and the Center for Demographic Studies
(CED) estimated
<https://www.mpg.de/25778228/gaza-study-reveals-unprecedented-losses-of-lif=
e-and-life-expectancy>
that
as of November 2025, the violent death toll had likely exceeded 100,000.*

*Some scholars and scientists estimate
<https://www.un.org/unispal/document/press-briefing-francesca-albanese-16se=
p25/>
the
death toll in Gaza may exceed 600,000 when indirect effects of the war are
considered, such as the impact of destroyed infrastructure, malnutrition,
and disease.*

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div class=3D"gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir=
=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif"><a href=3D"h=
ttps://thecradle.co/articles/thousands-of-palestinian-victims-under-rubble-=
in-gaza-may-never-be-identified-report" target=3D"_blank">https://thecradle=
.co/articles/thousands-of-palestinian-victims-under-rubble-in-gaza-may-neve=
r-be-identified-report</a></font></b></div><div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr=
"><div><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif"><br></font></b></div><div><h1 style=
=3D"line-height:1.2141em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0.5em;max-width:100%;=
color:rgb(27,27,27)"><font size=3D"4" face=3D"georgia, serif"><i>Thousands =
of Palestinian victims under rubble in Gaza may never be identified: Report=
</i></font></h1><h2 style=3D"line-height:1.27275em;max-width:100%"><font si=
ze=3D"2" color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif">The death toll from over=
 two years of relentless Israeli bombardment is likely vastly higher than t=
he roughly 72,000 reported by the Gaza Health Ministry</font></h2><div styl=
e=3D"margin-bottom:1.45em;max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><p style=3D"m=
argin:0px;max-width:100%;display:inline"><a style=3D"margin:0px;max-width:1=
00%;display:inline"><font face=3D"georgia, serif" style=3D""><b>News Desk=
=C2=A0 </b>6/14/26</font></a></p></div><div style=3D"max-width:100%;margin-=
bottom:1.15em;line-height:1.5em;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.65)"><img src=3D"https:/=
/thecradle-main.oss-eu-central-1.aliyuncs.com/public/articles/13f3d950-67e7=
-11f1-8d79-00163e02c055.webp" alt=3D"" style=3D"margin:auto 0px auto auto;d=
isplay:block;clear:both" width=3D"412" height=3D"232"></div><p style=3D"max=
-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif"><span sty=
le=3D"max-width:100%">The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) h=
as warned that thousands of Palestinians buried beneath Gaza=E2=80=99s rubb=
le may never be identified, as recovery efforts remain slow and Israel cont=
inues to block the entry of desperately needed equipment into the strip, th=
e<span>=C2=A0</span><i style=3D"max-width:100%">Guardian</i><span>=C2=A0</s=
pan></span><a href=3D"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/14/growing=
-risk-thousands-buried-gaza-rubble-never-identified-red-cross" style=3D"tex=
t-decoration:none;color:rgb(65,110,210);max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank"><=
span style=3D"max-width:100%">reported</span></a><span style=3D"max-width:1=
00%"><span>=C2=A0</span>on 14 June.</span></font></b></p><p style=3D"max-wi=
dth:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><span style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font face=
=3D"georgia, serif">=E2=80=9CThere is no doubt that these bodies could soon=
 become difficult to identify,=E2=80=9D said Pat Griffiths, the ICRC spokes=
person in Jerusalem.</font></b></span></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:=
rgb(27,27,27)"><span style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font face=3D"georgia, ser=
if">=E2=80=9CThe longer it takes for human remains to be recovered, the mor=
e difficult it can be to identify them. The longer the deceased lie beneath=
 the rubble, the more likely they will be in advanced stages of decompositi=
on =E2=80=93 even skeletonized =E2=80=93 when eventually recovered.=E2=80=
=9D</font></b></span></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><s=
pan style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">He added that=
 as more time passes, forensic experts lose access to circumstantial eviden=
ce that helps to confirm a victim=E2=80=99s identity.</font></b></span></p>=
<p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><span style=3D"max-width:10=
0%"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">Israel mercilessly bombed Gaza for two=
 years before a ceasefire was reached between Hamas and Israel in October o=
f last year. The bombing left some 10,000 people buried beneath the rubble =
of destroyed homes, buildings, hospitals, and schools, according to the Gaz=
a Health Ministry.</font></b></span></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;margin-t=
op:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.4em"></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,2=
7,27)"><span style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">Some=
 experts believe the number of bodies yet to be recovered could be as high =
as 14,000, the<span>=C2=A0</span><i style=3D"max-width:100%">Guardian<span>=
=C2=A0</span></i>noted.</font></b></span></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;col=
or:rgb(27,27,27)"><span style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font face=3D"georgia, =
serif">Since the ceasefire, Palestinians have begun the grueling task of di=
gging through an estimated 61 million tons of debris.</font></b></span></p>=
<p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><span style=3D"max-width:10=
0%"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">Progress is slow as rescue teams have =
been forced to rely on basic tools, such as shovels, pickaxes, wheelbarrows=
, rakes, hoes, and even their bare hands, to uncover bodies.</font></b></sp=
an></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><span style=3D"max-w=
idth:100%"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">Israel has refused repeated req=
uests to allow the entry of excavators and other heavy machinery needed to =
remove the rubble, making the staggering task many times slower and more di=
fficult.</font></b></span></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27=
)"><span style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">=E2=80=
=9CSearch and recovery teams need access to all sites where human remains a=
re thought to be located,=E2=80=9D the ICRC spokesperson said. =E2=80=9CWe =
know that much of this machinery and equipment remains almost impossible to=
 bring into Gaza right now.=E2=80=9D</font></b></span></p><p style=3D"max-w=
idth:100%;margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.4em"></p><p style=3D"max-width:1=
00%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><span style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font face=3D"ge=
orgia, serif">As more time passes, the chance of confirming victims=E2=80=
=99 identities diminishes. Physical features that can help in identificatio=
n, including age, sex, height, fingerprints, dental records, and personal b=
elongings, are soon lost, the ICRC says.</font></b></span></p><p style=3D"m=
ax-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><span style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font =
face=3D"georgia, serif">Genetic material needed for DNA identification also=
 deteriorates over time. =E2=80=9CA genetic match that might have been rapi=
d and highly reliable a few weeks earlier can become far more complex month=
s later,=E2=80=9D explained Dr. Cristina Cattaneo, a professor of forensic =
pathology at the University of Milan.</font></b></span></p><p style=3D"max-=
width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><span style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font fac=
e=3D"georgia, serif">Gaza=E2=80=99s devastated hospitals also lack the equi=
pment for DNA testing, and Israel refuses to allow DNA testing materials to=
 enter the strip.</font></b></span></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb=
(27,27,27)"><span style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif"=
>The problems are made worse by Israeli military bulldozers working to syst=
ematically demolish structures in Gaza, in a bid to prevent Palestinians fr=
om ever returning to the their homes. While demolishing buildings, the bull=
dozers may move and damage bodies still buried beneath the rubble or bury t=
hem further.</font></b></span></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,2=
7,27)"><span style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">For =
Palestinians, not knowing the fate of a missing loved one, whether they are=
 dead or detained in Israel=E2=80=99s prisons known for horrific torture, i=
s devastating.</font></b></span></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;margin-top:0=
.4em;margin-bottom:0.4em"></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27=
)"><span style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">Saed al-=
Yazji told the<span>=C2=A0</span><i style=3D"max-width:100%">Guardian</i><s=
pan>=C2=A0</span>that his brother, Sameh, 40, disappeared on 7 October 2023=
 as Israel began the two-year bombing campaign in Gaza that was soon recogn=
ized across the world as a genocide.</font></b></span></p><p style=3D"max-w=
idth:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><span style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font face=
=3D"georgia, serif">=E2=80=9CWe have had no information about him since tha=
t day,=E2=80=99=E2=80=99 said Yazji, 52. =E2=80=9CWe still cling to the hop=
e that he is alive because there has been no confirmation that he was kille=
d or detained. We wait every day for news that might finally bring peace to=
 our hearts.=E2=80=9D</font></b></span></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color=
:rgb(27,27,27)"><span style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font face=3D"georgia, se=
rif">According to Gaza=E2=80=99s Health Ministry, Israeli forces have kille=
d over 72,000 Palestinians in the strip. The majority are women and childre=
n.</font></b></span></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b>=
<font face=3D"georgia, serif"><span style=3D"max-width:100%">However, indep=
endent estimates suggest the death toll is vastly higher. A German and Span=
ish research team from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (M=
PIDR) and the Center for Demographic Studies (CED)<span>=C2=A0</span></span=
><a href=3D"https://www.mpg.de/25778228/gaza-study-reveals-unprecedented-lo=
sses-of-life-and-life-expectancy" style=3D"text-decoration:none;color:rgb(6=
5,110,210);max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank"><span style=3D"max-width:100%"=
>estimated</span></a><span style=3D"max-width:100%"><span>=C2=A0</span>that=
 as of November 2025, the violent death toll had likely exceeded 100,000.</=
span></font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><fon=
t face=3D"georgia, serif"><span style=3D"max-width:100%">Some scholars and =
scientists<span>=C2=A0</span></span><a href=3D"https://www.un.org/unispal/d=
ocument/press-briefing-francesca-albanese-16sep25/" style=3D"text-decoratio=
n:none;color:rgb(65,110,210);max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank"><span style=
=3D"max-width:100%">estimate</span></a><span style=3D"max-width:100%"><span=
>=C2=A0</span>the death toll in Gaza may exceed 600,000 when indirect effec=
ts of the war are considered, such as the impact of destroyed infrastructur=
e, malnutrition, and disease.</span></font></b></p></div></div>
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Pakistan=E2=80=99s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif meets Iran=E2=80=99s Forei=
gn Minister Abbas Araghchi in Islamabad in April, Photo by Government of Pa=
kistan.
As with so much surrounding the Iran war, which the United States and Israe=
l began in February, truth has been elusive and words have lost much of the=
ir meaning.

A cease fire agreement does not cease the firing. A peace agreement is not =
an agreement. Instead it is a Memorandum of Understanding.

Pakistan=E2=80=99s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and U.S. President Donald =
Trump have been claiming=C2=A0on social media, of course=C2=A0that there is=
 an agreement on the Iran war and says Sharif =E2=80=9Cpeace has never been=
 this close as it is now.=E2=80=9D

What exactly an MoU is in the context of a war is a bit of a mystery. Also =
an MoU has an inoffensive, business-like sound to it. It=E2=80=99s as if th=
e brutal reality of war, the deaths of innocents, homes destroyed, children=
 killed, is made invisible behind the inoffensive MoU. It is manipulative a=
nd it should be more than a little offensive to anyone who values words and=
 reality.

And what does it even mean?

Is the war over when it is signed? Or is it on pause until/if the Memorandu=
m of Understanding is misunderstood? Who decides whether there is a misunde=
rstanding?

