A new Munich moment.
The madness continues. Now we learn that Israel had asked to see the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding before it was made public, and was refused. The MOU, both in what it contains and what it omits, affects the Jewish state’s ability to survive, yet Trump would not let the Israelis see it, because he feared the Israelis would at once object, and rally their Congressional supporters to oppose it. It was better, he thought, to keep Israel out of the loop, so that it couldn’t quote verbatim from the MOU. So he has kept the Jewish state, without whose military intervention the Iranians might never have agreed to a ceasefire with the U.S., in the dark. A whiff of Munich has come wafting from Washington.
We do know some things about the MOU. We know that the “deal” says nothing about curbing Iran’s production of ballistic missiles, which it has recently been launching at both Israel and the Gulf Arab states. It says nothing about Iran ending its support of jihad terror groups — Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen. Israel is not mentioned anywhere in the MOU.
Other facts have leaked out about what is in the agreement, and even those expecting the worst have been amazed at the concessions the United States is prepared to make. More on those new concessions, mainly financial, can be found here: “US commits to rehabilitation of Islamic regime with at least $300 b. in reported leaked MOU,” by Shir Perets, Jerusalem Post, June 16, 2026:
The United States has agreed to work with regional partners to “create a comprehensive plan agreed upon by both parties for the rehabilitation and economic development of the Iranian regime, while ensuring financing of at least $300 billion,” according to a reported draft of the 14-point US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding shared by Al-Arabiya on Tuesday.
According to Reuters, the fund is a private investment vehicle, not a reconstruction or reparations program, and will not include any government money or grants.
Companies based in the US, the Gulf, Asia, South America, and Africa have all agreed to commit financing.
The fund will reportedly assist in fields such as energy, logistics, manufacturing, and transport. Additionally, it is said to be entirely different from the sanctioned $24b., which is discussed in a separate point of the document.
So the US is now committed to help raise $300 billion in foreign investment in Iran. That’s a lot of money, far more than the amount of Iranian assets that the Obama administration unfroze. How many thousands of ballistic missiles, how many tens of thousands of drones, will Iran now be able to build with the amounts it manages to divert from that “investment money”? --->READ MORE HERE
Vice President JD Vance’s sales pitch for the Iran deal is simply terrible — but President Trump’s may be worse.
Maybe the reporting on what’s in the memorandum of understanding is wrong, but Team Trump keeps confirming some of the worst news.
As best we can tell, the deal does nothing to achieve the aims America started the war with — but does hand Tehran a whole series of gains.
Iran gets at least a few billion in immediate funds and can start selling oil right away, with at least some other sanctions dropped as well.
Moreover, Tehran wins unprecedented authority over the Strait of Hormuz and likely locks in Hezbollah’s dominance of Lebanon.
Recall our goals: The prez opened combat seeking to permanently end Iran’s nuclear threat, and also eliminate its missiles and other offensive capabilities, and we also hoped for regime change.
The bombing set back its nuke programs, took out a lot of missiles and missile factories and decapitated most of the regime’s top leadership.
All the talks since the start of April have done nothing more — indeed, have only let new Iranian leaders rebuild and regroup, even as the populace suffers.
Why think they’ll change in another 60 days of talking?
Vance’s happy case is that the big prizes for Iran are contingent on its behavior. As he said on “Hannity”: “If they’re willing to behave like a normal country,” quit chasing nukes and funding terror, “then we are willing to actually fundamentally transform our relationship with them.”
But that’s been true ever since the 1979 revolution, and the regime has never gone for it.
Trump, talking with Qatar’s ruler (!), actually claimed the regime has changed, since we killed off so many leaders and those who wound up in charge “are very rational people,” “nice to deal with,” “not radicalized.”
Huh? It’s the leaders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps calling the shots over there now — the goons most committed to the radical agenda.
Vance, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner never talked to them, only to political fronts for the real powers. --->READ MORE HEREFollow links below to relevant stories:
+++++ The 5 passages of the US-Iran peace deal that worry critics the most: ‘Always tries to get more’+++++
+++++Iran’s Crown Prince Warns of What’s Coming: If Trump’s “deal” goes through, the damage won’t be limited to the America-First president’s legacy.+++++
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