Key bullets:

What Iran gets:

* The U.S. agrees to release $25 billion of Iran’s frozen assets, including via direct cash transfers, cooperation among regional countries, and financial credit lines.

* Washington, in coordination with its regional allies, would prepare a reconstruction and development plan for Iran, to be negotiated and agreed with Tehran within 60 days.

What the US gets:

* Tehran agrees that it will neither produce nor acquire nuclear weapons.

* Pending a final agreement, Iran would maintain the current status of its nuclear programme, refraining from further uranium enrichment and expansion of nuclear facilities.

* The United States agrees to allow Iran to dilute its stockpile of highly enriched uranium on Iranian soil under a future comprehensive agreement.

* Iran’s nuclear programme, uranium enrichment activities and mechanisms for handling its stockpile of highly enriched uranium would be negotiated within 60 days of the memorandum and addressed in a final agreement.

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bhouston 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This is nothing significantly different from the Obama P5+1:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_nuclear_deal

	▲	rasz 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		other than $300B war reparations

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frm88 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What they also get: lifting of international sanctions: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/uk-france-germany-italy...

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bulbar 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

US just gonna trust Iran regarding their nuclear program?

No trust or guessing need in that case, Iran will only pause their nuclear program, maybe not even that.

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ursuscamp 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Iran gained international credibility by adhering strictly to the JCPOA, even long after the Trump admin broke it. I doubt they will squander that by not adhering to whatever deal they negotiate next.

	▲	thunky 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Following the rules got them bombed, so why would they make that mistake again?

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comrade1234 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Also, the u.s. makes Israel stop destroying Lebanon. Trump is already pressing Israel on this. Iran will come across as Lebanon's saviors.

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seszett 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Iran will come across as Lebanon's saviors.

"Come across as", as much as I despise Iran's regime, it seems like it is de facto the only country actually doing anything other than strong words for Lebanon.

Too bad the US blunder happened too late for Gaza and Palestine.

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smt88 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Trump hasn’t (so far) demonstrated the ability to stop Israel from bombing and invading Lebanon, so I’m not sure what we can hope will change before Netanyahu leaves office.

	▲	ndiddy 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Iran seems to believe that their negotiating position will get better and better as time goes on. I'm not sure if they're right, but the terms they got Trump to agree to certainly indicate that they are. From that perspective, their current position regarding Lebanon makes sense. The more Israel attacks Lebanon, the more concessions Iran is able to extract from the US in their negotiations in exchange for not resuming the war. It's clear at this point that the only realistic outcome of the war is a negotiated settlement with Iran, so all resuming the fighting would do is kick the can down the road to a point where Iran's position is even better and the US's position is even worse.
	▲	roryirvine 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Presumably there's the tacit acceptance that Iran would use that as an excuse to continue funding proxies and launching occasional missile attacks. A return to the status quo ante.
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OutOfHere 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Isn't the article failing to document the $300B that the US has to give Iran? I cannot fathom how this will be acceptable to any American. The US doesn't have money to give food and healthcare benefits to its own deserving people but it has money for Iran. Also, for the longest time, Trump criticized Obama for giving $1.7B to Iran, and now he wants to give 170x more.

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kelnos 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

So basically the US is in a worse position than before the war. Expected, but still dumb and disappointing. (Par for the course for Trump.)

And of course all that sweet, sweet reconstruction/redevelopment money is going to go to Trump's buddies.

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insane_dreamer 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

So basically, what we had before Trump started this stupid war at Bibi's behest.

	▲	mcphage 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Well, except for the tens of billions we spent, and the $324 billion we’re giving Iran, and also our ability to exert any force on the world.

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	▲	smt88 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Iran didn’t insist on enrichment for weapons. They had verifiably stopped and then Trump threw away the deal where they agreed to stop. This is 100% Trump’s fault, from start to finish.