The United States and Iran have reached a deal to end their war, US President Donald Trump and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif posted early this morning.
“The Deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran is now complete,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform in Washington, shortly after Sharif announced the agreement in Pakistan, which has served as a mediator.
The precise terms of the deal were not immediately known. Sharif said in a post on X that the pact called for ‘the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon’.
Trump said the Strait of Hormuz, a critical shipping lane for global energy supplies that Iran has effectively shut down for months, would be open ‘toll free’ and that a US naval blockade of Iran ports would also end.
“Ships of the World, start your engines. Let the oil flow!” Trump wrote.
The deal will be officially signed on Friday in Geneva, Switzerland, Sharif wrote. The US President said the Strait will open on Friday upon signing of the ceasefire deal.
Multiple sources previously told Reuters that the draft deal would reopen the Strait, end the US naval blockade and extend a ceasefire, while leaving Iran’s nuclear programme to be addressed during a 60-day period of additional talks.
Iran’s deputy foreign minister, Kazem Gharibabadi, confirmed the agreement on state television but said Iran would not start implementing it until it was signed.
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