A peace agreement has been reached between the United States and Iran, according to US President Donald Trump and the Pakistani Prime Minister.
Trump made the announcement Sunday afternoon on his social media platform Truth Social.
“I hereby authorize the full and free opening of the Strait of Hormuz, and at the same time, I authorize the immediate lifting of the naval blockade of the United States,” Trump wrote. “Ships of the world, start your engines. Let the oil flow!”
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif added that the agreement would include Lebanon.
Sharif said: “Both sides must immediately and permanently end military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon.”
The new agreement is scheduled to be signed on Friday in Switzerland.
Sunday’s announcement comes a day after Israel, which was marginalized from the negotiations, attacked the southern suburbs of Beirut.
Sharif said in his post that the mediators will facilitate a series of meetings this week.
“These pre-implementation discussions will lay the foundation for technical talks and an official signing ceremony,” Sharif wrote, adding that there will be an official signing ceremony on Friday in Switzerland.
Before the announcement, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said that once a ceasefire is reached, work must be done to continue it.
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“The moral choice is to do everything we can to reach a ceasefire and turn it into a permanent ceasefire and ultimately achieve peace in the region, including Lebanon,” he said on Sunday morning. “Canada will do everything it can to support this.”
Carney added that this includes supporting the reduction of threats posed by Iran and its proxies against its regional neighbors, and its nuclear threat.
Iran wanted the ceasefire agreement to include an end to the fighting in Lebanon, where Israel had pushed its invasion deeper than at any point in the past quarter-century when it targeted Hezbollah. Tehran also said it was seeking to release billions of dollars in frozen funds.
Tehran’s missile program and support for armed proxies in the region, such as Hezbollah, were among the stated goals of the United States and Israel when they launched the war on February 28. The conflict began with strikes that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Khamenei’s son became Iran’s new supreme leader, although he has not appeared in public since the war began. His approval was necessary for Iran to sign the peace agreement.
Trump had already faced criticism of the agreement before it was announced, including some members of his own Republican Party. Some politicians said that the proposed agreement did not improve the terms of the Iranian nuclear agreement concluded in 2015 under former President Barack Obama, from which Trump withdrew in his first term.
The Iranian government also warned in the hours before the announcement of the agreement that any internal division over the agreement would weaken its negotiating position.
On Sunday morning, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian urged national unity and described it as a “disgrace” when someone stands in front of Parliament and calls anyone who negotiates a traitor.
—With files from The Associated Press
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