Washington
\nUnited States President Donald Trump on Monday said that the peace deal with Iran was already signed and the Strait of Hormuz would be completely opened for all sea traffic on June 19.
\n\u201cI\u2019m very happy to say \u2026 the deal\u2019s all signed,\u201d he said while addressing a media talk with French President Emmanuel Macron in France ahead of the G7 summit.
\nHe said that the text of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Iran will be released \u201csometime after Friday\u201d.
\n\u201cI think pretty soon. I would say, I mean, I want it to be released, because it\u2019s a very powerful document,\u201d Trump said. \u201cIt\u2019s a very powerful document, and I want it to be released. So, probably pretty soon. I would say sometime after Friday.\u201d
\nA US official similarly said just earlier that Washington and Tehran had signed a MoU to settle a near four-month war, adding that a signing ceremony would take place on Friday and shipping traffic in the Strait \u200bof Hormuz would gradually ramp up.
\nThe MoU was signed by Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher \u200bQalibaf, one US official said.
\nSpeaking at a briefing with \u200breporters, the US official added that there will also be a signing ceremony on Friday.
\n\u201cYou will see significant increase in traffic in the \u200bStrait of Hormuz, actually starting already, and that will \u200bramp up slowly over time,\u201d the US official, speaking on the condition \u200cof anonymity, said. \u201cWe probably won\u2019t return to normal in two weeks, but we will see a significant increase in strait traffic,\u201d the official said.
\nTrump earlier said that ships carrying oil were beginning to move out of the Strait of Hormuz after the US and Iran declared that they had reached an agreement to end the war.
\n\u201cShips are starting to move, many loaded up with Oil, out of the Strait of Hormuz. They are going along the Southern \u2018Highway,\u2019 which is totally safe, secure, and pristine,\u201d Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
\n\u201cThere are other areas of travel, also!!!\u201d he added.
\nVice President JD Vance said the US held significant leverage in negotiations with Iran and expressed confidence that upcoming talks would lead to a successful agreement.
\n\u201cI think the best outcome is a good deal for the American people, which we have fundamentally,\u201d Vance said in an interview with CNBC.
\nDiscussing negotiations expected later this week, Vance said: \u201cWe expect to have a full spectrum of representatives at the negotiation on Friday. Again, we\u2019ve been talking to these people sometimes indirectly, but sometimes directly, and that\u2019s what\u2019s fundamentally changed under the president\u2019s leadership.\u201d
\nHe said the Trump administration is now engaging directly with Iran, adding: \u201cWe have some good relationships there.\u201d
\n\u201cThis is going to be a successful negotiation, because you know we\u2019re not passing messages through various back channels anymore. We\u2019re actually talking to them, and when you talk to them, you figure out what\u2019s real, what\u2019s fake, what are they serious about, what are they not serious about,\u201d he said.
\nHighlighting Washington\u2019s position ahead of the talks, Vance said: \u201cWe fundamentally have all the cards here. We don\u2019t have to give the Iranians anything if they don\u2019t make the commitments that we want long term on the nuclear program, and even if we just stopped here, what would be true? Their military is destroyed, the Straits of Hormuz are open, their nuclear program has been destroyed, and we have incredible economic leverage over them that we didn\u2019t have a year and a half ago.\u201d
\nVance further noted that Washington remained open to improving relations with Tehran, saying: \u201cIf you guys want to meet us, if you guys want to change your relationship with the United States, we will change our relationship with Iran. That\u2019s the offer. We\u2019re going to have to see whether they meet us there.\u201d
\nAddressing concerns about Israel\u2019s reaction to a potential agreement, Vance said: \u201cWell, first of all, I think there are elements within Israel that like the deal quite a bit, and I also think there\u2019s been some misreporting about the deal.\u201d
\nHe added that the administration hoped to release the text of the agreement this week and said it would make the region safer and help create \u201ca new Middle East, not just for the next few years, but for the next generation\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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