A peace deal has been reached between the United States and Iran, according to U.S. President Donald Trump and Pakistan’s prime minister.
Trump made the announcement Sunday afternoon on his social media platform Truth Social.
“I hereby fully authorize the toll free opening of the Strait of Hormuz, and, simultaneously herewith, authorize the immediate removal of the United States Naval blockade,” Trump wrote. “Ships of the World, start your engines. Let the oil flow!”
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif added that the accord would include Lebanon.
“Both sides have the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon,” Sharif said.
The signing of the new accord would take place on Friday in Switzerland.
Sunday’s announcement follows a day that saw Israel, which has been sidelined from the negotiations, attacking 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 the technical talks and the official signing ceremony,” Sharif wrote, adding there will be an official signing ceremony Friday in Switzerland.
Prior to the announcement, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said once a ceasefire is established, work must be done to continue it.
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“The moral choice is to do everything we can to establish a ceasefire and build that into 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 includes supporting the reduction of threats from Iran and its proxies against its regional neighbours, and its nuclear threat.
Iran has wanted a ceasefire deal to include an end to the fighting in Lebanon, where Israel has pushed its invasion deeper than at any point in the past quarter-century as it targets Hezbollah. Tehran has also said it’s seeking the release of 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 by the U.S. and Israel when they launched the war on Feb. 28. The conflict began with strikes that killed supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Khamenei’s son became Iran’s new supreme leader, though he has not been seen in public since the war began. His approval was needed for Iran to sign off on the peace deal.
Trump has already faced criticism of the deal before it was announced, with some members of his own Republican Party among them. Some politicians have said the proposed deal did not improve on the terms of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal signed under former president Barack Obama, that Trump withdrew from in his first term.
The Iranian government also warned in the hours leading up to the announcement of the deal that any division at home over the deal weakens its negotiating position.
Sunday morning, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian urged national unity and called it a “disgrace” when someone stands before parliament and calls anyone who negotiates a traitor.
–with files from The Associated Press
There is no deal. Why do journalists get misled so easily. They haven’t even officially signed an MOU (Memorandum of Understanding). What’s an MOU? It’s a meeting agenda, i.e., they’ve agreed on an agenda to discuss topics to discuss. Clear, right?
Let the oil flow just as it was before I created this stupid War
Love how all you idiots who are only here to bash Carney. What a bunch of clowns. Maybe if the PC’s had a better leader, you might form Government. You won’t as long as PP is leader.
@ Janet Eliston, give your childish head a shake. What does that have to do with the orange dirt bag, who caused all this Laos!
Tony Fuda – It’s the same peace deal he has already claimed victory for dozens of times. Again it includes Trump speaking for Israel so this one is not any more likely to get enacted either.
Too bad he’s such a petulant jerk that he tore up Obama’s JCPOA. That was the deal he is trying to pass his off as.
The Art of the Schlemiel
Iran put us to shame
Taking bets on how many minutes before israel breaks the deal…..as per usual.
Too late president Taco the damage is done all for nothing
I really look forward to gas prices coming down finally…they will come down right.. RIGHT???
Calling a 5 cent dip two weeks from now followed by a 10 cent increase the following week because a bird flew into a cooling tower fan at one refinery in texas a week from now.
I heard Carney is sitting at the children’s table for the G7.
Good boy Donald, here’s a lollpop.
While Trump was putting a peace deal together for the Iran Conflict Carney was vacationing in Ireland and having a Guinness.
Need to see Irans side of the storey, come on Global get your ass over there
So, cant diss ol Trumpy boy hey. You are a fool to believe him. Do you think oil prices will drop and the grocery nabobs will follow suit, or the rest of the billionaires jerkmeats? Nope. The gouge will continue till people get mad enough to burn something down and force them to! Or go after this stupid Liberal bunch of whackos!
When will Careny get his deal he promised back in July 2025. Even the Iranians got a deal now.
Maybe Carney can give another great Davos speech at the G7 as that is, the only thing he’s good at.
