{"id":710567,"date":"2026-06-18T02:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T02:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/710567\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T02:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T02:01:09","slug":"developing-iran-and-us-sign-peace-deal-strait-of-hormuz-to-reopen-immediately-pakistan-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/710567\/","title":{"rendered":"Developing | Iran and US sign peace deal, Strait of Hormuz to reopen immediately, Pakistan says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Iran and the US have signed a peace deal that will take immediate effect, with Iran reopening the Strait of Hormuz and the US lifting its naval blockade, Pakistan\u2019s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe Memorandum has been signed by honourable Presidents of both the countries and also endorsed by me as the mediator,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe signing of this agreement at the highest level of the respective governments demonstrates the commitment of both sides to a diplomatic resolution of the conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. Photo: Violaine Martin\/UN Photo\/dpa\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/4fc3b508-3126-49bb-98b3-bd76d2485423_7c5e78db.jpg\" title=\"Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. Photo: Violaine Martin\/UN Photo\/dpa\"\/>Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. Photo: Violaine Martin\/UN Photo\/dpa<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A meeting between the US and Iranian delegations headed by Vice-President J. D. Vance and Iranian parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf is still expected to take place as planned on Friday in Switzerland, according to US news site Axios.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">According to an outline of the agreement released by the US on Wednesday, the two sides will continue negotiations to achieve the final deal in a maximum of 60 days \u2013 extendable with mutual consent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran and the US have signed a peace deal that will take immediate effect, with Iran reopening the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,801,803,3,16236,249397,210369,452,453,25],"class_list":["post-710567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-pakistan","tag-shehbaz-sharif","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}