Can an MoU be interpreted as a peace agreement? Would breaking an MoU be a =
declaration of war? If it is, would the U.S. administration this time be re=
quired to seek permission to go to war?

The reality is that this MoU, if it is signed, is not a peace agreement. It=
 does not end the Iran war, a war that has killed nearly 4,000 Iranians, de=
stroyed homes, and devastated countless lives. Nothing is over. It is simpl=
y a pause in fighting while the warring sides agree to talk about the issue=
s, they have been unable to resolve until now, like the Strait of Hormuz an=
d Iran=E2=80=99s nuclear enriched material.

If one peels away the layers, this MoU, if it is signed, appears to be litt=
le more than a 60-day breathing space for President Donald Trump, who is de=
sperate for an off ramp. This MoU allows him to kick the war down the road =
until he can recover some political ground at home ahead of the November mi=
d-term elections in the United States?

If the MoU opens the Strait of Hormuz to unfettered traffic and gas prices =
at the pumps in America (which really is all that matters to most Americans=
), Trump will be able to tell mid-term voters he was right all along: The p=
ain at the pumps was temporary.

This latest=C2=A0=E2=80=9Cpeace has never been this close=E2=80=9D=C2=A0mom=
ent is not hopeful=E2=80=94it is manipulative, detached from reality, and d=
angerously effective at normalizing memorandums as a substitute for real pe=
ace.

If this is where we are headed, wars may no longer end at all. They will si=
mply be deferred=E2=80=94one evasive compromise, one sanitized memorandum, =
one future battlefield at a time=E2=80=94while innocents are killed, famili=
es are torn apart, and homes are reduced to rubble beneath the deceptively =
harmless language of an MoU.




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:center;"></td></tr></tbody></table>Pakistan=E2=80=99s Prime Minister Shehb=
az Sharif meets Iran=E2=80=99s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Islamabad=
 in April, Photo by Government of Pakistan.</div><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px=
 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;">As with so much surrounding th=
e Iran war, which the United States and Israel began in February, truth has=
 been elusive and words have lost much of their meaning.</p><p style=3D"mar=
gin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;">A cease fire agreem=
ent does not cease the firing. A peace agreement is not an agreement. Inste=
ad it is a Memorandum of Understanding.</p><div style=3D"line-height:26px;"=
><div style=3D"font-family:system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Ro=
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t:26px;"></div></div></div><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,=
55);line-height:26px;">Pakistan=E2=80=99s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and=
 U.S. President Donald Trump have been claiming&nbsp;<strong>on social medi=
a, of course&nbsp;</strong>that there is an agreement on the Iran war and s=
ays Sharif =E2=80=9Cpeace has never been this close as it is now.=E2=80=9D<=
/p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;">W=
hat exactly an MoU is in the context of a war is a bit of a mystery. Also a=
n MoU has an inoffensive, business-like sound to it. It=E2=80=99s as if the=
 brutal reality of war, the deaths of innocents, homes destroyed, children =
killed, is made invisible behind the inoffensive MoU. It is manipulative an=
d it should be more than a little offensive to anyone who values words and =
reality.</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height=
:26px;">And what does it even mean?</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;colo=
r:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;">Is the war over when it is signed? Or is=
 it on pause until/if the Memorandum of Understanding is misunderstood? Who=
 decides whether there is a misunderstanding?</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px=
 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;">Can an MoU be interpreted as a=
 peace agreement? Would breaking an MoU be a declaration of war? If it is, =
would the U.S. administration this time be required to seek permission to g=
o to war?</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-heigh=
t:26px;">The reality is that this MoU, if it is signed, is not a peace agre=
ement. It does not end the Iran war, a war that has killed nearly 4,000 Ira=
nians, destroyed homes, and devastated countless lives. Nothing is over. It=
 is simply a pause in fighting while the warring sides agree to talk about =
the issues, they have been unable to resolve until now, like the Strait of =
Hormuz and Iran=E2=80=99s nuclear enriched material.</p><p style=3D"margin:=
0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;">If one peels away the l=
ayers, this MoU, if it is signed, appears to be little more than a 60-day b=
reathing space for President Donald Trump, who is desperate for an off ramp=
. This MoU allows him to kick the war down the road until he can recover so=
me political ground at home ahead of the November mid-term elections in the=
 United States?</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);line=
-height:26px;">If the MoU opens the Strait of Hormuz to unfettered traffic =
and gas prices at the pumps in America (which really is all that matters to=
 most Americans), Trump will be able to tell mid-term voters he was right a=
ll along: The pain at the pumps was temporary.</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0p=
x 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;">This latest&nbsp;<strong>=E2=
=80=9Cpeace has never been this close=E2=80=9D</strong>&nbsp;moment is not =
hopeful=E2=80=94it is manipulative, detached from reality, and dangerously =
effective at normalizing memorandums as a substitute for real peace.</p><p =
style=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;">If this=
 is where we are headed, wars may no longer end at all. They will simply be=
 deferred=E2=80=94one evasive compromise, one sanitized memorandum, one fut=
ure battlefield at a time=E2=80=94while innocents are killed, families are =
torn apart, and homes are reduced to rubble beneath the deceptively harmles=
s language of an MoU.</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55=
);line-height:26px;"></p><div style=3D"line-height:26px;margin-bottom:0px;"=
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 So Iran cannot go nuclear;but US uses it as a threat! Gee what an incentiv=
e for Iran to get nukes!
     On Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 10:53:18 PM GMT+5, Chas Freeman via Salon =
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Donald Trump Just Invoked Nuclear Weapons Against Iran. That Was a Big Mist=
ake

Buried at the end of Trump=E2=80=99s announcement that the Iran war ends Su=
nday was a line that had nothing to do with the signing =E2=80=94 and alarm=
ed far more. The United States, he wrote, holds the =E2=80=9Cultimate alter=
native, hopefully never to be used again.=E2=80=9D Only one weapon fits tha=
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President Donald Trump participates in a Kennedy Center Board Meeting, Mond=
ay, March 17, 2025, at the John F. Kennedy Center Performing Arts Center in=
 Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)
President Donald J. Trump announced earlier today that the war with Iran en=
ds tomorrow. In a Truth Social post, he said the agreement is scheduled to =
get signed Sunday, with the Strait of Hormuz =E2=80=9COPEN TO ALL=E2=80=9D =
the moment the ink dries. Within hours, Iran=E2=80=99s Islamic Revolutionar=
y Guard Corps said the opposite, calling Sunday=C2=A0a date on which signin=
g is =E2=80=9Cdefinitely not happening=E2=80=9D=C2=A0and describing the ann=
ouncement as a test aimed at its own negotiators. One hundred and five days=
 into a war that has closed the world=E2=80=99s most important oil chokepoi=
nt, the two governments cannot agree on whether the war is about to be over=
, and the gap between Trump=E2=80=99s certainty and Tehran=E2=80=99s denial=
 is the most important fact in the conflict tonight.

Signed Tomorrow Versus Definitely Not Happening: The Two Versions Of June 1=
4

Trump=E2=80=99s account is unequivocal. He has said for two days that a mem=
orandum of understanding has been approved at the highest level of Iranian =
leadership, that he canceled a third round of strikes on Thursday because t=
he deal=E2=80=99s final points were agreed upon, and that Vice President Va=
nce would represent the United States at a signing ceremony in Europe over =
the weekend.

Today, he fixed the date: Sunday, June 14, with=C2=A0Hormuz=C2=A0reopening =
immediately afterward.

Iran=E2=80=99s account contradicts nearly every operational detail. The=C2=
=A0Revolutionary Guard, through its affiliated outlets, said the memorandum=
 has not been finalized, and that signing on Sunday will not occur, framing=
 Trump=E2=80=99s timeline as pressure on Iran=E2=80=99s negotiating team ra=
ther than a reflection of where the talks actually stand.

President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the Department of Justice in Was=
hington, D.C., Friday, March 14, 2025. (Official White House Photo by Joyce=
 N. Boghosian)

The Guard noted pointedly on Telegram that June 14 is Trump=E2=80=99s birth=
day and suggested he wants the signing to serve as a personal publicity eve=
nt.

Iran=E2=80=99s Foreign Ministry struck a more measured note without resolvi=
ng the contradiction: spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said there are no plans to =
travel to Geneva or anywhere else in the coming days and that the exact tim=
ing should be awaited, while allowing that the two sides have never been th=
is close to an understanding.

The logistics remain unsettled enough that officials on both sides have flo=
ated a remote signing rather than a ceremony, which is an unusual way to co=
nclude a war.

The disagreement is not a matter of=C2=A0interpretation. Either a document =
gets signed tomorrow, or it does not, and the United States and=C2=A0Iran=
=C2=A0are telling the world different answers on the eve of the date.

The =E2=80=9CUltimate Alternative=E2=80=9D: A President Alludes To Nuclear =
Use

The most alarming line in Trump=E2=80=99s announcement was not about the si=
gning.

He closed the post with a warning about what follows if the process does no=
t go smoothly: the United States, he wrote, has=C2=A0the =E2=80=9Cultimate =
alternative, hopefully never to be used again.=E2=80=9D

The White House did not respond to a request to clarify what the phrase mea=
nt. The clarification is not really necessary. The only weapon that has bee=
n used and then, by deliberate restraint, never used again is the atomic bo=
mb, and =E2=80=9Cnever to be used again=E2=80=9D is an allusion no other co=
nstruction fits.

Little Boy Atomic Bomb. Image Credit: Harry J. Kazianis/National Security J=
ournal.

A sitting president, in writing, on a social media feed, in the middle of a=
 negotiation, gesturing at nuclear use against a non-nuclear adversary, is =
a break from how American presidents have handled the subject for 80 years,=
 and this is the second time in recent memory he has done this with Iran.

Nuclear signaling has happened before =E2=80=94 privately, through ambiguit=
y, through the movement of forces =E2=80=94 and even the Trump =E2=80=9Cfir=
e and fury=E2=80=9D warning aimed at=C2=A0North Korea=C2=A0in 2017 stopped =
short of invoking a weapon =E2=80=9Cnever to be used again.=E2=80=9D Doing =
it openly, against a country with no nuclear weapons of its own, as leverag=
e to close a deal, abandons the restraint that every administration since 1=
945 has treated as a floor. The recklessness is in the allusion itself, reg=
ardless of intent.

And the intent almost certainly does not extend to actual use. Nothing abou=
t the=C2=A0strategic situation=C2=A0suggests Trump is preparing a=C2=A0nucl=
ear strike=C2=A0on Iran, and reading the line as a genuine operational thre=
at misunderstands what it is for. The line is part of a long line of pressu=
re instruments, the rhetorical equivalent of carrier deployments, more sanc=
tions, and conventional strikes =E2=80=94 an attempt to make Iran believe t=
he cost of not signing is unbounded. That it is a theater rather than a pla=
n does not make it responsible.

