The US and Iran have been working on laying out secret proposals for implementing the 14 points that were signed this week, including details on how to address the future of Iran’s nuclear program.

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Vice President JD Vance indicated that at least some of what administration officials have been calling “gentleman’s agreements” with Iran that go beyond the memorandum of understanding are written agreements.

US negotiators opted to move forward with releasing the signed MOU, without waiting for Iran’s senior leadership to sign off on the more detailed proposals on how to implement the 14 points.

The decision to keep the proposals secret is almost certainly aimed at avoiding domestic political embarrassment for either side in the service of allowing a deal to go forward.

Arms control expert Jeffrey Lewis noted that there is no national security reason to keep secret the kind of information that was public under the original nuclear deal President Barack Obama struck with Iran in 2015.

Original reporting: KEYT (Ventura/Santa Barbara) — read the source article.