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. This comes after 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.

Details of the Proposals

According to three US officials familiar with the negotiations, a regional official, and one former US official, the proposals include details on what US negotiators are pursuing as the way forward for talks on Iran’s nuclear program, among other issues. A 60-day period of technical talks is slated to begin, and the primary function of the MOU may simply be the cessation of hostilities in Iran, rather than fulfilling any grander ambitions of setting the conditions for a nuclear deal.

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. Much of the relevant technical information that any potential deal might contemplate was already made public under the original nuclear deal President Barack Obama struck with Iran in 2015.

Challenges Ahead

Both sides have drawn such firm public red lines around dealing with the other that any meaningful compromise may now be out of reach — or, as one expert suggested, too politically damaging domestically to make public. The US and Iran have been working to find a way forward, but the path to a deal is fragile and uncertain.

Original reporting: KRDO (Colorado Springs metro) — read the source article.