A president who treats the most catastrophic weapon ever built as a negotia=
ting prop normalizes its invocation for every leader and every crisis that =
follows, and the damage to the norm is done whether or not a single warhead=
 ever moves.

Maximum Pressure By Press Release: Why Trump Keeps Announcing A Deal

The announcement fits a pattern that has defined Trump=E2=80=99s entire app=
roach to this war, and understanding the pattern explains why tomorrow=E2=
=80=99s signing may not happen on schedule.

Trump has repeatedly declared a deal imminent =E2=80=94 final points approv=
ed, the supreme leader on board, a ceremony days away =E2=80=94 and the dec=
larations function as a tool of pressure in their own right, sitting alongs=
ide the sanctions, the naval blockade, the diplomatic isolation, and the=C2=
=A0military strikes.

Announcing that a deal is essentially done creates a fact on the ground tha=
t Iran must then either accept or be seen to reject. It puts Tehran in the =
position of either signing close to American terms or publicly walking away=
 from a settlement the world has been told already exists, absorbing the bl=
ame for prolonging the war.

President Donald Trump departs the White House Easter Egg Roll on the South=
 Lawn, Monday, April 21, 2025. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)

The timing of the birthday is the tell that this is stagecraft as much as d=
iplomacy. Setting the signing for June 14 turns the end of a war into a per=
sonal milestone, and the choice of date reveals an announcement built for e=
ffect rather than dictated by the state of the talks. The =E2=80=9Cfake new=
s=E2=80=9D episode earlier this week points the same way: when Iranian medi=
a published purported terms =E2=80=94 frozen assets released, sanctions sus=
pended, the blockade lifted =E2=80=94 Trump dismissed them as bearing=C2=A0=
no relation to what was agreed =E2=80=9Cin writing,=E2=80=9D=C2=A0and Vance=
 insisted no cash was being released for a signature. The administration is=
 managing the narrative of the deal as aggressively as its substance, becau=
se the narrative is itself a lever.

Maximum pressure has always been the strategy. Announcing a finished deal t=
hat is not finished is simply the latest form of it.

Iran=E2=80=99s Bet: Outlast The President

Tehran=E2=80=99s denials are not only about the calendar. They reflect a ca=
lculation that time favors Iran, and that the longer it holds out, the bett=
er the terms it can extract or the more likely the pressure dissipates. The=
 Revolutionary Guard=E2=80=99s framing of the Sunday date as a =E2=80=9Ctes=
t=E2=80=9D for Iran=E2=80=99s negotiators signals a regime that believes it=
 can absorb the announcement, deny the timeline, and wait.

The maximalist terms that surfaced in Iranian media this week =E2=80=94 rep=
orted demands including the release of roughly $24 billion in frozen assets=
, suspension of sanctions on oil sales, a complete lifting of the naval blo=
ckade in place since April 13, a 60-day window for nuclear negotiations rat=
her than immediate concessions, and reconstruction commitments on the order=
 of $300 billion =E2=80=94 describe what Iran wants the final deal to conta=
in, not what it has conceded. A government preparing to capitulate tomorrow=
 does not float a $300 billion reconstruction bill today.

The bet rests on Trump=E2=80=99s own constraints. Iran is watching the same=
 American clock everyone else is: a president with an approval rating batte=
red by inflation, a war that has driven energy prices and grown unpopular, =
and a midterm election approaching in which the governing party is already =
trailing. Tehran appears to believe that Trump needs the deal more than Ira=
n does =E2=80=94 that he wants the war ended, and Hormuz reopened badly eno=
ugh to keep improving his offer, and that waiting costs Iran less than it c=
osts him.

President Donald J. Trump tours the Hall of Prayer of Good Harvest with Pre=
sident Xi Jinping of the People=E2=80=99s Republic of China, Thursday, May =
14, 2026, at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing. (Official White House Photo b=
y Daniel Torok)

Whether that bet is sound is a separate question, because the blockade is g=
enuinely=C2=A0strangling Iran=E2=80=99s economy=C2=A0and the strikes have g=
enuinely wrecked its military. The point is that Iran is playing for time, =
and a regime playing for time does not sign on the other side=E2=80=99s bir=
thday because the other side announced it would.

What Is Actually In Dispute

The substance behind the dueling announcements remains genuinely unresolved=
, which is the strongest evidence that Sunday is optimistic. Israel, whose =
war against Iran runs alongside the American one, stated through Prime Mini=
ster Netanyahu=E2=80=99s office that it is=C2=A0not a party to the memorand=
um of understanding=C2=A0=E2=80=94 a direct dissonance with Trump=E2=80=99s=
 framing of a comprehensive settlement =E2=80=94 and Netanyahu listed what =
a more durable agreement would still require: removal of enriched material,=
 dismantling of enrichment infrastructure, limits on missile production, an=
d an end to Iran=E2=80=99s support for its regional proxies. That those ele=
ments are described as belonging to a future deal means they are not in the=
 current one. Asked directly whether he had secured agreement on Iran=E2=80=
=99s nuclear material, Trump said only that he had, =E2=80=9Cconceptually,=
=E2=80=9D which is the language of a framework, not a signed accord.

The gap is wide and concrete. The two sides have leaked incompatible versio=
ns of the terms. The United States insists the Iranian version is fabricate=
d, Iran insists its negotiators have agreed to nothing final,=C2=A0Israel=
=C2=A0says the hardest nuclear provisions remain unwritten, and no venue or=
 signing logistics have been confirmed with a day to go.

A memorandum of understanding, even if one exists, is not the end of the wa=
r; it is an agreement to keep talking under agreed-upon principles, and tho=
se principles are still contested in public.

B-2 Bomber at USAF Museum National Security Journal Image. All Rights Reser=
ved.

No Deal, And An Oil Shock Waiting

The most likely outcome over the next twenty-four hours is that no agreemen=
t will be signed on schedule, because the gap between what Trump has announ=
ced and what Iran has confirmed is too wide to bridge on a date chosen for =
symbolism.

A framework may exist, the two sides may indeed be closer than they have ev=
er been, and a signing may eventually come. Tomorrow is a different claim, =
and the Revolutionary Guard=E2=80=99s flat denial, the unsettled logistics,=
 and the unresolved nuclear terms all point against it. Trump has announced=
 finished deals before in this war. The war has continued after each one.

The stakes of the impasse extend far past Tehran and Washington. The=C2=A0S=
trait of Hormuz, which Trump has promised will reopen the instant a deal is=
 signed, carries=C2=A0roughly a fifth of the world=E2=80=99s oil supply, an=
d it has been effectively closed for much of the war, with the American nav=
al blockade compounding the disruption since April. Every week without a de=
al is a week the chokepoint stays shut, and the longer the closure runs, th=
e closer the global economy moves to a genuine oil supply shock =E2=80=94 t=
he kind that drives fuel prices into territory that reorders economies and =
topples governments.

That pressure is precisely why Trump wants the deal and why he keeps announ=
cing it, and it is also why Iran believes it has leverage, because Tehran k=
nows the closed strait hurts the world that is leaning on it. The announced=
 signing and the denied signing meet at the same chokepoint, and until one =
version proves true, the war grinds on, with the world=E2=80=99s oil supply=
 held hostage to a strait that opens only when a document neither side can =
yet produce is signed.

About the Author: Harry J. Kazianis

Harry J. Kazianis=C2=A0(@Grecianformula) was the former Senior Director of =
National Security Affairs at the Center for the National Interest (CFTNI), =
a foreign policy think tank founded by Richard Nixon based in Washington, D=
C.=C2=A0Harry=C2=A0has over a decade of=C2=A0experience=C2=A0in think tanks=
 and national security=C2=A0publishing. His ideas have been=C2=A0published=
=C2=A0in the=C2=A0NY Times, The=C2=A0Washington Post, The Wall Street Journ=
al,=C2=A0CNN, and many other=C2=A0outlets=C2=A0worldwide. He has held posit=
ions at CSIS, the Heritage Foundation, the University of Nottingham, and se=
veral other institutions related to national security research and studies.=
 He is the former Executive Editor of the National Interest and=C2=A0the Di=
plomat. He holds a Master=E2=80=99s degree focusing on international affair=
s from Harvard University.

