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Prediction Series · Resolution · Issue P-02
Prediction Series · Resolution

We graded our own US-Iran forecast — in public.

Our one locked, falsifiable bet missed: the deal signed modified, and a day past our window — outcomes our matrix had put at zero. Then the part the May-26 read got right — clause for clause it tracked the signed text, and the single hardest clause, Iran's enriched uranium, it called a month early. We publish the miss as plainly as the match; the lock is what makes both checkable.

Type · Prediction Resolution · Scored against the published terms Locked · 2026-05-26 20:58 IST · before the agreed text was public Signed · 2026-06-17 · 14-point Memorandum of Understanding Two-score scoreboard · primary locked bet missed · ~88% document match (9 full + 3 partial of 12 rows) · HEU approach validated
Our one locked, falsifiable bet
MISSED
Signed June 17, modified — a bin our matrix put at zero.

P-02 locked 100% on "signed as drafted, by June 16." It signed June 17 as a modified text — landing in outcomes the matrix had assigned zero probability. This is, by our own pre-commitment, Branch 2 — the post-mortem we titled in advance "the locked prediction was wrong." What follows is a self-scored, clause-by-clause read of where the May reasoning did and did not track — reported separately from the locked bet, never as a substitute for it.

— The Score · Both Ways

The locked bet missed. Here is the honest scorecard — both scores, kept apart.

The locked bet
MISSED
100% on "signed as drafted by June 16." Signed June 17, modified — a zero-probability bin. Our pre-committed Branch 2.
Document match (self-scored)
~88%
Clause for clause, the May read tracked the signed text. 9 full + 3 partial of 12 rows, partials at half = 10.5/12 = ~88%. A self-scored read — not the locked bet.
The hardest clause
Called
We ranked HEU removal #1-most-likely-to-break a month early. It broke — there.
Reading discipline

Two scores, kept apart: the locked, falsifiable bet (missed) and the self-scored document read. We never let the second stand in for the first.

The "~88%" is a document/clause match (9 full + 3 partial of 12 rows, partials at half), explicitly NOT the locked outcome-class probability — which is reported here as a miss. The two numbers measure two different things, and the brief keeps them apart on purpose.

— 1 · The Receipt

Locked and published before the agreed text was public — timestamped and unedited since.

RAOSCAFF locked prediction P-02 on the US–Iran "14-point Memorandum of Understanding" on 2026-05-26 at 20:58 IST and published it the same evening at 21:38 IST (commit 2ca4d9b on origin/main) — before the agreed text was public. The brief has been live, timestamped, and unedited since.

We forecast the deal would form on one spine — end of war · Strait of Hormuz reopening · a 60-day negotiating window · Pakistan-mediated — and flagged the two clauses most likely to fracture it: the US naval-blockade snap-back and HEU (highly-enriched-uranium) removal, ranked #1 most likely to slip (reworded or deferred).

— 2 · What Was Signed · June 17, 2026

The 14-point MoU was signed electronically by Presidents Trump and Pezeshkian. The published terms, point by point.

The 14-point MoU was signed electronically by Presidents Trump and Pezeshkian (Trump also initialled a physical copy); the US military (CENTCOM) said it lifted the naval blockade on June 18; the MoU opens a 60-day window for the final deal. (The first round of US-Iran implementation talks scheduled for Jun 19 at Bürgenstock, Switzerland was postponed (Swiss Foreign Ministry; NBC/CBS/CNBC, Jun 19) — VP Vance cancelled his trip and Tehran sought Lebanon-ceasefire guarantees amid fresh Israeli strikes. The deal's first setback; it does not unwind the signed MoU or the 60-day window.) Published terms (full text carried by NPR/CNN/CBS):

  • Pt 1 — immediate and permanent end to military operations on all fronts, including Lebanon.
  • Pt 5 — Strait of Hormuz safe passage and commercial traffic begins immediately, no charge for 60 days. Pt 4 — US naval blockade removal begins immediately on signing, fully ended within 30 days.
  • Pt 3 — final deal in a maximum of 60 days.
  • Pt 6 — a US-backed reconstruction / economic-development plan for Iran of at least $300 billion (mechanism within 60 days) — the deal's headline financial number, which our locked brief did not forecast.
  • Pt 7 / 10 — oil-export waivers immediately; full sanctions termination deferred to the final deal.
  • Pt 11 — frozen assets freed upon implementation (no figure specified).
  • Pt 8 — Iran reaffirms it will not develop nuclear weapons; enriched-uranium stockpile down-blended on site under IAEA as the minimum methodology, final disposition deferred to the talks.
— 3 · We Said / They Signed

Clause for clause: what P-02 locked on May 26 against the signed MoU of June 17.

