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Trump says MOU with Iran was a "test" and "didn’t mean much"

14 July 2026 01:20 (UTC +04:00)

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President Donald Trump on Monday cast his much-touted memorandum of understanding with Iran as a “test” that he would have preferred to skip, APA reports citing CNN.

“It’s a standard tactic in the US that you go to a memorandum of understanding and then you go to the deal. I said, ‘Just go to the deal first,’” Trump said during an appearance on “The Hugh Hewitt Show.”

He continued: “But you know what? It was sort of a test, and they weren’t there. They didn’t honor the test.”

Trump previously described the MOU as “an agreement with Iran that achieves everything we set out to accomplish … ending the current conflict, reopening the Strait of Hormuz, and preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.”

But on Monday, he said it “didn’t mean much.”

“Memorandum of understanding when you’re dealing with sleazebags don’t mean much, and they don’t mean much when you’re dealing with honorable people, too, because it’s a memorandum of understanding — it doesn’t mean much,” Trump told Hewitt.