00:20300 billion dollars a Lebanon clause 970 pounds of
00:29enriched uranium and a deal that both sides are describing very differently this is the u.s
00:38iran agreement that is being called almost there and tonight we are taking you inside every line
00:47of it because what is on paper may not match what is being agreed to in the room let us
00:54start with
00:55what we know after weeks of back channel talks through pakistani and qatari mediators the united
01:03states and iran have reportedly agreed on a memorandum of understanding an mou a framework
01:10that would extend their fragile ceasefire for 60 days and open formal negotiations on iran's nuclear
01:18program sounds like a breakthrough right not so fast u.s vice president jd vance who has been
01:27one of the key architects of these talks told reporters directly it is hard to say exactly
01:34when or if the president is going to sign the mou when or if those two words are doing a
01:44lot of heavy
01:45lifting tonight iran's own taznim news agency backed that up saying the text has not been finalized and
01:53iranian sources made something very clear any deal will only be valid when announced by tehran not
02:02unilaterally by trump so what exactly is inside this not yet signed possibly not agreed upon almost deal
02:13let's go clause by clause on the strait of hormuz one of the most critical waterways on the planet through
02:21which a fifth of the world's oil and gas passes the deal proposes unrestricted shipping no tolls no
02:29harassment iran removes all mines within 30 days and the u.s lifts its naval blockade as commercial
02:38traffic resumes but here's the first crack iran believes the blockade goes away immediately the u.s
02:46says it stays in place and reduces in stages only as iran actually demines the strait the incentive
02:55structure is completely different depending on which version you're reading on iran's nuclear program
03:02both sides commit to negotiating the fate of iran's enriched uranium iran pledges not to pursue a nuclear
03:11weapon and the first 60 days of talks will focus on disposing of approximately 970 pounds of uranium
03:21enriched to high levels plus another 10 tons of lower grade nuclear material that also needs to be dealt
03:29with that is an enormous amount of nuclear materials sitting on the table on sanctions the u.s commits to
03:38discussing relief and the release of iran's frozen assets iran has around 24 billion dollars of its own
03:46money locked in foreign banks it wants access to at least 20 billion of that that conversation has not
03:54even properly started yet on lebanon the deal includes a clause on ending the israel hezbollah war
04:02and this is where it gets politically explosive trump and netanyahu have already had at least one tense
04:11conversation about this israel has been escalating its military offensive against hezbollah even as
04:18these talks were happening and then the number that stopped everyone 300 billion dollars according to the new
04:28york times citing an iranian official the u.s would agree to setting up a 300 billion dollar reconstruction
04:36program for iran american companies including major oil and energy corporations could enter iran
04:43as part of the final deal u.s diplomats called it an international investment fund one the u.s would
04:51help
04:51facilitate if a final agreement is signed that's not just a peace deal that's a complete economic
04:59realignment of the middle east but here's the problem underneath all of this the talks happened mostly
05:07through mediators and tonight there are serious questions about whether the americans and the iranians
05:14were even working from the same version of the document the u.s describes a 60-day ceasefire extension
05:22iran describes a full declaration of the end of war on all fronts including lebanon those are not
05:30small differences those are fundamentally different agreements and no one is even sure who on the iranian
05:38side has the actual authority to say yes so tonight the most expensive and consequential peace deal in
05:47modern middle east history is sitting unsigned possibly misunderstood by both parties and dependent
05:54on a president who has not yet decided to pick up the pen almost there has never felt so far
06:02away
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