Iran's Fars News Agency reports that the US has retreated from some of its positions in negotiations with Iran, and that Tehran has begun reviewing the new offers. According to the report, no agreement has been reached yet and talks continue.
Iran's Fars News Agency reported on Wednesday afternoon that the United States has retreated from some of its negotiating positions, prompting Tehran to begin reviewing new offers. The report states that no agreement has yet been signed and talks continue. The update introduces a more cautious tone than Fars' own reporting earlier in the day, which had depicted a deal as highly likely.
The latest report follows a sequence of rapid developments on Wednesday evening. At 22:16 Jerusalem time, Fars initially reported that the US had reverted to Iran's original draft MOU. Minutes later, the agency assessed that Iranian leadership approval was likely. By 22:16 in a separate bulletin, the agency elaborated that President Trump had added demands to the original text and that the US had now accepted Iran's draft. A subsequent Fars bulletin at the same time also claimed the US had "backed down." Across a span of minutes, the narrative shifted from near-certain approval to a more guarded assessment involving a US retreat and a review process still underway.
As The Zioneer reported on June 11, the conflicting signals in Iranian media follow earlier denials and dismissals: Fars itself had rejected President Trump's claim of an imminent deal as "invalid," and an intelligence source close to the Iranian team told an Israeli outlet that no new proposal had been sent. Reports from Saudi outlets had also been treated with skepticism. The current Fars report does not specify which US positions changed or why, and the claim is attributed to a single Iranian source without independent corroboration.
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