While US President Donald Trump announced an agreement with Iran, the text has not been released yet, leading to tensions domestically and internationally.
Israel’s request to see the text was rejected by the US, an Israeli source told CNN.
In addition, Vance in an interview to CBS on Monday seemed to tacitly confirm the premise that Iran could be given “access” to a reconstruction fund worth as much as $300 billion.
Some more background: Trump’s national security team met nearly every day to discuss an evolving agreement to end the Iran war, with many concerned that Tehran would not hold up its end of the bargain, administration officials directly involved in the negotiations said.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth were among the “most pessimistic” about whether the Iranians would honor their commitments to make substantive concessions on their nuclear program, even if they agreed to negotiate on that issue, an official said. Nearly ever senior official, including Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, raised serious reservations, officials said. They ultimately reached Trump-driven consensus: “We want to get this thing over with,” an administration official directly involved in the talks told CNN.
US officials are also downplaying the significance of the specific language in the document. They described the text of the agreement as incredibly vague, mainly intended to create a more favorable environment for the highly technical, in-person talks to come. It is also aimed at providing Iran the ability to sell it politically to their internal audience, they added. The agreement doesn’t reflect critical back-channel commitments Iran has made to the US, which they argued gave them more confidence in signing on to the arrangement.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer demanded today that the Trump administration brief top congressional leaders, known as the Gang of Eight, on the agreement and provide briefings for the rest of Congress as well.
CNN’s Christopher Lamb, Morgan Rimmer, Max Saltman, Morgan Leason, Tal Shalev and Alejandra Jaramillo contributed to this report.