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🇺🇸🇮🇷 BREAKING!!! Bloomberg has published the text of the Memorandum of Understanding:
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Tehran, Washington, and their allies announce immediate and final end to war on ALL FRONTS.
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Tehran, Washington, and their allies pledge not to launch any hostile action and to refrain from threats.
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Tehran and Washington pledge to reach an agreement within a maximum period of 60 days, extendable.
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The United States LIFTS the naval BLOCKADE on Iran immediately upon signing the MOU.
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The United States pledges to WITHDRAW ITS FORCES from the regoin within 30 days from the date of the final agreement.
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Iran works to resume ship movement within 30 days, taking into account its need to remove obstacles.
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Washington pledges to cooperate with its regional partners in rehabilitating and economically developing Iran. Washington commits to ENDING SANCTIONS on Iran according to a timeline agreed upon as part of the agreement.
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Iran reiterates that it will NEVER PRODUCE NUCLEAR WEAPONS. Tehran and Washington agreed to discuss the fate of enriched materials and nuclear issues in a final agreement.
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Tehran and Washington agree to maintain the status quo until a final agreement is reached. Iran maintains its current nuclear program without Washington imposing sanctions or strengthening its forces.
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Washington pledges to EXEMPT IRANIAN OIL and related banking services from sanctions.
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Washington pledges to RELEASE FROZEN IRANIAN FUNDS and assets. After receiving guarantees for the implementation of a number of agreement provisions, the two countries begin final agreement negotiations.
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The final agreement between Washington and Tehran is adopted by a binding resolution of the UN Security Council.
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“There will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!”
I guess he really was telling the truth… just left out the part about who would be surrendering.
Iran should still pursue nuclear weapons in secret
I hold little hope this MOU will mean much. When Israel lashes out, as they definitely will and had already been doing so, Washington’s politicians, Trump included, will be forced to acquiesce to their will, as they always has. They will have many excuses for why they do so, with the leash of lobby money clearly visible on their necks.
The power brokers of the Yankee end of empire are the real leash holders at the end of the day. The question, as far as I can tell, is: what strategic calculus are they going to make if israel doesn’t want to bend the knee enough to match step with them?
They can threaten removal of support, or even carry it out in which case israel’s situation becomes even more precarious. If israel bends, they have to reign in their more rabid tendencies, which may require a forced change in the power status quo of israel. If israel refuses to bend, Trump of all people, world’s biggest narcissist, is not going to bow to their will. Especially not after the consequences of this war, which are forcing the empire to make concessions when it would normally go full speed ahead and not acquiesce a thing. I mean, if you look at the way the empire has acted in post-WWII, this seems unprecedented to me, the level of successful military resistance and the deal being pushed on it.
I don’t want to be overly optimistic, but to me it looks like Iran is essentially putting the US in a position where it has to choose: either force israel to be less rabid, or cut it loose. Either way is a loss for US dominance in the region and gives Iran, and the axis of resistance as a whole, more breathing room to build back its strength as a force of anti-imperialist in the world. Meanwhile, the US doesn’t seem to have the military power in this case to force a different outcome. Every time they push, Iran wrecks their military forces in the region all the more, sending a clear message that comprador states are taking on risk to be hosting the empire and sending a message to the empire that its weapons (some of which are hard to replace) can be destroyed when they hang out there.
So while I’m not exactly confident in israel’s ability to stop violating ceasefires, I am more confident in the idea that the narcissist in chief is not going to be pleased if the empire tries to make a strategic retreat and their rabid dog makes a fool of them and their negotiation efforts.
That said, it’s possible that the US is only negotiating for show while it plans more attacks, but Iran is of course going to be well aware of that possibility and make them hurt again if they do. And the capitalists looking at oil and markets and so on are going to be none too happy if this keeps going on and keeps stressing oil supplies to their limits.
