{"id":136502,"date":"2026-05-29T16:18:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T16:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/136502\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T16:18:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T16:18:22","slug":"trump-holds-situation-room-meeting-to-decide-on-iran-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/136502\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump holds Situation Room meeting to decide on Iran deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WASHINGTON\u00a0\u2014\u00a0A framework agreement to end the U.S. war with Iran is all but settled, pending sign-off from the presidents of the two warring sides, President Trump said Friday, projecting optimism that a deal could finally be at hand.<\/p>\n

Yet doubt cast a shadow over the diplomatic process entering the weekend as Trump faced a politically fraught decision to enter an agreement that would invariably require significant concessions to Tehran.<\/p>\n

The negotiations have faced severe headwinds in recent days<\/a>, with both sides accusing the other of violating a fragile ceasefire that has largely stopped the fighting since April.<\/p>\n

On his Truth Social site, Trump said he had summoned his top aides<\/a> to the White House Situation Room to decide on the deal. <\/p>\n

The agreement would see an end to the U.S. naval blockade on Iranian ports and the removal of Iranian mines from the Strait of Hormuz, an international waterway through which 20% of the world\u2019s energy supply passes each day. The strait, Trump wrote, will reopen with \u201cno tolls\u201d for \u201cunrestricted shipping traffic, in both directions.\u201d<\/p>\n

And \u201cIran must agree that they will never have a Nuclear Weapon or Bomb,\u201d Trump wrote, noting that Iran\u2019s stockpile of highly enriched uranium, the key ingredient for nuclear weapons, \u201cwill be unearthed by the United States (which, it is agreed, is the only Country, along with China, with the mechanical capability of doing so!), in close coordination and conjunction with the Islamic Republic of Iran, plus the International Atomic Energy Agency, and DESTROYED.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo money will be exchanged, until further notice,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent also said the deal would require Iran to disavow the continuation of its domestic nuclear program \u2014 a diplomatic feat never before achieved throughout a quarter century of international negotiations over Iran\u2019s nuclear work.<\/p>\n

It is unclear whether Tehran would go that far. And Iran\u2019s negotiators expressed defiance on Friday, stating that there was \u201cno trust in guarantees or words\u201d from the American side.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo step will be taken before the other side acts first,\u201d said Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of Iran\u2019s Parliament. \u201cWe do not gain concessions through dialogue, but through missiles.\u201d<\/p>\n

It remains unclear when the Trump administration would ease sanctions on Iran, how extensive that relief would be, or what form it would take \u2014 questions that fueled Republican criticism of the Obama-era nuclear deal<\/a> more than a decade ago.<\/p>\n

The working diplomatic document would formally extend the existing ceasefire for 60 days, allowing for a more detailed negotiation to take place over Iran\u2019s nuclear program. But the truce as it currently stands is on perilous ground. Iran launched a ballistic missile on Thursday at Kuwait, a close U.S. ally, after American forces took \u201cdefensive\u201d actions against Iranian missile launchers and mine laying boats it had launched in the strait.<\/p>\n

The war has proven historically unpopular with the American public, and has seen oil prices soar since the U.S. military, in partnership with Israel, launched its first strikes against Iran in February.<\/p>\n

Bessent said he is hopeful that oil prices would drop quickly once an agreement is signed. But industry analysts say the effects of the war on the oil market could last for months, if not years, with the stability of traffic through the Strait of Hormuz now in question for commercial shippers.<\/p>\n

While oil has dropped to under $100 a barrel, markets appeared skittish on Friday over the prospects for a deal, with mixed messages appearing to emerge out of the region.<\/p>\n

It is also unclear whether a U.S. agreement with Iran would in any way bind Israel\u2019s hands in its military operations, either in Iran or in Lebanon, where an Iranian proxy militia, Hezbollah, has vowed to keep up the fight.<\/p>\n

Israel has ramped up strikes against Hezbollah targets in recent days, jeopardizing a delicate ceasefire negotiated with the Lebanese government, a deal encouraged by the Trump administration in order to grease the wheels for its talks with Tehran.<\/p>\n

Trump has been uncharacteristically silent on the prospects of an agreement in recent days, expressing cautious optimism in limited exchanges with reporters.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard to say exactly when or if the president\u2019s going to sign,\u201d Vice President JD Vance, who has led the U.S. diplomatic team, told reporters, noting that \u201cthe nuclear stuff\u201d is still subject to negotiation. \u201cWe\u2019re going back and forth on a couple of language points.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI do think that we\u2019ve made a lot of progress here,\u201d Vance added. \u201cHopefully we\u2019ll continue to make progress, and the president will be in a position where he can endorse the agreement. But obviously, that\u2019s still TBD.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON\u00a0\u2014\u00a0A framework agreement to end the U.S. war with Iran is all but settled, pending sign-off from the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[36573,5405,34,9060,37,2928,10221,882,1372,7618,23616,1219,69,392,16966],"class_list":["post-136502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-framework-agreement","tag-friday","tag-iran","tag-iran-deal","tag-israel","tag-missile","tag-negotiation","tag-oil-price","tag-president","tag-recent-day","tag-side","tag-strait","tag-tehran","tag-trump","tag-u-s-war"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116658772597163584","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}