A Pause, Not Peace: The US-Iran Memorandum and the Road Ahead
The MED This Week newsletter provides informed insights on the most significant developments in the MENA region, bringing together unique opinions and reliable foresight into future scenarios.
- by Rasha Al Joundy ,
- Friday, 19th June, 2026
The MED This Week newsletter provides informed insights on the most significant developments in the MENA region, bringing together unique opinions and reliable foresight into future scenarios. Today, we shed light on the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding, its key challenges and its implications for the region.
The long-awaited preliminary agreement signed by the United States and Iran on 17 June may have silenced the guns that have shuttered the Middle East for more than a hundred days, but it has merely postponed the underlying disputes that triggered the conflict in the first place. In the immediate term, the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU),...
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Rasha Al Joundy
Research Supervisor
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Areas of Expertise
- Expert in the Gulf region politics,
- Security and internal affairs and has been working on the GCC region since 2011.
Education
- Master’s degree in International Relations and World Order at Leicester University (UK 2016).
- Graduated from the Faculty of Law – University of Damascus in Syria in 2006
Bio
completed her master’s degree in International Relations and World Order at Leicester University (UK 2016). She graduated from the Faculty of Law – University of Damascus in Syria in 2006, and trained as a lawyer to register at Damascus bar association. She is an expert in the Gulf region politics, security and internal affairs and has been working on this region since 2011. Rasha Currently work as a senior researcher for Gulf affairs and supervise the training program at Dubai Pubic Policy Research Centre.