Both versions show a total white flag surrender by Trump.
The two texts are largely identical, but there are some differences in wording and emphasis.
Iranian President Pezeshkian has published an English version of the US-Iran MoU, signed by himself, Trump and Pakistani Prime Minister Sharif.
There are some differences compared with the English version presented earlier by a US official to reporters:
- Title: The version published by Pezeshkian adds “Islamabad.”
It also lists Iran before the US, meaning this is the Iranian version of the agreement translated into English, rather than the US version. Under standard diplomatic protocol, each party’s official copy of a bilateral agreement lists its own country first.
- Paragraph 1 (Lebanon): The Pezeshkian version says the parties will be responsible for “ensuring” Lebanon’s sovereignty and territorial integrity; the version presented by the US official says they will “respect” it.
- Paragraph 4 (shipping): The Pezeshkian version explicitly states that vessel traffic will be restored by the Islamic Republic of Iran; the US version omits this language.
- Paragraph 5 (Strait of Hormuz): The Pezeshkian version gives Oman a more prominent role in discussions on future administration and maritime services.
- Paragraph 11 (frozen assets): The Pezeshkian version adds that funds should remain fully usable whether retained in their original accounts or transferred.
- Paragraph 13 (negotiations): The Pezeshkian version states that talks on the final deal will focus “exclusively” on the remaining provisions.
There is only one way to describe this.
For discussion please see Witness the Incredible White Flag Surrender by Trump on Iran
I expected surrender, but these video excerpts go far beyond humiliating.
The Lies Begin. Expect More
The Stupidity Is Apparent Too
Deal Comparison
When did all news coverage change from agreements to “deals”?
They should have met face to face. In Versailles. In a rail car.
We are all doomed I tell you, Doomed!
The deal is falling apart as Israel continues with its bombing of civilian areas of Lebanon.
As regards oil leaving through the strait? A trickle at best and the global shortage continues to grow as our SPR is continuing to deplete toward levels that will result in permanent damage to the infrastructure.
The Trump disaster continues to unfold on many levels.
Deal scotched by Israel AS I PREDICTED (lolz)
Terror bombing resuming in Lebanon
Many IDF casualties
MOU failed — another blown call by Mish?
Still waiting for that 2023 recession.
Not in Recession? Don’t Count On It. Two Key Divergences Explain
Hezbollah struck a convoy of Israeli tanks IN LEBANON and Israel went nuts. This post by Iran’s Foreign Minister in response to Ben-Gvir says it all:
https://x.com/araghchi/status/2067946325069504513
A pity that Hezbollah didn’t ice more of them.
Anyone who believed that Trump’s “Deal” to make a “Deal” would hold is a complete fool.
Iran has discovered the power of “Hormuz Bomb”. Trump is totally screwed.
Vance won’t be travelling to sign the MOU. Apparently Iran says they won’t sign now because israel is still fighting in Lebanon.
Iran is looking to squeeze that last drop out, and Trump may help do it for them. Of course Israel would not go along with this, I wouldn’t think? Israel or Iran Trumpster, you can’t have both in this deal I do not believe. Hmm…
Go with Iran! They have no designs on their neighbors lands and scrupulously follow international law. The Israelis are mass child killers.
They signed Thursday. Trump stayed in Europe after the G7 meeting and signed it with Iran’s President in Switzerland.
Doesn’t matter. The 60 days of talks are postponed. Iran is selling its oil but won’t negotiate while Israel keeps fighting. They are in control of this process and they are going to take advantage.
This is happening just like I predicted in my post on Wednesday (repeated below)
Vance doesn’t sound believable. But then he was rumoured to be one of those who did not want to attack Iran. RUBIO 2028!
Giving up on piggy already? How very disloyal.
Rubio will be lucky to make a living as a lobbyist. His political career is over – like voters’ support for the tumor that is Israel.
His also to short to be President.
Tall people DO succeed more in life but not exclusively.
