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State media leaks a deal nobody confirms

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Mehr News, an Iranian state-affiliated outlet, published a 14-point version of the memorandum on 14 June listing $24 billion in frozen assets freed and $300 billion in reconstruction. No US or Iranian official confirmed it; Al Jazeera and Iran International could not verify it.

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Key takeaway

The only published version of the deal is an unconfirmed leak from Iran's own state media.

Mehr News Agency, an Iranian state-affiliated outlet aligned with the IRGC, published a 14-point version of the memorandum on 14 June. 1 The list describes a permanent ceasefire on all fronts including Lebanon, $24 billion in frozen Iranian assets freed during the 60-day window, suspended oil sanctions, a naval blockade lifted within 30 days, and $300 billion in reconstruction, while leaving Iran's missiles and proxies out of the draft entirely. No US or Iranian official has confirmed a word of it.

The $24bn figure is not new to the negotiation. Iran's negotiator Rezaei had demanded exactly that sum in freed assets as a precondition for any deal , so the leaked draft reads less as disclosure than as Tehran restating its opening price through friendly media. To scale the numbers, $24bn is roughly half of Iran's pre-war annual oil revenue, and $300bn approaches three-quarters of its entire annual economic output.

Al Jazeera and Iran International both said they could not independently verify the Mehr list. 2 The real text stays sealed until Geneva, which leaves a maximalist state-media draft as the only published account of what the deal contains. Set that draft beside the empty US record and the distance is the point: a 14-point wish list circulating in Tehran, against a Washington that has filed nothing.

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In plain English

Mehr News Agency is an Iranian news outlet closely linked to the state and to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. On 14 June, before the MOU was digitally signed, Mehr published what it claimed was the full 14-point list of what Iran had agreed to: $24 billion in frozen bank accounts freed, oil sanctions suspended, a naval blockade lifted within 30 days, and $300 billion for reconstruction. No US or Iranian official confirmed these terms. Two other news outlets, Al Jazeera and Iran International, said they could not independently verify the list. The signed MOU has not been publicly released. That gap, between what Mehr published and what the official signed document says, is the story: the deal's real terms will only become clear at the Geneva ceremony on 19 June or when a text is officially released.

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Update #129 · Iran deal signed, but no paper to show

Iran International· 16 Jun 2026
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