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❗️Sources to Fars News: Trump misrepresenting Iran deal as draft agreement awaits Tehran’s decision
Iranian sources cited by Fars News Agency rejected recent claims by US President Donald Trump regarding a potential agreement with Tehran, describing his statements as a “mixture of truth and falsehood” aimed at projecting a political victory.
According to the report, a draft memorandum of understanding based on a “commitment for commitment” framework is currently in the final stages of review in Iran, and no final decision has yet been made on whether to approve or reject it.
The report says Trump has publicly claimed that Iran would reopen the Strait of Hormuz without collecting fees and dismantle or destroy its nuclear materials.
Sources state that neither provision exists in the draft text. According to the report, Iran’s position is that the Strait would reopen after the blockade ends under arrangements determined by Tehran, potentially including ship monitoring, inspections, security measures, and maritime services.
The sources also insist that no commitment to dismantle nuclear materials appears anywhere in the memorandum.
Fars further reports that Trump omitted the agreement’s most important provision: the immediate release of $12 billion from Iran’s frozen assets. According to the report, Tehran considers this payment a prerequisite for any further negotiating stages and views failure to deliver it as a breach of US obligations.
The report also says the draft includes a full ceasefire in Lebanon in accordance with Hezbollah’s position, adding that only after these issues are resolved would Iran discuss broader sanctions relief and nuclear matters within the Islamic Republic’s “red lines.”
In a separate report, Fars responded to claims by Axios that US officials had obtained unspecified “verbal commitments” from Iran regarding its nuclear program.
Sources say the claim appears designed to compensate for the absence of major nuclear concessions in the memorandum itself and to preserve earlier public assertions made by Trump about the negotiations.
According to Fars, the final memorandum reportedly differs substantially from Trump’s initial 15-point list of demands, to the extent that even his supporters may struggle to reconcile the two.
The report says that references to Iranian “verbal commitments” are part of an effort to maintain the appearance of negotiating success despite the contents of the draft.
Iranian sources stressed that Tehran has not yet made a final decision on the latest version of the memorandum and that any eventual agreement would be based on Iran’s stated red lines, with mechanisms for immediate reciprocal action in the event of any US violation.