This U.S.-Iran MOU will likely be a ‘memorandum of misunderstanding’ |
The long-awaited Memorandum of Understanding between Iran and the United States was electronically signed on June 14, Donald Trump’s 80th birthday.
Two days later, even as the Group of Seven leaders in Evian, France “supported” the MOU, the document had not yet been made public. The full text was finally “orally read” to the media shortly thereafter. As I read it, I felt it was no MOU at all but rather a “memorandum of misunderstanding.”
I have good reason to say so since Axios reported that the CIA Director had told the president that the agency’s intelligence “raised serious doubts about Iran’s willingness to make the nuclear concessions.” If the........