Masoud Pezeshkian, 9th president of Iran, in an interview with khamenei.ir in 2025. khamenei.ir · CC BY 4.0
Iran's president just said something huge.
Masoud Pezeshkian went on Fox News and said Iran does not want war with America.
He says quote "we do not seek war".
But then he went further.
He says quote "We did reach an agreement with your president... That agreement was signed, and based on that, we are willing and still wish to move forward."
So Iran's own president is saying there's already a deal with Donald Trump.
This aired a day ago, on Bret Baier's Special Report.
So what deal is he talking about?
The Islamabad Memorandum. Donald Trump and Masoud Pezeshkian signed it back on 17 June, to end the war between Iran, America and Israel.
It gave both sides 60 days to reach a full peace deal.
Those 60 days ran out in the middle of August. Nothing final got signed.
It fell apart over one thing. Who controls the Strait of Hormuz.
So when Masoud Pezeshkian says the deal is "signed" and he wants to "move forward", he's talking about an agreement that already collapsed once.
And he didn't stop there.
He made three offers in that same interview.
One. Iran does not want a nuclear bomb. He called weapons of mass destruction "unholy" and illegal, under a religious ruling from Iran's former supreme leader.
Two. Iran is willing to thin out its stockpile of uranium enriched to 60 per cent. That's close to weapons grade.
Three. Iran has not closed the Strait of Hormuz. He says it remains open.
Three concessions. On the exact three things America has been demanding.
But here's the thing. Washington's tone this week has been the opposite.
A day before this interview, on the very same programme, Scott Bessent, America's Treasury Secretary, called Iran's regime cornered.
He says quote "cornered animals".
Scott Bessent said America has run six weeks of military strikes, a naval blockade and financial pressure on Iran. He said he expects Iran to give in within a week to two months.
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A panorama picture of north of Tehran in a clean day after a rain. File photo. Amir Pashaei · CC BY-SA 4.0
So America's own Treasury Secretary is saying Iran will break. Not negotiate.
At the UN General Assembly this week, he said he thinks Iran is stalling until after November's midterm elections. He said "they're waiting to see how I do in the midterm election".
Days before that, he told a Fox News reporter he was probably open to meeting Masoud Pezeshkian at the UN. But he also warned that without a deal, Iran's choices were to rot economically, or be wiped out.
So the American president is holding a threat and an invitation in the same hand.
Masoud Pezeshkian says he doesn't want to wait that long either.
Speaking separately to NBC News at the UN this week, he said Iran wants to revive the ceasefire deal before the midterms. He said "we don't want it to get to the midterm elections".
That's Iran's president naming America's own election as his deadline.
And there are signs both sides are already talking, quietly.
Steve Witkoff, America's special envoy, said US and Iranian officials held indirect talks through mediators at the UN this week.
Separately, Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met Britain's Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband in New York. First meeting between a British and an Iranian minister in a year.
Masoud Pezeshkian also used the interview to deny that Iran's government tried to assassinate Donald Trump or his family.
And he said something else. He met Iran's current Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, in person, for about seven hours, roughly a month ago.
That matters. It's the first confirmation in months that Mojtaba Khamenei is alive and actually running things.
His predecessor, Ali Khamenei, was killed in US-Israeli strikes back in February. Mojtaba Khamenei has not appeared in public since taking over.
So what's not confirmed?
Whether the White House agrees any agreement is even still standing.
Nobody in the Trump administration has said, on the record, that a deal exists, or that it's ready to be revived.
Scott Bessent's "cornered animals" line is still the most recent American position on record. And that describes a country about to be forced into surrender. Not a partner about to sign anything.
So Iran says there's a deal on the table.
America's own Treasury Secretary says Iran has no choice but to give in.
Both cannot be the full picture. And neither government has explained the gap.
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