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A sovereignty fight over who controls how Tehran's frozen funds are spent is emerging as the first serious fault line in the June 17 U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding, with U.S.
and Iranian negotiators meeting Sunday at Bürgenstock, near Lucerne, Switzerland, to begin implementation talks.
Alex Vatanka, senior fellow at the Middle East Institute, warned that the disagreement will likely become one of the first major implementation disputes in the weeks ahead.
Two Narratives, One MOU Clause Paragraph 11 of the MOU framework states that the United States "undertakes to make fully available" restricted and frozen Iranian funds, but ties any release to a step-by-step compliance process rather than immediate, unrestricted access.
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