Middle East War 2026

The draft US-Iran memorandum now has terms, a Sunday signing claim, and an uppercase promise of open water. Iran says no final decision has been made, and Israel's strike in Beirut gave Tehran's skeptics a reason to slow the pen.

Washington and Tehran say they've agreed on the wording of a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. In the same 72 hours: US airstrikes, Iranian warning shots at a tanker, and a navy escorting oil out of the Gulf. There's a document. Nobody has signed it.

Iran wants Lebanon's war ended as part of the deal. Israel — which isn't even at the table — says it won't stop and won't pull back. That gap is where a weekend signature could die.