US-Iran memorandum of understanding in full(www.bbc.com)
9 pointsby thisislife24 hours ago5 comments
  • Rzor3 hours ago
    Point 6: The United States of America undertakes with regional partners to develop a definitive, mutually agreed plan with at least $300 billion (£225 billion) for the reconstruction and economic development of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The mechanism for the implementation of this plan will be finalised as part of a final deal within 60 days. All required licenses, waivers and permissions needed for the relevant financial transactions will be granted by the United States of America.

    I have a feeling that he's going to try to strong-arm Europe into partly paying for this. Not that it will work.

    • amalconan hour ago
      The goal is obviously to make US taxpayers pay for it, but give room for the admin to lie and say we aren't. Similar to how Mexico was going to pay for the useless border wall.

      Of course, point 1 (which includes immediate stoppage of the fighting in Lebanon) isn't happening -- which sort of renders the rest of the thing moot anyway.

    • tjpnz3 hours ago
      They already refused to join his war of choice, can't see them giving one cent to this.
  • bearjaws4 hours ago
    Will go down in history as the single largest defeat in US history.

    Paying your enemy $300bn to repair their country while you do not even take of your own would be the end of any other president, yet here we are.

  • Laurel12344 hours ago
    So Trump just took it unlubed up the ass so far it came out of his mouth, huh.

    Wondering what the Yankees reading feel about forking out $300 billies to Iran.

    • Bender3 hours ago
      Yankee here. Happy for the people of Iran, assuming that money mostly benefits them and not the underground missile cities that should have been cleared out and turned into geothermal market cities and resource storage for their people.
      • Laurel12343 hours ago
        I'm sure it will, the Ayatollah and the IRGC are famous for caring about their citizens.
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    • 10xDev3 hours ago
      The same way they felt about getting dragged into a war by Israel.
  • tjpnz2 hours ago
    Bibi will fuck it up before the 60 days are up and we'll be back to square one again. Trump has zero control over him.

    What a stupid, stupid idiot you folk in the US elected (twice!). Israel's been trying to pull the US into this mess for decades and no other president was dumb enough to take the bait until Trump.

    • duncangh2 hours ago
      Prescient

      From the live updates of the war on the NYT 11 minutes ago and around 15 mins after you wrote this:

      “””Mideast Live Updates: Iranian Forces Say They Closed Strait of Hormuz Iran’s military command blamed the U.S., saying it failed to prevent Israel from violating the cease-fire in Lebanon. Mediators in Pakistan said “technical talks” between the U.S. and Iran to end the war would be held on Sunday.”””

      https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06/20/world/iran-trump-isr...

    • thisislife226 minutes ago
      Trump's mishandling of the Israel-Iran war will be a great case study in international politics. But blaming Trump for Netanyahu's derangement is ill-thought. Even a Democrat President wouldn't have been able to reign him. In fact, once Biden / Harris allowed him to massacre the Palestinians in Gaza (remember, Biden publicly supported Netanyahu by announcing to the world that there is "no genocide in Gaza" - https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/20/biden-gaza-not-geno... ), the US had already lost the plot to Netanyahu's mis-adventurism. I think at one point he was making his army fight in 7-8 fronts! Under him, Israel's army is now considering occupying territories in Gaza, Syria and Lebanon when their military resources and personnel are already overstretched (Israel has what 9-10 million population?). If you read Netanyahu's history, you will discover that he has been progressively getting radicalised in his political views - a brilliant man ( Professor recalls Netanyahu's intense studies in three fields - https://news.mit.edu/1996/netanyahu-0605 ), he started out as a moderate-right, who increasingly turned to conservatism when his political ideas didn't receive the reception he desired. And now finally, the pressures of the criminal charges and security failures of the now infamous Hamas attack (which he and his government is responsible for) has now fully radicalised him into a full-blown religious fundamentalist fascist as the ongoing genocide in Gaza, West Bank and Lebanon testifies to it ('Angel of destruction': What made Benjamin Netanyahu? - https://www.middleeasteye.net/big-story/israel-who-benjamin-... ).

      I don't believe any US President can "manage" him now ... he is self-destructing and taking Israel down with him.

  • greenoracle93 hours ago
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