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<\/p>\nTEHRAN, June 14 \u2014 US President Donald Trump said Saturday that a deal with Iran to end the war in the Middle East would be signed on Sunday, and that the strategic Strait of Hormuz would be \u201copen to all\u201d immediately after.<\/p>\n
Iran had offered a different timeline earlier in the day, but nonetheless signalled an agreement was in the offing, as both the warring parties and their mediators expressed increasing optimism that weeks of halting negotiations were drawing to a close.<\/p>\n
The new momentum came in spite of fresh skirmishes in the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has blockaded since early in the war, throwing global markets into turmoil.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Deal is scheduled to get signed tomorrow, and immediately after it is signed, the Hormuz Strait is OPEN TO ALL,\u201d Trump said on his Truth Social platform.<\/p>\n
Since an April 8 truce paused the worst of the fighting, Trump has repeatedly insisted a deal was near only for the wrangling to drag on.<\/p>\n
Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei had said earlier on Saturday that the date of the signing was yet to be determined, but \u201cit will not be tomorrow\u201d.<\/p>\n
However, he added: \u201cThe possibility of this happening in the coming days cannot be ruled out.\u201d<\/p>\n
The leader of key mediator Pakistan had also said a deal was closer \u201cthan ever before\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith finalisation likely expected in the next 24 hours, Pakistan is preparing for the electronic signing of the peace deal immediately after, followed by technical level talks next week,\u201d said Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.<\/p>\n
A Pakistani foreign ministry statement also said the signing was planned for Sunday.<\/p>\n
The warring parties have nonetheless released conflicting information about the contents of the deal, as each seeks to show it emerged from the war with the upper hand.<\/p>\n
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A map showing the Strait of Hormuz and a 3D-printed oil pipeline are seen in this illustration taken on March 23, 2026. \u2014 Reuters pic<\/p>\n
Hormuz drones<\/p>\n
Tehran has insisted it will maintain control over the Strait of Hormuz, a key maritime trade route for oil and gas shipments from the Gulf.<\/p>\n
Since imposing its blockade, Iran has demanded vessels obtain permission from its armed forces before transiting the waterway, and has established a new body to oversee it and collect tolls.<\/p>\n
The US has responded with its own blockade of Iranian ports.<\/p>\n
Earlier Saturday, the US military\u2019s Central Command said Iran had \u201claunched multiple one-way attack drones in an attempt to strike commercial ships transiting the Strait\u201d.<\/p>\n
It added that \u201cUS forces have downed all of them in recent hours\u201d.<\/p>\n
Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, in an interview with state television Friday, had said the deal on the table called for the lifting of the US naval blockade.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe administration of Strait of Hormuz will no longer be the same as before,\u201d he added, calling the waterway one of Iran\u2019s \u201cmain instruments of deterrence\u201d.<\/p>\n
The US has repeatedly said Iran remaining in control of the strait would be unacceptable, and Trump\u2019s post made no mention of tolls or other arrangements.<\/p>\n
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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi attends a press conference following a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow, Russia on April 18, 2025. \u2014 Reuters pic<\/p>\n
\u2018Nuclear dust\u2019<\/p>\n
Another key sticking point in the talks has been the fate of Iran\u2019s nuclear programme, particularly its stockpile of highly enriched uranium \u2013 believed to have been buried by US strikes last year during a previous short-lived war.<\/p>\n
Iran has long insisted its nuclear programme is peaceful and that it has a right to enrichment, but the United States, Israel and other Western governments suspect it of seeking a bomb.<\/p>\n
Araghchi on Friday said the only way to deal with Iran\u2019s enriched uranium \u201cis to dilute it inside Iran\u201d.<\/p>\n
Trump, who has justified the war as necessary to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, previously said the US would remove and destroy the uranium.<\/p>\n
In Saturday\u2019s post, he said: \u201cWhen all is calm, we will go in and get the Nuclear Dust… and downblend and destroy it, whether in Iran, or the United States\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cHopefully, this process will all work out quickly, easily, and smoothly,\u201d he added. \u201cIf it doesn\u2019t, we have the ultimate alternative, hopefully never to be used again!\u201d<\/p>\n
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel \u2013 which launched the war in tandem with the US in February \u2013 said Trump had promised him any agreement would include the removal of the enriched nuclear material.<\/p>\n
In the streets of Tehran, there was scepticism the latest agreement would cross the finish line.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think there is any deal soon,\u201d said Saeed Sadeghi, 49. \u201cI don\u2019t trust their word.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fars news agency shared a video from Iran\u2019s northeastern city of Mashhad showing dozens protesting the deal outside a foreign ministry building Saturday.<\/p>\n
It showed women in black chadors chanted \u201cdeath to dishonourable Araghchi, the infiltrator\u201d, while waving red and black flags. \u2014 AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEHRAN, June 14 \u2014 US President Donald Trump said Saturday that a deal with Iran to end the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[34,2107,26763,34854,15388,101,69,1246],"class_list":["post-158954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tehran","tag-iran","tag-iran-nuclear-programme","tag-iranian-blockade","tag-nuclear-dust","tag-prime-minister-shehbaz-sharif","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-tehran","tag-us-president-donald-trump"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116746664400271121","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158954","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=158954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}