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Iran's President Ahmad Masoud Pezeshkian has posted the full MOU text on Twitter.

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The detail of page 2's text having been printed slightly mis-aligned and no one took the time to re-print it is *sending* me. It just screams of staff and professionals knowing they have to hold his hand down and *make* him sign it, now, no matter what, no time for re-dos.

There is no way this administration could get a better deal. They don't have the heart or competence for it. Would declaring victory and abandoning the gulf have been worse?

The “final” deal happens on a negotiation timeframe that is somehow both limited to a “maximum” of 60 days but also extendible if both sides are having fun. There will be no final agreement.

Trumps deal is pretty much the same as Obama's except: - US to pay $300bn to rebuild Iran - $Billions-worth of Tomahawk missiles depleted - Global economy banjanxed - Hormuz chokehold proof of concept for Iran - US + allies strained relations - Could have just kept Obama's deal - Its just a memo

Interesting: Iranian military exercise suddenly becomes a “war.” And the proposed deal is hardly symmetrical. The U.S. is expected to make numerous concessions, while Iran is asked to abandon a nuclear weapons program it officially insists never existed. That’s diplomacy built on a contradiction.