Trump says U.S. and Iran will sign a peace deal on Sunday
President Trump said Saturday that the United States and Iran will sign a peace deal Sunday.
In a Truth Social post, Trump said Iran had agreed to give up its pursuit of a nuclear weapon “through purchase, development, or any other form of procurement,” and that the Strait of Hormuz, the chokepoint through which roughly a fifth of the world’s oil flows, would reopen the moment the deal is signed.
“The Deal is scheduled to get signed tomorrow, and immediately after it is signed, the Hormuz Strait is OPEN TO ALL,” Trump wrote.
A memorandum of understanding between the two countries could be signed as early as Sunday in Geneva, with U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammed Baqer Qalibaf in line to sign, Reuters reported Friday. Under the draft framework as Reuters has described it, Washington would gradually unfreeze a portion of Iran’s seized assets and lift restrictions on Iranian oil exports, while Tehran would reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Nuclear-program negotiations would follow over the next 60 days.
Iran has yet to publicly confirm the signing. State-affiliated Fars news agency cited a source close to Tehran’s negotiating team Friday calling claims of an imminent Sunday signing in Geneva “completely false.” On Saturday, an Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson told state media that Iran’s negotiators had no travel plans for Geneva or any other location in the coming days, Reuters reported. Tehran has also pushed for the deal to extend to a Lebanon ceasefire between Israel and Iran’s proxy Hezbollah — a point Trump did not address in his Saturday post. An Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson went further Saturday, telling state media that the country’s negotiating team was not planning to travel to Geneva or anywhere else in the coming days, Reuters reported.
Trump separately rejected the version of the terms that has circulated in Iranian state media. “The terms that Iran leaked out to the fake news have nothing to do with the terms that were agreed to, in writing,” he wrote in a follow-up post Friday.
The president spent much of his Saturday post drawing contrasts with the 2015 Iran nuclear deal struck under former President Barack Obama, which he withdrew from in 2018. Trump said no money would change hands as part of the new agreement, calling the Obama deal “an easy, beautiful, smooth road to a Nuclear Weapon.”
Trump also said the U.S. would eventually retrieve Iran’s remaining enriched-uranium stockpile, which he said was buried “deep under the powerful sunken granite mountains” after U.S. B-2 strikes earlier in the war. “At the appropriate time, when all is calm, we will go in and get the Nuclear Dust… and downblend and destroy it, whether in Iran, or the United States,” Trump wrote, restating remarks he made last weekend on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
He also kept the threat of further military action on the table. “If it doesn’t, we have the ultimate alternative, hopefully never to be used again,” he wrote.
The signing would cap weeks of public back-and-forth. Trump first claimed on May 23 that the framework had been “largely negotiated,” but Iran’s state-affiliated Tasnim news agency announced June 1 that it was halting back-channel talks over alleged cease-fire violations. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi later warned that U.S. bases in the region used to attack Iran would be considered “legitimate targets.” On NBC’s “Meet the Press” last weekend, Trump said the two sides were “very close” to a deal.