I don’t have much faith in the MOU in achieving peace however I do think it’s the proper course for Iran. Mainly because the process of failed negotiations further alienates the reformists among the Iranian people, and makes it more likely their faction dwindles in influence. Although I guess my perspective is a bit more focused on the consequences of internal Iranian politics.
Was the western elite acting against its interest by supporting Rhodesia? People aren’t looking into the empire’s finances if they attribute this entirely to corruption of key figures in the US political system, as if it’s the governing body of the entire empire & not just a privatized facade. A lot of them just repeat Mearsheimer-inspirired international relations/poli sci which feigns ignorance of why the US acts against its national interest. We already know that the US govt acts in ruling class interest. Nations are not all mindless amoebas trying to swallow the others up. Somebody needs to actually put their body between the fiber optic drone & the settlement. The region needs to be kept cowed & deindustrialized, it’s a subimperialist dynamic. Rhodesia was so subimperialist at one point Samir Amin says itreachede his definition of a first world country.
They serve the westoid cult of liberalism well (taken to mean zero restrictions on capital if your country has a Whiteness Rating above 4, outside the institutions they create to redistribute the violence & inflatiom to the periphery). Imperialism needs colonialism to slice up the world before it can be stitched back together into something easier to manage, but it’s unwieldy enough to backfire this hard. The need to bring irrationally self-absorbed elites into a messianic death cult in order to even have a narrative to run with makes it pretty hard to 180⁰ this thing
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🇮🇷 Baghaei on Israel:
🔸If Israeli attacks in Lebanon continue, it will be considered a breach of US commitments.
🔸We do not differentiate between the United States and the Zionist entity, but the differences in opinions between them regarding methods and mechanisms are clear and obvious. The Zionist entity does not want to give the slightest chance to any diplomatic path.
🔸It is the responsibility of the United States to compel the Zionist entity to respect the commitments it made to Iran in this document.
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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇮🇱/🇱🇧 Response by Iran’s Foreign Ministry to Israel’s claim they will not withdraw from Lebanon:
– We know that Israel never takes any action without consultation and direct coordination with America.
– Therefore, we hold America directly responsible if it fails to force Israel to submit to its obligations as part of the MoU, with necessary consequences.
@Middle_East_Spectator
This feels like Iran is taunting israel to provoke them.
I think they are trying to ‘check’ the imperialists in a sense. Eitheir the US uses its leverage to force Israel to concede so the deal can go through and the energy crisis can be less harmful. Or the US refuses/fails to pressure Netanyahu, and Israel further demonstrates that it’s the sole cause for peace being unattainable, justifying Iran’s further actions and walk away from negotiations.
I feel like the goal is to get trump to say “If israel wants to continue the war they will do it alone.” they want a wedge between the zionist and the americans
[2026-06-19] @s_m_marandi@twitter.com: The Zionists are massacring Lebanese families, while Trump confirms he’ll keep Iran’s frozen assets hostage. The Islamic Republic has proven that the Epstein Coalition is deceptive and untrustworthy. Their murderous and reckless policies will soon bring down the global economy.
More oil chaos to watch is a silver lining. We get to learn about all the stressors
From the river to the sea! ✊🇵🇸
The children yearn for 🇮🇱 power plants under bombardment Mr. Ayatollah
— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump, at the G7 in France earlier today, appeared to be open to Iran enriching uranium:
‘You know, it is a little hard though when other people have it, other adjoining states have it, and you’re not letting them have it for the purpose of electricity and things like that. You have to use a little common sense.’
@Middle_East_Spectator
Who let the common sense fairy put coins under trumps pillow? I thought he was on a strict diet of zionist white supremacist warmonger ideas.
The light of Islam has guided him, praise to Allah.
🇮🇷🇺🇸🇰🇼| Interview with the Iranian pilots who bombed US bases in Kuwait:
We attacked the US Buehring base. It was as if God turned each of our bombs into several bombs. The scale of the fire was so huge that we even saw several helicopters bursting into flames and then exploding.
The area was thrown into chaos, and they started activating their air defenses.
