Trump calls Iran 'dishonourable' over leaked 14‑point peace draft while Pakistan insists a final text exists

US President Donald Trump and Iranian authorities traded accusations over a leaked 14‑point draft of a ceasefire and framework agreement, turning a week of military brinkmanship into a fog of contradictory claims. On Friday, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif declared that a final, agreed text had been reached, while Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghtschi said a memorandum of understanding was ‘closer than ever’. Hours later, Trump posted on Truth Social that the terms Iran had ‘planted’ in the ‘Fake News’ had ‘nothing to do with what was agreed in writing’ and called Tehran’s leadership ‘very dishonourable people’. The episode left the war in the Middle East – which began with US and Israeli strikes on 28 February 2026 and has since killed thousands – without a clear path to a stable ceasefire.

A week of whiplash

The back‑and‑forth followed days of erratic signals from Washington. On Monday 8 June, Trump promised a deal with Iran within days. After a US Apache helicopter was downed near Oman on Tuesday – an incident Tehran denied involvement in – the US launched airstrikes on twenty targets inside Iran. Iran retaliated by striking US positions in Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan. By Wednesday, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth warned that the US would ‘negotiate with bombs if necessary’. On Thursday, Trump threatened a massive military escalation, then abruptly reversed course: he said a ‘broad coalition of regional powers’ had accepted the negotiations and that he was halting planned attacks. The whiplash set the stage for Friday’s confusion.

The 14‑point draft that sparked fury

On Friday, Iran’s state‑run Mehr news agency published what it said was a 14‑point memorandum of understanding. The text, attributed to a source close to the Iranian negotiating team, included an immediate and permanent cessation of hostilities on all fronts – including Lebanon – the full lifting of the US naval blockade of Iranian ports within 30 days, and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz on the same timeline under ‘Iranian arrangements’. Sanctions on Iranian oil and petrochemical trade would be suspended, US forces would withdraw from the region, and Washington and its allies would provide at least $300 billion in reconstruction aid. During a 60‑day final‑negotiation period, $24 billion in frozen Iranian funds would be released, half before the talks began. The draft also stated that Iran would reaffirm its commitment under the Nuclear Non‑Proliferation Treaty not to build nuclear weapons, while putting its missile programme and support for allied groups ‘permanently off the agenda’.

The sea blockade must be completely lifted. That is the first point mentioned in the agreement.

Trump denounces the leaked draft and a claimed drone attack

Trump struck back within hours. ‘The conditions planted in the Fake News have NOTHING to do with what we agreed to in writing,’ he wrote on Truth Social in all‑caps. He called the Iranian statements ‘weak and pathetic’ and said it was ‘impossible to negotiate with them in good faith’. The president also claimed that a suspected Iranian drone attack on Indian ships exiting the Strait of Hormuz had been thwarted overnight, calling it ‘ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE’. Iran did not immediately comment on that allegation. A US official separately told Reuters that the terms the White House was discussing differed from what the insider accounts and the Mehr draft described, but did not detail how.

What they said, including their weak and pathetic statement that there is an agreement, has nothing to do with the truth.

Pakistan says a deal exists, Iran sees near‑completion

While Trump denied the leaked terms, both Islamabad and Tehran insisted a final text was at hand. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif posted on X that ‘a final, mutually agreed text of the peace agreement has been reached’ and that Pakistan was ‘working closely with both sides to finalise the next steps’. Foreign Minister Araghtschi, speaking on state television, said the memorandum was ‘very close to completion’ and disclosed that the signing would take place digitally – each side signing remotely – ‘perhaps in the coming days’. Araghtschi also indicated that the status of the Strait of Hormuz would change and that talks with Oman on its administration were continuing. On nuclear issues, he said, ‘the only way to deal with the stock of enriched material is to dilute it inside Iran,’ and that details would be discussed within 60 days of signing.

Peace has never been more tangible than now.

What remains unresolved

Despite the declarations, officials in several capitals acknowledge that the text is not yet final. Western, Iranian and Gulf insiders cited by Reuters said one unresolved matter is the wording on a cessation of hostilities in Lebanon, where Israel is fighting the Iran‑backed Hezbollah. Iranian spokesman Esmail Baghaei stressed that Tehran did not trust Washington because ‘the US side keeps changing its position.’ Trump later told reporters in the Oval Office that a signing could happen ‘maybe in Europe’ this weekend, and that Vice President J.D. Vance would attend and the Strait would be opened as soon as the US signed. The combination of conflicting versions – a leaked draft Iran promoted, Trump’s furious denial, and Pakistan’s claim of finality – leaves the war‑torn region waiting for clarity on whether the world’s most combustible stand‑off is actually nearing an end.