A US official cited by a senior Israeli political correspondent says the draft US-Iran memorandum of understanding covers the entire region, including Lebanon, and that Washington is confident Israel will ultimately join the framework, according to Barak Betesh (i24NEWS). The official's remarks mark the most explicit US statement yet that the MOU's geographic scope extends beyond Iran's nuclear program to encompass regional security architecture.
A US official has stated that the emerging US-Iran memorandum of understanding covers 'the entire region, including Lebanon,' and expressed confidence that Israel will join the framework, according to Barak Betesh (i24NEWS) citing a senior American source.
The statement — the most explicit US articulation of the MOU's geographic scope to date — directly addresses a core Israeli concern: that the nuclear-focused talks would ignore Iran's regional proxy network, particularly Hezbollah in Lebanon. As The Zioneer reported earlier today, Tehran has been messaging a version of the MOU that includes a demand for Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon and makes no mention of Iran's proxies, a version flatly denied by US officials.
A second message in the same channel offered commentary framing the developing deal: 'They will try to blend the agreement's articles and sell them to the public as an achievement. The bottom line — anything short of removing the enriched uranium from Iran will be defined as a political-military failure.' The commentator also raised an open question about whether Israeli freedom of action — strikes in Tehran and Beirut — would be preserved under the new framework.
What remains unverified: the precise text of the MOU's regional provisions; whether Israel has been formally consulted on the Lebanon clause; and how the US official's statement squares with earlier reports that the MOU omits core nonproliferation mechanisms including enriched uranium removal.
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