During our turn, we saw them firing missiles at targets in the sky.
My back-seat cockpit officer told me that an explosion had happened in the sky, we were confused about where they were being hit from.
By mistake, their aircraft also took off and the 3 American F-15s that were coming for a counterattack toward our Iran, the Kuwaitis mistook them for targets & shot them down.
By God’s grace, they destroyed all 3 of them at the same time.
They weren’t able to intercept & track us because of our deceiving tactics.
@FotrosResistancee
Video: https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/22265
🇮🇷🇺🇸🇰🇼| Iranian F-5 pilot who bombed US Buehring base in Kuwait:
We were flying at an extremely, extremely low altitude.
From a flight-standard perspective, the standard training altitude is around 500 feet, but we were below 50 feet.
We knew that Patriot systems were deployed in the area, and that this base had multi-layered air defense. Given Kuwait’s cooperation, they were protecting this base, and scrambled F-18s were monitoring it.
Even though we knew AWACS aircraft were up there and surveillance/listening sites were active, the entire flight was conducted under complete radio silence.
I should mention here that there were 2-3 ships, we were flying so low that we passed between 2 ships, and their decks were higher than us. In other words, the sailors were looking down at us from the deck.
We passed through there, and thank God, entered Kuwaiti waters, and from there entered Kuwait itself.
When we entered Kuwait, the high-voltage power lines suddenly became 10x times more numerous. Their refineries and forces were along our route, all of them were within our reach.
We could have bombed them immediately without any problem. But our target was Camp Buehring.
We carried out this route at very high speed and very low altitude. And then, when we reached the base, we bombed it successfully.
@FotrosResistancee
That’s hard for me to even fathom, flying super low like that. Kudos to those Iranian pilots.
BEAST MODE
— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Under the new Strait of Hormuz and Persian Gulf management, U.S. and coalition warships will no longer be stationed in the Persian Gulf, and will instead relocate to bases in the Gulf of Oman and Arabian Sea
Under the new management, U.S. Navy ships, U.S. Navy-affiliated logistics ships, ships carrying military supplies, and Israeli commercial shipping will no longer be allowed to cross the Strait of Hormuz without explicit permission from the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The U.S. 5th Fleet Headquarters in Bahrain, heavily damaged by Iranian strikes, will be decommissioned, and operations will be relocated to ‘another suitable location’, likely Oman. – Sources, citing a U.S. Official
@Middle_East_Spectator
❗️Members of UK House of Lords exposed for lobbying on behalf of UAE amid Sudan genocide
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According to an investigation by Middle East Eye, three members of the UK House of Lords hold paid roles at FGS Global, a multinational consultancy that has lobbied senior British officials on behalf of the Emirati government since October. Among them is former Labour MP Thangam Debbonaire, who previously made public statements railing against the “egregious acts of paid lobbying.”
In 2024, FGS donated more than $34,500 to the Labour Party. Part of this funding covered the secondment of FGS employee Kamella Hudson, who served as an election campaign adviser to Rachel Reeves before her appointment as chancellor of the Exchequer.
While FGS Global stated that no peers work directly on the UAE account, human rights and transparency campaigners warn that such arrangements allow foreign states to purchase access and influence within British democracy.
The revelations come amid intensifying scrutiny over the UAE’s covert role in Sudan, where UN investigators accuse Abu Dhabi of funneling weapons to the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group. Despite a UN arms embargo and evidence of mass atrocities in Sudan, the UK government has continued licensing military exports to the UAE, while FGS Global has simultaneously ramped up its lobbying blitz to manage the Gulf state’s bilateral relations in both London and Washington.
https://t.me/thecradlemedia/62044
Just a reminder that these people are all monsters and deserve no sympathy.
Thangam Debbonaire has always been a soulless neo liberal ghoul. Zero surprises that she’d be involved. Was so glad that she was defeated at the last elections by the Green Party. Then disgusted that Starmer raised her up to the Lords as a consequence.
