President Trump says US-Iran peace deal is ‘done’
President Donald Trump and Pakistan’s Prime Minister announced that they have reached an agreement to end the war with Iran.
- President Trump said he had reached an agreement with Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
- President Trump criticized the 2015 deal to curb Iran’s nuclear capabilities and withdrew from the deal in 2018.
- Although the text of the memorandum has not yet been made public, the future of Iran’s nuclear program remains undecided.
President Donald Trump has vowed that any deal with Iran will be different from the 2015 deal signed by former President Barack Obama.
Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal in 2018, during his first term as president. On February 28, the United States and Israel bombed Iran, starting a war that killed thousands and nearly closed the Strait of Hormuz, a major oil shipping route.
On June 14, President Trump said the two countries had reached a deal, after repeatedly teasing that the United States and Iran would reach a deal soon. President Trump is attending the G7 summit in France this week, where the deal will be a major focus of discussion.
Will President Trump’s deal be different from President Obama’s deal, which he promised? The text of the agreement has not yet been made public, but here’s what we know so far:
President Obama casts doubt on potential deal
Before President Trump announced the latest deal, President Obama spoke to “Good Morning America” about his thoughts on Trump’s response to Iran.
According to ABC News, President Obama said in an interview on June 13, “I doubt that any deal that comes out will be much different or much better than the deal that we originally entered into and that we, the United States, worked for for a long time before we left.”
“I hope that the bombing will stop and that ordinary people will no longer suffer as a result of war,” he said, calling for diplomacy over military action.
What was included in President Obama’s Iran nuclear deal?
The 2015 Iran nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, was an agreement between the United States, China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, the European Union, and Iran. Iran agreed to give up the means to build nuclear weapons. In return, the United States and its allies lifted economic sanctions against the country.
Iran has vowed not to develop nuclear weapons and agreed to have its plans monitored by international watchdogs.
Read the full text of the agreement here: Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
What does the Iran deal announced by President Trump include?
The full text of President Trump’s agreement has not yet been made public. President Trump said on June 15 that the agreement had been signed by France and that the document would be released after Friday. U.S. and Iranian officials are scheduled to meet in Switzerland on Friday to formally sign the deal.
President Trump announced that he would at least reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for the US lifting its blockade of Iranian ports.
A senior US official told reporters that the memorandum includes the possibility of lifting sanctions and releasing frozen Iranian funds.
The agreement paves the way for further negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, a thorny unresolved issue.
Contributor: Zach Anderson, USA TODAY. Reuters
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