Scoop: U.S. and Iran reach deal but need Trump's final approval, officials say

[lostincalifornia]

Source: Axios

U.S. and Iranian negotiators have reached an agreement on a 60-day memorandum of understanding to extend the ceasefire and launch negotiations on Iran's nuclear program, but President Trump has yet to give it his final approval, two U.S. officials and a regional source involved in the mediation efforts tell Axios.

Why it matters: The signing of the MOU would be the most significant diplomatic breakthrough since the war started, but a final agreement that tackles Trump's nuclear demands would still require further intensive negotiations.

Behind the scenes: U.S. officials said the deal terms were mostly agreed as of Tuesday, but both sides still needed to get approval from senior leadership.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/2026/05/28/iran-peace-deal-trump-approval

[SamuelTheThird]

1. lol@ axios

They've been demonstrably spewing bullshit for months now regarding Iran, to prop up markets. They've become a joke

[SamuelTheThird]

9. Axios accused of market manipulation

https://www.salon.com/2026/05/09/axios-accused-of-market-manipulation-with-iran-reporting/

[mdbl]

19. polymarket playground.

[Ocelot II]

2. Where have we heard this before? An agreement to agree to negotiate?

Isn't that what's been happening every few days until Trump decides it's time to blow something up?

[Prairie Gates]

3. The deal is to continue negotiations - Bravo!

Axios is truly full of MAGA clown journalists.

This clown:

Barak Ravid
Barak Ravid is a political reporter and Middle East expert for Axios covering foreign policy and the 2024 election. He also writes for Walla News in Israel and is the author of "Trump's Peace."

Published in Hebrew in Israel in early December 2021, Trump’s Peace was the first book about Trump’s signature foreign policy achievements in the Middle East and quickly became a bestseller. It is based on a series of exclusive conversations between former US President Donald Trump and senior Israeli journalist Barak Ravid, as well as interviews with US secretaries of state, senior advisors and diplomats in capitals across the Middle East, and even secret service agents intimately involved in Israel’s covert diplomatic efforts.

President Trump’s policies and decisions fundamentally reshaped the geopolitical map of the Middle East. The Abraham Accords, brokered by his administration, brought about peace and normalization between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan. The only part of Trump’s legacy to receive bipartisan domestic praise and widespread global support, the accords could be considered the biggest diplomatic breakthrough of the century in the Middle East peace process.

Honestly, this is right wing propaganda and should not even appear in LBN.

[unblock]

4. Chamberlain once had something like a memorandum of understanding with Hitler....

[Pinback]

5. Line goes up! Sell! Sell! No, buy!

Or “invest” in crypto! Or something, I dunno…..

[UpInArms]

6. Market manipulation at its finest

What a crock of shit served up every day

[Miguelito Loveless]

7. Axios: Trump's reliable mouthpiece

And a must read for day traders.

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. I think "ceasefire" has now been redefined as "launching weapons slower than you are replenishing them"

Obviously, "the signing of the MOU would be the most significant diplomatic breakthrough since the war started" is false, since Axios has already pointed out this is an extension.

[William Seger]

10. "...most significant diplomatic breakthrough since the war started"

... is that we are ALMOST at the point of agreeing to try once again to reach an agreement, if #rump doesn't fuck it up again? Why would anyone call that a "breakthrough?"

[Prairie Gates]

12. This idiot wrote a book about how the Abraham Accords were the greatest diplomatic feat in US history

He's a Likudite-MAGA chud.

[nitpicked]

11. From The Independent

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iran-us-war-live-trump-strikes-strait-hormuz-oman-israel-b2984887.html

(snip)
Crucially, the report said, Donald Trump has not given his final approval on the MOU. Iran also has not commented publicly. US officials claimed they were prepared to sign.

US negotiators briefed have reportedly briefed Trump on the offer. The president was said to have relayed that he wanted a couple of days to think about it.
(snip)

[Aviation Pro]

13. All bullshit

Same shit, different day.

[no_hypocrisy]

14. More like waiting for Bibi's final approval

[modrepub]

15. Again?

[lostincalifornia]

21. One has to be a certain age to understand this. Great analogy

[Johnny2X2X]

16. Iran has to be laughing

Never in their wildest dreams did they think they'd get so much.

[LudwigPastorius]

17. Yeah, that's some "cease fire" you've got going there.

Iran says it targeted American base after fresh US strikes

[Johnny2X2X]

18. Prediction

The Strait will reopen, but under Iranian control with some tolls in lace long term. Trump will hand Iran $25B of unfrozen cash. The 60 day negotiating period will bear no fruit and no nuclear deal will be reached. Trump will order more strikes and then claim for the 3rd or 4th time that Iran's nuclear program has been completely destroyed for all time.

[ChicagoTeamster]

20. The report is based on comments from an unnamed U.S. official familiar with the matter.

Iran did not immediately confirm any deal. And the S&P 500 went up today when the potential agreement was announced.

Iran will never agree if Israel doesn't sign on to their demands for Lebanon and Israel won't agree to pull out of Lebanon and GAZA.

The US won't agree to have Russia or China take the enriched uranium.

Iran and China should reach out to Europe to pressure Israel and maybe China should supply Iran with components to make their missiles and drones more effective in their strikes against Israel and Iran should provide more missiles and anti-tank weapons to Hezbollah and supply Houthis willing to join the fight in southern Lebanon.. Iran hasn't even used sea drones against Israeli ports yet.

Iran won't give in to the US demands that they stop charging tolls on ships coming through the Hormuz and get rid of all of their missiles and drones which are Iran's only deterrence against Israeli aggression.

The situation is fu***d.