Significance of President Trump signing Iran MOU at Versailles?
The Treaty of Versailles, ending hostilities in WWI was signed in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace in Versailles.
Trump made the point of answering one question from the press: "Did you sign the MOU?" "Yes," he said, with only his head showing above the car he was entering on the opposite side of the press and pointing behind him,"I signed it here in Versailles."And he got in the car.
In 1919:
After trying and failing to negotiate some of the more severe terms and facing threats of resumed war should they not sign, theGerman delegates signed the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919, in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles.
President Trump said: “Versailles is not gold leaf — Versailles is the real deal," and the "evening included a Hall of Mirrors visitand fountain display."
"The Hall of Mirrors was once a feat of technology: 357 mirrors set in 17 arches along a 73-meter (240-foot) gallery, showing French manufacturers could rival Venice’s celebrated glassmakers.
"They were alsobuilt to multiply a king. Every royal entrance ricocheted across the glass, and a modern guest gets the same treatment.
“You will bereflected many, many times, from one mirror to another,” Lacorne said.
"For a president who has spent his second term turning the Oval Office gold, the appeal is clear, he added.
"Trump arrives, in a sense, at a building he has quoted for years:He has said he modeled Mar-a-Lago’s ballroom after Versailles."
https://www.whec.com/ap-top-news/macron-deploys-versailles-gold-mirrors-and-history-in-a-high-stakes-courtship-of-trump/
Also of interest:
President Trump’s memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Iran contains 14 points.
Among other points of interest about the Treat of Versailles:
"5. The signing of the Treaty of Versailles concluded the most crucial period of the Paris Peace Conference. Although treaties with the remaining Central Powers had yet to be signed, the key decisions that affected events over the next several years had been made.
"6. The location of the signing was deliberately selected. The Hall of Mirrors, where the signing took place, had also witnessed the crowning of Wilhelm I as king of a unified Germany in 1871. Now, in June 1919, it was the Germans’ turn to be humbled before both the French and the world.
"7. The covenant of the League of Nations is the treaty’s first part. Even before arriving in Paris, Woodrow Wilson held hisFourteen [14] Points, but especially the League of Nations, as his most important objective at the conference. Wilson’s insistence on the League’s inclusion in the Treaty of Versailles forced him to compromise with Allied leaders on other points."
https://www.legion.org/information-center/news/honor/2019/june/10-facts-about-the-treaty-of-versailles
Aside (or perhaps not): The article also notes: "History counsels caution. Ronald Reagan dined beneath the same mirrors on the sidelines of the 1982 G7, and central disagreements outlasted the splendor."