Iran Denies Agreement Over Enriched Uranium, Claims ‘New Sovereignty’ Over Hormuz Strait as U.S. Moves to Finalize Deal
“There has been no agreement over Iran’s highly enriched uranium stockpile to be shipped out of the country,” Iranian official tells Reuters.
Contrary to media reports, Iran has denied claims that it will be handing over the weapons-grade uranium stockpile or relenting its stranglehold over the Strait of Hormuz as part of a deal being finalized with the United States.
Reuters reported Sunday morning that “Tehran has not agreed to hand over its highly enriched uranium stockpile,” quoting a “senior Iranian source.” Earlier, The New York Times wrote that Iran had “agreed to give up enriched uranium” as part of a deal.
“The nuclear issue will be addressed in negotiations for a final agreement and is therefore not part of the current deal. There has been no agreement over Iran’s highly enriched uranium stockpile to be shipped out of the country,” the Iranian official told Reuters.
The Iranian statement comes hours after President Donald Trump announced that a deal with Tehran had largely been negotiated. The initial agreement — yet to be signed — calls for opening the Strait of Hormuz and extending the ceasefire for two more months. Media reports suggest that Iran’s commitments are only verbal.
According to the Jerusalem Post, under a “Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) – labeled the ‘Islamabad Declaration,’ … both parties would sign would start a 60-day ceasefire extension, and would include the possibility of further talks and an extension during the two-month period.”
🚨 "An Agreement has been largely negotiated, subject to finalization between the United States of America, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the various other Countries, as listed…" – President Donald J. Trump pic.twitter.com/Z49bOkkUoh
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) May 23, 2026
According to Israeli news reports, President Trump told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that under the final agreement, Iran would have to abandon its nuclear program and hand over its vast stockpile of enriched uranium. Israel’s Ynetnews reported:
U.S. President Donald Trump gave Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu assurances that he would not sign a final agreement with Iran unless Tehran dismantles its nuclear program and removes all enriched uranium from its territory, a senior Israeli official said on Sunday.
The official said the United States is updating Israel on negotiations toward a memorandum of understanding to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and enter talks on a final agreement over unresolved issues. (…)
According to the official, Netanyahu told Trump in a call Saturday night that Israel would preserve freedom of action against threats on all fronts, including Lebanon. Trump again backed that principle, the official said.
I spoke last night with President @realDonaldTrump about the memorandum of understanding to reopen the Straits of Hormuz and the upcoming negotiations toward a final agreement on Iran’s nuclear program.
I expressed my deep appreciation to President Trump for his unwavering…
— Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) May 24, 2026
Iran claims “new sovereignty” over Strait of Hormuz
Iran also plans to keep its stranglehold over the Strait of Hormuz, news reports suggest.
The Iranian regime media is reporting that Tehran, while agreeing to allow the transit of ships to pre-war levels, would begin exerting the “new sovereignty” on the world’s key energy supply route.
Iran claims that under the proposed Memorandum of Understanding, the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz does not mean a return to its pre-war status, but a return to pre-war numbers of transiting ships, which will be under "Iran's new sovereignty" over the Strait, the… https://t.co/76KtuOTWo7
— Ariel Oseran أريئل أوسيران (@ariel_oseran) May 24, 2026
According to Axios, the U.S. was willing to lift oil sanctions for the duration of the extended ceasefire if Iran opens the waterway. “During the 60-day period, the Strait of Hormuz would be open with no tolls and Iran would agree to clear the mines it deployed in the strait to let ships pass freely,” the news website reported. “In exchange, the U.S. would lift its blockade on Iranian ports and issue some sanctions waivers to allow Iran to sell oil freely.”
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The words ‘Iran’ and ‘deal’ don’t make me comfortable. Who really knows.
“Unconditional surrender” doesn’t seem to mean what I thought it meant.
Make Bombing-The-S___ Out of Iran Great Again.
There is no negotiating with fanatics.
Any “deal” is actually an effort by the fanatics to buy time.
That right there, nothing else will work.
The headline is. “Iran denies agreement.” Trunp says there is an agreement and adds another 60 days for Iran to rearm. Nothing about a change to the status of the Straight of Hormuz. So it remains blocked for another 60 days. Trump blew it. He lost the midterms, he lost possible support of European nations. He lost South Asian Nations and just made Iran the most powerful nation in the middle east. The straight remains closed and western economies suffer because Trump blinked when he should have bombed.
Iran is clearly interested in putting Trump in a position where he hast to consider ground troops if he wants to get unconditional surrender. The Iranians apparently do not care how many of their own people die. This is not surprising, considering their religion.
