U.S. media claim that Iran has set out new conditions to solve the conflict with the U.S. But the new text it has published is just a repetition of clauses the U.S. had already signed on to. ...

These demands seem to have confused U.S. observers. The Wall Street Journal claimed that these were somehow more harsh than those which had been previously issued...

The WSJ author and his 'expert' are mistaken. There is nothing new in the Iranian demands. They are direct repetitions of clauses laid down in Memorandum of Understanding which the White House had negotiated and President Trump had publicly signed. ...

The only real difference between the MoU and the new conditions is the timing. The MoU set out to undertake the measures step by step along a defined timeline with each side responding to the others side's fulfillment of previous clauses.

It was the U.S. which did not stick to the MoU but immediately breached its promises. As soon as he had signed the MoU Trump was back at threatening Iran thus breaking its point 1 condition. The U.S. then arranged for a separate agreement which extended Israel's war and occupation of Lebanon instead of ending the war under the MoU's conditions. It ignored Iran's privilege under the MoU to "make arrangements using its best efforts for the safe passage of commercial vessels" through the Strait of Hormuz by making separate arrangements with Oman.

The U.S. has demonstrated that it can not be trusted....

That is why Iran is demanding the upfront fulfillment of any promise the U.S. has made. Only when those are fulfilled will Iran move to act on its own commitments.

Trump can easily solve the conflict around the Strait of Hormuz. He simply has to fulfill the commitments set out in the MoU he had already agreed to. He may not like that he will now have to do that upfront but that is just an obvious consequence of his own mistake of not sticking to it in the first place.

The only clause where Trump has real limits is the payment of reparations to Iran for the war damage the 20,000 or so U.S. strikes have caused. Trump would need Congressional agreement to pay out that money.

But the compromise here is obvious and simple. If the U.S. officially agrees that Iran can take tolls from ships crossing the Strait this could be seen as a payment in kind.

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War On Iran: "New" Iran Demands Just Repeat the Conditions Agreed to in the MoU Trump Signed