IRAN: It All Boils Down to Trusting Trump; UPDATED: MOU Released.
It seems, from what Trump and Vance are saying, as well as from what administration officials have leaked to news outlets, that the deal’s guarantee boils down to Trump’s willingness to continue bullying Iran into cutting a further deal within the next 60 days. Or more, since the deadline can be extended indefinitely at the agreement of both parties.
Trump:
Iran has to have some missiles because other people have missiles. What am I going to do? Am I going to let Saudi Arabia have missiles but Iran can't have them?
They hurt a little location, but they don't blow up the planet. pic.twitter.com/EGWsLXIgQJ
— Ariel Oseran أريئل أوسيران (@ariel_oseran) June 17, 2026
If Trump is willing to go to war to get the “nuclear dust,” as he puts it, then the MOU has the teeth that Vance and others in the administration claim it does. If he is done with the war, as many suspect, then the skepticism is warranted.
Exit quote: In other words, it all boils down to how you read Trump’s intentions. And the Iranians’. Some people are confident, while others are…not.”
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) June 16, 2026