They also know the power of midterm elections. Couple that with Democrat hope of failure of this campaign by Trump, total opposition by the msm, and they have far greater power than weapons! Our nation is overrun with Muslim sympathizers and anti-Semites who have a greater voice than power but they get all the attention from their ally, the msm!
The best confirmation that Trump is on the right track is that the IRRG, Democrats, GOPe, and Neocons all oppose his plan. A good sign that in the end there will be a positive outcome.
There is an alternative to ground troops, and it is measured in kilotons and megatons. They want to be able to attack us with nuclear weapons, forgetting that we have them too. That is reality, that the end state may not be to their benefit.
Subotai Bahadur
There is another alternative: Arab gulf states supplying infantry while the US-Israel guarantee air support and cover.
We all know they loathe and fear Iran, and (supposedly) (quietly) claim to back Israel in armed disputes, but won’t lift a finger because these same authoritarians fear a standing army will overthrow their own dictatorship.
Iran will NEVER give up, because the Islamic death cult is too stupid and uncaring of its citizens to give a damn.
Time to declare the Strait of Hormuz an international seaway.
The strait is already considered an international waterway and everyone has right of transit. Iran claims that because the US did not sign the treaty we do not have right of transit but other than that no one argues about it. So not sure how they can get their air force, navy, large parts of their land forces, most of their missile defenses, and docks, totally destroyed and think they should win the right to control an international waterway but that is what they are doing.
The headline is. “Iran denies agreement.” Trunp says there is an agreement and adds another 60 days for Iran to rearm. Nothing about a change to the status of the Straight of Hormuz. So it remains blocked for another 60 days. Trump blew it. He lost the midterms, he lost possible support of European nations. He lost South Asian Nations and just made Iran the most powerful nation in the middle east. The straight remains closed and western economies suffer because Trump blinked when he should have bombed.
I think that this is the point and the problem. Much like Japanese in WWII the Mullahs are not “rational” in the Western sense. For the Japanese honor and loyalty were so central to their culture that it was important to die fighting than to surrender. A death fighting loyally a lost cause was completely acceptable to their leaders.
For the Muslims (of the radicalized variety anyhow) we see a similar “die for my cause” mentality albeit in this case with a terrorist twist. The Japanese wanted to die face-to-face. Here the idea is to cause maximum damage to those to oppose you – even if it is strategically stupid. So, attacks on Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Suicide boats against battleships. The important thing is to go out in a blaze of blood.
Thus – as stated above- the IRGC wants American ground troops so they (the IRGC) can all have glorious deaths, if not in battle, at least in sneaky post-defeat suicide bombings. We can bomb the country into little pipes of dust that will take 100 years to rebuild into a mud hut and they will not surrender. They want a banzai charge death for the regime.
Trump is frustrating this.
It is, but IRGCitans think that Satan and his pedo “prophet” will give them anything they laughingly “demand”.
IMO what’s happening is the Iranian regime is exploiting (very effectively) the very reason prior US Presidents have been so reluctant to go after them; oil/fuel prices, potential unrest of immigrant population (more so in Europe) along with tie ins to lefty/woke usual suspects (more so in the USA) and domestic ‘gotcha politics’. There are other factors but those are the main reasons. Further rely may temporarily lower oil/fuel prices but only if the Iranian regime doesn’t backtrack. Leaving the power to spike oil/fuel prices in the hands of the Iranian regime is …suboptimal. Delay of military action by 60 days pushes the resumption of action far closer to midterm elections and with early ballots in some States in Sept that sustained military action might be ongoing. Unless of course the Admin worry over the impact of military action causing upheaval politically in the midterm causes even further delay…or even abandonment of the initial goals altogether. Then there’s the very public demand of ‘unconditional surrender’ which Trump himself invoked and, in the eyes of many, reset the stated objective.
I and many others were fully supportive of the Trump Admin delivering a much needed, well earned butt kicking to the Iranian regime to ‘once and for all’ and their regime and the export of terrorism, shenanigans in the Strait of Hormuz and pull the teeth of their nuclear ambitions.
We don’t seem to be achieving that end state. That’s gonna be a political problem b/c our support for use of force was contingent upon steadfast effort and progress to achieve those objectives. It was not about support for ‘Trump’ as the reverse of TDS. It appears that the Admin has become gun shy. Understandable but the negative effects of sustained military effort to impose our preferred outcome were baked into the cake from jump. To quote Margaret Thatcher ‘this is no time to go wobbly’.
In the past successive Presidents didn’t help themselves by not prioritising drilling in the US. This is no longer the case with the US now being self sufficient and able to sell oil and gas to its “friends” and also now has access and control of Venezuelan oil.
While prices have gone up, they are still significantly lower than during Obama’s third term and suspect the price rise has more to do with selling oil to “friends” than it does to going up because your enemies control access to oil for your home market.