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in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)</span></di=
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"margin:0px auto 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-h=
eight:1.55;max-width:660px;font-family:Vollkorn, sans-serif;">President Don=
ald J. Trump announced earlier today that the war with Iran ends tomorrow. =
In a Truth Social post, he said the agreement is scheduled to get signed Su=
nday, with the Strait of Hormuz =E2=80=9COPEN TO ALL=E2=80=9D the moment th=
e ink dries. Within hours, Iran=E2=80=99s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps=
 said the opposite, calling Sunday<a href=3D"https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/13=
/world/live-news/iran-war-trump-israel" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;bor=
der:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);opacity:1;text-decoration:=
none;" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer noopener">&nbsp;a date on which =
signing is =E2=80=9Cdefinitely not happening=E2=80=9D</a>&nbsp;and describi=
ng the announcement as a test aimed at its own negotiators. One hundred and=
 five days into a war that has closed the world=E2=80=99s most important oi=
l chokepoint, the two governments cannot agree on whether the war is about =
to be over, and the gap between Trump=E2=80=99s certainty and Tehran=E2=80=
=99s denial is the most important fact in the conflict tonight.</p><h2 styl=
e=3D"margin:auto;padding:0px;border-width:0px 0px 2.5px;border-style:none n=
one solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor rgb(221,221,221);vertical-=
align:baseline;line-height:1.2;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:-0.02em;overf=
low:hidden;width:660px;text-transform:capitalize;max-width:660px;"><strong =
style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;">Signed=
 Tomorrow Versus Definitely Not Happening: The Two Versions Of June 14</str=
ong></h2><p style=3D"margin:0px auto 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-a=
lign:baseline;line-height:1.55;max-width:660px;font-family:Vollkorn, sans-s=
erif;">Trump=E2=80=99s account is unequivocal. He has said for two days tha=
t a memorandum of understanding has been approved at the highest level of I=
ranian leadership, that he canceled a third round of strikes on Thursday be=
cause the deal=E2=80=99s final points were agreed upon, and that Vice Presi=
dent Vance would represent the United States at a signing ceremony in Europ=
e over the weekend.</p><p style=3D"margin:0px auto 20px;padding:0px;border:=
0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.55;max-width:660px;font-family:Vo=
llkorn, sans-serif;">Today, he fixed the date: Sunday, June 14, with&nbsp;<=
a href=3D"https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/irans-foreign-minister-says-i=
t-plainly-control-of-hormuz-will-no-longer-be-the-same-theres-the-toll/" st=
yle=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(=
0,0,0);opacity:1;text-decoration:none;" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer=
 noopener">Hormuz</a>&nbsp;reopening immediately afterward.</p><p style=3D"=
margin:0px auto 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-he=
ight:1.55;max-width:660px;font-family:Vollkorn, sans-serif;">Iran=E2=80=99s=
 account contradicts nearly every operational detail. The&nbsp;<a href=3D"h=
ttps://nationalsecurityjournal.org/irans-irgc-just-struck-a-u-s-base-in-kuw=
ait-and-the-iran-war-ceasefire-is-collapsing/" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:=
0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);opacity:1;text-deco=
ration:none;" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer noopener">Revolutionary G=
uard</a>, through its affiliated outlets, said the memorandum has not been =
finalized, and that signing on Sunday will not occur, framing Trump=E2=80=
=99s timeline as pressure on Iran=E2=80=99s negotiating team rather than a =
reflection of where the talks actually stand.</p><div id=3D"yiv7402999667gm=
ail-ld-8484-9112" style=3D"margin:0px auto 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;vert=
ical-align:baseline;line-height:1.55;"></div><div id=3D"yiv7402999667gmail-=
attachment_46200" style=3D"margin:0px auto;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-=
align:baseline;line-height:0;width:1210px;max-width:100%;text-align:center;=
" class=3D"yiv7402999667gmail-wp-caption yiv7402999667gmail-aligncenter"><i=
mg src=3D"https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Do=
nald-Trump-White-House-Flickr-Photo-Creative-Commons.jpg" alt=3D"President =
Donald Trump delivers remarks at the Department of Justice in Washington, D=
.C., Friday, March 14, 2025. (Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghos=
ian)" width=3D"1200" height=3D"675" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:=
0px;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:100%;height:auto;" class=3D"yiv740299=
9667gmail-wp-image-46200"><p id=3D"yiv7402999667gmail-caption-attachment-46=
200" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:8px 20px 0px;border:0px;vertical-=
align:baseline;color:rgb(136,136,136);line-height:1;max-width:none;font-fam=
ily:Vollkorn, sans-serif;text-align:right;width:920px;" class=3D"yiv7402999=
667gmail-wp-caption-text">President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the De=
partment of Justice in Washington, D.C., Friday, March 14, 2025. (Official =
White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)</p></div><p style=3D"margin:0px au=
to 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.55;max=
-width:660px;font-family:Vollkorn, sans-serif;">The Guard noted pointedly o=
n Telegram that June 14 is Trump=E2=80=99s birthday and suggested he wants =
the signing to serve as a personal publicity event.</p><p style=3D"margin:0=
px auto 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.5=
5;max-width:660px;font-family:Vollkorn, sans-serif;">Iran=E2=80=99s Foreign=
 Ministry struck a more measured note without resolving the contradiction: =
spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said there are no plans to travel to Geneva or an=
ywhere else in the coming days and that the exact timing should be awaited,=
 while allowing that the two sides have never been this close to an underst=
anding.</p><p style=3D"margin:0px auto 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical=
-align:baseline;line-height:1.55;max-width:660px;font-family:Vollkorn, sans=
-serif;">The logistics remain unsettled enough that officials on both sides=
 have floated a remote signing rather than a ceremony, which is an unusual =
way to conclude a war.</p><p style=3D"margin:0px auto 20px;padding:0px;bord=
er:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.55;max-width:660px;font-family=
:Vollkorn, sans-serif;">The disagreement is not a matter of&nbsp;<a href=3D=
"https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/even-if-the-iran-deal-is-signed-this-w=
eek-the-thing-it-broke-wont-be-fixed/" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;bord=
er:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);opacity:1;text-decoration:n=
one;" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer noopener">interpretation</a>. Eit=
her a document gets signed tomorrow, or it does not, and the United States =
and&nbsp;<a href=3D"https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/the-u-s-military-re=
portedly-planned-to-send-troops-into-iran-to-seize-its-uranium-then-trump-h=
it-pause/" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseli=
ne;color:rgb(0,0,0);opacity:1;text-decoration:none;" target=3D"_blank" rel=
=3D"noreferrer noopener">Iran</a>&nbsp;are telling the world different answ=
ers on the eve of the date.</p><h2 style=3D"margin:auto;padding:0px;border-=
width:0px 0px 2.5px;border-style:none none solid;border-color:currentcolor =
currentcolor rgb(221,221,221);vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.2;font-=
weight:100;letter-spacing:-0.02em;overflow:hidden;width:660px;text-transfor=
m:capitalize;max-width:660px;"><strong style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;bord=
er:0px;vertical-align:baseline;">The =E2=80=9CUltimate Alternative=E2=80=9D=
: A President Alludes To Nuclear Use</strong></h2><p style=3D"margin:0px au=
to 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.55;max=
-width:660px;font-family:Vollkorn, sans-serif;">The most alarming line in T=
rump=E2=80=99s announcement was not about the signing.</p><p style=3D"margi=
n:0px auto 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:=
1.55;max-width:660px;font-family:Vollkorn, sans-serif;">He closed the post =
with a warning about what follows if the process does not go smoothly: the =
United States, he wrote, has<a href=3D"https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/06/13/=
trump-iran-deal-strait-of-hormuz.html" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;bord=
er:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);opacity:1;text-decoration:n=
one;" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer noopener">&nbsp;the =E2=80=9Culti=
mate alternative, hopefully never to be used again.=E2=80=9D</a></p><div st=
yle=3D"margin:0px auto 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;=
line-height:1.55;"></div><p style=3D"margin:0px auto 20px;padding:0px;borde=
r:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.55;max-width:660px;font-family:=
Vollkorn, sans-serif;">The White House did not respond to a request to clar=
ify what the phrase meant. The clarification is not really necessary. The o=
nly weapon that has been used and then, by deliberate restraint, never used=
 again is the atomic bomb, and =E2=80=9Cnever to be used again=E2=80=9D is =
an allusion no other construction fits.</p><div id=3D"yiv7402999667gmail-at=
tachment_22459" style=3D"margin:0px auto;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-al=
ign:baseline;line-height:0;width:1210px;max-width:100%;text-align:center;" =
class=3D"yiv7402999667gmail-wp-caption yiv7402999667gmail-aligncenter"><img=
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le-Boy-Atomic-Bomb.jpg" alt=3D"Little Boy Atomic Bomb" width=3D"1200" heigh=
t=3D"675" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baselin=
e;max-width:100%;height:auto;" class=3D"yiv7402999667gmail-wp-image-22459">=
<p id=3D"yiv7402999667gmail-caption-attachment-22459" style=3D"margin:0px 0=
px 20px;padding:8px 20px 0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(1=
36,136,136);line-height:1;max-width:none;font-family:Vollkorn, sans-serif;t=
ext-align:right;width:920px;" class=3D"yiv7402999667gmail-wp-caption-text">=
Little Boy Atomic Bomb. Image Credit: Harry J. Kazianis/National Security J=
ournal.</p></div><p style=3D"margin:0px auto 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;ve=
rtical-align:baseline;line-height:1.55;max-width:660px;font-family:Vollkorn=
, sans-serif;">A sitting president, in writing, on a social media feed, in =
the middle of a negotiation, gesturing at nuclear use against a non-nuclear=
 adversary, is a break from how American presidents have handled the subjec=
t for 80 years, and this is the second time in recent memory he has done th=
is with Iran.</p><p style=3D"margin:0px auto 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;ve=
rtical-align:baseline;line-height:1.55;max-width:660px;font-family:Vollkorn=
, sans-serif;">Nuclear signaling has happened before =E2=80=94 privately, t=
hrough ambiguity, through the movement of forces =E2=80=94 and even the Tru=
mp =E2=80=9Cfire and fury=E2=80=9D warning aimed at&nbsp;<a href=3D"https:/=
/nationalsecurityjournal.org/iran-is-running-the-north-korea-playbook-stall=
-negotiate-and-build-a-nuclear-bomb-anyway/" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0p=
x;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);opacity:1;text-decora=
tion:none;" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer noopener">North Korea</a>&n=
bsp;in 2017 stopped short of invoking a weapon =E2=80=9Cnever to be used ag=
ain.=E2=80=9D Doing it openly, against a country with no nuclear weapons of=
 its own, as leverage to close a deal, abandons the restraint that every ad=
ministration since 1945 has treated as a floor. The recklessness is in the =
allusion itself, regardless of intent.</p><div style=3D"margin:0px auto 20p=
x;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.55;"></div><=
p style=3D"margin:0px auto 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:basel=
ine;line-height:1.55;max-width:660px;font-family:Vollkorn, sans-serif;">And=
 the intent almost certainly does not extend to actual use. Nothing about t=
he&nbsp;<a href=3D"https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/22-ships-late-at-nig=
ht-no-lights-the-president-just-confirmed-the-ghost-fleet-running-hormuz/" =
style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rg=
b(0,0,0);opacity:1;text-decoration:none;" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferr=
er noopener">strategic situation</a>&nbsp;suggests Trump is preparing a&nbs=
p;<a href=3D"https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/even-as-missiles-fly-trump=
-says-iran-has-agreed-to-give-up-its-pursuit-of-a-nuclear-weapon/" style=3D=
"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)=
;opacity:1;text-decoration:none;" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer noope=
ner">nuclear strike</a>&nbsp;on Iran, and reading the line as a genuine ope=
rational threat misunderstands what it is for. The line is part of a long l=
ine of pressure instruments, the rhetorical equivalent of carrier deploymen=
ts, more sanctions, and conventional strikes =E2=80=94 an attempt to make I=
ran believe the cost of not signing is unbounded. That it is a theater rath=
er than a plan does not make it responsible.</p><p style=3D"margin:0px auto=
 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.55;max-w=
idth:660px;font-family:Vollkorn, sans-serif;">A president who treats the mo=
st catastrophic weapon ever built as a negotiating prop normalizes its invo=
cation for every leader and every crisis that follows, and the damage to th=
e norm is done whether or not a single warhead ever moves.</p><h2 style=3D"=
margin:auto;padding:0px;border-width:0px 0px 2.5px;border-style:none none s=
olid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor rgb(221,221,221);vertical-align=
:baseline;line-height:1.2;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:-0.02em;overflow:h=
idden;width:660px;text-transform:capitalize;max-width:660px;"><strong style=
=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;">Maximum Pre=
ssure By Press Release: Why Trump Keeps Announcing A Deal</strong></h2><p s=
tyle=3D"margin:0px auto 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline=
;line-height:1.55;max-width:660px;font-family:Vollkorn, sans-serif;">The an=
nouncement fits a pattern that has defined Trump=E2=80=99s entire approach =
to this war, and understanding the pattern explains why tomorrow=E2=80=99s =
signing may not happen on schedule.</p><p style=3D"margin:0px auto 20px;pad=
ding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.55;max-width:660p=
x;font-family:Vollkorn, sans-serif;">Trump has repeatedly declared a deal i=
mminent =E2=80=94 final points approved, the supreme leader on board, a cer=
emony days away =E2=80=94 and the declarations function as a tool of pressu=
re in their own right, sitting alongside the sanctions, the naval blockade,=
 the diplomatic isolation, and the&nbsp;<a href=3D"https://nationalsecurity=
journal.org/irans-state-media-kept-count-38-times-a-deal-was-declared-immin=
ent-the-39th-came-with-a-difference/" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;borde=
r:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);opacity:1;text-decoration:no=
ne;" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer noopener">military strikes</a>.</p=
><p style=3D"margin:0px auto 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:bas=
eline;line-height:1.55;max-width:660px;font-family:Vollkorn, sans-serif;">A=
nnouncing that a deal is essentially done creates a fact on the ground that=
 Iran must then either accept or be seen to reject. It puts Tehran in the p=
osition of either signing close to American terms or publicly walking away =
from a settlement the world has been told already exists, absorbing the bla=
me for prolonging the war.</p><div style=3D"margin:0px auto 20px;padding:0p=
x;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.55;"></div><div id=3D"yi=
v7402999667gmail-attachment_8233" style=3D"margin:0px auto;padding:0px;bord=
er:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:0;width:1210px;max-width:100%;te=
xt-align:center;" class=3D"yiv7402999667gmail-wp-caption yiv7402999667gmail=
-aligncenter"><img src=3D"https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/wp-content/up=
loads/2025/04/Donald-Trump-YMCA-Dance.jpg" alt=3D"President Donald Trump de=
parts the White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn, Monday, April 21, =
2025. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)" width=3D"1200" height=
=3D"675" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline=
;max-width:100%;height:auto;" class=3D"yiv7402999667gmail-wp-image-8233"><p=
 id=3D"yiv7402999667gmail-caption-attachment-8233" style=3D"margin:0px 0px =
20px;padding:8px 20px 0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(136,=
136,136);line-height:1;max-width:none;font-family:Vollkorn, sans-serif;text=
-align:right;width:920px;" class=3D"yiv7402999667gmail-wp-caption-text">Pre=
sident Donald Trump departs the White House Easter Egg Roll on the South La=
wn, Monday, April 21, 2025. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)</p=
></div><p style=3D"margin:0px auto 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-ali=
gn:baseline;line-height:1.55;max-width:660px;font-family:Vollkorn, sans-ser=
if;">The timing of the birthday is the tell that this is stagecraft as much=
 as diplomacy. Setting the signing for June 14 turns the end of a war into =
a personal milestone, and the choice of date reveals an announcement built =
for effect rather than dictated by the state of the talks. The =E2=80=9Cfak=
e news=E2=80=9D episode earlier this week points the same way: when Iranian=
 media published purported terms =E2=80=94 frozen assets released, sanction=
