The U.S. president wrote that once the deal is signed, the Strait of Hormuz will immediately be ‘open to all.’
President Donald Trump said the United States and Iran are scheduled to finalize a pending peace framework on June 14, initiating a process to conclude a multi-month armed standoff and resolve years of tension over Iran’s nuclear activities.
“The Deal is scheduled to get signed tomorrow,” Trump wrote in a June 13 post on Truth Social.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, whose government has helped facilitate talks between Washington and Tehran, had indicated in an earlier press statement on June 13 that the deal was expected to be finalized “in the next 24 hours.”
In his Truth Social post, Trump wrote that once the deal is signed, the Strait of Hormuz will immediately be “open to all.”
After coming under a joint U.S.–Israeli attack on Feb. 28, Iranian forces responded in part by launching attacks on commercial vessels near the strait, in an effort to disrupt the key shipping lane. U.S. forces have, in turn, imposed a blockade of Iranian ports and commercial shipping through the waterway.
“At the appropriate time, when all is calm, we will go in and get the Nuclear Dust, buried deep under the powerful sunken granite mountains, thanks to our beautiful B-2 Bombers and their brilliant pilots, and downblend and destroy it, whether in Iran, or the United States,” Trump said.
In his Truth Social post, Trump sought to distinguish his pending deal from a 2015 peace framework that then-President Barack Obama entered into with Iran, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
“Barack Hussein Obama’s Deal with Iran, the JCPOA, was an easy, beautiful, smooth road to a Nuclear Weapon, which Iran would have had six years ago, and would have used long before now. My Agreement with Iran is the exact opposite, A WALL TO NO NUCLEAR WEAPON! In fact, they no longer want a Nuclear Weapon, nor will they have one, either through purchase, development, or any other form of procurement,” Trump wrote.
Iranian leaders have repeatedly denied pursuing a nuclear weapon since 2003, and reaffirmed that commitment in the JCPOA. The preamble of the 2015 deal states, “Iran reaffirms that under no circumstances will Iran ever seek, develop or acquire any nuclear weapons.”
By Ryan Morgan