Yup. National average of $5.16 at one point during that ‘third term.’
Kinda. Certainly true the Trump 2.0 Admin as with the first term, is pushing US energy independence. Long overdue return to common sense IMO. That said, the issue extends globally to Nations who have taken the opposite tack (EU,.NZ and AUS) and to those like Japan or India who lack significant domestic oil to drill. Add China on top and we have basically the rest of the G20 suffering limited supply.
Add to that the impact of sanctions on Russia and the lack of easy access to cheap Nat Gas. As an example the German economy, particularly manufacturing is getting killed off for lack of reasonably priced fuel/electricity. Sure they brought much of it on themselves with green energy fantasies but that doesn’t lessen the internal unrest/dissatisfaction (see rise of AfD) not their diplomatic pressure on the USA.
True to greater/lesser extent across the 1st world Nations and dollars to donuts their gov’ts are in the ear of the Trump Admin. The point is greater US domestic energy independence doesn’t lessen the diplomatic pressure from other Nations nor the economic damage in those Nations. It does mitigate the pain at the pump from what it might have been without ‘drill baby drill’ …but as we.see Trump is reluctant to expand the damage to Iranian oil/gas infrastructure and seeking a 60 day extension of the current ‘cease fire’ is a transparent effort to get oil/fuel prices lower through the summer driving season in the USA.
My main concern is some sort of exit without achieving the goals. That would IMO be a betrayal of the support we provided the Admin. We need a more Jacksonian approach to use of military force: reluctant to use it but once we mobilize and get the forces in place TO act to compel the outcome we want then we either get submission from our opponent OR we USE force to compel and impose our preferred outcome. No half measures, no give diplomacy another chance, no wait and see. Zero hour is the cut off and our opponent should be given every opportunity to comply before it but once zero hour arrives ….that’s it. The talking is done and the only thing we want to hear from the opponent is to communicate their surrender.
This makes the Admin look like another line in the sand that the wind blew away. This “cease fire” is reminding me of “The Phoney War” after Germany invaded Poland. All of this speaks of delay and projects weakness. Something had better be going on in the background…. arming and readying a civil war within Iran to depose the IRGC. Deception and deceit are the hallmarks of Islamic warfare…. never ever fair brokers. Will this be Trump’s Chamberlain moment? I hope not.
TBH I think Trump got maneuvered into an initial ‘cease fire’ several weeks ago. Iran used the time to delay and drag things out. They are IMO doing the same here with another 60 day extension. The Iranian regime knows dang well when US Citizens use the most fuel and that we are kicking off the summer driving season. Trump is hemmed in with needing to act several weeks ago OR wait until after summer driving season ….but that delay leads to bumping up on midterm voting…. and the Iranian regime knows that as well.
I don’t fault Trump for not wanting to destroy the oil infrastructure and the dams, bridges, power grid, water treatment plans, irrigation systems in Iran. Any successor govt would be left holding the bag of a shattered National infrastructure. Makes establishing a less radical govt harder as folks will blame the USA for making their daily lives difficult and tough to argue with that.
My problem is ….all this was baked into the cake from day one. There’s not any new, previously unknown factors today that weren’t known on day one. If we weren’t prepared to pull the trigger then we shouldn’t have deployed. For me it really is that simple. Either our National interests demand use of significant force to achieve our objective or they don’t. If so then get it done, if not then go home.
“Either our National interests demand use of significant force to achieve our objective or they don’t. If so then get it done, if not then go home.”
” Either our National interests demand use of significant force to achieve our objective or they don’t. If so then get it done, if not then go home.”
Exactly. The time gas come for clarity in view of Iran’s denying what President Trump is saying they agreed to. We need some clarity from both sides — either Iran confirming promises President Trump says they made, or Trump admitting the negotiations have failed and going to whatever his “Plan B:” is. We cannot be expected to accept the situation as it is, with one side claiming “’tis” and the counterparty insisting it is “‘taint”.
In fairness to Trump, the next steps are very punitive and will destroy most Iranian infrastructure of all types, impose substantial hardship within Iran for ordinary Iranians, inflict substantial casualties (especially when we include second and third order impacts) potentially alienating the Iranian people and risking the support of our Mid East partner Nations.
That’s on top of the economic issues created by uncertainty of maritime traffic through the Strait, interruption in flow of oil to international markets and the impact of even less fertilizer available for agriculture with Iranian production/delivery interrupted added to Russian fertilizer interruption.
