US President Donald Trump announced this Saturday that the provisional agreement with Iran will be signed on Sunday and that the signing will allow the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. This was stated by Trump on his social network, which highlighted that the agreement includes that Iran not have nuclear weapons “neither by purchasing them, nor by developing them, nor in any other way.”
The US president has compared this situation with the Comprehensive Joint Action Plan (PIAC), the 2015 nuclear agreement, which, according to Trump, was “an easy, beautiful and comfortable path to a nuclear weapon”, for which he has blamed Barack Obama. “My agreement with Iran is exactly the opposite: a wall for nuclear weapons!” he stressed. In fact, Trump has assured that “Iran no longer wants nuclear weapons” and has stated that “our relationship with Iran is very different and better than the one previous administrations had.”
Trump’s blame towards Obama and Biden
From the White House, Trump has pointed out that Obama and his successor, Joe Biden, “paid hundreds of billions of dollars to Iran, including $1.7 billion in cash.” On the other hand, as the president has assured, “now there will be no money changing hands.”
However, the Pakistani Government, the main mediator between the United States and Iran, has reported that Tehran and Washington will sign the preliminary agreement “digitally” this Sunday, despite the fact that Iran has ruled out this possibility and places the signing “in the coming days.” “The Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding will not be signed tomorrow. We will have to wait to know the exact date of the signing,” said Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei. Baqaei has also explained that “it cannot be ruled out that it will happen in the coming days, but we must be cautious when making comments due to the other party’s reservations about this process.”
The Iranian spokesperson insisted that the document “focuses on the end of the war and for the moment it has been decided not to deal with the nuclear issue.” The preliminary agreement that both parties are negotiating opens the door to 60 days of negotiations on the Iranian nuclear program and the Strait of Hormuz, among other issues.
