{"id":735244,"date":"2026-06-14T01:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T01:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/735244\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T01:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T01:05:11","slug":"trump-says-us-iran-deal-to-be-signed-sunday-contradicting-tehran-which-doesnt-react","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/735244\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says US-Iran deal to be signed Sunday, contradicting Tehran, which doesn’t react"},"content":{"rendered":"

US President Donald Trump on Saturday announced that the framework for a peace deal that would end the months-long conflict was scheduled to be signed on Sunday and that the key Strait of Hormuz waterway would be immediately \u201copen to all\u201d after it is signed, although Iran has denied the signing will take place so soon.<\/p>\n

The announcement has left Israel deeply concerned, with officials warning that the terms of the Memorandum of Understanding endanger Israel\u2019s security interests and fail to address any of the key issues. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who played no direct role in the negotiations, will reportedly convene his security cabinet on Sunday evening to discuss the agreement.<\/p>\n

Pakistani and Qatari mediators are set to join US and Iranian officials for a virtual meeting to sign the MOU, the Axios news site reported<\/a> on Saturday evening, which will extend the ceasefire by 60 days<\/a>, reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and trigger negotiations over Iran\u2019s nuclear program.<\/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 in a post on Truth Social.<\/p>\n

He added that Iran will not attain nuclear weapons, claimed the regime no longer wants them, and indicated that Iran\u2019s uranium stockpile will not be retrieved at this stage.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAt the appropriate time, when all is calm, we will go in and get the Nuclear Dust, buried deep under the powerful sunken granite mountains,\u201d he wrote, referring to the hundreds of kilograms of highly enriched uranium that Iran possesses.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe look forward to working with Iran, and the entire Middle East, long into the future. Hopefully, this process will all work out quickly, easily, and smoothly. If it doesn\u2019t, we have the ultimate alternative, hopefully never to be used again!\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Iran did not immediately confirm Trump\u2019s statement, which ran counter to comments by Iran\u2019s Foreign Ministry earlier in the day that the deal would not be signed on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Barack Hussein Obama\u2019s Deal with Iran, the JCPOA, was an easy, beautiful, smooth road to a Nuclear Weapon, which Iran would have had six years ago, and would have used long before now. My Agreement with Iran is the exact opposite, A WALL TO NO NUCLEAR WEAPON! In fact, they no\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/rKkla3pACZ<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Commentary Donald J. Trump Truth Social Posts On X (@TrumpTruthOnX) June 13, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWe will have to wait and see about the exact date of the signing of the memorandum of understanding, although it will not be tomorrow,\u201d state media quoted\u00a0Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei as saying.\n<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cThe possibility of this happening in the coming days cannot be ruled out. However, due to the hesitation of the other side\u201d \u2014 referring to the US \u2014 \u201cwe must be cautious in making any comments about this process.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Trump is to meet with the leaders of Egypt, Qatar, United Arab Emirates during the G7 summit in France, senior US administration officials said, to discuss efforts to end the war with Iran, as well as plans to demine the Strait of Hormuz. Netanyahu is not expected to attend the summit.<\/p>\n

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said earlier on Saturday that a final text of the deal had been reached and that an electronic signing was expected on Sunday, followed by technical-level talks next week.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou might call it \u2018the Zoom accords,’\u201d quipped Axios reporter Barak Ravid, who also works for Channel 12, in a report for the Israeli TV channel on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n

The White House wanted a public ceremony in Geneva, and Pakistan wanted it in Islamabad, but the Iranians reportedly did not want either, Channel 12 reported.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tA woman walks past an anti-American mural on the wall of the former US Embassy, now a museum, in Tehran, Iran, June 12, 2026. (AP Photo\/Vahid Salemi)<\/p>\n

Axios cited US officials confirming that the signing would be held virtually, due to logistical reasons.<\/p>\n

The MOU itself is not believed to directly resolve any of the war\u2019s goals \u2014 preventing Iran from attaining nuclear weapons, constricting its ballistic missile program, ending its support for terror proxies and its terrorism worldwide, and creating the conditions for the fall of the regime.<\/p>\n

Israeli officials fear deal will endanger Jewish state; no key war goals resolved; US military threat has all but eroded<\/p>\n

Notwithstanding Israel\u2019s profound objections to the emerging terms, Trump told Netanyahu in a phone call on Thursday that \u201cThis is the deal. It\u2019s an excellent deal, and it\u2019s time to end this war,\u201d Channel 12 reported.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu did not try to argue in the call, the report said, having apparently accepted that Trump was determined to move ahead with it. \u201cBibi didn\u2019t say much in the call. Evidently, he understood that there\u2019s going to be a deal, and that he can\u2019t stop it,\u201d a US official was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n

Senior Israeli officials quoted by Channel 12 said that the emerging agreement indicated that Washington has agreed to Tehran\u2019s \u201cmain conditions,\u201d adding that \u201cthe Iranians are not agreeing to this for nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The report said Israeli officials and experts who have worked for decades on the Iran file consider that the terms of the MOU \u201cendanger Israel\u2019s security interests.\u201d<\/p>\n