Maybe that is why a woman hasn’t won the presidency in the USA? Perhaps they should try a 6ft woman next time.
Like Michelle Obama or how about Taylor Swift?
Why?
Marco Rubio is 5 feet 9 inches (175 cm) tall, which places him at an average height among American male politicians.
This Rubio has a long and powerful Republican future imo, and I am not alone.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio just offered one of the clearest arguments yet for why he should be the leading Republican contender for president in 2028.
As if he doesn’t already have enough going on, Rubio stepped in to lead the White House press briefing on May 5 while Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was on maternity leave.
Toward the end of his back-and-forth with reporters, Rubio was asked: “What is your hope for America at a time such as this?”
Rubio’s off-the-cuff response deserves to be considered in full:
“Look, I mean, my hope for America is what it’s always been. I think it’s the hope I hope we all share. We wanted to continue to be the place where anyone from anywhere can achieve anything. Where you’re not limited by the circumstances of your birth, by the color of your skin, by your ethnicity, but frankly, it’s a place where you are able to overcome challenges and achieve your full potential. I think that should be the goal of every country in the world, frankly. But I think in the U.S., we’re not perfect. Our history is not one of perfection, but it’s still better than anybody else’s history. And ours is a story of perpetual improvement. Each generation has left the next generation of Americans freer, more prosperous, safer, and that is our goal as well. But it is a unique and exceptional country. And as we come upon this 250 year anniversary, I think we have a lot to learn and be proud of in our history. It is one of perpetual and continuous improvement where each generation has done its part to bring us closer to fulfilling the vision that the founders of this country had upon its founding.”
If they run him for president, he will lose, and cry the vote was rigged.
Jeb Bush declared that Rubio would be president way back in the 90’s. Grooming that little fella has been in play for a long time and rest assured that Rubio is owned by the Bush family of war mongering hydrocarbon pushers.
I sense a a potential landslide victory myself.
You are wrong on every issue. How is this possible. Really dumb people might be wrong 7 or 8 out of ten times, but with you it is every time on every single issue.
Scores Fall Ill at Air Force Base After Hegseth Makes Flu Vaccine OptionalThe defense secretary described the vaccine requirement, which he lifted in April, as an “absurd, overreaching” mandate. A major flu outbreak has sickened nearly 160 troops at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas less than two months after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that U.S. troops would no longer be required to be vaccinated for the flu, defense officials said.
The outbreak at the base in San Antonio raced through an Air Force Basic Military Training wing, where new recruits sleep on bunk beds in open bays and share meals at large communal tables.
Anytime someone says Hegseth, I immediately think of this guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alkOU_hXfPM
The resemblance is uncanny.
Hegsdeath
Now the FDA is mulling allowing a new flu vaccine for adults over 50 yo that uses the mRNA technology from the Covid shots!
Probably all new vaccines will be based on mRNA technology. They are dramatically easier to produce and store and create a more targeted immune response. Trump’s pushing for mRNA vaccines for COVID was probably his greatest achievement.
The immune system in humans has been built up over millions of years to deal with invaders.
If using the workings of a cell to manufacture virus targets were a good idea, which is what mRNA technology does, then most certainly the immune system would have created this capability on its own over these past years. It did not for a reason.
IMO, mRNA will/is leading to significant future health problems.
I will not get any mRNA shots. If flu shots change to this technology, then I will no longer get one annually.
You have made everyone the rewards your posts dumber for the effort.
Please, don’t get any vaccines. Let nature run its course for the benefit of the whole
I’m with you on this! I was very reluctant and folded for the first 2, but not again will it enter my veins by choice! Have seen too many illnesses that are linked in theory to mRNA technology.
Now the actual Government is looking for stricter rules with it, and more time before we jab the kids again. They require more test for safety purposes it would seem.
Nobody saw that coming, but just about everybody but those who made money anyway…
You have seen no such thing.
