President Donald Trump announced he will submit a preliminary peace framework with Iran to Congress for review, a move that has left lawmakers on both sides of the aisle scrambling for answers about a deal most of them haven’t actually seen.
The agreement, signed digitally on June 15, 2026, is reportedly a roughly one-and-a-half-page memorandum of understanding.
What’s actually in the deal
The framework covers three major components: reopening the Strait of Hormuz, lifting existing blockades, and establishing nuclear restrictions with related benchmarks. A formal signing ceremony is scheduled for June 19, 2026, in Geneva.
The agreement invokes the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act, the same legislative mechanism used for the 2015 JCPOA under the Obama administration. Congress gets a formal review period to scrutinize the deal before it takes full effect, just like it did with the original Iran nuclear agreement.
