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U.S. President Donald Trump said connected Sunday (May 24, 2026) that helium had told U.S. negotiators "not to unreserved into a deal" with Iran, amid anticipation -- and mounting disapproval -- of an statement to extremity the warfare successful the Middle East.
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"The negotiations are proceeding successful an orderly and constructive manner, and I person informed my representatives not to unreserved into a woody successful that clip is connected our side," Mr. Trump wrote connected his Truth Social account.
"The Blockade volition stay successful afloat unit and effect until an statement is reached, certified, and signed."
The United States has imposed a blockade of Iranian ports since April 13 aft Tehran virtually halted postulation done the economically captious Strait of Hormuz successful effect to the US-Israeli attacks connected Iran that began February 28.
"Both sides indispensable instrumentality their clip and get it right," Mr. Trump wrote successful the aforesaid Truth Social post, portion slamming the 2015 atomic woody that erstwhile president Barack Obama agreed with Iran.
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"Our narration with Iran is becoming a overmuch much nonrecreational and productive one. They indispensable understand, however, that they cannot make oregon procure a Nuclear Weapon oregon Bomb," Mr. Trump wrote.
While the White House has not released aspects of the deal, Iran Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei said connected Saturday (May 23) connected authorities tv that the 2 sides were nearing a "a memorandum of understanding, a benignant of model statement composed of 14 clauses," successful "a inclination toward rapprochement."
Several voices, notably among Republican lawmakers adjacent to Mr. Trump, expressed fears of an statement favourable to Iran arsenic expected aspects of the woody that began to leak.
According to quality outlet Axios, a imaginable statement would widen the existent ceasefire by 60 days, during which the Strait of Hormuz would beryllium reopened, Iran would freely merchantability oil, and negotiations would beryllium held connected Iran's atomic program.
The apical Republican legislator overseeing defence policy, Roger Wicker, said that agreeing to a "rumored 60-day ceasefire" with Iran would mean, "everything accomplished by Operation Epic Fury would beryllium for naught!"
Fellow Republican senators Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham besides voiced absorption to Iran soon gaining benefits specified arsenic the quality to merchantability its lipid freely.
"If the effect of each that is to beryllium an Iranian authorities — inactive tally by Islamists who chant 'death to America' — present receiving billions of dollars, being capable to enrich uranium & make atomic weapons, and having effectual power implicit the Strait of Hormuz, past that result would beryllium a disastrous mistake," Mr. Cruz, a Republican from Texas, wrote connected X.
Thom Tillis, a Republican legislator from North Carolina, said the woody "doesn't marque consciousness to me."
"We were told astir 11 weeks agone by (Secretary of Defence Pete) Hegseth and the Department of Defence that they had obliterated Iran's defenses, and it was conscionable a substance of clip earlier we had the atomic material. Now we're talking astir a posture wherever we whitethorn judge the atomic worldly remaining successful Iran. How does that marque consciousness astatine all?" Tillis said connected CNN's "State of the Union" greeting program.
