President Donald Trump said Tuesday morning that Iran will give IAEA inspectors access to its bombed nuclear facilities and that frozen Iranian assets will be used to buy food from American farmers. Iran's leadership rejected the claim, saying Trump is inventing terms not in the MoU and that the U.S. surrendered to all Iranian demands.
President Donald Trump said Tuesday morning that the deal with Iran will allow IAEA inspectors access to nuclear facilities damaged in the U.S. bombing campaign, and that frozen Iranian assets will be used to buy food from American farmers. The claim marks a new escalation in the public dispute over the memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed last week. Hours earlier, Trump had said the unfrozen funds would go only to U.S.-sourced food (Monday 23:05 Jerusalem); Iran's central bank governor denied that. On Tuesday, the Iranian leadership went further, rejecting Trump's statements outright: a leadership statement said he is "inventing terms that are not present in the MoU" and asserted "the US surrendered to all our demands."
This latest dispute over access to bombed nuclear sites is new to the public record. The desk previously reported that envoy Steve Witkoff told U.S. lawmakers Iran would allow IAEA access and the removal of enriched uranium (Thursday June 18, 23:16 Jerusalem). President Pezeshkian claimed Sunday (15:16 Jerusalem) that every clause of the MoU favors Tehran, saying Trump conceded on all points. The conflict over the MoU's actual terms has been intensifying: on Monday, Trump's initial claim that frozen Iranian funds would buy U.S. agricultural goods (Monday 23:05 Jerusalem) was countered by the Iranian negotiator Mohammad Marandi, who insisted Iran would not buy agricultural products from the U.S. — a claim the Iranian official news agency later called "a complete lie."
The Zioneer reported Friday (June 19, 16:31 Jerusalem) that Trump himself called the deal an "unconditional surrender" by Tehran. Iran has mocked that framing (June 12, 00:46 Jerusalem). The desk has also reported analyst assessments that the deal allows Iran to export oil without sanctions before any final accord is signed — a sign of the administration's maximalist concessions (June 17, 20:45 Jerusalem).
Neither side has published the full text of the MoU. The specific claim about IAEA access to bombed facilities — and the Iranian denial — remains unverifiable from open sources at this stage.
5 developments
- StrongWitkoff tells US lawmakers Iran will let IAEA access nuclear sites and extract enriched uranium
- DevelopingTrump: 'It's written there — Iran will not have nuclear weapons'; then mocks the clause
- DevelopingTrump reportedly set to grant Iran major financial relief within days, per Israeli media
- StrongTrump: Iran Will Agree to Large-Scale Weapons Inspections to Ensure 'Nuclear Honesty'
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