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1 — The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States, together with their allies in the current war, declare upon the signing of this Memorandum of Understanding an immediate and permanent end to the war on all fronts, including Lebanon, and undertake that from now on they will not launch any hostile action against each other, and will refrain from the threat or use of force against each other. The final agreement will confirm the provisions of this Article and the remaining Articles.
2 — The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States undertake to respect each other's sovereignty and territorial integrity, and to refrain from interfering in each other's internal affairs.
3 — The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States undertake to negotiate and reach a final agreement within a maximum period of 60 days, extendable by mutual consent.
4 — Immediately upon the signing of this Memorandum of Understanding, the United States lift the naval blockade and prevent any interference or obstruction against the Islamic Republic of Iran, and restore traffic within a maximum of 30 days to its full capacity; the traffic of ships shall be proportional to the pre-war volume of traffic on the part of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The United States also undertakes to withdraw its forces from the surrounding areas within 30 days after the final agreement.
5 — Upon signing this Memorandum of Understanding, the Islamic Republic of Iran will immediately take steps to ensure that the movement of merchant ships from the Persian Gulf to the Sea of Oman and vice versa is resumed within 30 days to the pre-war volume, taking into account the need for the removal of technical obstacles and the neutralization of mines by Iran.
6 — The United States undertakes, together with its regional partners, to create a comprehensive plan agreed upon by both parties for the rehabilitation and economic development of the Islamic Republic of Iran, while ensuring financing of at least $300 billion. The implementation mechanism of this plan, as part of the final agreement, will be formulated within 60 days.
7 — The United States commits to ending, on a schedule to be agreed upon as part of the final agreement, all types of sanctions currently facing the Islamic Republic of Iran, including resolutions of the United Nations Security Council and the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and all unilateral U.S. sanctions, both primary and secondary.
8 — The Islamic Republic of Iran reiterates that it will never produce nuclear weapons. The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States have agreed that the fate of enriched material and the fate of all other mutually agreed nuclear-related issues, including Iran's nuclear needs, will be adequately addressed in a final agreement; the final agreement will confirm the provisions of this Article.
9 — The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States agree that, pending a final agreement, they will maintain the status quo: Iran will maintain the status quo on its nuclear program, and the United States will not impose new sanctions on Iran or strengthen its forces in the region.
10 — The United States undertakes that immediately after the signing of this Memorandum of Understanding, and until the date of the lifting of sanctions, the United States Treasury Department will issue waivers for exports of Iranian crude oil, petrochemical products and their derivatives, and all related services, including banking, insurance, transportation, and the like.
11 — The United States undertakes that, in light of the progress of negotiations towards a final agreement, frozen or restricted funds and assets of the Islamic Republic of Iran will be released and made fully available. These funds, whether held in the master account or transferred, will be used for any final beneficiary payment determined by the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran and will be fully available for use. The United States undertakes to issue all necessary permits and licenses on this basis.
12 — The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States agree that an implementation mechanism will be established to oversee the successful implementation of and future commitment to the Final Agreement.
13 — Following the signing of this Memorandum of Understanding, and upon receipt of assurances regarding the commencement of implementation of Articles 4, 5, 10, and 11 of this Memorandum of Understanding, and the continued implementation of these steps, the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States will enter into negotiations for a Final Agreement solely with respect to the remaining Articles.
14 — The final agreement will be approved through a binding resolution of the UN Security Council.
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US officials downplay details of Washington-Tehran dealPrashant Rao
Wed, June 17, 2026
US officials downplay details of Washington-Tehran deal
US officials sought to play down the details of a Washington-Tehran interim deal, as analysts said Iran appeared to have won major concessions.
Though not officially published, the widely seen draft grants the Islamic Republic the right to sell its oil on global markets immediately, alongside the prospect of significant further economic relief, indicating "Iran has emerged from the conflict in a stronger strategic position," the Institute for the Study of War said. American negotiators told CNN the document did not account for backroom agreements and was intentionally vague to leave space for future negotiation.
Politico's senior foreign affairs correspondent said the deal offered an "escape hatch," noting many agreements rely on "deceit or, at least, intentional confusion."
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LEBANON IZNOGOOD
Hanibaal Atheos
The much discussed apparent break between Trump and Netanyahu may reflect Trump's casual and cryptic antisemitism. He put up with Netanyahu because of the perception that Israel is a taboo not be touched in the US, fearing like most American politicians retribution by the powerful Zionist lobby.
The two may also be playing good cop-bad cop with Arabs and Muslims in the hope for Trump not to lose Congress in November, and assuming it works and Trump retains control of Congress, he may then re-allow the Zionists to resume their killing fields in Palestine.
But deep down, Trump's MAGA crowd, which includes Evangelical Christians, and all the racist white supremacist Christian nationalist terrorist organizations and other KKK-like movements, is fundamentally Jew-hating antisemitic. I recently heard one MAGA woman refer to the New York Times as the Jew York Times. Their "love" for Israel is not because they love the Jewish people. It is simply the result of the biblical brainwashing of America's protestant Christians into thinking that Jews and Christians share a Judeo-Christian culture when no such culture has ever existed. In fact, the history of the Western world since the Roman empire turned Christian circa 340 AD is replete with vicious hatred of the Jews (because they did not accept Jesus as the Messiah) onto which were appended all sorts of stereotypes and racist tropes that have never ceased, even to our present time. Antisemitism is a western (European then American) invention. There never was any antisemitism in the Arab-Muslim world (because they are both Semites and the object of western racism), until the creation of the artificial state of Israel, and even then it was not driven by Jew-hatred but by the liberation of Palestine from a brutal colonial rapist.
Given the anger that welled up in Trump for being led like an idiot into the war by Zionist Netanyahu, Trump's lashing out at Netanyahu and Israel is not a the spur of the moment reaction. It rather stems from a deeply seated hatred and condescension by a white protestant Anglo-Saxon against Jews that is rarely expressed in its authentic version in American everyday culture (except by radical extremist right-wing hatemongers) but more in a caricature, jocular play on stereotypes that is superficially sympathetic.
Then again, a superficial break between Trump and Netanyahu is very useful to Trump for a number of reasons, including rallying the Arab-American and Muslim-American vote ahead of the November midterms as well as winning some fence-sitting independents. By insulting Netanyahu in public, Trump is gaining popularity across the Arab and Muslim worlds, without conceding anything substantive in the relationship between America and its Zionist colony in Palestine or on the ultimate issue of the Middle East: The fate of Palestine.
The real test of an unbiased, just and principled position of the US is not whether an imbecile like Trump hurls insults at politically-finished Netanyahu (who it seems will go to jail the moment his is booted out at the next Israeli elections). The real test is for America to finally stand up for justice to the Palestinian people who were forced to give up their country for the creation of Israel, and to stand against the ongoing rape, mayhem, genocide, ethnic cleansing and plunder the Zionists are conducting daily in the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza. The real test for America to be really great on the international stage is to force the barbarian ultra-religious terrorist government in Israel to recognize an independent Palestine.
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