Just the Facts:
MRNA technology is being explored for illnesses beyond COVID-19, including cancer, HIV, rare genetic diseases, influenza, Zika, rabies, and neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer’s.
Johns Hopkins University
You truly need to get out more. Are you by chance a recluse? Asking for a friend, seriously, she truly wants to know after reading some of your post. Me I’m just curious if she is correct…
Absolut Moron, LOL
You too, I’m not surprised…
Just the Facts:
MRNA technology is being explored for illnesses beyond COVID-19, including cancer, HIV, rare genetic diseases, influenza, Zika, rabies, and neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer’s.
Johns Hopkins University
Evolution generally stops improving at “better”. It never creates perfection. It is a semi-random process. Humans, through the scientific method, can make significant improvements, because intelligence is involved.
This One?
Over the last several days, the safety and efficacy of messenger RNA, or mRNA, vaccines have come under intense scrutiny.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced plans to limit access to future COVID-19 shots — two of which are mRNA vaccines — to those aged 65 and older or with high-risk conditions. The agency will require further scientific trials to greenlight the shots for younger age groups.
The agency also sent letters to both Moderna and Pfizer last month telling them to expand the warning labels on their mRNA COVID-19 vaccines to broaden the people who may be impacted by the risk of heart inflammation as a possible side effect.
Goebbels would fall asleep thinking about people like you.
They are not done trying to pump that mRNA into every Americans bloodstream if possible. Their best shot is in the school systems. I think it may have qualified to be on the must list of shots given to the kids at one point, or they were trying hard at least.
Oh my God! The flu!
There is zero evidence of benefit from flu vaccines. None! There is a study from ~2005 showing the people who took the flu vaccines do not live as long as those who eschew them. Cheryl Attkisson tried to do a story on it back then and was forbidden by CBS.
Thank you antivax-bot!
This is dumb… the evidence is a much decreased chance of getting the flu. You do you though.
Please try your best to produce evidence that it decreases the chance of getting the flu at all. Since you make that assertion. There is none. That is what is dumb.
Flu vaccination can reduce your risk of getting sick with flu.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu-vaccines-work/benefits/index.html
ResultsTwenty-six RCTs (104 931 participants) were included. Pooled vaccine efficacy against laboratory-confirmed influenza was 48.48% (95% CI, 41.9–54.29), with significant heterogeneity (I2 = 70.1%; p < 0.0001). Inactivated influenza vaccines had the highest vaccine efficacy (54.70%). Among different strains, the vaccine efficacy against H1N1 was the highest, reaching 59.38% (95% CI, 24.60–78.12).
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1198743X25004550
None of these studies are placebo-controlled comparisons of who got the vax and who got sick. They are models and measures of antibody production, etc. The corrupt CDC “estimates”, not proof of anything.
History has proven beyond debate that disease is just as effective as bullets during warfare.
Kegsbreath is a moron who can’t stop cosplaying.
You have to wonder whether Trump intends to follow through. This could be a head fake to allow oil reserves to get back to some level of normal or least get back from critical and then restart the bombing, but I doubt 60 days is gonna get things anywhere near normal and I doubt Trump/ Vance is anywhere near that smart.
The test will be whether and how much money Iran actually sees at the outset.
What no one is talking about is the fact that governments around the world are going to start hoarding oil now that the spigot is open. Some people are predicting an oil price collapse but I’m on the oil price surge camp due to hoarding.
There is no guarantee that Iran, Trump, Israel or some other party won’t muck up this “peace” agreement and we could be right back to a closed Hormuz in days, weeks or months.
The prudent thing to do is hoard as much oil as possible. Everyone wants oil right now because no one knows when the spigot will shut off.
Smart people are moving to electric and diversifying out of ICE but that’s a whole other story.
I’ve said from the beginning of this war, be long and short oil and bank profits all the way….
In PetroChina’s own words:
“There are tankers available, but the problem is it’s too expensive and there is no guarantee you can exit the strait.” Indian Oil ran a tender for the same period. Received zero offers. Sinochem is still hunting.