s suspended, the blockade lifted =E2=80=94 Trump dismissed them as bearing<=
a href=3D"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/12/dishonorable-trump-says-=
leaked-iran-ceasefire-terms-fake" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0p=
x;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);opacity:1;text-decoration:none;"=
 target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer noopener">&nbsp;no relation to what wa=
s agreed =E2=80=9Cin writing,=E2=80=9D</a>&nbsp;and Vance insisted no cash =
was being released for a signature. The administration is managing the narr=
ative of the deal as aggressively as its substance, because the narrative i=
s itself a lever.</p><p style=3D"margin:0px auto 20px;padding:0px;border:0p=
x;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.55;max-width:660px;font-family:Voll=
korn, sans-serif;">Maximum pressure has always been the strategy. Announcin=
g a finished deal that is not finished is simply the latest form of it.</p>=
<h2 style=3D"margin:auto;padding:0px;border-width:0px 0px 2.5px;border-styl=
e:none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor rgb(221,221,221);v=
ertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.2;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:-0.02=
em;overflow:hidden;width:660px;text-transform:capitalize;max-width:660px;">=
<strong style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;=
">Iran=E2=80=99s Bet: Outlast The President</strong></h2><p style=3D"margin=
:0px auto 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1=
.55;max-width:660px;font-family:Vollkorn, sans-serif;">Tehran=E2=80=99s den=
ials are not only about the calendar. They reflect a calculation that time =
favors Iran, and that the longer it holds out, the better the terms it can =
extract or the more likely the pressure dissipates. The Revolutionary Guard=
=E2=80=99s framing of the Sunday date as a =E2=80=9Ctest=E2=80=9D for Iran=
=E2=80=99s negotiators signals a regime that believes it can absorb the ann=
ouncement, deny the timeline, and wait.</p><p style=3D"margin:0px auto 20px=
;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.55;max-width:=
660px;font-family:Vollkorn, sans-serif;">The maximalist terms that surfaced=
 in Iranian media this week =E2=80=94 reported demands including the releas=
e of roughly $24 billion in frozen assets, suspension of sanctions on oil s=
ales, a complete lifting of the naval blockade in place since April 13, a 6=
0-day window for nuclear negotiations rather than immediate concessions, an=
d reconstruction commitments on the order of $300 billion =E2=80=94 describ=
e what Iran wants the final deal to contain, not what it has conceded. A go=
vernment preparing to capitulate tomorrow does not float a $300 billion rec=
onstruction bill today.</p><p style=3D"margin:0px auto 20px;padding:0px;bor=
der:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.55;max-width:660px;font-famil=
y:Vollkorn, sans-serif;">The bet rests on Trump=E2=80=99s own constraints. =
Iran is watching the same American clock everyone else is: a president with=
 an approval rating battered by inflation, a war that has driven energy pri=
ces and grown unpopular, and a midterm election approaching in which the go=
verning party is already trailing. Tehran appears to believe that Trump nee=
ds the deal more than Iran does =E2=80=94 that he wants the war ended, and =
Hormuz reopened badly enough to keep improving his offer, and that waiting =
costs Iran less than it costs him.</p><div id=3D"yiv7402999667gmail-attachm=
ent_44696" style=3D"margin:0px auto;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:b=
aseline;line-height:0;width:1210px;max-width:100%;text-align:center;" class=
=3D"yiv7402999667gmail-wp-caption yiv7402999667gmail-aligncenter"><img src=
=3D"https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Donald-T=
rump-in-China.jpg" alt=3D"President Donald J. Trump tours the Hall of Praye=
r of Good Harvest with President Xi Jinping of the People=E2=80=99s Republi=
c of China, Thursday, May 14, 2026, at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing. (Of=
ficial White House Photo by Daniel Torok)" width=3D"1200" height=3D"675" st=
yle=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:=
100%;height:auto;" class=3D"yiv7402999667gmail-wp-image-44696"><p id=3D"yiv=
7402999667gmail-caption-attachment-44696" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;padd=
ing:8px 20px 0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(136,136,136);=
line-height:1;max-width:none;font-family:Vollkorn, sans-serif;text-align:ri=
ght;width:920px;" class=3D"yiv7402999667gmail-wp-caption-text">President Do=
nald J. Trump tours the Hall of Prayer of Good Harvest with President Xi Ji=
nping of the People=E2=80=99s Republic of China, Thursday, May 14, 2026, at=
 the Temple of Heaven in Beijing. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Tor=
ok)</p></div><p style=3D"margin:0px auto 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertic=
al-align:baseline;line-height:1.55;max-width:660px;font-family:Vollkorn, sa=
ns-serif;">Whether that bet is sound is a separate question, because the bl=
ockade is genuinely&nbsp;<a href=3D"https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/ira=
n-is-still-standing-after-a-devastating-war-the-audit-shows-why-it-cant-sta=
y-standing-for-long/" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-a=
lign:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);opacity:1;text-decoration:none;" target=3D"_=
blank" rel=3D"noreferrer noopener">strangling Iran=E2=80=99s economy</a>&nb=
sp;and the strikes have genuinely wrecked its military. The point is that I=
ran is playing for time, and a regime playing for time does not sign on the=
 other side=E2=80=99s birthday because the other side announced it would.</=
p><div id=3D"yiv7402999667gmail-ld-67-5574" style=3D"margin:0px auto 20px;p=
adding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.55;"></div><h2 =
style=3D"margin:auto;padding:0px;border-width:0px 0px 2.5px;border-style:no=
ne none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor rgb(221,221,221);verti=
cal-align:baseline;line-height:1.2;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:-0.02em;o=
verflow:hidden;width:660px;text-transform:capitalize;max-width:660px;"><str=
ong style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;">Wh=
at Is Actually In Dispute</strong></h2><p style=3D"margin:0px auto 20px;pad=
ding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.55;max-width:660p=
x;font-family:Vollkorn, sans-serif;">The substance behind the dueling annou=
ncements remains genuinely unresolved, which is the strongest evidence that=
 Sunday is optimistic. Israel, whose war against Iran runs alongside the Am=
erican one, stated through Prime Minister Netanyahu=E2=80=99s office that i=
t is<a href=3D"https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5920985-trump-ir=
an-memorandum/amp/" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-ali=
gn:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);opacity:1;text-decoration:none;" target=3D"_bl=
ank" rel=3D"noreferrer noopener">&nbsp;not a party to the memorandum of und=
erstanding</a>&nbsp;=E2=80=94 a direct dissonance with Trump=E2=80=99s fram=
ing of a comprehensive settlement =E2=80=94 and Netanyahu listed what a mor=
e durable agreement would still require: removal of enriched material, dism=
antling of enrichment infrastructure, limits on missile production, and an =
end to Iran=E2=80=99s support for its regional proxies. That those elements=
 are described as belonging to a future deal means they are not in the curr=
ent one. Asked directly whether he had secured agreement on Iran=E2=80=99s =
nuclear material, Trump said only that he had, =E2=80=9Cconceptually,=E2=80=
=9D which is the language of a framework, not a signed accord.</p><p style=
=3D"margin:0px auto 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;lin=
e-height:1.55;max-width:660px;font-family:Vollkorn, sans-serif;">The gap is=
 wide and concrete. The two sides have leaked incompatible versions of the =
terms. The United States insists the Iranian version is fabricated, Iran in=
sists its negotiators have agreed to nothing final,&nbsp;<a href=3D"https:/=
/nationalsecurityjournal.org/trump-says-the-iran-deal-is-in-its-final-throe=
s-israels-warplanes-tell-a-very-different-story/" style=3D"margin:0px;paddi=
ng:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);opacity:1;text-d=
ecoration:none;" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer noopener">Israel</a>&n=
bsp;says the hardest nuclear provisions remain unwritten, and no venue or s=
igning logistics have been confirmed with a day to go.</p><p style=3D"margi=
n:0px auto 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:=
1.55;max-width:660px;font-family:Vollkorn, sans-serif;">A memorandum of und=
erstanding, even if one exists, is not the end of the war; it is an agreeme=
nt to keep talking under agreed-upon principles, and those principles are s=
till contested in public.</p><div id=3D"yiv7402999667gmail-attachment_19928=
" style=3D"margin:0px auto;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;l=
ine-height:0;width:1210px;max-width:100%;text-align:center;" class=3D"yiv74=
02999667gmail-wp-caption yiv7402999667gmail-aligncenter"><img src=3D"https:=
//nationalsecurityjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/B-2-Bomber-at-USAF=
-Museum-National-Security-Journal-Image.jpg" alt=3D"B-2 Bomber at USAF Muse=
um National Security Journal Image" width=3D"1200" height=3D"673" style=3D"=
margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:100%;he=
ight:auto;" class=3D"yiv7402999667gmail-wp-image-19928"><p id=3D"yiv7402999=
667gmail-caption-attachment-19928" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:8px=
 20px 0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(136,136,136);line-he=
ight:1;max-width:none;font-family:Vollkorn, sans-serif;text-align:right;wid=
th:920px;" class=3D"yiv7402999667gmail-wp-caption-text">B-2 Bomber at USAF =
Museum National Security Journal Image. All Rights Reserved.</p></div><h2 s=
tyle=3D"margin:auto;padding:0px;border-width:0px 0px 2.5px;border-style:non=
e none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor rgb(221,221,221);vertic=
al-align:baseline;line-height:1.2;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:-0.02em;ov=
erflow:hidden;width:660px;text-transform:capitalize;max-width:660px;"><stro=
ng style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;">No =
Deal, And An Oil Shock Waiting</strong></h2><p style=3D"margin:0px auto 20p=
x;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.55;max-width=
:660px;font-family:Vollkorn, sans-serif;">The most likely outcome over the =
next twenty-four hours is that no agreement will be signed on schedule, bec=
ause the gap between what Trump has announced and what Iran has confirmed i=
s too wide to bridge on a date chosen for symbolism.</p><p style=3D"margin:=
0px auto 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.=
55;max-width:660px;font-family:Vollkorn, sans-serif;">A framework may exist=
, the two sides may indeed be closer than they have ever been, and a signin=
g may eventually come. Tomorrow is a different claim, and the Revolutionary=
 Guard=E2=80=99s flat denial, the unsettled logistics, and the unresolved n=
uclear terms all point against it. Trump has announced finished deals befor=
e in this war. The war has continued after each one.</p><p style=3D"margin:=
0px auto 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.=
55;max-width:660px;font-family:Vollkorn, sans-serif;">The stakes of the imp=
asse extend far past Tehran and Washington. The&nbsp;<a href=3D"https://nat=
ionalsecurityjournal.org/an-oil-crisis-is-coming-donald-trumps-strait-of-ho=
rmuz-pandoras-box-is-the-ultimate-national-security-nightmare/" style=3D"ma=
rgin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);op=
acity:1;text-decoration:none;" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer noopener=
">Strait of Hormuz</a>, which Trump has promised will reopen the instant a =
deal is signed, carries<a href=3D"https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R452=
81" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;colo=
r:rgb(0,0,0);opacity:1;text-decoration:none;" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"nore=
ferrer noopener">&nbsp;roughly a fifth of the world=E2=80=99s oil supply</a=
>, and it has been effectively closed for much of the war, with the America=
n naval blockade compounding the disruption since April. Every week without=
 a deal is a week the chokepoint stays shut, and the longer the closure run=
s, the closer the global economy moves to a genuine oil supply shock =E2=80=
=94 the kind that drives fuel prices into territory that reorders economies=
 and topples governments.</p><p style=3D"margin:0px auto 20px;padding:0px;b=
order:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.55;max-width:660px;font-fam=
ily:Vollkorn, sans-serif;">That pressure is precisely why Trump wants the d=
eal and why he keeps announcing it, and it is also why Iran believes it has=
 leverage, because Tehran knows the closed strait hurts the world that is l=
eaning on it. The announced signing and the denied signing meet at the same=
 chokepoint, and until one version proves true, the war grinds on, with the=
 world=E2=80=99s oil supply held hostage to a strait that opens only when a=
 document neither side can yet produce is signed.</p><h2 style=3D"margin:au=
to;padding:0px;border-width:0px 0px 2.5px;border-style:none none solid;bord=
er-color:currentcolor currentcolor rgb(221,221,221);vertical-align:baseline=
;line-height:1.2;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:-0.02em;overflow:hidden;wid=
th:660px;text-transform:capitalize;max-width:660px;"><strong style=3D"margi=
n:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;">About the Author: Ha=
rry J. Kazianis</strong></h2><p style=3D"margin:0px auto 20px;padding:0px;b=
order:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.55;max-width:660px;font-fam=
ily:Vollkorn, sans-serif;"><em style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;v=
ertical-align:baseline;"><a href=3D"https://theweek.com/author/harry-j-kazi=
anis" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;co=
lor:rgb(0,0,0);opacity:1;text-decoration:none;" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"no=
referrer noopener">Harry J. Kazianis</a>&nbsp;(<a href=3D"https://x.com/gre=
cianformula" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:base=
line;color:rgb(0,0,0);opacity:1;text-decoration:none;" target=3D"_blank" re=
l=3D"noreferrer noopener">@Grecianformula</a>) was the former Senior Direct=
or of National Security Affairs at the Center for the National Interest (CF=
TNI), a foreign policy think tank founded by Richard Nixon based in Washing=
ton, DC.<a href=3D"https://www.linkedin.com/in/harry-kazianis-b8048a28/" st=
yle=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(=
0,0,0);opacity:1;text-decoration:none;" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer=
 noopener">&nbsp;Harry</a>&nbsp;has over a decade of<a href=3D"https://asia=
times.com/author/harry-j-kazianis" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0=
px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);opacity:1;text-decoration:none;=
" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer noopener">&nbsp;experience</a>&nbsp;i=
n think tanks and national security<a href=3D"http://amazon.com/stores/Harr=
y-Kazianis/author/B0DKTQ25L5?ref=3Dap_rdr&amp;isDramIntegrated=3Dtrue&amp;s=
hoppingPortalEnabled=3Dtrue" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;ver=
tical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);opacity:1;text-decoration:none;" targ=
et=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer noopener">&nbsp;publishing</a>. His ideas h=
ave been<a href=3D"https://www.foxnews.com/person/k/harry-j-kazianis" style=
=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0=
,0);opacity:1;text-decoration:none;" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer no=
opener">&nbsp;published</a>&nbsp;in the<a href=3D"https://www.nytimes.com/2=
021/03/25/world/asia/north-korea-ballistic-missiles.html" style=3D"margin:0=
px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);opacity:=
1;text-decoration:none;" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer noopener">&nbs=
p;NY Times</a>, The<a href=3D"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national=
-security/north-korea-announces-test-oftactical-weapon/2019/04/17/1f27d682-=
615f-11e9-9412-daf3d2e67c6d_story.html" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;bor=
der:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);opacity:1;text-decoration:=
none;" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer noopener">&nbsp;Washington Post<=
/a>, The Wall Street Journal,<a href=3D"https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/15/poli=
tics/north-korea-negotiations-intl" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:=
0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);opacity:1;text-decoration:none=
;" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer noopener">&nbsp;CNN</a>, and many ot=
her<a href=3D"https://www.newsweek.com/authors/harry-j-kazianis" style=3D"m=
argin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);o=
pacity:1;text-decoration:none;" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer noopene=
r">&nbsp;outlets</a>&nbsp;worldwide. He has held positions at CSIS, the Her=
itage Foundation, the University of Nottingham, and several other instituti=
ons related to national security research and studies. He is the former Exe=
cutive Editor of the National Interest and<a href=3D"https://thediplomat.co=
m/authors/harry-kazianis" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertic=
al-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);opacity:1;text-decoration:none;" target=
=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer noopener">&nbsp;the Diplomat</a>. He holds a =
Master=E2=80=99s degree focusing on international affairs from Harvard Univ=
ersity.</em></p></div></div><br></div></div></div></div>-- <br>Salon mailin=
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Thanks, Chas for your excellent (if admittedly incomplete) listing of what
DT has wrought. It can get rapidly worse BECAUSE DT IS NOT WELL!

