Just two days before the formal signing of the US-Iran memorandum of understanding in Switzerland President Donald Trump delivered a blunt warning to Tehran from the G7 summit in Evian.
U.S. President Donald Trump attends a bilateral meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains, France, June 17, 2026. Reuters.
Just two days before the formal signing of the US-Iran memorandum of understanding in Switzerland, President Donald Trump delivered a blunt warning to Tehran from the G7 summit in Evian.
"This is not a final agreement. It's a memorandum of understanding," Trump said on the sidelines of his meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. "And if I don't like it, if they don't behave well, we'll start dropping bombs right on their heads again."
"Because they've been misbehaving for 47 years," he added, referencing the Islamic Republic founded after the fall of the US-allied Shah in 1979.
Trump also moved to correct what he described as false reports about American investment in Iran under the deal. "We're not investing 10 cents" in Iran, he insisted — a pointed pushback against suggestions that the framework included a massive US-backed reconstruction plan for the Islamic Republic.
The MOU, set to be signed Friday in Switzerland, will open a 60-day negotiation period, with the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz as the first concrete milestone.
The message from Evian is characteristically Trumpian: the handshake is coming, but the fist is still visible.
A proposed deal between Iran and Oman would give Tehran control over ships entering the Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz, a senior Iranian source and two regional officials told Reuters on Wednesday, in one of the biggest concessions yet to Iran.
The U.S. Treasury said on Wednesday it had removed counter-terrorism sanctions from Iraq's Fly Baghdad Airlines and two aircraft that were imposed in 2024 over links to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force, citing changes in the airline's behavior.
Qatar said mediators were making progress in efforts to end the U.S.-Iran war on Tuesday, driving oil prices lower, although Tehran has denied President Donald Trump's assertion that talks are already under way.
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