Another U.S.-Iran Agreement? Saudi Media Exposes Draft: U.S. to Lift Sanctions in Exchange for Strait Openness
On the 22nd, Saudi Arabia's Al Arabiya TV revealed a draft agreement allegedly brokered by Pakistan. The report claims this draft will serve as the final text of a U.S.-Iran peace deal and is expected to be released within hours.
The draft obtained by Al Arabiya TV consists of nine clauses. In summary, its core content is: full-scale ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran across all fronts, including cessation of all military actions and information warfare; the United States is willing to gradually lift sanctions in exchange for Iran opening the Strait of Hormuz, while other issues will be addressed through negotiations within a joint committee.
It remains uncertain whether this draft disclosed by Saudi media is authentic. Just days ago, opposition Iranian media also leaked a version of an agreement, indicating that the U.S. would accept lifting some sanctions and unfreezing overseas assets if Iran handed over its enriched uranium.
In contrast, this draft released by Saudi media appears to sidestep several critical issues—for instance, there is no mention of Iran’s enriched uranium at all. However, it also rejects some of Iran’s previously stated hardline demands, such as requiring the U.S. to pay war reparations and recognize Iran’s “toll rights” over the Strait of Hormuz.
Therefore, if this draft proves genuine, it can only be considered a vague "settlement of losses"—everything is designed to allow the U.S. to extricate itself from the Middle East quagmire and re-open the Strait of Hormuz, with all other matters left for future discussion.
This resembles the ceasefire agreement brokered by Trump between Israel and Hamas. At the time, the agreement explicitly required Hamas to disarm, but after the ceasefire took effect, many follow-up provisions were quietly shelved and never implemented substantially.
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