War in the Middle East: Donald Trump assures that an agreement will be signed on Sunday with Iran, Tehran evokes a possible signature in "the next few days"

Is an agreement between Tehran and Washington in sight? American President Donald Trump assured on his social network Truth Social that the signing of an agreement between the United States and Iran was “expected tomorrow”, Sunday June 14, after more than three months of war. “The signing of the agreement is scheduled for tomorrow, and as soon as it is signed, the Strait of Hormuz will be open to all”a avancé le président américain.

For its part, Iran on Saturday ruled out the signing of an agreement in the next twenty-four hours, announced the government press agency Irna. “We have to wait to know the exact date of the signing. It won’t be tomorrow”declared to Irna the spokesperson for Iranian diplomacy Esmaïl Baghaï, banking instead on “the next few days”.

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, whose country is playing the role of mediator in this conflict, said on Saturday on “finalisation” of an agreement “in the next twenty-four hours”, before “discussions techniques” next week.

After having already announced numerous times that an agreement was imminent without it materializing, Donald Trump for his part hopes that this diplomatic effort will succeed as he celebrates his 80th birthday with great fanfare on Sunday and as he prepares to take off for France, where he will participate in the G7 summit, from Monday to Wednesday, in Évian (Haute-Savoie).

Since the entry into force of a ceasefire on April 8, negotiations between Washington and Tehran have encountered numerous stumbling points: Iranian nuclear program, control of the Strait of Hormuz, lifting of sanctions targeting Tehran or even inclusion possible from Lebanon, facing a massive Israeli military offensive. An agreement would thus open the way to negotiations on these highly contested technical points.

According to the head of Iranian diplomacy, Abbas Araghchi, the text discussed provides for the lifting of the American blockade of Iranian ports and a new management of the Strait of Hormuz, controlled by Tehran since the start of the war. On Friday, the Iranian Mehr news agency published a text presented as a draft 14-point protocol, fulfilling a series of Iranian conditions, including the right to uranium enrichment and the rapid release of $24 billion in Iranian funds frozen abroad, a key demand from the Islamic Republic economically asphyxiated by sanctions.