The U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding has been signed, but the text remains invisible to the public, leading to competing interpretations of its meaning from Washington, Tehran, Jerusalem, and Beirut.
The United Arab Emirates said it was aiming to reduce its reliance on the Strait of Hormuz to “zero” after the war with Iran laid bare the vulnerabilities of the key waterway. After the launch of Operation Epic Fury, Iran immediately moved to close the Strait of Hormuz, attacking shipping with drones and missiles, which […]
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White House officials are trying to claim that a leaked draft of the peace agreement between Iran and the U.S. isn’t real. CNN reported Wednesday that the deal consists of a 14-point memorandum of understanding, which it obtained from a U.S. official. The points include the terms of the ceasefire, the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, and details about billions in financial relief for Iran. However, White House Director of Communications Steven Cheung denied the CNN report’s accuracy, posting on X that “The supposed text of the MOU that was obtained by CNN does not reflect the language of the actual MOU.” President Trump also issued his own denial Wednesday when reporters asked about the inclusion of a plan for the U.S. and Gulf allies to “ensure financing of at least $300 billion” in reconstruction funds.“It’s false. People, you can invest if you want. What am I gonna do, say nobody’s ever allowed to invest? We’re not invest, we’re not putting up 10 cents. People can decide to do that, but that’s up to them,” Trump said at the G7 summit in France, seated alongside Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi. “We are not investing in it, and we do not have a fund.” Trump also denied that Gulf countries were investing in the fund, and added that the CNN report was a “false story that got picked up incorrectly from a statement that was pretty well made, I think.”Q: It's been reported the MOU includes a $300 billion reconstruction fund funded by Gulf allies.TRUMP: It's false. You can invest if you want. We're not putting up 10 cents.Q: Are you asking Gulf countries to--TRUMP: No I'm not. If they do it, that's fine. Don't forget --… pic.twitter.com/2TmhtR8eW6— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 17, 2026Bloomberg also obtained a copy of the draft memorandum, which U.S. officials are not attacking, although an unnamed Iranian official told the country’s Tasnim news agency that parts of it were inaccurate. It contains similar language regarding $300 billion in reconstruction funds for Iran. Both versions also promise that the U.S. will release additional billions in frozen Iranian assets. Until the official terms are released to the public, we won’t know for sure if any funds will be transferred, or what assurances are being made to ensure that the war doesn’t resume. Trump could easily clear this all up by releasing the signed agreement in full, but for now, he’s content to attack the media and leave everyone guessing.
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President Trump will hold a press conference Wednesday before departing France, where he has been attending the G7 summit this week. Trump will face questions about the memorandum of understanding (MOU) to end the Iran war, a 14-point plan that is facing intense pushback from his own allies. Appearing alongside Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi…
At the end of a segment on Donald Trump’s Iran deal, which is being highly criticized across the board as a disaster, MS NOW host Willie Geist made a point of holding up in the front page of Wednesday’s edition of the New York Post featuring a blaring headline criticizing the president.Prior to Geist’s display, each member of the “Morning Joe’ panel took a shot at the president now that details of his memorandum of understanding (MOU) have been leaked, with the Financial Times’ Ed Luce offering, “It doesn’t even pass the laugh test.”“Iran today is a considerably stronger regional power, considerably more threatening one to Israel and other of America's allies than it was on February 28th,” he continued. “There is no other way to see this than as a complete capitulation, capitulation by President Trump. And really a moment, I think of, well, I'm not going to use the word shame, but I mean, a really bad moment for the United States.”After co-host Mika Brzezinski shared a clip of Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) stating, “Until I get more specific information, I'm going to hesitate to say anything more about it,” conservative New York Times columnist David French interjected, “This should go before the Senate, at the very least. This is absolutely a treaty by any understanding of the word. So yeah, the United States Senate should weigh in here. But the problem is and they'll know this if they say no to this, if they say no, what does that mean?”“Does that mean a very unpopular war restarts? Does that mean that negotiations restart? What's next?” he added. “Because we were sort of led into this war without these kinds of questions being asked and answered on the front end. Here we are in the allegedly back-end with Congress trying to reassert itself, but no real Plan B here at all.”That led Geist to hold the Post front page with the headline, “LOVEBOMB” followed by "Prez says Islamic regime not radical,’ his deal showers mullahs with cash –– and no sanctions.”He remarked, “I would just point out the New York Post this morning. A rare moment when you've lost the New York Post. ‘Lovebomb,’ the New York Post ripping President Trump on this deal for showering, it says, this regime with money, the lifting of sanctions and this $300 billion investment fund for funding the radical regime. That's The New York Post going after Donald Trump.” - YouTube youtu.be
Fox News didn't just cheer on President Donald Trump's war with Iran. It helped goad him into it, according to a blistering column from political analyst Sabrina Haake.Writing in her latest Substack, The Haake Take, the longtime federal trial attorney argues that the network and its hawkish hosts pushed Trump toward military force in Iran through what critics call a "doom loop," a self-reinforcing cycle in which the White House and the network feed each other's appetite for conflict and spectacle.Haake traces the pressure campaign back to June 2025, when she says Fox personalities openly agitated for war. She points to radio host Mark Levin, who she writes "reportedly" helped push that summer's U.S. strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities by convincing Trump over lunch that Tehran was just days from a bomb. When a fragile ceasefire took hold in April 2026, Haake writes, Fox voices like Brian Kilmeade and analyst Jack Keane demanded it be broken so Trump could "finish the job."Her column catalogs a striking list of on-air demands. According to Haake, hosts including Sean Hannity, Kilmeade and Jesse Watters floated flooding Iran with small arms to spark an uprising, while Kilmeade pushed relentless strikes to "open up the strait," "grab the uranium" and "target bad actors," which she casts as an embrace of assassination. Others, she writes, hosted retired Gen. Keith Kellogg as he called for "putting boots on the ground" and seizing Iranian territory."This was not commentary or news," Haake writes. "It was Fox television personalities directly shaping foreign policy at the highest level."What makes the dynamic dangerous, she argues, is how blurred the line between the network and the government has become. Haake notes Trump has appointed more than two dozen former Fox hosts to administration jobs, and that the network showers him with praise, with Hannity calling the Iran strikes one of "the greatest military victories" in history and others insisting Trump deserved "six Nobel Peace Prizes" and a place on Mount Rushmore.In her telling, the war Fox helped sell was a disaster. Trump's much-touted deal, she writes, includes no permanent, binding nuclear dismantlement, defers its core terms for 60 days, and would hand Iran as much as $300 billion, with its "biggest achievement" being the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, a return to the prewar status quo. She cites the New York Times Editorial Board's assessment that Trump "made a terrible mistake starting this war" and that the U.S. is "emerging weaker."Haake closes by demanding accountability for the network. Noting that Fox paid nearly $1 billion to settle claims it lied about the 2020 election, she wonders bitterly what it will owe "the families of 13 soldiers who died" in a war she says served the network's ratings.
President Trump emphasized on Wednesday that memorandum of understanding (MOU) between Washington and Tehran is not final and threatened to resume strikes on Iran “if they don’t behave.” “No, it’s not final. It’s a memorandum of understanding, and if I don’t like it, we’ll go back to shooting at them, dropping bombs on their head,”…