Questions Persist Over Iran Deal as Trump Says Text Will Only Come After Friday

Questions continue to surround the emerging U.S.-Iran agreement after President Donald Trump said the text of the memorandum of understanding would be released only after Friday, even as senior American officials defended the deal.

Asked when the text would be made public, Trump said yesterday, “I think pretty soon,” before adding, “sometime after Friday.”

Vice President JD Vance said critics were misrepresenting the agreement before its release. He said Iranian media, especially hardline outlets, were presenting only what Iran would receive under the deal and not what it would give.

“The Iranian media, especially the hardline media, is going to talk about what they get without talking about what they give,” Vance said. “It’s important for all of us to correct that record.”

Vance also accused American media outlets of repeating Iranian claims about the agreement.

“The American media literally picks up talking points and propaganda from the IRGC that has no support in the text of the agreement that we’ve actually negotiated and no basis in reality,” he said.

But some details appeared to remain unresolved. Asked on Fox News whether U.S. inspectors would have access “any place, anywhere, any time,” Vance said, “Absolutely,” but added, “That’s something we are negotiating over. That is one of the final details that’s going to be figured out here.”

Trump denied that the agreement includes early sanctions relief for Iran. Asked when such relief would go into effect, he said, “No, it doesn’t. It’s really a behavioral thing.”

Vance was also asked about Iranian claims that Iran could receive access to a $300 billion reconstruction fund. He said, “That’s the sort of things they could have access to, so long as they honor their end of the obligation.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also stressed that Israel does not yet know the final terms of the agreement.

Asked why Trump “acted like Biden” and signed such an agreement, Netanyahu rejected the comparison and said, “We still don’t know what the agreement will be.”

Netanyahu said the agreement was being led by Washington, not Israel.

“This agreement was made by the United States, by the President of the United States, and he believes that he can achieve both supervision and the dismantling of the nuclear program,” Netanyahu said. “I said: that is his decision. I repeat: that is his decision. He is leading it.”

Netanyahu said he had expressed his views in conversations with Trump, while making clear that Israel has its own security interests.

“The mission of my life is the struggle against Iran’s nuclear program,” Netanyahu said. “With an agreement or without an agreement, Iran will not have nuclear weapons.”

He added, “The struggle is not over. We will have to continue standing guard and defending ourselves whenever necessary.”

Netanyahu also addressed Lebanon, saying Israel would remain in the security zones it has captured for as long as needed.

“We created a buffer zone, a security zone, and we will remain there as long as necessary,” he said. Netanyahu said Iran had wanted Israel to withdraw from those areas, but “that did not happen.”

Trump, meanwhile, highlighted the expected regional and economic effects of the agreement. He said the Strait of Hormuz was already reopening and would be fully open by Friday.

“The strait is already partially open,” Trump said. “By Friday, it will be completely open.”

He also pointed to oil prices and financial markets as signs that the agreement was already producing results.

“A lot of great things are going to happen in the Middle East,” Trump said. “Oil is plummeting down, and the stock market is shooting up like a rocket.”

For now, the agreement’s full text remains unpublished, leaving key questions over inspections, sanctions, Iranian obligations and Israeli security concerns unanswered until the document is released.