If the versions circulating in the media are true, there appears to be greater detail on the U.S. concessions to #Iran embedded in the text of the MOU than Iranian concessions to the U.S. That asymmetry is concerning.
“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.”
If true this would be utterly disastrous
Exiled Iranian crown prince Reza Pahlavi criticized the recently announced memorandum of understanding between the U.S. and Iran, which will allow for an extension of the ceasefire and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. https://t.co/qnhsH68Lgy
Senior allies of Donald Trump have reportedly expressed doubts about the “memorandum of understanding” between the US and Iran.
John Ratcliffe, Donald Trump’s CIA director, Marco Rubio, the secretary of state and Pete Hegseth, the defence secretary, have apparently raised concerns.
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دوستان، خیلی مهمه که تو این اوضاع که هر کسی را میشه با پول قطر خرید، هنوز افراد با وجدان و انسانی مثل جنرال کین و مارک لوین هستند و حرفشون رو بدون تعارف تو شبکه جمهوری خواهی مثل فاکس میزنن.
این دو با اینکه رابطه خیلی نزدیکی با ترامپ دارند ولی خودشون رو به ترامپ و قطر نفروختن و مردونه حرفشون رو دارن میزنن و هر دو هم برعکس لیندزی مادر☕️ همچنان از مردم ایران سخن گفتند.
معرفت و انسانیت چیزی نیست که با پول بشه خرید. و در این شرایط تنهایی ما ایرانیان، بودن این افراد خیلی حیاتی هست.
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WSJ reports the Trump-Iran MOU allows Tehran to immediately sell oil, and may waive banking and transport sanctions to facilitate transactions.
If accurate, this is far more alarming than a narrow General License (like the one Treasury issued in March covering only crude already loaded on vessels). But if it's real, the administration is trading away its most durable economic lever before the hard part of the negotiation has even started.
Broadening authorization to financial transactions would crack the core architecture of U.S. oil and financial sanctions against Iran, arguably the most powerful economic leverage the U.S. holds over this regime, absent the naval blockade.
What makes this especially dangerous: if broad relief is offered upfront while negotiations drag on for months, it normalizes Iranian oil flows to China, India, and the UAE, and critically, normalizes the repatriation of Iran's oil revenue back to Tehran. Revenue that today sits trapped in Chinese bank accounts due to secondary financial sanctions.
Once that normalization sets in, re-establishing today's level of leverage would take years, not weeks.
https://t.co/ucrmGQ3lHO
If the WSJ report is accurate, then @miadmaleki’s analysis below suggests the MOU may be even worse than I assumed.
“Broadening authorization to financial transactions would crack the core architecture of U.S. oil and financial sanctions against Iran, arguably the most powerful economic leverage the U.S. holds over this regime, absent the naval blockade.”