Trump Says Agreement With Iran Will Be Signed Sunday

President Donald Trump said Saturday that an agreement with Iran is scheduled to be signed Sunday, potentially marking the culmination of months of negotiations that repeatedly veered between threats of military action and promises of a diplomatic breakthrough.

“The Deal is scheduled to get signed tomorrow,” the president wrote on Truth Social, adding that the Strait of Hormuz would be “OPEN TO ALL” immediately following the signing of the deal.

Iran has not confirmed a deal has been reached, but Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Friday that a deal "has never been closer." Iranian state-run media has at times described any possible deal as more of a 60-day extension of a memorandum of understanding so both parties can continue negotiations and not a final end to the conflict.

Trump offered few new details about the contents of the agreement, but he said it would prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon “through purchase, development, or any other form of procurement.” He also said the United States would eventually remove and destroy Iran’s remaining nuclear material, which he described as “Nuclear Dust.”

The announcement caps off a tumultuous week, marked by diplomacy and sporadic conflict, leaving the president both confident and often pessimistic that a deal could be reached soon.

On Thursday, Trump called off planned strikes on Iran, writing on Truth Social that discussions had “been brought to the highest level of Iranian leadership and approved” – a huge pivot from just hours earlier, when he’d threatened to hit the country “VERY HARD TONIGHT” and publicly weighed going after Kharg Island, its top oil export hub.

But the next day, he slammed Iranian interlocutors as “very dishonorable people to deal with” in a post on Truth Social, after terms of a potential peace deal — which Trump claimed differed from what terms the U.S. had worked out in writing — leaked to the media.

“They better get their act together, and FAST!” Trump wrote.

Still, Saturday’s social media post is perhaps the closest the two sides have come to peace since Israel and the U.S. first launched strikes on Iran in late February. The ensuing three and a half months have seen Tehran effectively cut off the Strait of Hormuz, a critical waterway for global trade, which has led energy prices to skyrocket.