If there was any justice in the world that would have been a fake name you invented for a bit.
IKR
[2026-06-18] @soil_owner@twitter.com: It’s pretty clear there are four and a half TRULY sovereign countries i.e they have nukes, a capable conventional military, control of the information space, and some level of resource security:
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The US
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China
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Russia
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The DPRK
4.5) Iran (no nukes, yet)
[2026-06-18] @thereisnobeth@twitter.com: crazy how you don’t actually have sovereignty unless you have nukes
I think it’s crazy to say that Iran’s not sovereign by this random metric w it’s level of deterrence: the strait, all the missile cities, & the potential of making a thermonuclear within weeks if they need to. No Vietnam is slander, as always.
I’d say Iran is more sovereign than DPRK right now.
I agree. I think one of they key reasons no one messed with the DPRK, other than the nukes, is th fact that they border China
A China with almost no industry and peasants in their army was able to fight NATO and it’s cronies to a standstill while NATO was at its apex.
Today, China would just outright steamroll NATO like nobody’s business. They couldn’t even hope to fight China on China’s turf.
No one wants to pick a fight with DPRK when round 2 is guaranteed to be China
Idk about that. Iran has been getting bombed by the US. The US murdered hundreds of little girls there recently. The US wouldn’t dare do that to the DPRK. The DPRK is also doing pretty well economically right now. At the end of the day Iran can cause the global economy massive issue, but the DPRK could nuke the US mainland. That’s not even in the same wheelhouse of power.
Its not about “power” it is about charting their own path and being self reliant. DPRK is still very dependent on China and Russia. China and Russia use trade with DPRK as a way to spite usa. (not exactly but there is a direct correlation between how big a dick usa is being and how much trade they do with DPRK) DPRK don’t have anything to offer that China and Russia can’t source somewhere else for a similar price.
Being able to fire nukes at usa is nothing compared to being able to strangle the entire world economy as Iran has. There is no way for DPRK to win a nuclear exchange with usa. The best they can manage is hurting usa while getting annihilated.
Iran has the entire world economy over a barrel (of oil) at the cost of like 4000 lives. If DPRK used its leverage it would kill every single Korean.
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This all happened about 6 hrs ago
—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇮🇷/🇮🇷 BREAKING: Following intense Iranian pressure, the U.S. has forced Israel to agree to a ceasefire with Hezbollah starting at 16:00 PM (taking effect in 3 minutes) – Reuters
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https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/33743
The ceasefire is now in effect.
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/33744
— 🇮🇱/🇱🇧 NEW: Israel bombs Nabatieh
@Middle_East_Spectator
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/33745
— 🇮🇱/🇱🇧 Israeli officials to Channel 12:
‘A ceasefire being in effect does not prevent us from continuing operations’
@Middle_East_Spectator
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/33746
— 🇮🇱/🇱🇧 Israeli Channel 12:
‘A ceasefire does not mean ceasing fire. It means not escalating the attacks.’
@Middle_East_Spectator
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/33748
I’d be laughing at this circus if my blood wasn’t boiling.
‘A ceasefire does not mean ceasing fire. It means not escalating the attacks.’
The empire used to try to be clever with the lies.
I’m resisting the urge to anger post about this, but suffice it to say, I resonate with this:
I’d be laughing at this circus if my blood wasn’t boiling.
Part of me hopes this MoU fails just so Iran gets the chance to turn more zionist outposts into rubble.
1 apartment complex for every complex destroyed in Lebanon. I’ve said it many time before, but I continue to say it:
Make Tel Aviv look like Gaza.
At this point I think Iran should just get on with smashing the fascists and telling usa that they have to cut israel off or the MoU is dead.
Literally child-brained argument
I mean they probably don’t even believe it and don’t give a shit about words having meaning, so fascist-brained I guess
Definitely not justification, it’s a taunt
🇮🇷🇺🇸⚪ The Iranian national football team, which will play New Zealand tomorrow in LA, arrived at their hotel with the presence of a handful of Pahlavi cultists cursing and accusing them of being terrorists.
