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A peace deal has been reached between the United States and Iran, according to US President Donald Trump and the Pakistani prime minister.
Trump made the announcement Sunday afternoon on his social media platform, Truth Social.
“I hereby fully authorize the opening of the Strait of Hormuz without cost, and, simultaneously, authorize the immediate removal of the United States Navy blockade,” Trump wrote. World Ship, start your engines. Let the oil flow!
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif added that the agreement would include Lebanon.
“Both sides immediately stopped military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon,” said Sharif.
The signing of the new agreement will take place on Friday in Switzerland.
Sunday’s announcement follows a day when Israel, which has been absent from the talks, attacked Beirut’s southern suburbs.
Sharif said in his post that mediators would facilitate a series of meetings this week.
“These pre-implementation discussions will lay the foundation for technical talks and an official signing ceremony,” Sharif wrote, adding there would be an official signing ceremony on Friday in Switzerland.
Prior to the announcement, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said that once a ceasefire was reached, efforts should be made to resume it.
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“The moral choice is to do everything we can to bring about a ceasefire and bring about a durable ceasefire and ultimately peace in the region, including Lebanon,” he said Sunday morning. “Canada will do whatever we can to support that.”
Carney added that this includes supporting reduced threats from Iran and its proxies to its neighbors, as well as its nuclear threat.
Iran wants a ceasefire deal that includes an end to fighting in Lebanon, where Israel has carried out deeper invasions in the past quarter century as it targets Hezbollah. Tehran also said it was working to release billions of dollars in frozen funds.
Tehran’s missile program and support for armed proxies in the region, such as Hezbollah, were among the stated targets of the US and Israel when they launched war on February 28. The conflict began with an attack that killed supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Khamenei’s son becomes Iran’s new supreme leader, although he has not been seen in public since the war began. His approval is necessary for Iran to sign a peace agreement.
Trump had faced criticism of the deal before it was announced, including some members of his Republican Party. Some politicians say the proposed deal does not improve the terms of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal signed under former president Barack Obama, which Trump withdrew from during his first term.
Iran’s government also warned in the hours ahead of the deal’s announcement that any division within the country over the deal would weaken its negotiating position.
Earlier Sunday, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian urged national unity and called it a “disgrace” when someone stood in front of parliament and called anyone negotiating a traitor.
–with files from The Associated Press
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