A Qatari mediation team informed Tehran on Wednesday that the United States has retracted the additional articles it demanded the Iranian side approve, reverting to the original 10-article draft that had been submitted by Iran and was already awaiting final approval in Tehran, according to the Arabic desk channel Saleh Desk. The development came after U.S. negotiators had added new demands to the draft, which Iran rejected, and coincided with rising tensions in the Strait of Hormuz and the IDF strike on Dahieh.
According to an analysis posted on the Saleh Desk channel, the U.S. position in nuclear negotiations with Iran underwent a significant reversal this week: the Qatari mediation team informed Tehran that Washington had retracted the additional articles it had appended to the draft agreement, returning to the original 10-article text submitted by Iran.
The channel's account states that the draft had been near completion about two weeks ago, pending final approval in both Tehran and Washington, when the U.S. side added new demands. Iran refused to review the amended text and insisted on its original 10-article proposal. Tensions then escalated in the Strait of Hormuz and southern Iran, followed by the IDF strike on the Dahieh neighborhood in Beirut, which the channel says left the negotiating file in limbo.
On Wednesday, the Qatari team mediated and informed Iran that the U.S. had dropped its additional demands. The channel claims that alongside this concession, President Trump launched a media campaign — aggressive tweets that portray Iran as capitulating under bombing pressure, while the ground truth is that the U.S. side made the concession. The channel asserts that the agreement as a whole is a 'big lie' that will enrich the Iranian regime with billions of dollars and allow it to continue its course.
As The Zioneer reported on June 11 at 22:30, Iran state media had signaled a 'high likelihood' of deal approval, and later on June 11 at 23:21, President Trump stated that Iran 'wants a deal more than I do.' The account from Saleh Desk — a single source, an Arabic-language commentary channel — offers an adversarial interpretation of that same diplomatic momentum: that the U.S. conceded first, then framed the outcome as an Iranian climbdown. The claims remain unverified by other sources.
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Source and signal
- Internal intake