What will happen immediately \u201cis the opening of the Strait of Hormuz, the resuscitation of the regime, and a slap in the face for the Iranian public,\u201d the officials said.<\/p>\n

Iran is \u201cpaying on credit\u201d with this framework, the officials said, with Tehran only agreeing to discuss its nuclear program once the war formally ends and a number of other conditions are met, including the release of frozen Iranian funds.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tIn this photo released by the Iranian Presidency Office, President Masoud Pezeshkian, second right, listens to the head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Mohammad Eslami as he visits an exhibition of Iran\u2019s nuclear achievements, in Tehran, Iran, on April 9, 2025. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the same framework as the agreement to end the war in Gaza,\u201d an official told the TV station. \u201cAsk yourself what has happened since then with the commitment to disarm Hamas? What will be the Americans\u2019 essential leverage if, after 60 days of a ceasefire, the Iranians do not begin the steps required of them? The credible military threat has been all but eroded.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe uranium extraction has become uranium dilution and the missile system is not part of the agreement at all,\u201d the officials lamented, noting that the main issues that Israel was hoping to deal with during the war remain unaddressed.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the goals that Israel set are not immediately dealt with in the agreement. Not only is Iran not required to stop supporting proxies, it is reconnecting itself with Hezbollah through the agreement,\u201d the officials added.<\/p>\n

Israel and the US have objected to the conflict with Iran\u2019s terror proxy Hezbollah in Lebanon being tied to the emerging deal, while Tehran has insisted that an end to the war required an end to Israel\u2019s attacks in Lebanon.<\/p>\n

Despite the opposition by Israeli officials to the terms, a US official who briefed reporters on Friday insisted that the agreement accomplishes five US goals: It reopens the Strait of Hormuz and lifts the US blockade of Iranian ports; it ostensibly \u201cleads to the dismantling of the Iranian nuclear program,\u201d by extending the ceasefire between the sides by 60 days, during which they will hold technical discussions regarding Iran\u2019s nuclear program; it \u201cleads to the United States getting\u201d Iran\u2019s enriched uranium stockpile; it \u201cguarantees a long-term peace in the region\u201d; and it imposes \u201can inspection regime\u201d to ensure Iran honors its commitment not to seek nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu, who campaigned for Washington\u2019s eventual exit from the 2015 nuclear deal reached under Trump\u2019s predecessor Barack Obama, has not directly responded to the apparent failure of the MOU to address all of Israel\u2019s demands, and has instead focused exclusively on the nuclear issue.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs long as I am prime minister of Israel, Iran will not have nuclear weapons,\u201d he pledged in a statement released by his office on Friday. \u201cThere is complete agreement between President Trump and me on this issue.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C), Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (L) and Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fuchs at a special cabinet meeting in the Galilee city Nof HaGalil, June 11, 2026. (Haim Zach\/GPO)<\/p>\n

Iran has repeatedly denied seeking nuclear weapons, but has enriched and stockpiled uranium to near weapons-grade levels while openly seeking to destroy Israel.<\/p>\n

Its highly enriched uranium is believed to be buried under rubble at sites bombed by the US during the 12-day war in June 2025.<\/p>\n

Israel and the US launched their campaign against Iran on February 28 in a bid to destabilize the regime and destroy its nuclear and ballistic missile capacities. Iran responded with missile and drone strikes across the region, and its terror proxies in Iraq, Yemen, and Lebanon have also carried out attacks.<\/p>\n

Iran blockaded the Strait of Hormuz, a vital conduit through which about a fifth of the world\u2019s oil supplies are shipped, while charging tolls for vessels that wanted passage and attacking others that tried to pass.<\/p>\n

The US, in response, blockaded Iranian ships and ports to prevent Tehran from shipping any oil itself. The halt in movement through the strait has rattled global economies.<\/p>\n

Iranians also said to voice opposition to emerging deal<\/p>\n

Meanwhile in Iran, Dozens protested Saturday outside a foreign ministry office in the northeastern city of Mashhad, chanting slogans against top diplomat Abbas Araghchi over the intention to sign the deal.<\/p>\n

In a video shared by Fars news agency, women in black chadors chanted \u201cdeath to dishonorable Araghchi, the infiltrator\u201d in front of the building, while waving red and black flags.<\/p>\n

A Mashhad resident told Reuters in Dubai that some protesters chanted: \u201cDeath to the compromiser,\u201d in an apparent reference to Araghchi. \u201cCompromiser, resign, resign.\u201d<\/p>\n

The protesters argued that the agreement does not serve Iran\u2019s interests and would deprive Tehran of leverage over the Strait of Hormuz. They also accused Iranian negotiators of having made too many concessions to secure the deal.<\/p>\n

Other videos on social media that couldn\u2019t be independently verified showed people in front of the foreign ministry building in Tehran chanting \u201cAraghchi, resign\u201d and \u201cGhalibaf, resign,\u201d in reference to parliament speaker and chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf.<\/p>\n

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