Trump signs a Memorandum of Understanding between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States on June 17 -- public domain image By Vijay Prashad The Iran–US Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) emerged not from reconciliation, but from exhaustion and strategic failure by the United States and its allies. It was the product of a war that had reached its political limits. Washington and Tel Aviv presented their illegal war of aggression as a necessary response to Iran’s nuc