Announced (again) signing of agreements with Iran on Saturday: US President Donald Trump.Image: keystone
June 13, 2026, 9:49 p.mJune 13, 2026, 10:07 p.m
According to US President Donald Trump, an agreement is planned to be signed this Sunday in efforts to end the Iran war. Immediately afterwards, the Strait of Hormuz should be reopened, he wrote on his Truth Social platform. Trump did not provide any information about how and where the agreement would be signed or by whom exactly. There was initially no confirmation of this from Iran, but also no denial.
Recently, there were already increasing signs of a possible early agreement on a framework agreement between the USA and Iran. This should be a starting point for in-depth discussions between Washington and Tehran. In addition to opening the Strait of Hormuz, it will reportedly extend the ceasefire by 60 days and be the starting point for negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program.
The US President on his truth social platform.
Trump emphasized in his post that Iran would not receive any funds in this first step. In due course, when everything has calmed down, they will go to Iran and recover Iran’s spilled uranium reserves. These should then be diluted and destroyed – “whether in Iran or in the United States”.
Previously signals of impending agreement
A few hours earlier, the Prime Minister of the mediating state of Pakistan, Shehbaz Sharif, had written on They are also preparing for discussions on a technical level next week. In addition to Trump, the Pakistani Foreign Ministry also wrote that an electronic signing ceremony was planned for Sunday.
Trump shared a screenshot of Sharif’s post, which could be interpreted as a signal that he is not averse to an electronic signature. If it actually happens this Sunday, this would coincide with his 80th birthday. The US news portal Axios reported that US officials and sources in the mediating states had confirmed that the signing would take place virtually. This is primarily for logistical reasons. Otherwise, Vice President JD Vance, who leads the US delegation, would not have managed to return to the US in time before Trump leaves for the G7 summit in France on Monday morning.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi (right) received Pakistani Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi on June 7, 2026 in Tehran, Iran.Image: EPA
On Thursday, the US President spoke in the White House of a likely signing that could perhaps take place in Europe this weekend.
This Saturday, Iranian Foreign Office spokesman Esmail Baghai also saw the possibility of an initial agreement with the USA on a framework agreement in the coming days. “We have never been so close to an agreement and it is therefore very likely that the MoU will be finalized in the coming days,” he said, according to the Iranian news agency Irna.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi announced on Friday that he saw a framework agreement within reach. “The Islamabad Declaration of Intent has never been so close to completion,” he wrote on
What is known about the agreement
According to a senior US official, the framework agreement includes the opening of the Strait of Hormuz and the lifting of the US naval blockade of Iranian ports. It therefore also includes Iran’s promise that its nuclear program will be dismantled. “Third, it results in the United States receiving the enriched material. We are making an agreement that this material will be destroyed on site and then taken out of the country.” How exactly this should take place is the subject of further negotiations, which should take place within 60 days.
The boats in the Strait of Hormuz.Image: keystone
Frozen Iranian assets abroad could be released – but, according to the US, only if the country has previously provided compensation. Accordingly, no assets would be released when a framework agreement was signed. With appropriate cooperation from Tehran, easing of sanctions would also be conceivable in the future. Tehran is now banned from financing terrorist groups.
Trump: Better deal than Obama’s
In his post, Trump portrayed his “deal” as significantly better than the nuclear agreement that was negotiated during Barack Obama’s presidency and unilaterally terminated by Trump in his first term in office. According to current knowledge of the contents, the framework agreement would first of all reverse one consequence of the Israeli-American war against Iran: the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
It is by no means certain whether the planned in-depth negotiations will actually lead to an agreement on the controversial Iranian nuclear program. Similar negotiations on the last major agreement with Iran, the 2015 nuclear deal, lasted almost two years.
«Hopefully this process will be quick, easy and smooth. If not, we have the ultimate alternative that will hopefully never be used again!”
Donald Trump
Trump also made it clear in his post that not all pitfalls have been removed: The US looks forward to long-term cooperation with Iran and the entire Middle East, he wrote – and added: “Hopefully this process will be quick, easy and smooth. If not, we have the ultimate alternative that will hopefully never be used again!”
Recently there was repeated mutual fire
Representatives from Washington and Tehran have been negotiating – with the help of numerous mediators – for weeks about a permanent end to the war. The USA and Israel began their attacks on Iran at the end of February, and Iran’s armed forces responded with rocket and drone fire at targets in Israel and the entire Gulf region.
The war triggered shock waves that were felt around the world – especially because of the Strait of Hormuz. Shipping traffic through the strait had largely come to a standstill since the beginning of the war, which drove up oil prices significantly.
A ceasefire has actually been in effect for a good two months, but since it came into force there have been several mutual shellings. In the days before Trump’s announcement, the intensity of the attacks had increased again, fueling fears of a return to open conflict. (val/sda/dpa)