President Donald Trump says he’ll share the full text of the framework agreement between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran “sometime after Friday,” after a signing ceremony in Switzerland. We already have leaked versions of the memorandum of understanding between the two countries. If they’re even close to being real, it’s clear why the administration wants to sign it before sharing it. But the reason we can’t see it yet is also a scandal.
“I don’t, frankly, fully understand it, but there are sensitivities that exist in the Arab and Muslim world that we’re trying to be responsive to,” a coy JD Vance told podcaster Megyn Kelly. But the vice president, who helped negotiate the framework, added that the “Iranians, Pakistanis and Qataris asked us to sequence this in the right way.”
It’s disgraceful that the administration is taking direction from the radical Twelver clerics of Iran and the Pakistani military dictatorship on the “right way” to share a “peace agreement” with the people.
When it comes to Europeans, Vance always gets a thrill out of playing the tough guy, lecturing them on free speech and their cultural decline. No worries about the “sensitives” of the Germans or French, I guess. Bravo. In every way imaginable, however, Western Europeans are still freer and more moral than the Islamic Republics of Iran and Pakistan. Yet, Vance doesn’t want to tweak the delicate feelings of Iranian supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei.
