Donald Trump has signed a 14-point agreement with Iran, claiming it delivered a “major win” for the United States – even as it made significant political and financial concessions to Iran to reopen the strait of Hormuz and prevent a “worldwide depression”.
In extraordinary remarks on Wednesday, Donald Trump went from threatening Iran with a new wave of attacks to suggesting the country had basic rights to enrich uranium for civilian use, that he would not pressure Tehran to abandon its ballistic missiles programme and the US was “going to have to give back” billions of dollars in frozen Iranian assets.
Those remarks, as well as the full text of the agreement – which was hailed by the Hezbollah chief, Naim Qassem, as a “great victory” – are likely to fuel anger in Israel and among hardliners in the Republican party who had urged Trump not to make a deal with Tehran.
Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, signed the agreement on Wednesday from Tehran. The US vice-president, JD Vance, is also expected to sign the deal at a more formal ceremony in Geneva on Friday.
Iran’s chief negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, said: “The agreement is a record of US failure. People will see it and judge.”
Defending the deal, Trump said no US president had ever been as tough on Iran as him, and “there is nothing as smart as the market – and the market loves it”. » | Andrew Roth in Washington and Patrick Wintour in Évian-les-Bains | Thursday, June 18, 2026
If Trump really is averting a “worldwide depression” with this signing of the MOU, and one cannot doubt that the world was in danger of, and could still well be in danger of experiencing a worldwide depression, it will/would be a depression of Trump and Netanyahu’s own making!
Fact is, Trump has LOST this war for America and Americans. VICTORY belongs to Iran and Iranians. Moreover, and very importantly and significantly, because of his folly and extremely poor geopolitical judgment, Trump has given Iran and the Mullahs the prestige of being a new world power! So much for the ART of Trump’s DEALs!
Welcome to the NEW WORLD ORDER!
This must surely be the high price a nation pays for electing into the highest office in the land a man who is not only incompetent and inexperienced in geopolitics, but who is also in the throes of brain rot, caused by galloping dementia! — © Mark Alexander
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