I love how the police just stands there and doesn’t do anything.
This is will give the players a lot of stress and will affect their performance too.
What a disgrace.
@FotrosResistancee
Akin to screaming at the cashier for being unhappy about the supermarket’s prices
[2026-06-15] @Marwa__Osman@twitter.com: I have been asked repeatedly this week whether Lebanon will actually be included in any potential memorandum of understanding between Iran and the United States. My answer remains the same, and it always will.
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Just kidding
Despite Iran’s efforts and genuine intentions to see an end to Israeli terrorism on Lebanese soil, I am a southern Lebanese woman from Khiam. I lived through the reality of occupation, aggression, and war firsthand. I have also spent years studying the history of an entity born from supremacy, colonialism, dispossession, and theft.
The more I witness and learn about its genocidal tendencies and terrorism, the less faith I place in any signed document between any two governments that believe they can somehow restrain or control this cancerous project of terrorism.
I see no lasting peace emerging from pieces of paper. I see the same pattern that history has shown us for decades: wars, massacres, invasions, and, inevitably, Resistance.
If history has taught us anything, it is that no agreement, resolution, or signature ever stopped Zionists from killing, occupying, or stealing. What stopped them were the costs imposed on them. What forced them to retreat was bullets, Katyushas, Kornets, missiles and FPVs… only Resistance.
That is why my trust has never been in signed papers. My trust lies in the ability of people to defend themselves, their land, and their dignity. And that is where it will remain.
[2] #BREAKING in south Lebanon:
Intermittent artillery shelling is targeting the towns of:
Yohmor Al-Shaqif
Zawtar Al-Sharqiya
Nabatieh Al-Fawqa
Kfar Tebnit
An Israeli enemy drone is also flying over the skies of Ouzai and Beirut’s southern suburbs.
⚠️ Dear Lebanese citizens, exercise caution and remain alert.
🇮🇷🇺🇸🇮🇱 Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesman:
It is a proven fact that these Israel and the US have never been honest in fulfilling their commitments.
At the same time, we have our own tools. The United States must fulfill its commitments and must ensure that this regime also implements its commitments regarding the cessation of war in Lebanon.
Commitments are reciprocal and mutual. No one can expect Iran to fulfill its commitments while the other side shirks theirs.
@SimurghRes
I know I asked this yesterday and I’m probably repeating myself, but this MoU does not mean the end of the war, right? Given the empire’s track record, will Iran (and the wider Axis of Resistance) use this time to rebuild their infrastructure and expand their weapons stockpile to prepare for the resumption of the war?
I don’t personally think the MoU will lead to peace. Israel is already breaking a precondition by not exiting Lebanon, so I think these talks are dead in the water.
Hypothetically, if they did occur, it would likely mean that Iran would try to force the US to exit the region entirely through negotiations. In the end, that is what Iran seeks, the complete removal of US assets from places that endager them.
— 🇮🇷/🇮🇱 NEW: Hezbollah has destroyed another Israeli tank attempting to advance near Ali Taher hill
@Middle_East_Spectator
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/33774
—❗️🇮🇱/🇮🇷/🇱🇧 NEW: An Israeli armored convoy was ambushed by Hezbollah, two tanks are burning
The Israeli advance to capture Ali Taher hill has failed again.
@Middle_East_Spectator
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/33775
— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency:
‘The Iranian delegation’s meeting with the U.S. in Geneva is postponed, until there is a ceasefire in Lebanon.
Until that time, Iran will not unilaterally implement its committments of the MoU—until the U.S. does the same.’
@Middle_East_Spectator
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/33730
—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇮🇱/🇱🇧 BREAKING: If Israel does not implement an immediate ceasefire in Lebanon and stop its advances along all sectors, Iran will consider withdrawing from the Memorandum of Understanding
@Middle_East_Spectator
Bomb something kushner owns NOW
