Barely 24 hours after the peace agreement between the United States and Iran was announced, one of the great unknowns about the content of the pact has already caused the first tensions.
US President Donald Trump denied this Monday that Washington has agreed to pay $300 million to Tehran as part of negotiations that must end more than three months of war in the Middle East.
“Fake news,” summarized the president in a message published on his social network, Truth Social, where he rejected the information spread by various Iranian media that pointed to economic compensation included in the agreement.
The controversy arises precisely when the world waits to know the specific details of the memorandum of understanding that the United States and Iran plan to officially sign next Friday in Switzerland.
So far, both Washington and Tehran have confirmed the existence of an agreement to end hostilities and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, but neither government has made the full text public.
The big question: what has each party given up?
Since the announcement of the pact, analysts and international observers have tried to decipher what concessions both countries have made to reach an understanding after more than one hundred days of conflict.
The talks have revolved for weeks around several particularly sensitive issues: the Iranian nuclear program, the lifting of economic sanctions, Tehran’s access to frozen assets abroad and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, a sea route through which approximately a fifth of the world’s oil transited before the war.
The possibility that the United States had agreed to transfer funds directly to the Iranian regime quickly became one of the most controversial issues in the negotiating process.
Trump has now wanted to settle that issue by denying any payment of $300 million.
However, the president has not clarified whether the agreement contemplates any other mechanism related to the unblocking of Iranian assets held abroad or an eventual relief from economic sanctions.
Countdown to know the text
The US Administration has announced that the full content of the agreement will be made public in the next 24 or 48 hours.
According to a senior official cited by various American media, technical negotiations to implement the memorandum will begin at the end of this week, while the official signing ceremony is still scheduled for Friday in Swiss territory.
The announcement comes after weeks of contradictory messages, exchanged drafts and exchanged statements between Washington and Tehran.
The war, which began on February 28, caused one of the largest international crises in recent years and had direct consequences on world energy markets after the closure of the Strait of Hormuz by Iran.
The reopening of this maritime corridor constitutes one of the fundamental pillars of the agreement reached.
Meanwhile, international attention is now focused on knowing the specific details of a document that could redefine the balance of power in the Middle East and which, for the moment, remains surrounded by important unknowns.
One of them, at least according to Trump, already has an answer: the 300 million dollars that some Iranian media were talking about are not part of the deal.