With his latest "Truth Social" (see below), I am afraid that chances are
better than even that Netanyahu will feel authorized to exercise his nuke
option, now that Trump has given advance notice nukes may be coming.

For Netanyahu it is existential -- in personal as well as political sense.
AND I doubt he would even tell DT beforehand.

Ray

++++++++++++++++++++++



Truth Social <https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump>

June 13, 2026, 12:45

@realDonaldTrump

Barack Hussein Obama=E2=80=99s Deal with Iran, the JCPOA, was an easy, beau=
tiful,
smooth road to a Nuclear Weapon, which Iran would have had six years ago,
and would have used long before now. My Agreement with Iran is the exact
opposite, A WALL TO NO NUCLEAR WEAPON! In fact, they no longer want a
Nuclear Weapon, nor will they have one, either through purchase,
development, or any other form of procurement. The Deal is scheduled to get
signed tomorrow, and immediately after it is signed, the Hormuz Strait is
OPEN TO ALL. Our relationship with Iran is a much different and better one
than previous Administrations have had. Unlike Obama=E2=80=99s Hundreds of =
Billions
of Dollars in payments to them, including 1.7 Billion Dollars in green,
cold cash, no money will exchange hands. At the appropriate time, when all
is calm, we will go in and get the Nuclear Dust, buried deep under the
powerful sunken granite mountains, thanks to our beautiful B-2 Bombers and
their brilliant pilots, and downblend and destroy it, whether in Iran, or
the United States. We look forward to working with Iran, and the entire
Middle East, long into the future. *Hopefully, this process will all work
out quickly, easily, and smoothly. If it doesn=E2=80=99t, we have the ultim=
ate
alternative, hopefully never to be used again!* Thank you for your
attention to this matter!!! President DONALD J. TRUMP {Emphasis (as if
needed) added}

Ray

On Sun, Jun 14, 2026 at 11:15=E2=80=AFAM Chas Freeman via Salon <salon@list=
serve.com>
wrote:

