Washington rejected an Israeli request to view the memorandum before the signing ceremony, expected to be held in Switzerland later this week.
By United with Israel Staff
New details are emerging about the U.S.-Iran agreement expected to be signed later this week, as a Saudi news outlet published what it claims are the memorandum’s key provisions shortly after reports that Israel was denied access to the document.
The Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday that Washington rejected an Israeli request to view the memorandum before the signing ceremony, expected to be held in Switzerland later this week.
Now, Saudi-owned Al Arabiya has published what it says are the agreement’s principal provisions, including commitments on Lebanon, sanctions relief, U.S. military deployments, and Iran’s nuclear program.
According to the report, the memorandum calls for the immediate and permanent end of military operations across all fronts, including Lebanon, a provision likely to draw particular scrutiny in Israel amid ongoing fighting with Hezbollah and recent debates over the future of Israeli security zones in southern Lebanon.
The reported framework also includes a U.S. commitment to immediately lift its naval blockade of Iran and refrain from interfering with Iranian shipping, while Iran would reopen the Strait of Hormuz within one month.
According to the report, the United States would withdraw all military forces from the region within one month of a final agreement taking effect.
The agreement would also reportedly provide sweeping economic relief to Tehran. According to Al Arabiya, the United States would approve Iranian crude oil exports, facilitate related banking, insurance, and transportation services, and release frozen Iranian assets.
Those provisions appear consistent with a Tuesday report in The Wall Street Journal, which said the agreement would allow Iran to immediately resume selling oil and fuel upon signing.
According to people familiar with the deal, sanctions waivers would take effect immediately and would cover banking, transportation, and insurance services needed to facilitate those sales, providing Tehran with an early economic incentive to maintain the agreement.
Al Arabiya further reported that the United States and its regional partners would commit to developing a reconstruction plan for Iran worth at least $300 billion.
On the nuclear issue, the memorandum reportedly states that Iran commits never to produce a nuclear weapon, while the question of enriched uranium would be deferred to future negotiations. Until a final agreement is reached, Iran’s existing nuclear program would reportedly remain unchanged.
The reported provisions appear consistent with comments made by President Donald Trump, who recently acknowledged that Iran would retain some enrichment capability under the agreement while insisting that any enrichment would remain limited to civilian purposes.
Neither Washington nor Tehran has officially released the full text of the memorandum, and the authenticity of the document published by Al Arabiya has not been independently verified.
Still, if the reported provisions accurately reflect the agreement expected to be signed later this week, they would represent one of the most far-reaching diplomatic understandings between the United States and Iran in decades, with potentially profound implications for Israel, Lebanon, the Gulf states, and the broader Middle East.
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