Iran making amendments to latest MOU draft after Trump toughens stance on deal

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3 min readUpdated: Jun 1, 2026 12:45 PM IST

Iran is reworking the draft Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to end the war with the United States after receiving Washington’s latest response, Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency reported, citing an anonymous source.

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Tasnim said that both nations were continuing discussions over the latest proposal by the US and were regularly proposing amendments.

Exchanges on the text “are ongoing, with both parties regularly proposing amendments,” the news agency said.

Trump seeks further changes to US-Iran proposal

US President Donald Trump, according to CBS News reports, asked for more changes to a proposed deal with Iran aimed at ending the fighting that began in late February.

The amendments are related to the Strait of Hormuz and the removal of highly enriched uranium, reported CBS.

On Friday, the US president ended a meeting in the White House Situation Room without announcing his “final determination” on the Iran deal.

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Earlier, POTUS said that he would be making his final decision on the deal during that meeting and listed things that Iran must do for him to approve the proposal.

“The Hormuz Strait must be immediately open, no tolls, for unrestricted shipping traffic, in both directions,” Trump said.

He also stated that the enriched material buried deep inside the Iranian nuclear facilities attacked by the United States will be “unearthed” by Washington, “in close coordination and conjunction with the Islamic Republic of Iran, plus the International Atomic Energy Agency, and DESTROYED.”

“No money will be exchanged, until further notice,” Trump added. “Other items, of far less importance, have been agreed to.”

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“I will be meeting now, in the Situation Room, to make a final determination,” he said.

Meanwhile, Iran’s chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, on Sunday (May 31), said that Tehran would not agree to any deal if the rights of Iranians were fully secured.

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said, “Until a clear conclusion is reached, everything that is being said now is speculation.”

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