President Donald Trump arrives to speak at Rockland Community College. (Photo: AP)Iran US War Highlights: US and Iran have in principle agreed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a US official has said, New York Times reported. The official added that Tehran has also agreed to dispose highly enriched uranium, but said that a deal has not been signed till now.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that he and US President Donald Trump agreed that any final agreement with Iran must remove the nuclear threat posed by Tehran. Posting on X, Netanyahu said this would require dismantling Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities and removing enriched nuclear material from its territory.
President Trump earlier said that relations with Iran is becoming a much more professional and productive one and that both sides must take time and get the deal right, until then the blockade will remain in force. Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian on Sunday said that Tehran is “ready to reassure the world that we are not seeking nuclear weapons,” amid talks of truce between Washington and Tehran.
Rubio reiterates Iran ‘can never have nuclear weapon’: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, on Sunday (May 24), reiterated that the main aim of the US-Iran agreement is to prevent Tehran from possessing a nuclear weapon. “I believe there may be more news coming out a bit later today on [a deal with Iran], and I’ll leave it to [US President Donald Trump] to make further announcements on it,” Rubio said. “Significant progress but not final progress” has been made on the deal, he said, adding, “The ultimate goal is that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon…they will never possess a nuclear weapon – certainly not as long as Donald Trump is president.”
Pakistani PM lauds Trump on his ‘extraordinary efforts to pursue peace’ with Iran: Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif lauded US President Donald Trump “on his extraordinary efforts to pursue peace” with Iran and for a “productive” phone call with regional leaders on Saturday. “I congratulate President Donald Trump on his extraordinary efforts to pursue peace and for holding a very useful and productive telephone call earlier today, with the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkiye, Egypt, the UAE, Jordan and Pakistan. Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir represented Pakistan in the telephone call, and I greatly appreciate his tireless efforts during the entire process,” Sharif said in a post on X.
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