I guess Carney has 1 less excuse now for why Canada has the highest food inflation in the G7.
Who cares what Canada says. Totally irrelevant.
Thank you Trump for coming through.
While Carney is vacationing on the Canadian tax payer dime. Trump a real leader is creating world peace but the
MAGA L I b t a r d s can’t handle that they got to bring Obama probably the worst president the US ever had. Too funny
Anonymous…..You can’t dispute what I said so please quote what Obama got from Iran.
Carney still can’t get the deal done that he promised almost a year ago.
Elbows Up Canadians have serious TDS. Canada is irrelevant and sits on the sidelines warming the bench criticizing those that are actually in the game.
trump got less from Iran than Obama did.
Fact.
@ Jim: Are you nuts? trump took NO NUKES from anyone.
President Trump, negotiated through strength and made the world a lot safer today. He didn’t give plane loads of tax payer money like Obama and Biden. Many US Presidents talked about taking the nukes away from Iran….and Trump showed them how to do it.
Meanwhile Carney is hiding in Ireland with nothing 2 offer.
E-Ben X.
Not quite. And only Trump can call of the embargo as it is his Navy doing it. Might help if you had a few facts in your statement.
So does that mean we can focus on Carney now?…It’s only been 12 years of Liberal dumpster fire policy!
Do you think the media will turn a scruntizing eye toward what Carney is actually doing? Not likely….
Strang it happens today,
Blah, blah, blah!!!!!
Those countries worked it out themselves and went over tRumps head,
AND TRUMPS WAR WAS ALL FOR NOTHING BECAUSE OBAMA HAD THE PERFECT PEACE DEAL WITH IRAN THAT WAS WORKING!
Trump : Relevant
Carney: Irrelevant
Carney should have joined in on the Police action in Iran and gained some credibility.
Any nonsense chatter of your wyoming/ northeast pipeline just went out the window. Hope you guys saved your money Alberta!?
Just in time for alberta to NOT remove any sales tax….
So in other words this war was created by Trump only to create more profits for Trump and his rich friends .
President taco is a pos
Carney has done nothing of consequence. Basically irrelevant.
So Trump will remove his illegal blockade. Then Iran will open the strait. I do not see any reduction in Israel’s attacks on Lebanon. If Trump really wants peace, then he has to get firm with Israel. After all, it is done with US weapons, and money…
Why is Carney boot licking Trump, again. The Iran leaders have not tried to make nuclear weapons. That is just a phobia of Israel and Trump.
I wonder how long it will take the sanctions on Iran to lift. – Trump has got to show the world he has TACO’ed and wants peace.
As others have pointed out, Trump started this, so when he ends it he does not deserve praise.
Israel is not part of the deal and will find some way to kill it!
Did you see Elbows Up Trudeau in California watching and cheering for the USA team. Didn’t he tell Canadians to boycott travel to the USA because of Trump. Total hypocrisy.
Trump has made the world safer. Meanwhile Carney making excuses.
trump fucked up gasoline prices for absolutely nothing.
The comparison of Trump and Carney is so stark.
Trump: Strong, Commander in Chief, Good Leader
Carney: Weak, Flip flops, spineless. No role in important world issues.
So trump gave everything away.
His trolls talk about Ireland. lol
Phuck off goofs
Carney is irrelevant. Now in Ireland having a Guinness in a Dublin Pub.
Just think if the Mango Menace had not gone there in the first place the oil wouldn’t have stopped flowing. He will probably want a Nobel prize now .
Meanwhile Carney in Ireland opining about his ancestry and spewing out other verbal diarrhea.Trump doing the hard work while Carney in the cheap seats virtue signalling.
Blocked, unlocked, deal, no deal, ceasefire, no ceasefire. Its the 4th time today and the 332nd time this month.
Who cares at this point? Shut up.
Sounds a whole lot like more Trump B.S.!?
Does Iran know they are signing a peace deal??
What about all the lovely Iranian people that Trump was going to rescue?
How many deals has your boy carney accomplished? Elbozos up!