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U.S. President Donald Trump held a White House Situation Room gathering with his advisers connected Friday (May 29, 2026) but has not yet made a determination connected whether to determination guardant with a woody to widen the Iran ceasefire and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Iran said the statement has not been finalised.
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Ahead of the meeting, Mr. Trump said helium was looking to marque a “final determination”. A elder medication authoritative aboriginal said the astir two-hour gathering with nationalist information aides had concluded without a decision.
The official, who was not authorised to remark publically and spoke connected information of anonymity, said Mr. Trump would lone motion a woody that “satisfies his redlines” and curbs Iran’s atomic ambitions.
Mr. Trump confirmed the high-level talks the time aft The Associated Press and different quality outlets reported that U.S. and Iranian negotiators had travel to presumption connected a tentative agreement. The woody would widen the fragile ceasefire by 60 days arsenic caller talks are held connected Iran’s disputed atomic programme.
Mr. Trump wrote connected societal media that “Iran indispensable hold that they volition ne'er person a Nuclear Weapon oregon Bomb”. He said the strait indispensable beryllium reopened for planetary navigation and each oversea mines destroyed.
Iran’s main negotiator said connected Friday (May 29, 2026) that it has “no spot successful guarantees oregon words”, lone actions, underscoring lingering distrust aft the U.S. and Israel person doubly attacked Iran implicit the past twelvemonth portion it was engaged successful atomic negotiations.
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“No measurement volition beryllium taken earlier the different broadside acts,” Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf wrote connected X. “We bash not summation concessions done talks but done missiles.”
Nuclear issues stay unresolved
Later, but earlier Mr. Trump’s gathering concluded, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei told a authorities broadcaster that the statement “has not been finalised yet”.
On Thursday (May 28, 2026), U.S. Vice-President J.D. Vance suggested negotiators were trying to onslaught wide presumption connected Iran’s atomic programme, with the specifics to beryllium hammered retired successful the ensuing talks.
Mr. Baghaei, however, said connected Friday (May 29, 2026) that Iranian officials were “focused connected the extremity of warfare and are not discussing the details of the atomic program astatine this point”.
Iran besides wants immoderate woody to see a truce betwixt Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah militants successful Lebanon, wherever warring has intensified contempt a nominal ceasefire. And the Islamic Republic has been seeking the merchandise of billions of dollars successful frozen funds.
Ebrahim Azizi, who heads the Iranian Parliament’s nationalist information committee and is adjacent to apical leaders, posted connected societal media connected Friday (May 29, 2026) that Iran “sets the terms: currency for cash, recognition for credit, thing for nothing”.
The Islamic Republic has 440.9 kilograms (972 pounds) of uranium that is enriched up to 60% purity, a short, method measurement from weapons-grade levels of 90%, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Iran has agelong maintained its atomic programme is peaceful and has not publically committed to giving up the stockpile. It is believed to beryllium buried nether 3 atomic sites that were severely damaged by U.S. strikes past year.
Mr. Trump returned connected Friday (May 29, 2026) to his on-and-off request for the removal of the cache arsenic portion of a deal. The worldly would beryllium unearthed by the U.S., successful coordination with Iran and the IAEA, “and DESTROYED”, helium posted.
Deal would reopen the Strait of Hormuz
The projected memorandum makes wide that Iran would not beryllium capable to enforce tolls connected the Strait of Hormuz and that it would person to region each mines from the captious waterway wrong 30 days, according to a U.S. authoritative who was not authorised to remark publically and spoke connected information of anonymity.
The U.S. would gradually assistance its blockade connected Iranian ports and would besides hold to unbend sanctions, allowing Iran to merchantability much of its oil.
Mr. Baghaei said Iran and Oman, which prevarication connected other sides of the strait, would negociate it and “adopt mechanisms” for transit done it, “based connected their ain nationalist interests and the interests of the planetary community”.
The 2 nations’ Foreign Ministers discussed the contented by telephone earlier connected Friday (May 29, 2026), according to Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who wrote connected X that helium had expressed solidarity “in the look of immoderate threat”.
On Wednesday (May 27, 2026), Mr. Trump had warned Oman — a U.S. state — not to participate into immoderate statement with Iran to stock power of the strait oregon the U.S. volition “have to stroke them up”.
Iran has efficaciously closed the strait since the US and Israel launched a astonishment onslaught connected February 28 that killed Iran’s ultimate person and different apical officials. Before then, the waterway was unfastened to planetary traffic, and astir a 5th of the world’s lipid and state passed done it.
The closure of the strait has caused the terms of substance and different goods to soar, with the effects felt acold beyond the Middle East.
Iran has said it lets immoderate commercialized vessels walk — astir 2 twelve regular successful caller days, compared with much than 100 a time earlier the war. But the Islamic Republic besides has charged tolls for astatine slightest immoderate ships and established a ceremonial gatekeeper bureau earlier this month, spurring a caller circular of US sanctions this week.
The agency, called the Persian Gulf Strait Authority, condemned the sanctions connected Friday (May 29, 2026) but deemed them a motion of its ain “positive performance”.
Since the ceasefire began astir 7 weeks ago, the US and Iran person traded strikes and accusations of ceasefire violations. But they person not returned to full-scale hostilities and person kept negotiating.
