JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇮🇷 President Trump says an agreement will be signed "within hours" with Iran after being delayed by Israel.

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JUST IN: 🇮🇷🇮🇱 Iran's Supreme National Security Council says it will respond to Israel's attack on Beirut.

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Israeli soldiers being themselves in southern Lebanon, looting displaced Lebanese homes before either setting them on fire or wiping them off the map.

— NOTE: Until now, Supreme Leader Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei has not said anything that endorses the deal or speaks positively of the negotiations

The officials know very well that if the Leader urges people to accept the deal and says it’s good, then they will accept it and defend it even if they disagree with some of the contents.

But so far, no such indication has been made by the Leader and until then, the criticisms are warranted and justified.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Iran’s President, Masoud Pezeshkian:

– Recent diplomatic efforts have yielded positive results, but we are not over the finish line.

– The reports in the media do not necessarily reflect the views of the Supreme National Security Council.

– In the end, whatever is approved and deemed appropriate by the Supreme Leader will be mandatory for all of us.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇮🇱 President Trump:

‘I just spoke with Netanyahu. I told him WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇮🇱 President Trump:

‘We were supposed to sign the agreement this morning, and then Israel carried out that fucking attack in Beirut. I couldn’t believe it.

Bibi has no fucking judgement. I told him I was very unhappy.’

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇮🇱 BREAKING: Iran has rejected Trump’s request not to strike Israel in exchange for money, saying its allies are not for sale – Channel 12

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— 🇮🇷/🇺🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: Iran turned down $12 Billion dollars in exchange for not attacking Israel

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— 🇮🇱/🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Hebrew media: ‘We do not understand why Iran did not take the money’

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇵🇰 BREAKING: Pakistan announces that a Memorandum of Understanding between Iran and the United States has been reached, and will be signed on Friday, June 19th

Both sides thereby declare the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon.

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Does the immediate ceasefire start now? Or does it start after signing?

Iran vowed to respond against Israel for today’s attack in Beirut.

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇮🇱 Iranian State TV:

‘The Islamic Republic of Iran officially forced the American-Zionist enemy to end the war on all fronts’

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 BREAKING: President Trump announces the U.S. naval blockade is lifted, and a ‘toll free opening of the Strait of Hormuz’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇱🇧 NEW: Some Iranian sources say that America was forced to issue ‘new and serious concessions regarding Lebanon’ in exchange for not responding to the attack on Beirut

Apparently Iran’s Parliament Speaker Qalibaf announced the suspension of negotiations to Trump via Qatar, and Trump then directly intervened to offer more concessions to avoid collapsing the deal.

These concessions are related to Lebanon, and also the immediate lifting of the U.S. blockade instead of within 30 days (this is already confirmed)

This was reported by Reformist-affiliated ‘Entekhab’, so time will tell whether this is true or not.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇮🇱/🇱🇧 BREAKING: Iran forced the U.S. to accept a complete withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon as an additional concession, instead of carrying out an attack – Fars

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— 🇮🇷/🇮🇱/🇱🇧 NOTE:

If true, and if there is an actual mechanism for ensuring Israeli withdrawal, it’s worth to stop the attack in exchange for this concession.

The liberation of Lebanese lands is far more important than any retaliation.

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I still find it strange that an Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon is now presented as an additional concession

Because based on my personal sources, Iran already wanted to add this to the terms last night (and even before) but the U.S. did not agree. It was one of the last remaining points still under discussion.

So is the Foreign Ministry implying that they would have signed that MoU anyway, without the inclusion of an Israeli withdrawal, if it wasn’t for the events in Beirut today and the subsequent military threats?

In other words, the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon is not an additional concession, but rather a demand Iran made even 1-2 days ago and was not accepted until now.

I firmly believe Iran could have gotten this concession even before issuing military threats against Israel. It likely would have been granted anyway.

What should have been done instead, is carry out the retaliation against Israel and then immediately announce the MoU to prevent Israel’s response.