Iran\u2019s approval of a proposed agreement with the United States is \u201crelatively high\u201d after Washington accepted a draft text put forward by Tehran, the semi-official Fars News Agency reported on Thursday. \u201cGiven that the United States has accepted Iran\u2019s proposed text, the likelihood of the agreement being approved by Tehran\u2019s highest decision-making authorities is relatively high,\u201d the agency said. The report came hours after President Trump announced on Truth Social that he had canceled planned strikes against Iran for Thursday evening, stating that \u201cdiscussions and final points have been, in both concept and great detail, approved by all parties involved, including the United States, Israel, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, T\u00fcrkiye, Pakistan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, Egypt, and others.\u201d<\/p>\n
Blockade and continued strikes<\/p>\n
Trump noted that \u201cthe Naval Blockade will remain in full force and effect until this Transaction is finalized \u2014 Time and place of the signing to be announced shortly.\u201d Despite the diplomatic progress, US forces carried out a second day of strikes against multiple targets in Iran on Thursday, following the downing of an Apache helicopter over the Strait of Hormuz. Iran\u2019s IRGC said it struck 18 major US military targets in Kuwait, Bahrain, and Jordan. The latest escalation has heightened tensions, with Iran announcing it is closing the strait to maritime traffic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s approval of a proposed agreement with the United States is \u201crelatively high\u201d after Washington accepted a draft…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[724,14085,34,69,10738,153],"class_list":["post-156297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tehran","tag-approval","tag-deal","tag-iran","tag-tehran","tag-turkiye","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116733499337893566","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156297","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=156297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}