US-Iran War Live News: Iranian and US officials said Friday a deal to end the Middle East war was closer than ever, with mediator Pakistan also expressing optimism that an elusive agreement was within reach.
But during weeks of halting negotiations — marked by threats and exchanges of fire despite an April truce — US President Donald Trump has repeatedly insisted that a deal was all but signed, only for talks to drag on.
And disagreements between the two sides persisted, with Iranian state media publishing a breakdown of what was purportedly on the table that was at odds with Washington’s account.
“The Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding has never been closer,” Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, wrote in a social media post, referring to the Pakistani capital that hosted previous US-Iran talks.
Trump — who on Friday morning accused the Iranians of negotiating in bad faith and misrepresenting the terms that had been agreed — posted a screenshot of Araghchi’s message on his own feed just hours later.
Araghchi provided some details on the agreement in an interview with state television, saying it calls for the lifting of the US naval blockade of Iran’s ports and unspecified changes to the administration of the Strait of Hormuz, a key maritime trade route for oil and gas from the Gulf.
He also said the only way to deal with the country’s enriched uranium — which Washington alleges is part of a nuclear weapons programme — “is to dilute it inside Iran.”
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