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An agreement has been reached between the United States and Iran, President Donald Trump and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced Sunday, with Iranian state media broadcasting the announcement.
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“The Deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran is now complete,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. “Congratulations to all! I hereby fully authorize the toll free opening of the Strait of Hormuz, and, simultaneously herewith, authorize the immediate removal of the United States Naval blockade. Ships of the World, start your engines. Let the oil flow!”
Sharif made a similar announcement minutes before Trump’s statement.
“Following intensive talks, we are pleased to announce that the Peace Deal between the United States of America and Islamic Republic of Iran has been REACHED,” Sharif said on X.
He continued, “Both sides have declared the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon.”
A signing was scheduled for Friday in Switzerland, Sharif said.
No other details of the agreement were immediately available. The White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Kazem Gharibabadi, the deputy foreign minister of Iran, said a memorandum of understanding is complete and the U.S. naval blockade against Iran will end Sunday night, according to Iranian state media.
“The immediate and permanent end of war and military operations on various fronts, including Lebanon, will be announced from tonight,” Gharibabadi said, according to semi-official state news agency Tasnim.
It’s unclear when the strait will be fully open. Trump said in a post on Truth Social later Sunday that the channel would open “upon the signing of the Deal on Friday, for purposes of mine removal.”
The agreement is intended to bring a halt to the U.S. and Israel’s war against Iran, which began on Feb. 28, marked by the assassination of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and U.S.-Israeli strikes across Iran.
A ceasefire was agreed in April to allow for negotiations, though both sides have continued with some strikes amid a dispute over the Strait of Hormuz, a vital trade route through which some 20% of the world’s oil passed before the war.
Sharif said “pre-implementation discussions” would take place in the interim. It was not clear what that entailed.
Trump, Iranian officials, and key mediator Pakistan said a memorandum of understanding was close heading into the weekend.
In a story published Sunday, Trump told the Wall Street Journal that the deal would either be signed by the president electronically or by Vice President JD Vance in person.
Vance said Sunday evening, shortly after Trump’s announcement on Truth Social, that the logistics of the signing ceremony are still being worked out.
“I certainly plan to be there, but it’s possible the president himself could be there,” Vance said on Fox News.
He added that the deal was a “new leaf” and that “we’re going to keep working at it.”
“I’m not going to say that everybody is going to sing Kumbaya tomorrow. It’s going to take a little bit of time to learn the ways of peace, but I do think we took a major, major step tonight,” Vance said.
The U.S. and Iran have at times given very different outlines of the terms of the draft deal, with Trump and Iranian officials clashing Friday over the release of frozen Iranian assets.
The Lebanese government and the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah have not made any public comment on the agreement as Israel has targeted parts of Lebanon in a campaign to dismantle the proxy fighters who launch munitions at Israel just across its norther border.
Israel, the United States’ partner in the war with Iran, said its military attacked Hezbollah targets in Beirut’s southern suburbs Sunday in retaliation an earlier attack on Israeli territory. Lebanon’s Civil Defense Ministry said three people were killed.
Speaking on Truth Social earlier Sunday, Trump said the strikes on Beirut “should not have happened, particularly on a special day when we are so close to a Peace Deal with Iran.”
“All sides should stand down,” he said. “There should be no more attacks by Israel anywhere in Lebanon.”
There was no immediate public comment from Israeli leadership.
Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign affairs said on Sunday the country welcomes the agreement as “an important step towards consolidating sustainable peace and promoting economic growth” and as a means to “de-escalate tensions and bring viewpoints closer together” in the Middle East.
The price of U.S. crude oil fell more than 4.5% to $80 per barrel, its lowest level since the first week of March, as trading opened Sunday evening, shortly after the announcement.
Brent crude oil also tumbled by about 4%, touching $83, its lowest level since early March as well. Still, even at $80, oil prices have risen more than 20% since the war started and more than 40% since the beginning of the year. Last week, prices dropped more than 6% as momentum built toward the announcement of a deal.
GOP lawmakers showed support for the agreement Sunday evening.
“For 47 years, Iran has attacked the United States, our allies, and every American they could find in the region. The people of Iran live under the oppression of the regime, and the United States has spent billions of dollars each year defending ourselves from the threat,” Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., posted on X, praising Trump for reaching a deal.
The U.S. and Iran had for weeks appeared to be nearing a deal, but reopening the strait had become a major sticking point in talks between the two nations. Iran briefly agreed to do so last month, bringing some relief to the oil-trading Gulf states that rely on it, but closed it again when the U.S. launched a blockade barring ships from entering or exiting Iranian ports.
Trump administration officials had said that averting the risk of Iranian nuclear weapons would be central to any deal, eight years on from Trump’s decision during his first term to withdraw from a previous agreement, reached under President Barack Obama, intended to limit Iran’s nuclear program.
Thousands have been killed in the wider war that has consumed the region, with the highest death tolls reported in Iran and Lebanon.
The U.S.-based rights group HRANA documented more than 3,600 people killed in Iran, including more than 1,700 civilians, since the U.S. and Israel first launched their attacks in late February, sparking a wider conflict in the region.More than 3,700 people have been killed in Lebanon, 36 have been killed in Gulf states, and 20 have died in Israel. Thirteen U.S. service members have been killed, and two more died of noncombat causes.
Dennis Romero is a breaking news reporter for NBC News Digital.
Chantal Da Silva reports on world news for NBC News Digital and is based in London.
Raquel Coronell Uribe is a politics reporter for NBC News.
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