Ben Shapiro on the MOU between the US and Iran: “This is JD's deal. Let's be very clear. This is the vice president's deal. It does not have support.”
Shapiro: “At the moment, there is technically no final deal cut. We've been hearing from the White House, from the president that the war is over, the deal is done, but that isn't actually the reality. It's just not real.”
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From the June 16, 2026, edition of The Daily Wire's The Ben Shapiro Show
BEN SHAPIRO (HOST): So here's the thing. At the moment, there is technically no final deal cut. We've been hearing from the White House, from the president that the war is over, the deal is done, but that isn't actually the reality. It's just not real. The White House itself acknowledges this. They put out a set of talking points. The key one to me remains this one right here. Quote, the Memorandum of Understanding sets a finite window to finalize the deal. No open ended timeline for Iran to exploit. President Trump knows that the regime stalls and uses talks to buy time. He will not allow it. The pressure that brought Iran to the table stays fully loaded, and every option is still on the table. This is the start, not the finish. President Trump holds the leverage until the job is done. And so, again, that is a positive sign.
Obviously, if President Trump is still holding out the possibility that if Iran doesn't do what we want them to do, then we clock them again or we have alternative plans, that would be a good thing. And the president has shown willingness to do that before. In my opinion, he's going to have to show willingness to do that again in the very near future because I'll just put it this way, I do not trust the Iranian government. I do not see why anyone would trust the Iranian government given their 47-year long history of taqiyah, to lying to everyone they negotiate with, of pursuing terrorism, of pursuing violence, of pursuing the building of nuclear capabilities under the radar and ballistic missile facilities and all the rest. OK.
So what do we actually know? Well, again, we do not have a big, fully written out document here. The vice president himself, JD Vance — and this is JD's deal. Let's be very clear. This is the vice president's deal. It does not have support. Apparently, according to Axios, from the secretary of state or the secretary of defense or the head of the CIA. This is the vice president's deal. He's the one who negotiated it along with Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff. And the vice president says that it's an MOU, a memorandum of understanding that is one-and-a-half pages. He says it is very general, which is, somewhat disquieting.