The White House offered a reaction to Iranian state-run media claiming that the United States would withdraw forces from Iran’s vicinity, among other items.
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The White House denied on Wednesday allegations from an Iranian media report that the U.S. and Iran are studying a memorandum of understanding that would put an end to the war.
The alleged draft of the peace proposal with the United States, published by Iranian State media, summarized a reinstatement of commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz to the levels that were in place before the war within a month, along with the removal of U.S. military forces and naval blockade from the region.
The supposed memorandum of understanding, or MOU, came from secondary talks launched after the war that began in February, with Pakistan playing a central negotiating role between the U.S. and Iran.
Nevertheless, those reports are false, said the White House and added that the claims asserted by Iranian state media should be judiciously analyzed.
“This report from Iranian controlled media is not true and the MOU they ’released’ is a complete fabrication,” said the White House’s response team in a post on X on Wednesday. “Nobody should believe what the Iranian state media is putting out. FACTS MATTER.”
Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran’s current top leader, who hasn’t been viewed in public since he was named to the top position in March, made threats to the United States and Israel in a series of posts.
“The United States will no longer have a safe haven for its mischief and for establishing military bases in West Asia,” Khamenei wrote in a post on Tuesday, adding in another post that Israel and its government are “approaching the final stages of their wretched existence.”
Still, the statement from the White House comes as President Donald Trump is convening a Cabinet meeting at Camp David, the presidential retreat located in Maryland, in the midst of tensions to settle the war fast.
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