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Two Versions of One Deal: The Document With No Authoritative Text

Iran and the US are circulating different versions of the deal: one draft releases $25bn in frozen Iranian assets, the other contains no such provision; Iran briefs near-simultaneous relief, the US briefs sequenced rewards. The strait clause is consistent, but the pattern isn’t: a deal whose text the parties dispute is the document-level twin of a strait whose status they dispute. No authoritative reference, at any level. This post reads the parallel.

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