{"id":712196,"date":"2026-06-18T20:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T20:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/712196\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T20:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T20:52:12","slug":"live-updates-us-and-iran-sign-initial-agreement-to-end-war-but-tougher-talks-lie-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/712196\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: US and Iran sign initial agreement to end war but tougher talks lie ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Iran\u2019s supreme leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei, confirmed he authorized an agreement with the US, despite holding a different view on the deal.\n <\/p>\n

\n In a text message read on Iran\u2019s state broadcaster IRIB on Thursday evening, Khamenei said that US President Donald Trump had \u201cout of desperation, resorted to various forms of pressure and leverage to bring about this outcome.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cAs a matter of principle, I held a different view. However, in light of the commitment given to me by the respected President, in his capacity as head of the Supreme National Security Council, on behalf of himself and the other members, to safeguard the rights of the Iranian nation and the Resistance Front\u2014and given his explicit acceptance of responsibility for doing so\u2014I authorized it,\u201d Khamenei said.\n <\/p>\n

\n Iran will now \u201cawait the fulfillment of the conditions that have been stated\u201d in the agreement, the Iranian leader continued.\n <\/p>\n

\n He added that any potential future face-to-face negotiations \u201cdo not signify acceptance of the enemy\u2019s position.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Khamenei later posted an English-language version<\/a> of his statement on his official X account.\n <\/p>\n

\n Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi issued a statement welcoming the supreme leader\u2019s \u201cwise\u201d message, according to IRIB.\n <\/p>\n

\n Iran\u2019s \u201cforeign policy apparatus will be devoted to securing the supreme interests\u201d of the country, Araghchi added.\n <\/p>\n

\n This post has been updated with more details on the supreme leader\u2019s statement.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s supreme leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei, confirmed he authorized an agreement with the US, despite holding a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,29430,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-712196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-hnk","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712196","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=712196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}