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Trump–Iran deal clears the way for Iranian oil back into global markets, but the document is one and a half pages long
A page-and-a-half MOU has reopened the Strait of Hormuz and sent tanker traffic back into Iranian waters, but the substantive architecture of a durable US-Iran settlement is nowhere on the page.

Sources
- https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/..., Unusual Whales: "US to terminate all Iranian sanctions under final deal, per WSJ" (June 18, 2026).
- https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/..., Unusual Whales: "The US are to issue waivers for Iran oil exports soon after the MOU deal, per WSJ" (June 18, 2026).
- https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/..., Unusual Whales: "Iran will naturally charge for services in the Strait of Hormuz, per Iranian State Media" (June 18, 2026).
- https://t.me/s/nikkeiasia, Nikkei Asia Telegram: "At least 6 oil tankers sail through Hormuz following US-Iran deal" (June 18, 2026).
- https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/..., Unusual Whales: Trump on no $300bn payment, stock market high, "tumbling" oil (June 18, 2026).
- https://x.com/polymarket/status/..., Polymarket: JD Vance on Joy Behar and the Iranians (June 18, 2026).
- https://t.me/s/cointelegraph, Cointelegraph Telegram: Trump on the stock market record and oil "tumbling" (June 18, 2026).
- https://t.me/s/coinjournal, CoinJournal Telegram: Bitcoin vulnerable amid hawkish Fed, rising yields, soft ETF demand (June 18, 2026).
Desk note: Monexus is treating the WSJ report on the MOU's substantive terms as the wire of record for this piece, with the Polymarket and G7 items as market- and diplomatic-sentiment colour. The brevity of the underlying text is itself the story; we have resisted the temptation to fill the gap with speculation about verification architecture the source material does not contain.
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