Iran and the United States have agreed to an MoU towards a peace deal to be signed on Friday in Geneva. It is being sold as a breakthrough, but the fine print emerging from multiple reports based on sources tells a more complicated story.
Instead of a clean win for the US, it appears to sit on a tense balance between military pressure, sanctions relief and large-scale financial concessions. As the signing ceremony in Switzerland approaches, the central question is not just about uranium limits or regional de-escalation but also whether peace is being purchased with cash, frozen assets and credit lines that Trump once condemned under Barack Obama’s Iran policy. Trump has often said how "pallets of cash" were transferred to Iran as part of the deal. Also, will billions transferred in opaque ways work better than bombs?