US President Donald Trump has intervened directly in the final stages of backchannel diplomatic talks with the Islamic Republic of Iran, hardening Washington’s conditions for a pending peace memorandum and sending an updated draft directly to Tehran, The New York Times and Axios reported. Situation room revisions According to senior administration officials and sources familiar with the matter, President Trump convened a high-level review inside the White House Situation Room. During the session, Trump presented several specific proposals to amend the text of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that his own negotiators had spent weeks hammering out with Iranian representatives.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. While the precise clauses altered in the new draft have not been publicly disclosed, insiders noted that the President had previously expressed deep dissatisfaction with the initial version’s framework. The original draft dictated that the US would initiate discussions on a phased relaxation of the trade embargo and unlock a portion of frozen Iranian financial assets in exchange for compliance. Despite Vice President JD Vance recently stating that Washington and Tehran were incredibly close to an agreement, Trump’s last-minute demands have effectively restarted the clock, launching a fresh round of high-stakes negotiations that officials predict could take several days to resolve. Sources emphasized that Trump remains genuinely interested in securing the deal and hopes to sign it shortly, but refuses to concede strategic leverage on core economic and security points.