> They astound only if you credit the president's and the mainstream media'=
s
> delusional depiction of the US as the victor in this foolish war.  We are
> witnessing the 'art of the capitulation' in awkward process.  It turns ou=
t
> that the defeated cannot impose terms.  What a surprise!  Best not to pic=
k
> fights you can't win!
>
> The result of this war is Iranian control of the Strait of Hormuz, the
> almost certain eviction of the U.S. from the bases the Golf Arabs have
> loaned us, a barely disguised rupture with Israel, the Iranian adoption o=
f
> a tit-for-tat disproportionate retaliation standard to match that of
> Israel, the probable tipping of the global economy into recession or wors=
e,
> impending food shortages, the creation of a greatly expanded market for
> Chinese renewable energy technology and products, the depletion of the
> weaponry needed for other contingencies or contracted by allies and
> partners, a convincing demonstration of the limits of U.S. military power
> and the 'might makes right' notion, and proof of the crippling of US
> government competence that DOGE and the selection of personnel for their
> political subservience and sycophancy rather than their experience and
> expertise have imposed in Washington.  Oh, yes, killing all the Iranian
> leaders opposed to building a nuclear weapon may have unfortunate
> consequences too. And the value of the U.S. word has been permanently
> devalued by yoyo public diplomacy accompanied by no real diplomacy.
>
> The results are indeed amazing!  The U.S. and Israel will have to live
> with a rearrangement of regional geopolitics that is decidedly to Iran's
> advantage.
>
> Chas
>
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2026 at 9:44=E2=80=AFAM <horne.jp@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> 14jun26 =E2=80=93 Alexandria, VA
>>
>>
>>
>> TACO. Yet again ! The concessions to Iran are astounding. Especially whe=
n
>> you consider the damage His war on Iran has inflicted on the U.S. and
>> global economy, notably inflation.
>>
>>
>>
>> Paul Horne
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Salon <salon-bounces@listserve.com> *On Behalf Of *Chas Freeman
>> via Salon
>> *Sent:* Sunday, June 14, 2026 9:36 AM
>> *To:* salon@listserve.com
>> *Subject:* [Salon] Iran says draft US deal includes oil sanctions
>> waiver, nuclear limits and asset release
>>
>>
>> Iran says draft US deal includes oil sanctions waiver, nuclear limits an=
d
>> asset release
>>
>> By Parisa Hafezi <https://www.reuters.com/authors/parisa-hafezi/>
>>
>> June 14, 20266:24 AM EDTUpdated 1 hour ago
>>
>> [image: A man walks next to a symbolic mock-up of an Iranian missile, on
>> a street in Tehran]
>>
>> A man walks next to a symbolic mock-up of an Iranian missile, on a stree=
t
>> in Tehran, Iran, June 11, 2026. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News
>> Agency) via REUTERS Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab
>> <https://www.reutersconnect.com/item/a-man-walks-next-to-a-symbolic-mock=
-up-of-an-iranian-missile-on-a-street-in-tehran/dGFnOnJldXRlcnMuY29tLDIwMjY=
6bmV3c21sX1JDMklSTEFaOFc3WQ%3D%3D/?utm_medium=3Drcom-article-media&utm_camp=
aign=3Drcom-rcp-lead>
>>
>> DUBAI, June 14 (Reuters) - A senior Iranian official told Reuters a fina=
l
>> draft of the memorandum of understanding with the U.S. covered a range o=
f
>> issues, from Tehran=E2=80=99s nuclear work to reopening the =E2=80=8CStr=
ait of Hormuz and
>> U.S. waivers on oil sanctions, with a final deal to be discussed in the =
60
>> days following agreement by the two sides.
>>
>> The Iranian official said the draft memorandum included the following:
>>
>> The Reuters Power Up newsletter provides everything you need to know
>> about the global energy industry. Sign up here.
>> <https://www.reuters.com/newsletters/reuters-power-up/?location=3Darticl=
e-paragraph&redirectUrl=3D%2Fbusiness%2Fenergy%2Firan-says-draft-us-deal-in=
cludes-oil-sanctions-waiver-nuclear-limits-asset-2026-06-14%2F>
>> STRAIT OF HORMUZ:
>>
>> * Iran immediately reopens the Strait of Hormuz to all commercial
>> vessels, while the U.S. =E2=81=A0lifts its naval blockade on Iranian por=
ts. The
>> lifting of the U.S. blockade would begin immediately after the memorandu=
m
>> is signed and be completed within 30 days.
>> FINANCIAL:
>>
>> * The U.S. agrees not to impose any new sanctions on Iran until a final
>> deal is reached.
>>
>> * Following a final agreement, all U.S. and U.N. sanctions on Iran would
>> be lifted according to an agreed timetable.
>>
>> * The U.S. will waive oil sanctions on Iran for a specified period,
>> allowing Tehran to sell oil and receive revenue.
>>
>> * The =E2=80=8CU.S. =E2=81=A0agrees to release $25 billion of Iran=E2=80=
=99s frozen assets,
>> including via direct cash transfers, cooperation among regional countrie=
s,
>> and financial credit lines.
>>
>> * Washington, in coordination with its regional allies, would prepare a
>> reconstruction and development plan for Iran, to be negotiated and agree=
d
>> with Tehran within =E2=81=A060 days.
>> NUCLEAR:
>>
>> * Tehran agrees that it will neither produce nor acquire nuclear weapons=
.
>>
>> * Pending a final agreement, Iran would maintain the current status of
>> its nuclear programme, refraining from further uranium enrichment =E2=81=
=A0and
>> expansion of nuclear facilities.
>>
>> * The United States agrees to allow Iran to dilute its stockpile of
>> highly enriched uranium on Iranian soil under a future comprehensive =E2=
=81=A0
>> agreement.
>>
>> * Iran=E2=80=99s nuclear programme, uranium enrichment activities and me=
chanisms
>> for handling its stockpile of highly enriched uranium would be negotiate=
d
>> within 60 days of the memorandum and addressed in a final agreement.
>>
>> Reporting by Parisa Hafezi, Editing by Elaine Hardcastle
>>
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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div><font size=3D"2" style=3D"font-family:arial,sans-seri=
f">Thanks, Chas for your excellent (if admittedly incomplete) listing of wh=
at DT has wrought. It can get rapidly worse BECAUSE DT IS NOT WELL!</font><=
/div><div><font size=3D"2" style=3D"font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></fon=
t></div><div><font size=3D"2" style=3D"font-family:arial,sans-serif">With h=
is latest &quot;Truth Social&quot; (see below), I am afraid that chances ar=
e better than=C2=A0even that Netanyahu will feel authorized to exercise his=
 nuke option, now that Trump has given advance notice nukes=C2=A0may=C2=A0b=
e coming.</font></div><div><font size=3D"2" style=3D"font-family:arial,sans=
-serif"><br></font></div><div><font size=3D"2" style=3D"font-family:arial,s=
ans-serif">For Netanyahu it is existential -- in personal as well as politi=
cal=C2=A0sense. AND I doubt he would even tell DT beforehand.</font></div><=
div><font size=3D"2" style=3D"font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></font></di=
v><div><font size=3D"2" style=3D"font-family:arial,sans-serif">Ray</font></=
div><div><font size=3D"2" style=3D"font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></font=
></div><div><font size=3D"2" style=3D"font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a clas=
s=3D"gmail_plusreply" id=3D"plusReplyChip-0">++++++++++++++++++++++</a></fo=
nt></div><div>


















