Iran and United States reach peace deal with Trump declaring Strait of Hormuz open

President Donald Trump speaks before signing a proclamation in the Oval Office of the White House (Picture: AFP)

Iran and the United States have reached a peace deal after more than 100 days of war, $30bn spent, and around 10,000 people killed.

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, announced that a peace deal between US and Iran had been reached late on Sunday night.

US President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social shortly after: ‘The Deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran is now complete.

‘Congratulations to all! I hereby fully authorise the toll-free opening of the Strait of Hormuz, and, simultaneously herewith, authorise the immediate removal of the United States Naval blockade.

‘Ships of the World, start your engines. Let the oil flow!’

He added: ‘This Great Deal will bring peace and security to the whole Region.

‘Many presidents have tried to make Peace with Iran, and all have failed before me.

‘The Leaders of the region have, for the first time, found a President who can help them achieve real peace.’

Pakistan said the official signing ceremony, which needed Iran’s Supreme Leader’s approval, would be signed in Switzerland on Friday.

Trump’s post claiming the deal ‘would be a wall against Iran ever having a nuclear weapon’ came hours before a UFC event at the White House marking his 80th birthday.

He finished: ‘With the opening of the Strait upon the signing of the Deal on Friday, for purposes of mine removal, oil will flow on both ends again for the Region, and the World!’

A plume of smoke rises after a strike on the Iranian capital Tehran, on March 3 (Picture: AFP)

But Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian insisted his country ‘will not bow down to any power’ after pro-Iranian Revolutionary Guard supporters protested the deal.

He explained: ‘But we do consider ourselves responsible and accountable to the Iranian people and their legitimate demands.’

He added the government had a duty to support those defending the country, adding that Iran could not ask fighters to stand firm while ignoring ‘their support, facilities, and needs’.

Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei has not been seen in public since the strike that killed his father and son.
(Credits: Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto/Shutterstock)

Pezeshkian also criticised attacks on officials carrying out state missions, saying it was ‘unfortunate’ that people working ‘with the aim of protecting the national interests and honour of the country’ faced accusations of ‘treason or betrayal of the homeland’.

A photograph taken from the southern city of Tyre shows people sunbathing on the beach as smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike in the village of Deir Qanoun Ras al-Ain (Picture: AFP)

Iranian state media reported Pakistan’s statement after a day in which Israel, sidelined from the negotiations, attacked Beirut’s southern suburbs and posed a threat to the discussions nearing an end.

The deal largely returns to a status that existed before the war, but with thousands of people dead and Iran wielding a new source of negotiating pressure with its ability to influence transits of the strait.

The waterway is crucial to significant shipments of oil, natural gas and related products like fertiliser, and its effective closure rocked the global economy.

Throughout negotiations, Trump alternatively threatened to destroy Iranian infrastructure, even its civilisation, and praised the relationship with Iran as ‘more professional’ as his administration sought an exit from the war with midterm elections coming up.

Iran’s government, with its own tensions around hardliners as it scrambled to replace several top officials killed in the war, repeatedly expressed wariness of negotiations after rounds of talks often ended with US and Israeli strikes.

Tehran has emphasised that it wanted a deal to focus on ending the war, with discussions put off until later on its nuclear program — the issue at the centre of it all.

Iran has 440.9 kilograms (972 pounds) of uranium that is enriched up to 60% purity, a short, technical step from weapons-grade levels of 90%, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Iran has long maintained its nuclear program is peaceful and has not publicly committed to giving up the enriched uranium, which is believed to be buried under three nuclear sites that were badly damaged by US strikes last year.

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