PetroChina, Indian Oil, and Sinochem are 3 of the largest state oil companies on earth. If they can’t get tankers through Hormuz at any reasonable price, nobody can. This is the gap between the headline and the reality.
Financial markets priced the peace deal. Shipping markets priced the risk.Freight rates 3x pre-war.
Insurance clauses requiring special Hormuz guarantees. No assurance a loaded 2-million-barrel ship can exit safely.
“There is no guarantee that Iran, Trump, Israel or some other party won’t muck up this “peace” agreement and we could be right back to a closed Hormuz in days, weeks or months.”
Israel is doing its level best to prevent peace from breaking out.
Barring the Iranian Regime doing something egregious, I can’t see Trump restarting any fighting with the Iranian Regime until the mid-terms are past.
He won’t attack again. He’s already been humiliated once. He’s not going to risk that again without real guarantees of success. And nobody can give him that.
Iran is threatening to bitchslap Trump if he tries to f*&% with Iran on the MoU performance
Get back in the loo, Quat!
Netanyahu will attack again soon.
You are correct CJW. In the next 60 days, global inventories will continue to decline; both commercial and SPR. That’s because it will take that long to restore production to 70% of normal levels. And 60 days to get enough ships to return from all over the world to the Persian Gulf. And that’s if everything goes perfectly, which it won’t.
60 days would be enough time to realign the shipping routes back to where they were. This would make the coming closure of Hormuz just as impactful as the first closure.
They will not allow the inspections and so they will not see a dime until they do. At least that has been my understanding from the start. Unless things changed, that was Trumps red line. Only after inspections, and total verifications are done, Will any funds be released.
Trump‘s red lines mean nothing. He has no control over this situation.
Um, he holds the money. That’s called control.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/iran-trump-deal-critics-mojtaba-khamenei/comments
But but but I thought that the Iranian populace was desperate for an end to the war and was only waiting for the orange shitgibbon to show up in person before they revolted?
The irgc is deeply unpopular in Iran.
What makes you so sure?
The zionews said so
Also FOXNews said we would be greeted as liberators.
Trump is deeply unpopular in the US. 34% approval rating. Should the people rise up and remove him from office?
Yes
Mish, I have show listeners who often respond to news like this with some variation of 47D chess play such as: “We don’t know all that is going on with President Trump/There are likely some really secret deals going on that we wouldn’t understand or shouldn’t know’. Perhaps it’s some sort of coping mechanism?
Yes.
I love that deal comparison. Shows you how dumb Trump & administration is in one snapshot.
We went from: There will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!
https://mishtalk.com/economics/trump-again-negotiates-by-demanding-unconditional-surrender-taco-or-war/
To: here’s $450 billion, please, please, please open the Strait and forget this ever happened.
I guess Iran is a new global superpower now. Let’s see how they handle that in the upcoming months and years.
And oh JoJo, your comment from that link above: “Unfortunately, the quality of commenters here has also fallen over the past year or so as a slew of always whining leftist libs have infiltrated this blog.”
Those foolish commenters were right all along and you were wrong, literally dead wrong.
I absolutely love the Mish archives.
and it looks like the media is repeating this:
Ben Shapiro Blames Vance For Trump’s Horrible ‘Iran Deal’
The Trump apologists will be in fine form on Fox News and elsewhere baling everyone else except the man who attacked Iran.
Lol, except Trump is president and he owns it all or is Trump saying JD Vance is the real president?
Jojo vanished. I wonder why.
we (usa) is not bombing
You’re not paying attention dweeb.
Oil prices up sharply. Is something going on?!
Algos gonna algo.
AIPAC upping the propaganda campaign
https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2026/06/17/israeli-desperation-leading-to-enormous-sums-for-lobbying-media-manipulation/
No amount of propaganda will change reality. Everyone on earth is tired of this middle east bull crap.