P-02 locked read (May 26) vs the signed MoU (Jun 17) · match column
What P-02 locked (May 26) The signed MoU (Jun 17) Match
Deal signs; war ends Pt 1: permanent end of operations, incl. Lebanon
Strait of Hormuz reopens Pt 5: safe passage begins immediately
Phased / gradual easing Pt 4: blockade fully removed within 30 days; Hormuz toll-free 60-day window (not permanent) ◑ reopening hit, but the 30-day clock attaches to the blockade lift (Pt 4), not Hormuz; Hormuz is a 60-day toll-free window, not permanent — direction right, terms diverge
60-day negotiating window Pt 3: final deal in max 60 days
Pakistan-mediated Pakistan + Qatar mediated; not named in text ◑ real, not in-text
Enrichment moratorium unsettled Deferred to the 60-day talks
Sanctions relief conditional Oil waivers immediate; full relief deferred
Frozen-asset release flagged; no figure locked Pt 11: freed on implementation, no figure ✅ no figure either side
No-nuclear-weapon pledge Pt 8: "shall not develop nuclear weapons"
IAEA inspections unsettled IAEA supervises down-blending; full regime deferred ◑ partial
Naval-blockade snap-back = friction Blockade lifted, no snap-back in text ✅ friction called
HEU removal = #1 clause to slip (reworded or deferred) Down-blended on-site under IAEA; disposition deferred ✅✅ bullseye

Each signed-term claim above traces to the Tier-1 sources named in §Sources: the full 14-point MoU text carried by NPR (Jun 18), CNN (Jun 17), CBS News, and Military Times; the signing and blockade-lift by NBC, CNBC (Jun 18), Al Jazeera (Jun 17–18), The Hill, and NPR.

— 4 · Where the May Read Landed: the HEU Clause (secondary scorecard)

A month before the document was public, we named HEU removal as the clause most likely to slip — to be reworded or deferred.

A month before the document was public, we named HEU removal as the clause most likely to slip — to be reworded or deferred — and wrote it would most likely be "reworded as supervised storage rather than export, or deferred."

Signed Point 8: the uranium is down-blended on site under the IAEA (the minimum methodology), with final disposition deferred to the 60-day talks. We named the family — supervised or deferred rather than removal — and the deferral landed exactly; the specific method (on-site down-blending under IAEA) was within that family, not one we named by name. On removal-vs-not, the decisive axis, we were right. This was our secondary modal scorecard's #1 pick — and it was right. The primary lock, by our own Branch 2 pre-commitment, was not.

Secondary modal scorecard · C-12 ranked #1 most likely to slip

We flagged HEU removal a month early as the one most likely to slip — to be reworded or deferred. The signed text down-blends it on site, disposition deferred. The approach we named — on removal-vs-not, the decisive axis, we were right.

We said (May 26): "HEU removal — #1 most likely to slip (reworded or deferred)," most likely reworded as supervised storage rather than export, or deferred. · They signed (Jun 17, Pt 8): down-blended on site under IAEA, final disposition deferred to the talks. · This was our secondary modal scorecard's #1 pick. The primary lock, by our own Branch 2 pre-commitment, was not.

— 5 · The Honesty Ledger

The complete scoreboard — hits and misses.

Right
The deal itself · end-of-war + Lebanon · Hormuz reopening · the 60-day window · snap-back as the friction point (dropped from the text) · the HEU approach · we flagged frozen-asset release without locking a figure — the signed text is figure-less too (Pt 11); no divergence either side.
Diverged
We placed Pakistan's role as central — true in the room, not written into the text.
Missed (primary)
Our locked probability put 100% on "as-drafted, by June 16." It signed June 17, modified — landing in outcomes the matrix had assigned zero probability. The strict outcome-class call was wrong; by our own pre-commitment, this is Branch 2.
Net
~88% document match (9 full + 3 partial of 12 rows, partials at half = 10.5/12 = 87.5%); the single hardest clause, called.
Editorial finding · what this is

P-02 came from RAOSCAFF's position-desk simulation — locked and timestamped before the event, then scored against the published terms. We publish the primary miss and the secondary match. That is the model.

— The Cryptographic Lock

This prediction was locked in writing — and scored against the published terms.

The lock is what makes the scoreboard checkable. Without the cryptographic timestamp, any prediction-series methodology could claim retroactive accuracy by editing the matrix after the fact. P-02 was locked in writing on 2026-05-26 at 20:58 IST and published the same evening at 21:38 IST (commit 2ca4d9b on origin/main) — before the agreed text was public — and this resolution scores that unedited lock against the signed MoU of 2026-06-17.

