The US Iran deal includes a $300 billion private fund, with more than half already committed, a source said ahead of the framework signing scheduled for Friday, 19 June 2026.
The fund is designed to give Washington and Tehran an economic incentive to conclude a final agreement that ends the war between the two sides, as reported by Reuters.
The source spoke on condition of anonymity because the plan had not yet been formally announced.
What the $300 billion fund covers
The vehicle is structured as a private investment fund rather than a reparations or reconstruction grant programme, the source said.
It would not include any United States government money. Companies based in the United States, the Gulf Arab states, Asia, South America and Africa have agreed to commit financing.
The financing is earmarked for energy, logistics, manufacturing and transport, sectors that have been cut off from Iran’s economy through years of sanctions.
The fund’s existence had been reported before, but the detail that more than half of the total is already pledged is new.
No United States government grants form part of the package, a point the source stressed to draw a line between the fund and the reparations Tehran has demanded in past talks.
The arrangement instead leans on private capital that expects a commercial return once sanctions ease.
When the framework gets signed
Washington and Tehran are preparing to sign the framework on Friday, 19 June 2026, the step that moves the arrangement from negotiation to a working document.
The framework follows the ceasefire that paused direct hostilities earlier in 2026 and sets the commercial terms both governments hope will hold.
The war between the two sides escalated earlier in 2026 before a ceasefire halted direct strikes, and negotiators have since worked to convert that pause into a durable settlement.
The investment fund is the economic pillar of that effort, sitting alongside the security and diplomatic terms still being finalised.
A $300 billion private fund of this scale would rank among the largest sovereign-linked investment pools assembled around a single diplomatic settlement.
The decision to keep it free of government money appears aimed at insulating the structure from political reversal in either capital.
South Africa sits among the regions whose companies have signalled willingness to back the fund, placing local firms in proximity to one of the year’s biggest reconstruction-adjacent opportunities should the deal hold.
No South African company has been named in the reporting so far.
If the signing proceeds as planned on Friday, 19 June 2026, attention will shift to which companies have made commitments and how quickly the first tranches are released into Iran’s energy and transport sectors.
The full terms are expected to surface once the framework is made public.
