Iran’s regime spins nuclear and Strait of Hormuz deal with Trump as victory over US, Israel

The Islamic Republic of Iran’s state-controlled media is promoting the memorandum of knowing with the U.S. to re-open the Strait of Hormuz and code Tehran’s illicit atomic weapons programme arsenic its triumph implicit the U.S. and Israel.

The large diplomatic breakthrough, known arsenic by its initials MOU, is slated to beryllium sealed astatine a signing ceremonial connected June 19 successful Switzerland. Iranian state-controlled TV boasted that the "U.S. is forced to motion statement to extremity the war."

The State Department has classified Iran arsenic the world’s worst state-sponsor of coercion and its state-controlled media apparatus is notorious, according to Iran experts, for spreading anti-U.S. propoganda.

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A pistillate walks past a billboard showing a subject manus holding the Strait of Hormuz with Farsi substance which reads, "In Iran's hands forever," "Trump couldn't bash a damn thing," "The power of Strait of Hormuz volition beryllium Iran's forever," successful Vanak Square, successful bluish Tehran, Iran, connected April 16, 2026. (Vahid Salemi/AP)

Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said, according to the country's Tasnim News Agency, "This memorandum does not mean trusting the enemy; it has been written with progressive distrust. We volition show the implementation of U.S. commitments." 

Iran’s Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported that the nation’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, "emphasized that nationalist cohesion and the progressive beingness of the radical service arsenic important superior and a superior pillar of Iran’s diplomatic authority."

Araghchi said, according to IRNA," that the existent representation of Iran’s powerfulness connected the planetary signifier stems not lone from its subject capabilities but besides from nationalist cohesion, resilience, and the progressive engagement of its people."

Members of information forces ticker implicit the assemblage during a ceremonial procession held for IRGC Navy Chief Alireza Tangsiri, alongside different elder naval commanders and their families who were killed successful US-Israeli strikes successful precocious March, connected April 1, 2026 successful Tehran, Iran. Majid Saeedi/Getty Images (Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)

Tehran's apical diplomat stated that the,"Iranian federation achieved not lone tactical victories during the 12-day imposed warfare successful June past twelvemonth and the caller war, but besides important strategical accomplishments whose interaction tin beryllium observed successful some determination and planetary equations."

President Trump announced immoderate of the elements of the MOU connected Sunday. He wrote connected societal media. "The Deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran is present complete." He noted that "I hereby afloat authorize the toll escaped opening of the Strait of Hormuz, and, simultaneously herewith, authorize the contiguous removal of the United States Naval blockade. Ships of the World, commencement your engines. Let the lipid flow!"

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There are further components of the MOU that person not been confirmed, including the timetable for sanctions alleviation and the extremity of Iran’s enrichment of uranium for the operation of atomic weapons.

Iran’s Supreme National Security Council said successful a Sunday connection that each subject operations crossed aggregate fronts, including those successful Lebanon, volition cease "immediately and permanently" starting Sunday night.

A pistillate is seen holding an Iranian emblem during a spiritual ceremonial during Eid al-Adha connected May 26, 2026 successful Qom, Iran. (Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)

Lisa Daftari, the laminitis and editor-in-chief of The Foreign Desk told Fox News Digital that, "Inside Iran, authorities media is selling this arsenic a victory, not a compromise. The connection connected Iranian tv is that a ‘strong and proud’ Islamic Republic has forced Washington to admit its power implicit the Strait of Hormuz and to easiness subject pressure, portion Tehran supposedly gives up precise small successful return."

Daftari, a starring adept connected the Islamic Republic, added "The Islamic Republic’s precise DNA is built connected delay, deceit and deniability. Every statement it has signed has been treated arsenic a tactical intermission connected the mode to much missiles, much proxies and much leverage, not a existent alteration successful behavior. So portion it’s important to work the good people of this caller deal, it’s adjacent much important to retrieve who is signing it. A strategy that survives by holding deadly weapons implicit its neighbors and by lying to its ain radical is not abruptly going to go a trustworthy partner."

She concluded, "The Trump medication should presume from time 1 that Tehran volition trial each loophole, fell each capableness it can, and resume its atomic program, amass its drones and missiles, money its deadly proxies portion continuing to torture the Iranian radical astatine home."

A billboard showing a representation of the precocious Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei looms implicit an bare quadrate successful Tehran, Iran, connected March 5, 2026. (Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)

Vice President JD Vance told Fox News' "The Big Weekend Show" Sunday that "I deliberation it's a large infinitesimal for the United States of America. Thanks, of course, to the President's enactment and the hard enactment of the full team. Three things that I deliberation are important for the American radical conscionable to admit astir what this woody does for each of america arsenic Americans."

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He stressed that" Number one, this is the contiguous opening of the straits of Hormuz and, of course, the lifting of the naval blockade that we've had connected Iran on with it. The fig 2 happening that it means is that Iran volition ne'er person a atomic limb and not conscionable prosecute a atomic limb for procure oregon effort to bargain a atomic limb arsenic well."

Cameron Khansarinia, the main of unit for Reza Pahlavi, the person of the Iranian antiauthoritarian absorption and exiled erstwhile crown prince of Iran, wrote connected x: "Deal oregon nary deal, the radical of Iran volition not halt the combat for freedom. Iran’s aboriginal has ever been for Iranians for determine. And they will. With oregon without help, Iranians volition topple the Islamic Republic. The combat continues. Prince Reza Pahlavi volition pb Iran to freedom." 

An Iranian emblem is placed amid rubble adjacent to a destroyed residential gathering adjacent Ferdowsi Square successful Tehran connected March 3, 2026. (ATTA KENARE / AFP via Getty Images)

Another starring Iranian absorption group's leader, Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), said successful a connection that, "The Iranian Resistance, which for astir 5 decades has sought state and peace, welcomes immoderate knowing to extremity the warfare and the suffering of the Iranian people. In Iran, nary 1 but the remnants of the mullahs and the Shah has wanted oregon wants war."

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She added that "The effort to nutrient atomic weapons, warmongering, and meddling successful the countries of the portion are portion of the endurance strategy of the spiritual fascism ruling Iran, and it volition not wantonness them arsenic agelong arsenic it can. War is this regime’s shield against fashionable uprisings, portion bid and a ceasefire are, arsenic Khomeini enactment it, similar "poison" for it. The overthrow of the authorities is the work of the Iranian radical and their organized Resistance. I reiterate erstwhile again that immoderate planetary statement to extremity the warfare indispensable see an extremity to the execution of governmental prisoners and the sidesplitting of protesters."