Original prediction lock (IST):
· published same evening · commit 2ca4d9b on origin/main · before the agreed text was public
Resolution event:
14-point MoU signed electronically by Presidents Trump and Pezeshkian (Trump also initialled a physical copy) on ; CENTCOM-stated naval-blockade lift
The primary bet (locked):
100% on SIGNED-AS-DRAFTED, by June 16 — missed: signed June 17 as a modified text — both outcomes the locked matrix had assigned zero probability; by our own pre-commitment, Branch 2
The document match (secondary, self-scored):
~88% · 9 full + 3 partial of 12 rows, partials at half = 10.5/12 = 87.5% · clause-for-clause match between the May-26 read and the signed terms · explicitly NOT the locked outcome-class probability
The headline call:
HEU removal — ranked #1-most-likely-to-break — called: signed as down-blended on-site under IAEA, disposition deferred (within the supervised-or-deferred family we named; specific method not named by name)
The original brief:
Preserved unedited at /intel/p-02-us-iran-mou-memorandum-decode/report.html · commit 2ca4d9b on origin/main
Resolution commitment:
We report both scores — the primary miss and the secondary match — because a forecast you can't check isn't intelligence. The miss is reported as plainly as the match; neither substitutes for the other.

The locked matrix cannot be modified after the original commit landed on origin/main. This resolution publishes as a separate document, citing the original brief by URL. The compounding asset is the doctrine, the Position Desk library, and the lock-and-score cadence — bounded by the world's disclosures, never by RAOSCAFF's.

— Methodology Appendix

How this is scored · locked before, scored against the published terms.

What was locked, and when

P-02 came from RAOSCAFF's position-desk simulation — locked and timestamped before the event, then scored against the published terms. The original 8-Position-Desk orchestrated panel, the clause-by-clause matrix, and the structural caveats are preserved unedited in the original brief. This resolution does not revise the lock; it scores it.

The two-score discipline

We report two distinct scores because they measure two distinct things. The primary, locked probability bet (100% on "signed as drafted, by June 16") resolves against the literal outcome class — and it missed: signed June 17 as a modified text, both outcomes our matrix had assigned zero probability. By our own pre-commitment, this is Branch 2. The document match (~88%) measures, clause for clause, how the May-26 read tracks the signed terms (9 full + 3 partial of 12 rows, partials at half = 10.5/12 = 87.5%). The "~88%" is a document/clause match, explicitly NOT the locked outcome-class probability. We keep them apart on purpose.

How the match was tallied

The "We said / they signed" table places each locked spine item and flagged clause against the corresponding signed point. Full matches (✅) cover the deal itself, end-of-war + Lebanon, Hormuz reopening, the 60-day window, the enrichment-moratorium deferral, conditional sanctions relief, frozen-asset release (no figure locked; no figure in text — a match), the no-nuclear-weapon pledge, and the snap-back-as-friction call. Partial matches (◑) cover the phased-easing terms (direction right, Hormuz/blockade clock structure diverges), the Pakistan-mediator role (real, not in-text), and IAEA inspections (partial). The HEU-removal clause is scored a bullseye (✅✅, counted as 1 full): the supervised-or-deferred family we named is the approach that was signed. Match arithmetic: 9 full + 3 partial of 12 rows, partials at half = 10.5/12 = ~88%.

What diverged, stated plainly

One divergence is recorded in the honesty ledger: we placed Pakistan's role as central where it was true in the room but not written into the text. The frozen-asset figure is not a divergence — we flagged frozen-asset release without locking a figure, and the signed text (Pt 11) is figure-less too; this is a match. The primary outcome-class miss is recorded as a miss: signed June 17 as a modified text, both outcomes the locked matrix had assigned zero probability.

Source standard

Each signed-term claim carries a Tier-1 source named in §Sources. The full 14-point MoU text is carried by NPR (Jun 18), CNN (Jun 17), CBS News, and Military Times; the signing and blockade lift by NBC, CNBC (Jun 18), Al Jazeera (Jun 17–18), The Hill, and NPR; the Switzerland implementation-talks postponement (Swiss FM; NBC/CBS/CNBC, Jun 19). The locked call traces to the original P-02 brief (locked 2026-05-26).

— Sources · Claims → Tier-1

Every signed-term claim traces to a named Tier-1 source · the locked call traces to the original P-02 brief.

S-1
Full 14-point MoU text
NPR (Jun 18) · CNN (Jun 17) · CBS News · Military Times
S-2
Signing / blockade lift
NBC · CNBC (Jun 18) · Al Jazeera (Jun 17–18) · The Hill · NPR
S-3
Switzerland implementation-talks postponement
Swiss FM · NBC · CBS · CNBC (Jun 19) · Axios · The Guardian (Jun 19)
S-4
Our locked call
raoscaff.com P-02 brief (locked 2026-05-26)