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On Tuesday night, Bloomberg published the text of the 14-point memorandum of understanding between the United States and Iran that effectively ends the conflict between those two countries, the full details of which the Trump administration had seemed so resistant to disclose. We can now see why. While not as disastrous as it might have been, it largely amounts to American concessions to many Iranian demands in exchange for hollow promises and hopes of future Iranian flexibility, none of which actually amounts to anything in the short term.
Mike Nelson is a retired Army Special Forces officer and a member of the Atlantic Council’s Counterterrorism Project. He is formerly of the Institute for the Study of War and the National Security Institute. You can find him on x.com at @mikenelson586.
