New Delhi, July 2 -- a procurement queue run through Qatar's Central Bank, delivering goods to Iran based on needs Iran would communicate in advance.

Those two descriptions are not the same arrangement.

The distinction runs through every public statement the three governments have made about the $6 billion since the Islamabad MoU was signed. JD Vance, speaking in Switzerland on June 22, said the United States and Qatar "would have to agree to unfreeze assets" before a single dollar moved - and said the money, if released, would be used to buy American corn, wheat, and soybeans, crediting the concept to Jared Kushner. Qatar's foreign ministry, two weeks later, confirmed what Vance said by omission: the $6 billion had "yet to be transferr...