War in the Middle East: Donald Trump says an agreement will be signed on Sunday with Iran, Tehran does not confirm

Donald Trump and the Pakistani mediator affirmed on Saturday June 13 that the signing of an agreement to end the war in the Middle East was planned for Sunday, a date not confirmed at this stage by Tehran. It was first Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif who wrote on

Then the American president, who has already announced numerous times that an agreement was imminent without it materializing, assured on his Truth Social network that “the signing of the agreement is planned for tomorrow” Sunday, his 80th birthday, and that “as soon as he is been signed, the Strait of Hormuz will be OPEN TO ALL”.

Regarding enriched uranium, another central point of these laborious negotiations, the billionaire assured that the United States would recover it from Iran “when the time comes”, while Washington has so far affirmed that an agreement should lead to the “dismantling” of the Iranian nuclear program and allow the United States to recover this fissile material, which would be destroyed then taken out of Iran. Iranian diplomacy for its part spoke of an agreement on Saturday in “the coming days” but not on Sunday, according to the government press agency Irna.

Different versions

Since Friday, both camps have hinted at a solution. But the versions of a possible agreement given by the Iranian media and Washington diverge. As the head of Iranian diplomacy, Abbas Araghchi, recalled: “until a complete agreement has been reached (…) we cannot say with certainty that common ground has been found.”

According to him, the compromise provides for the lifting of the American blockade of Iranian ports and a new management of the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic sea route for global hydrocarbon trade. It has been controlled by Tehran since the start of the war, which has caused oil prices to soar.

On Friday, the Iranian Mehr news agency published what it presented as a draft 14-point protocol, fulfilling a series of Iranian conditions, including the right to enrich uranium and the rapid release of $24 billion in Iranian funds frozen abroad, a key demand from the Islamic Republic economically asphyxiated by sanctions.

On Saturday, the American president assured that the Iranians “no longer want nuclear weapons”. “When the time comes, when everything is calm, we will collect the nuclear dust, buried deep” in the mountains “and we will dilute it and destroy it, whether in Iran or in the United States.”
On Friday, the head of Iranian diplomacy recommended a dilution in Iran of stocks of uranium enriched to 60%. Diluting them to a rate of less than 5%, far from the 90% required to make the atomic bomb, would considerably remove the threat of a nuclear program for military purposes. Tehran denies wanting to acquire atomic weapons, as the United States and Israel accuse.