Claim: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif signed a fictitious copy of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), likely as a public relations move, rather than the actual one that has the signatures of Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian and US President Donald Trump.
Fact: The viral posts include visuals of the Islamabad MoU at different stages. It appears to have been signed first by Trump, then by Pezeshkian, and last by Sharif. Moreover, the image of the Iranian president shows him holding the Persian version of the document.
On 20 June 2026, numerous Facebook posts surfaced with a visual comprising a comment attributed to Pakistani commentator Moeed Pirzada, alongside a picture of him and another smaller image.
The text reads as follows:
“ایرانی بڑے بے وفا نکلے! وہ خانہ بنایا ہی نہیں، جہاں ہمارے شہباز شریف نے دستخط کرنے تھے ؟ معید پیر زادہ
[Iranians turned out to be very disloyal! They did not print the space where our Shehbaz Sharif was supposed to sign? Moeed Pirzada]”
The smaller visual comprises the photos of Pezeshkian and Sharif displaying their signatures on the Islamabad MoU that brought an end to the 2026 war launched by the US and Israel against Iran. It also features the following text:
“جو ایرانی صدر نے ماہدے پر دستخط کر کے فوٹو شیئر کی اس میں کسی تیسرے بندے کے دستخط کے لیے کوئی جگہ نظر نہیں آرہی اور دوسری جانب بطور ثالث شہباز شریف نے دستخط کر کے جو فوٹو شیئر کی وہ تو مکمل طور پر تبدیل نظر آرہی ہے۔
[The photo that the Iranian president shared after signing the agreement [Islamabad MoU] does not show any space for the signature of a third person and, on the other hand, the photo that Shehbaz Sharif shared after signing it as an intermediary appears to be completely altered.]”
We traced that visual to multiple separate Facebook posts.
Pirzada made the comment in a post on X (formerly Twitter) in which he was responding to user @AsaddRattay, who wrote:
“ایرانی صدر نے غلط صفحہ دکھا کر فیلڈ مارشل اور شہباز شریف کیساتھ زیادتی کی ہے فیلڈ مارشل غسل کرنے کے بعد جواب دینگے۔ انصار عباسی کا اگلا کالم 🤣 یارررر اتنی بے عزتی بحثیت پاکستانی بیغیرتو انکا پیج سیم انکے صفحے پر تیسرے سائین کی جگہ بھی نہیں تھی 😢پھر بھی۔۔
[The Iranian President has played the Field Marshal [Syed Asim Munir of Pakistan] and Shehbaz Sharif by showing the wrong page. The Field Marshal will answer after taking a bath. Ansar Abbasi’s next column 🤣 Yaarrrrr such disrespect as Pakistanis. You shameless people, his page is the same, there was not even a place for a third signature on his page 😢And still.]”
The X post by @AsaddRattay includes the same pictures of Iran’s Pezeshkian and Pakistan’s Sharif, as well as a video of Trump signing the MoU in Versailles in the presence of US State Secretary Marco Rubio and France’s President Emmanuel Macron.
The video is from the X account of White House Deputy Chief of Staff and Trump’s Assistant Dan Scavino.
Posts with @AsaddRattay’s caption also appeared in multiple Facebook posts.
Pakistan’s PM signs MoU as mediator
The Express Tribune reported that on 18 June, Sharif “signed the historic ‘Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding’ (MoU) as a mediator, formalising a major diplomatic breakthrough between the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran”.
The publication added that Trump signed the document in France while “concurrently, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed the accord in Tehran”.
“Iranian state news agency, IRNA, [released] images of the president [Pezeshkian] signing and displaying the document, which already featured President Trump’s signature,” it added.
The full text of the Islamabad MoU can be read here.
PM Sharif wrote on X that the document was “electronically signed” between the US and Iran and “also endorsed by me as the mediator”.
Fact or Fiction?
Soch Fact Check verified the documents’ pages posted publicly.
According to the feature image in The Express Tribune’s article showing the stages the MoU went through, the first person to sign the English document was Trump, followed by Pezeshkian, before Sharif endorsed it.
Trump “signed the document while visiting French President Emmanuel Macron at the Palace of Versailles” and Pezeshkian did so “concurrently” in Tehran, with the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) “releasing images of the [Iranian] president signing and displaying the document, which already featured President Trump’s signature”, the publication wrote.
“Later, [the] Prime Minister’s Office released images of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif inking the MoU as the mediator. The images showed the prime minister displaying the finalised document bearing the signatures of both the US and Iranian presidents,” it added.
The English version of the Islamabad MoU can be seen in this video posted by The White House wherein Trump signs the document before showing it to the media.
In the gallery available on Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), the second, fifth, and 13th images show the Persian version of the Islamabad MoU signed by Trump and Pezeshkian. The fourth, seventh, eighth, and 10th pictures show the English version of the document.
Pezeshkian also posted the English and Persian versions of the document on his X account.
The Pakistani Prime Minister’s Office posted a video of the signing on its X account, while Arab News shared the same from another angle. Pictures from the event were also uploaded on Sharif’s Facebook page.
In the English version, Pezeshkian’s sign appears on the left while Trump’s is visible on the right. Sharif’s is in the middle of the page below those of the other two presidents.
In the Persian version, Pezeshkian’s sign is on the right, Trump’s on the left, and Sharif’s is in the same place.
Scans of the Islamabad MoU — in English and Persian — as posted by Iran’s President Pezeshkian on X
The primary X post by @AsaddRattay that Pirzada responded to includes the video of Trump signing the document at a time when Pezeshkian and Sharif had not put their signatures on it.
Moreover, the pictures in @AsaddRattay’s post show the Iranian president — who was the second to sign — holding the Persian version of the document.
Sharif was the last to sign and the document he shows is the same English version as shown by Trump and Pezeshkian.
Therefore, Soch Fact Check concludes that the viral posts make a false claim.
Virality
Soch Fact Check found over a dozen Facebook posts with the false claim.
We also came across the same claim made by an Indian Instagram page that gained over 2,100 likes.
Conclusion: The viral posts include visuals of the Islamabad MoU at different stages. It appears to have been signed first by Trump, then by Pezeshkian, and last by Sharif. Moreover, the image of the Iranian president shows him holding the Persian version of the document.
Background image in cover photo: @drpezeshkian & Muhammad Shayan
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