JUNE 17 (DAY 111) — US Releases Official 14-Point “Islamabad MOU” Text; Trump Signs Hard Copy at Versailles, Iran’s President Pezeshkian Signs in Farsi and English — Agreement “Immediately Came Into Effect”; Hormuz: Free Commercial Passage for 60 Days, Full Reopening Within 30 Days After Demining; $300B Reconstruction + Sanctions and Oil Waivers + Frozen-Asset Release; Lebanon Termination Written Into Point 1; Trump: US May Bomb Again if Iran Violates; Formal Switzerland Ceremony Still Friday
US Publicly Releases the Official 14-Point “Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding” After Outcry Over Its Non-Release
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Trump Signs a Hard Copy of the Agreement at the Palace of Versailles During a Macron Dinner
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Iran’s President Pezeshkian Signs the Memorandum in Farsi and English; Deal “Immediately Came Into Effect”
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Point 1: Immediate and Permanent Termination on All Fronts Including Lebanon — Resolving the Prior Day’s Flashpoint on Paper
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Hormuz Terms: Free Commercial Passage for 60 Days, Full Reopening Within 30 Days After Iranian Demining
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Sanctions and Oil Waivers, Frozen-Asset Release, and a ≥$300B Reconstruction Plan Written Into the Text
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Nuclear: Iran Reaffirms No Weapons; Enriched-Uranium Stockpile Down-Blended On-Site Under IAEA — Enrichment Deferred to Final Deal
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60-Day Clock to a Final Deal Endorsed by a Binding UN Security Council Resolution — “Either Side Can Walk Away” Until Then
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Trump: US May Bomb Iran Again if It Violates the Terms — “Right Back to Dropping Bombs”; US Forces Stay in the Gulf “For a Little While”
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Frozen-Asset Sequencing Still Disputed: US “Pay-for-Performance” vs. Iran’s “Legitimate Right”; ~$24B Figure Contested
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G7 Leaders Endorse the Deal as a “Historic Opportunity”; Pledge to Help Implement It
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Formal Signing Ceremony Confirmed for Friday Evening at Bürgenstock; Vance to Lead US Delegation With Witkoff and Kushner
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Day 111 is the documentation day: the war’s terms stopped being a matter of competing claims and became a public, signed instrument. The release of the full 14-point text — after days of contradictory leaks and an outcry over its non-publication — and the physical signatures of both heads of state (Trump’s hard copy at Versailles, Pezeshkian’s in Farsi and English) convert the agreement from “reached” and “virtually signed” into a documented accord that, by multiple accounts, immediately came into effect. Crucially, the text resolves on paper the exact flashpoint that dominated Day 110: Point 1 writes the permanent termination “on all fronts, including in Lebanon” and the guarantee of Lebanese sovereignty directly into the agreement, removing the ambiguity Iran and Israel had been interpreting in opposite directions — at least as far as the US-Iran text is concerned.
But publication exposes the deferrals as much as it settles the disputes. The hardest questions are explicitly pushed into the 60-day window: enrichment’s long-term fate, the schedule for terminating sanctions, the mechanism for the $300 billion reconstruction plan, and the procedures for releasing frozen assets. The senior US official’s framing — “pay for performance,” sanctions relief tied to compliance, and “either side can walk away at any time until you really have a fulsome binding deal” — is an explicit acknowledgment that a signed MOU is not yet a binding peace. Point 13’s sequencing (negotiations on the rest begin only once Points 1, 4, 5, 10, and 11 are being implemented) makes the early, concrete steps — ceasefire, blockade removal, Hormuz passage, oil waivers, asset release — the load-bearing test of whether the deal holds.
The two unresolved external risks are unchanged by the text. Israel is not a signatory and has not endorsed the agreement, so Point 1’s Lebanon language binds the US and Iran but not the actor with forces on the ground in southern Lebanon; and Trump’s warning that the US will “go right back to dropping bombs” if Iran does not comply, paired with forces remaining in the Gulf “for a little while,” preserves the coercive backdrop. Watch items into Day 112 and toward Friday’s Bürgenstock ceremony: whether Hormuz commercial traffic measurably begins under Point 5, whether the blockade removal under Point 4 is observable, whether Israel reacts to the codified Lebanon language, and whether the formal signing holds and triggers the UNSC-endorsement track.
The Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (US-Iran), June 2026
All 14 points of the official memorandum released June 17, 2026, summarized point by point. Provisions are paraphrased for clarity from the published text (sources: CNN, TIME, Military Times). The agreement is signed and in effect, with formal signing set for June 19 at Bürgenstock, Switzerland; the final deal is to be reached within 60 days and endorsed by a binding UN Security Council resolution.
Point 1 — Permanent ceasefire, including Lebanon
The US and Iran, with their allies in the war, declare the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon, and pledge not to initiate war, military operations, or the threat or use of force against each other, while ensuring Lebanon’s territorial integrity and sovereignty. The final deal will confirm this permanent termination.
Point 2 — Mutual sovereignty and non-interference
Both sides commit to respect each other’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and to refrain from interfering in each other’s internal affairs.
Point 3 — 60-day deadline for the final deal
The two countries commit to negotiating and reaching a final deal within a maximum of 60 days, extendable by mutual consent.
Point 4 — US naval blockade lifted within 30 days
Immediately on signing, the US begins removing its naval blockade and any impediments against Iran, fully ending the blockade within 30 days; during that window vessel traffic is restored in proportion to prewar levels. US forces are to be removed from Iran’s proximity within 30 days after the final deal.
Point 5 — Strait of Hormuz reopening
On signing, Iran arranges safe passage for commercial vessels with no charge for 60 days only, between the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman; traffic starts immediately and is fully restored within 30 days after Iran removes technical and military obstacles and conducts demining. Iran will hold talks with Oman, and other Gulf littoral states, on the strait’s future administration and maritime services under international law.
Point 6 — At least $300 billion for reconstruction
The US undertakes, with regional partners, to develop a definitive, mutually agreed plan of at least $300 billion for Iran’s reconstruction and economic development. The implementation mechanism is finalized as part of the final deal within 60 days, with the US granting the licenses, waivers, and permissions needed for the relevant financial transactions.
Point 7 — Termination of all sanctions on a schedule
The US undertakes to terminate all types of sanctions on Iran — including UN Security Council resolutions, IAEA Board of Governors resolutions, and all unilateral US primary and secondary sanctions — on an agreed schedule as part of the final deal, with both sides intending to address the issue immediately in negotiations.
Point 8 — Nuclear: no weapons, stockpile down-blended under IAEA
Iran reaffirms it will not procure or develop nuclear weapons. The parties agree to resolve the disposition of Iran’s enriched-material stockpile by a mutually agreed mechanism, with the minimum methodology being on-site down-blending under IAEA supervision, and to discuss enrichment and Iran’s nuclear needs within a framework set in the final deal.
Point 9 — Status quo pending the final deal
Until the final deal, both sides maintain the status quo: Iran keeps its nuclear program in its current state, while the US imposes no new sanctions and deploys no additional forces in the region.
Point 10 — Immediate oil-export waivers
Immediately on signing and until sanctions are terminated, the US Treasury issues waivers for the export of Iranian crude oil, petroleum products, and derivatives, plus all associated services including banking, insurance, and transportation.
Point 11 — Release of frozen Iranian assets
The US undertakes to make Iran’s frozen or restricted funds and assets fully available on implementation of the MOU, with release procedures to be agreed during negotiations; the funds are to be made fully usable for payment to any beneficiary designated by Iran’s central bank, with the US issuing the necessary licenses and authorizations.
Point 12 — Monitoring mechanism
The parties agree to establish an executive mechanism to monitor the successful implementation of the MOU and future compliance with the final deal.
Point 13 — Sequencing of negotiations
After signing, and once implementation of Points 1, 4, 5, 10, and 11 has begun and continues, the US and Iran start negotiations on the final deal covering the remaining paragraphs exclusively.
Point 14 — UN Security Council endorsement
The final deal will be endorsed by a binding UN Security Council resolution.
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