Inside Trump’s Mad Dash to Sign an Agreement with Iran
The historic U.S.-Iran agreement was signed spontaneously at a candlelit dinner using a marker, with Secretary of State Rubio searching for a printer to produce an official copy.
- President Donald Trump signed an agreement to end the war against Iran at the Palace of Versailles during a candlelit dinner, deciding 'quite spontaneously' to sign before the text was even printed.
- The deal was announced three days earlier on June 14, Trump's 80th birthday, while he celebrated at the White House watching MMA cage fights before the Versailles signing.
- Follow-On talks in Switzerland were abruptly called off Friday due to Israeli military action against Hezbollah in Lebanon, though Iran said there was 'no urgency' but planned to meet in coming days.
- The agreement is a memorandum of understanding with a 60-day period for further talks, as the United States lifts sanctions and largely restores the pre-war status quo with Iran.
- Trump faces political damage that could jeopardize Republican control of Congress in November, as critics accuse him of capitulation rather than 'finishing the job' ahead of midterm elections.
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The palace printer and Trump’s rush to sign: ‘Get this thing over with’
Trump stunned advisers by demanding to sign the deal at Versailles, days before a planned Swiss ceremony; Macron seized the moment, Rubio searched for a printer and a ceasefire began as Trump warned delay would make things worse
The only reason why the agreement to negotiate peace with Iran has been signed at the Palace of Versailles is Donald Trump’s fondness for the goldens and the recharged decoration and the infinite desire of Emmanuel Macron to please his guest. The 1919 treaty was achieved with a quite different method, but it has not passed into the history of diplomacy as a good agreement, just as the recent settlement between the United States and Iran will not…
INSIDER: Trump’s fair weather friends are seething over Iran deal
Views and opinions expressed are solely those of the author. Anyone who wasn’t willfully blind could see it coming a mile away. President Donald J. Trump’s signing of a deal that could end the Iran war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz has shown that all of his neocon friends are of the fair-weather variety who will soon be tripping over one another to stab him in the back. Despite raining down hell on the Islamic Republic in the early stages of t…
Trump unexpectedly ratified the document ending the war with Iran at the Palace of Versailles, after last-minute, sketchy procedures - In Tehran, Khamenei gave the green light, but the Israeli attack on Beirut nearly brought the matter to a head
Inside Trump’s mad dash to sign an agreement with Iran
President Donald Trump was about to sit down for dinner at Versailles on Wednesday when he surprised both his host, French President Emmanuel Macron, and some of his own aides with a demand: he wanted to sign his agreement with Iran then and there.
How to find a printer in Versailles? Since Donald Trump's announcement nearly a week ago, the U.S.-Iran Memorandum of Understanding has led to abrupt twists and confusion that persists or even thickens.
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