Of course it won’t stop people from trying to stir the pot, just wait for a new “totally unexpected” terrorist attack like 9/11 and have Iran’s name plastered all over it. I don’t think anyone will buy it though except MAGA morons.
They’re printing the passports for guys named Reza – to be found amidst the carnage.
I think it is appropriate that Trump signed the surrender at Versailles. The same location that Germany surrendered in 1919.
You can see Macron trying not to giggle in the pictures. Trumpstien just looks out of it.
Hey, that is
You throw BB under BULLDOZER.
Biden’s surrender in Afghanistan was a strategic withdrawal to shift the war to Ukraine for much higher stakes.
Let’s hope that Trump’s surrender doesn’t mean rekindling the Ukraine war with much higher stakes.
Trump negotiated the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. Biden merely followed the agreement that Trump signed.
To be fair, the Pentagon assuredly slow-played the withdrawal in hopes that Biden again could be prevailed upon to delay it.
Trump ended the war in Afghanistan. Screwed biden a bunch of american soldiers and afghans with a hasty withdrawal. Then blamed biden for the soldiers deaths and the fall of the country.
Except it was Trump who surrendered to the Taliban. And left the responsibility of executing the withdrawal to someone else.
Anyway you cut it, Afghanistan was destined to be ruled by Talibs. At least Biden got us out.
That is baked in the cake. The european political class has no priority other than the War On Russia and the G7 immediately sought to convince Trump to pivot to that war, it’ll be easy, what you;re chicken, bawk bawk bawk come on, just do it
Those differences were probably deliberate by the Pakistanis in order to get both parties to sign, which was the main focus of the mediators. It is an important thing for everyone in the region (except Israel obviously) to get both sides to stand down, at least for now.
What is stopping Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon from Russia/China/Pakistan? Reports of Iran being months away from building a nuclear weapon have been ongoing for over 30 years. This is just silly.
North Korea would be a more likely source.
Why bother, when they could just have it drop shipped?
What sticker do you put on the outside of the box when you are drop shipping a nuclear bomb?
CONTAINS EXPLOSIVES – DO NOT DROP
Maybe you need to post something on the back of the UPS truck too?!
STAY BACK 75 MILES
NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR VAPORIZED VEHICLES
Wasteful packing materials aren’t needed… these are delivered directly from the silo to your doorstep, in 45 minutes or less!
Against the nuclear proliferation treaty that the Iranian Regime has signed. Against other UN rules and regs. Putin wouldn’t do anything this stupid.
Go back to sleep, Dean.
Unlike Israel, Israel has refused to sign the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty and obtained Nuclear weapons surreptitiously.
To paraphrase the esteemed Hillary Rodham Clinton, at this point what difference does it make?
Bibi and Don’s Wonderful Adventure. FAFO.
BTW that table above doesn’t include USA’s Strategic Oil Reserves: DEPLETED (Nearly).
Bravo, Trump!
Name ordering. I understood that with international agreements countries are generally listed in alphabetical order unless otherwise negotiated. So Iran would normally be first. The US generally names themselves first. (Not surprising).
Is there any deal or treaty that the US haven’t torn off unilaterally? The US are a rogue nation.
Sen Banks’ Con Job: Trump’s Iran War Saved ‘The Rest Of The World’
Yet he stopped himself from saying Trump has actually accomplished anything
Fox news 06182026
We were born out of a rebellion, genocided the natives that used to live here, and have been at war pretty much constantly all over the world for at least a century.
What else would we be? We’re that foster kid gone bad that the parents can’t get out of the garage apartment.
1783 to 1812 we weren’t at war with anyone?
First tankers cross Strait of Hormuz after Iran deal
https://www.thedailystar.net/news/world/us-israel-war-iran/news/first-tankers-cross-strait-hormuz-after-iran-deal-4202041
Yes. Carrying 6 mb of Saudi crude and 6 mb of Iranian crude. Only 2000 mb to go to get caught up and restore inventories.