<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si=
ze:12pt;font-family:&quot;Aptos&quot;,sans-serif"><span>=C2=A0</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si=
ze:12pt;font-family:&quot;Aptos&quot;,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-famil=
y:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Truth Social<a href=3D"https://truthso=
cial.com/@realDonaldTrump" title=3D"realDonaldTrump"><span style=3D"color:b=
lue"><span></span></span></a></span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Aptos&quot;,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-family:&quo=
t;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">June 13, 2026, 12:45<span></span></span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-=
size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Aptos&quot;,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-fam=
ily:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">@realDonaldTrump<span></span></span>=
</p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-=
size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Aptos&quot;,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-fam=
ily:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Barack Hussein Obama=E2=80=99s Deal =
with Iran, the JCPOA, was an easy, beautiful,
smooth road to a Nuclear Weapon, which Iran would have had six years ago, a=
nd
would have used long before now. My Agreement with Iran is the exact opposi=
te,
A WALL TO NO NUCLEAR WEAPON! In fact, they no longer want a Nuclear Weapon,=
 nor
will they have one, either through purchase, development, or any other form=
 of
procurement. The Deal is scheduled to get signed tomorrow, and immediately
after it is signed, the Hormuz Strait is OPEN TO ALL. Our relationship with
Iran is a much different and better one than previous Administrations have =
had.
Unlike Obama=E2=80=99s Hundreds of Billions of Dollars in payments to them,=
 including
1.7 Billion Dollars in green, cold cash, no money will exchange hands. At t=
he
appropriate time, when all is calm, we will go in and get the Nuclear Dust,
buried deep under the powerful sunken granite mountains, thanks to our
beautiful B-2 Bombers and their brilliant pilots, and downblend and destroy=
 it,
whether in Iran, or the United States. We look forward to working with Iran=
,
and the entire Middle East, long into the future. <b><i>Hopefully, this pro=
cess
will all work out quickly, easily, and smoothly. If it doesn=E2=80=99t, we =
have the
ultimate alternative, hopefully never to be used again!</i></b> Thank you f=
or
your attention to this matter!!! President DONALD J. TRUMP {Emphasis (as if
needed) added}</span></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt=
;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Aptos&quot;,sans-serif">=
Ray</p></div></div><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D=
"gmail_attr">On Sun, Jun 14, 2026 at 11:15=E2=80=AFAM Chas Freeman via Salo=
n &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:salon@listserve.com" target=3D"_blank">salon@listse=
rve.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"=
margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-lef=
t:1ex"><div dir=3D"ltr">They astound only if you credit the president&#39;s=
 and the mainstream media&#39;s delusional=C2=A0depiction of the US as the =
victor in this foolish war.=C2=A0 We are witnessing the &#39;art of the cap=
itulation&#39;=C2=A0in awkward process.=C2=A0 It turns out that the defeate=
d cannot impose terms.=C2=A0 What a surprise!=C2=A0 Best not to pick fights=
 you can&#39;t win!<div><br></div><div>The result of this war is Iranian co=
ntrol of the Strait of Hormuz, the almost certain eviction of the U.S. from=
 the bases the Golf Arabs have loaned us, a barely disguised rupture with I=
srael, the Iranian adoption of a tit-for-tat disproportionate retaliation s=
tandard to match that of Israel, the probable tipping of the global economy=
 into recession or worse, impending food shortages, the creation=C2=A0of a =
greatly expanded market for Chinese renewable energy technology and product=
s, the depletion of the weaponry needed for other contingencies or contract=
ed by allies and partners, a convincing demonstration of the limits of U.S.=
 military power and the &#39;might makes right&#39; notion, and proof of th=
e crippling of US government competence that DOGE and the selection of pers=
onnel for their political subservience and sycophancy rather than their exp=
erience and expertise have imposed in Washington.=C2=A0 Oh, yes, killing al=
l the Iranian leaders opposed to building a nuclear weapon may have unfortu=
nate consequences=C2=A0too. And the value of the U.S. word has been permane=
ntly devalued by yoyo public diplomacy accompanied by no real diplomacy.=C2=
=A0=C2=A0</div><div><br></div><div>The results are indeed amazing!=C2=A0 Th=
e U.S. and Israel will have to live with a rearrangement of regional geopol=
itics that is decidedly to Iran&#39;s advantage.</div><div><br></div><div>C=
has</div></div><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gma=
il_attr">On Sun, Jun 14, 2026 at 9:44=E2=80=AFAM &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:horn=
e.jp@verizon.net" target=3D"_blank">horne.jp@verizon.net</a>&gt; wrote:<br>=
</div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;b=
order-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div lang=3D"E=
N-US"><div><p class=3D"MsoNormal">14jun26 =E2=80=93 Alexandria, VA<u></u><u=
></u></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal"><u></u>=C2=A0<u></u></p><p class=3D"MsoNorm=
al">TACO. Yet again ! The concessions to Iran are astounding. Especially wh=
en you consider the damage His war on Iran has inflicted on the U.S. and gl=
obal economy, notably inflation.<u></u><u></u></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal"><u=
></u>=C2=A0<u></u></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal">Paul Horne<u></u><u></u></p><p=
 class=3D"MsoNormal"><u></u>=C2=A0<u></u></p><div style=3D"border-width:1pt=
 medium medium;border-style:solid none none;border-color:rgb(225,225,225) c=
urrentcolor currentcolor;padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class=3D"MsoNormal"><b><sp=
an style=3D"font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">From:</span></b>=
<span style=3D"font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> Salon &lt;<a=
 href=3D"mailto:salon-bounces@listserve.com" target=3D"_blank">salon-bounce=
s@listserve.com</a>&gt; <b>On Behalf Of </b>Chas Freeman via Salon<br><b>Se=
nt:</b> Sunday, June 14, 2026 9:36 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href=3D"mailto:salon=
@listserve.com" target=3D"_blank">salon@listserve.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b=
> [Salon] Iran says draft US deal includes oil sanctions waiver, nuclear li=
mits and asset release<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><p class=3D"MsoNormal"=
><u></u>=C2=A0<u></u></p><div><div><div><h1 style=3D"margin:0in;line-height=
:36pt"><span style=3D"font-size:30pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb=
(64,64,64);font-weight:normal">Iran says draft US deal includes oil sanctio=
ns waiver, nuclear limits and asset release<u></u><u></u></span></h1><div s=
tyle=3D"margin-top:6pt;display:grid"><div><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"l=
ine-height:18pt"><span><span style=3D"font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rg=
b(64,64,64)">By=C2=A0</span></span><span style=3D"font-family:Arial,sans-se=
rif;color:rgb(64,64,64)"><a href=3D"https://www.reuters.com/authors/parisa-=
hafezi/" target=3D"_blank"><span style=3D"color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decorati=
on:none">Parisa Hafezi</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><p class=3D=
"MsoNormal"><span>June 14, 20266:24 AM EDTUpdated 1 hour ago</span><u></u><=
u></u></p></div></div></div><div><div><div style=3D"margin-bottom:0.25in"><=
div><div><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"background:rgb(208,208,208)"><span=
 style=3D"font-size:13.5pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;co=
lor:black"><img border=3D"0" width=3D"5499" height=3D"3667" style=3D"width:=
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611606m_-1980293378385908863_x0000_i1025" src=3D"https://www.reuters.com/re=
sizer/v2/VUYVTTAU5BPVLNPHDX53ZDDUTA.jpg?auth=3D738f16ec648b526f389a708efb20=
163d97f467a9d52a8f80720401e902576ca8&amp;width=3D1920&amp;quality=3D80" alt=
=3D"A man walks next to a symbolic mock-up of an Iranian missile, on a stre=
et in Tehran"></span><span style=3D"font-size:13.5pt;font-family:&quot;Time=
s New Roman&quot;,serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><=
div style=3D"margin-top:3.75pt;max-width:100%"><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=
=3D"line-height:12pt"><span style=3D"font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-s=
erif;color:rgb(64,64,64)">A man walks next to a symbolic mock-up of an Iran=
ian missile, on a street in Tehran, Iran, June 11, 2026. Majid Asgaripour/W=
ANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.reuters=
connect.com/item/a-man-walks-next-to-a-symbolic-mock-up-of-an-iranian-missi=
le-on-a-street-in-tehran/dGFnOnJldXRlcnMuY29tLDIwMjY6bmV3c21sX1JDMklSTEFaOF=
c3WQ%3D%3D/?utm_medium=3Drcom-article-media&amp;utm_campaign=3Drcom-rcp-lea=
d" target=3D"_blank"><span style=3D"font-family:&quot;inherit&quot;,serif">=
Purchase Licensing<span>=C2=A0Rights</span><span style=3D"border:1pt window=
text;padding:0in">, opens new tab</span></span></a><u></u><u></u></span></p=
></div></div><div><div style=3D"margin-bottom:9pt;max-width:100%"><p class=
=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"line-height:18pt"><span style=3D"font-family:Arial,=
sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64)">DUBAI, June 14 (Reuters) - A senior Iranian=
 official told Reuters a final draft of the memorandum of understanding wit=
h the U.S. covered a range of issues, from Tehran=E2=80=99s nuclear work to=
 reopening the =E2=80=8CStrait of Hormuz and U.S. waivers on oil sanctions,=
 with a final deal to be discussed in the 60 days following agreement by th=
e two sides.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div style=3D"margin-bottom:9pt;=
max-width:100%"><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"line-height:18pt"><span sty=
le=3D"font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64)">The Iranian officia=
l said the draft memorandum included the following:<u></u><u></u></span></p=
></div><p style=3D"margin:0in;line-height:18pt;background:rgb(248,248,248);=
display:inline-block"><span style=3D"font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb=
(64,64,64)">The Reuters Power Up newsletter provides everything you need to=
 know about the global energy industry.=C2=A0Sign up=C2=A0<a href=3D"https:=
//www.reuters.com/newsletters/reuters-power-up/?location=3Darticle-paragrap=
h&amp;redirectUrl=3D%2Fbusiness%2Fenergy%2Firan-says-draft-us-deal-includes=
-oil-sanctions-waiver-nuclear-limits-asset-2026-06-14%2F" target=3D"_blank"=
><span style=3D"font-family:&quot;inherit&quot;,serif">here.</span></a><u><=
/u><u></u></span></p><h2 style=3D"margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:9pt;margin=
-left:0in;line-height:19.5pt"><span style=3D"font-size:13.5pt;font-family:A=
rial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-weight:normal">STRAIT OF HORMUZ:<u=
></u><u></u></span></h2><div style=3D"margin-bottom:9pt;max-width:100%"><p =
class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"line-height:18pt"><span style=3D"font-family:A=
rial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64)">* Iran immediately reopens the Strait =
of Hormuz to all commercial vessels, while the U.S. </span><span style=3D"f=
ont-family:&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64)">=E2=
=81=A0</span><span style=3D"font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64=
)">lifts its naval blockade on Iranian ports. The lifting of the U.S. block=
ade would begin immediately after the memorandum is signed and be completed=
 within 30 days.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><h2 style=3D"margin-right:0i=
n;margin-bottom:9pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:19.5pt"><span style=3D"font=
-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-weight:n=
ormal">FINANCIAL:<u></u><u></u></span></h2><div style=3D"margin-bottom:9pt;=
max-width:100%"><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"line-height:18pt"><span sty=
le=3D"font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64)">* The U.S. agrees n=
ot to impose any new sanctions on Iran until a final deal is reached.<u></u=
><u></u></span></p></div><div style=3D"margin-bottom:9pt;max-width:100%"><p=
 class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"line-height:18pt"><span style=3D"font-family:=
Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64)">* Following a final agreement, all U.=
S. and U.N. sanctions on Iran would be lifted according to an agreed timeta=
ble.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div style=3D"margin-bottom:9pt;max-widt=
h:100%"><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"line-height:18pt"><span style=3D"fo=
nt-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64)">* The U.S. will waive oil s=
anctions on Iran for a specified period, allowing Tehran to sell oil and re=
ceive revenue.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div style=3D"margin-bottom:9p=
t;max-width:100%"><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"line-height:18pt"><span s=
tyle=3D"font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64)">* The =E2=80=8CU.=
S. </span><span style=3D"font-family:&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;,sans-serif=
;color:rgb(64,64,64)">=E2=81=A0</span><span style=3D"font-family:Arial,sans=
-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64)">agrees to release $25 billion of Iran=E2=80=99s=
 frozen assets, including via direct cash transfers, cooperation among regi=
onal countries, and financial credit lines.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><=
div style=3D"margin-bottom:9pt;max-width:100%"><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=
=3D"line-height:18pt"><span style=3D"font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb=
(64,64,64)">* Washington, in coordination with its regional allies, would p=
repare a reconstruction and development plan for Iran, to be negotiated and=
 agreed with Tehran within </span><span style=3D"font-family:&quot;Segoe UI=
 Symbol&quot;,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64)">=E2=81=A0</span><span style=
=3D"font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64)">60 days.<u></u><u></u=
></span></p></div><h2 style=3D"margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:9pt;margin-le=
ft:0in;line-height:19.5pt"><span style=3D"font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Aria=
l,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-weight:normal">NUCLEAR:<u></u><u></u>=
</span></h2><div style=3D"margin-bottom:9pt;max-width:100%"><p class=3D"Mso=
Normal" style=3D"line-height:18pt"><span style=3D"font-family:Arial,sans-se=
rif;color:rgb(64,64,64)">* Tehran agrees that it will neither produce nor a=
cquire nuclear weapons.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div style=3D"margin-=
bottom:9pt;max-width:100%"><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"line-height:18pt=
"><span style=3D"font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64)">* Pendin=
g a final agreement, Iran would maintain the current status of its nuclear =
programme, refraining from further uranium enrichment </span><span style=3D=
"font-family:&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64)">=
=E2=81=A0</span><span style=3D"font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64=
,64)">and expansion of nuclear facilities.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><d=
iv style=3D"margin-bottom:9pt;max-width:100%"><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=
=3D"line-height:18pt"><span style=3D"font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb=
(64,64,64)">* The United States agrees to allow Iran to dilute its stockpil=
e of highly enriched uranium on Iranian soil under a future comprehensive <=
/span><span style=3D"font-family:&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;,sans-serif;col=
or:rgb(64,64,64)">=E2=81=A0</span><span style=3D"font-family:Arial,sans-ser=
if;color:rgb(64,64,64)">agreement.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div style=
=3D"margin-bottom:9pt;max-width:100%"><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"line-=
height:18pt"><span style=3D"font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64=
)">* Iran=E2=80=99s nuclear programme, uranium enrichment activities and me=
chanisms for handling its stockpile of highly enriched uranium would be neg=
otiated within 60 days of the memorandum and addressed in a final agreement=
.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div style=3D"margin-bottom:0.25in"><p styl=
e=3D"margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;line-height:15pt;ma=
x-width:100%"><span style=3D"font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;=
color:rgb(64,64,64)">Reporting by Parisa Hafezi, Editing by Elaine Hardcast=
le<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>=
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