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<\/a><\/p>\nPublished On 13 Jun 202613 Jun 2026<\/p>\n
Iran and the United States appeared to edge closer to a deal<\/a> to end the war on Friday, with officials saying an agreement may soon be within reach.<\/p>\n Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said a memorandum of understanding with Washington had \u201cnever been closer\u201d and urged the media not to speculate about its contents before it is finalised. US President Donald Trump later reposted Araghchi\u2019s remarks after earlier dismissing reports about the deal as \u201cfake news\u201d.<\/p>\n Pakistan\u2019s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, whose country has helped mediate the talks, said a \u201cfinal, agreed-upon text\u201d had been drawn up, although some \u201cnext steps\u201d still needed to be completed.<\/p>\n Here is what has happened:<\/p>\n In Iran
\nCeasefire in Lebanon a \u2018litmus test\u2019 for US-Iran deal: Reporting from Tehran, Al Jazeera\u2019s Mohamed Vall said Araghchi acknowledged some disagreements within Iran\u2019s leadership over the proposed memorandum of understanding, but described them as manageable and said an agreement could be reached soon. The first phase of the deal would include a ceasefire across all fronts, including Lebanon, the lifting of the Strait of Hormuz blockade and a mechanism to unfreeze Iranian assets. Vall said securing and maintaining a ceasefire in Lebanon would be the key test of whether the agreement can succeed.
\nIranian official claims $24bn in assets could be unfrozen: State media, citing senior official Mohsen Rezaei, reported that Trump had agreed to release $24bn in frozen Iranian assets but has not publicly acknowledged it. Trump has previously dismissed Iranian reports about the proposed deal as \u201cfake news\u201d.
\nIn the US
\nDeal signing with Iran likely days away despite Trump\u2019s tougher tone: Al Jazeera\u2019s Alan Fisher reported that Trump has accused Iran of leaking \u201cfake\u201d and inaccurate details of the proposed agreement, describing Tehran as \u201cvery dishonourable\u201d and urging it to \u201cget their act together\u201d quickly. Despite the sharper rhetoric, US officials, including Vice President JD Vance, said progress is being made and that Iran could receive incentives if it meets agreed \u201cbenchmarks\u201d.
\nUS says it intercepted Iranian drones over Strait of Hormuz: CENTCOM said US forces shot down multiple Iranian attack drones that were allegedly targeting commercial ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz, adding that maritime traffic through the vital trade route remained uninterrupted.
\nTrump seeking an \u2018off-ramp\u2019 from the Iran war, analyst says: Reporting from Washington, DC, Mike Hanna said Trump\u2019s shifting rhetoric underscores his desire to secure a deal with Iran and move past the conflict. He said the agreement could provide the president with a way to avoid the political and economic costs of a prolonged war.
\nIn Lebanon
\nNo sign of a slowdown in Lebanon: Al Jazeera\u2019s Heidi Pett reported that Israel renewed attacks<\/a> on towns in the Tyre and Nabatieh districts and issued a \u201cwide-ranging forced displacement order\u201d affecting more than 20 communities in Nabatieh and Jezzine. The escalation suggests \u201cwe\u2019re not seeing any slowdown\u201d in the fighting, despite Iranian assurances that Lebanon would be included in a proposed ceasefire agreement, she said.
\nFormer US diplomat says Lebanon remains an important test for any deal: Henry Ensher told Al Jazeera that Iran has long viewed Lebanon as an \u201cinstrument\u201d of its foreign policy and cautioned that any Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon would be \u201ca process\u201d. He warned there are still \u201clots of ways in which things can go wrong\u201d, stressing that any agreement between Washington and Tehran would be \u201can agreement to start a process at most\u201d, rather than a final settlement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US and Iran say a deal to end the war is within reach, with a final text agreed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1153,54,42,87,88,47,43,40,38,41,39,1032],"class_list":["post-490920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-conflict","tag-donald-trump","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-lebanon","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}