Mike Baker

It's Monday, the 15th of June.

Welcome to the PDB Afternoon Bulletin.

I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage.

All right, let's get briefed.

First up, the U.S.-Iran agreement has now reportedly been electronically signed by both sides.

But many of the deal's most important details remain under wraps.

We'll explain what the administration is saying, what officials from the Iranian side are disputing, and the key questions that still need answers.

Later in the show, Russia launches another record-setting aerial attack on Ukraine, and one of Eastern Christianity's most revered monasteries is caught in the crossfire.

But first, today's afternoon spotlight.

The U.S.-Iran agreement is no longer theoretical, at least apparently not.

According to senior U.S.

administration officials, the Memorandum of Understanding between Washington and Tehran has now been signed digitally by President Trump, Vice President J.D.

Vance, and Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bakr Ghalibaf.

A formal signing ceremony that sounds very posh is expected later this week in Switzerland, but for all practical purposes, and here I'll use the word again, apparently, the deal is now in place.

The problem is that it's not clear what's in the deal and if the two sides interpret what's in it in the same way.

That was not a very eloquent sentence, but I hope you got the point.

The Trump administration has yet to release the full text of the agreement, though Vice President Vance says that will happen sometime this week.

In the meantime, much of the public discussion surrounding the deal has been driven by a series of leaked drafts that have circulated over the past several days.

And now, U.S.

administration officials are pushing back on some of those reports.