However, all that was known beforehand… which is why past Presidents were gun shy about a direct and prolonged military campaign to compel Iranian compliance. IMO we’ve already gotten stuck in this tar baby so we may as well see it through. I’d prefer sooner than later but Trump is the man who has the ultimate responsibility and gotta live with the loss of life so I can definitely understand why he wants to give more time to talk and avoid it but IMO the Iranian regime isn’t gonna act in good faith and the sooner we demonstrate we will inflict severe punishment for their antics the sooner they will stop playing games and begin good faith negotiations. If it means their govt is down to the deputy assistant undersecretary for water distribution and the SR military officer is an unknown Major then that’s on them not us.
Axios reports. Yeah, that’s credible. I think I’ll wait for a real news report to opine.
All these stories about negotiations with the Iranian regime make it seem like the Iranians are playing rope-a-dope with President Trump. Trump’s clearly not a dope, I hope there’s another one of his “4D chess” strategies in here.
He’s caught between a house/senate that want to kneecap him because he endorsed Paxton (good reason to stop a war? Save a RINO or lose your war support) … depleted munitions … and the Iranian Death Cult, who make rug merchants look like ordering from McDonalds
They will never make a deal and always renege on it. Trump must know that anything we do is just temporary while we reload.
I wish we could just say “blast off and nuke them from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.”
Sure, that President Trump agreed that Iran is the toll gate keeper of the Dog Leg of Hormuz and allowed to make Nukes. Of course without much navy, but each ship tosses a few million coins each trip through into the basket.
Iran welcomes the so-called deal and the prolonged economic and social suffering of its people to date. They believe they are “winning” because first they must suffer before true victory is theirs, Inconceivable that they will honor any “deal,” indeed they have already stated as much. Get on with it, Mr. President, never trust a terrorist regime. Do what needs to be done and don’t look back.
Destroy their electrical grid. No more negotiations. Forget “The Art Of The Deal”. Without electricity they can’t survive or make weapons. This is real life you’re dealing with now. Moslems are commanded to deceive infidels. Gets hot there in the summer. No electricity no a/c not even a fan. Bomb them back to 640ad.
Again ther is no “deal’ you can make w/ these people. I undertand that gas prices are way too high but lifting sanctions just continues the conflict and their continued support of global terrorism. We should have backed the Kurds in a groud offensive against the regime. Now it’s too late.
Perhaps this approach will force the different factions within Iran to reveal themselves, and when the IRGC faction refuses to cooperate, the ‘deal’ can be used as a wedge to drive between them.
There is no deal in the world that will work in Iran, unless it’s one that grants them what they want. The sooner the “make a deal” nonsense ends, and necessary military operations take place, the sooner this conflict ends. The quotidian deal making “news” is tiresome, thank you.
Waste of time. Need to cripple them further then shut the corrupt regime up for good.
Dear anonymous “Iranian official”:
FAFO. Any questions?
Signed: He Who Is Orange and Bad (PBUH)
More and more Trump supporters that I know are starting to get various levels of concerned to pissed off that he appears to be getting played by whoever he is negotiating with.. One has to assume that this administration knows full well whom they are dealing with and has a plan to achieve their objectives. However, appearances, in the absence of concrete evidence to the contrary, are indistinguishable from reality.
So… we’re surrendering to Iran?
This is all BS as I’ve been saying since the initial cease fire. Iran gives up nothing and gets breathing space and cash to rearm, reposition, and solidify its government. Israel will probably be forced out of Lebanon which gives Hezbollah (and Iran) what it needs. The US gets nothing out of this. Yes maybe oil prices drop. So what. The Iranian problem will remain.
Nothing will be agreed to during the extension. The democrats and some republicans will act to retard Trump’s further use of force, Everything will reset for a time and then resume.
I suppose I should be satisfied that the US acted at all and did setback Iranian ambitions for maybe 5 years. I’m not.
So, is this believable
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2026/05/24/iran-agreed-to-surrender-enriched-uranium-end-nuclear-ambitions-in-tentative-deal-with-trump-reports/
From the article:
“U.S. negotiators believe that Iran has committed to giving up its nuclear ambitions”
and
“According to a report from the New York Times, citing “two U.S. officials”, the Islamist regime in Iran verbally agreed to U.S. negotiators that it would give up its stockpile of highly enriched uranium.”
Key word being “believe” and “verbally”.
Iran has terrible record of adherence to what they promised. They signed the Nuclear nonproliferation treaty in the first place but pursued nuclear weapons while saying they weren’t pursuing them.
I would say no – article title is not believable. Devil is in the details and in Iran’s history.
And we keep tolerating their delays because?
This is their game, delay until we get tired and blink.
No signatures until the uranium is out. They cannot keep ownership of that. They are smart enough to start all over again and all the effort and the work and the success is to date will be for naught. We get the uranium or no deal.
Of course. Obviously. Who couldn’t have seen this coming?
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