On June 17, 2026, U.S. President Donald Trump signed the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Iran at the Palace of Versailles in France, opening a 60-day window for negotiations to end a war that began in February.
The agreement lifts all sanctions on Iranian oil sales, reopens the Strait of Hormuz and establishes a process for Iran to recover over $100 billion in frozen assets, according to reports from Middle East Eye [1]. But both supporters and opponents of the conflict have described the outcome as a strategic defeat for the United States.
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