- After weeks of negotiations, the USA and Iran have agreed on a preliminary framework agreement.
- The official signing of the agreement is scheduled to take place in Geneva on Friday.
- Shortly before the agreement, the deal was jeopardized by new attacks between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
After weeks of negotiations, the USA and Iran have agreed Framework agreement to settle the war notified. This was confirmed by the US government and Iran as well as the mediator Pakistan. The agreement announced on US President Donald Trump’s 80th birthday is intended to… Lay the foundation for further negotiationswhich deal with Tehran’s nuclear program. A few hours earlier there had been a threat of further escalation in the war.
Not much is known about the framework agreement – the exact wording was not initially published. The agreement is to be signed on Friday in Geneva, Switzerland.
What is known about the agreement
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Platform X that both sides had agreed to immediately and permanently end military operations on all fronts. This also applies to the conflict between Israel and the pro-Iranian Hezbollah militia in Lebanon. The Strait of Hormuz was also at the center of the negotiations.
The strait, which is important for global oil and gas trade, will only be reopened to shipping traffic after the agreement is signed on Friday, as Trump announced in a second post. In his first announcement it sounded as if it would be opened immediately. The US President cited necessary mine clearance work as the reason.
Oil prices, which had skyrocketed after the start of the war at the end of February, fell significantly shortly after the agreement was announced. On the stock exchanges in Japan, China and South Korea, prices also rose immediately after opening in the morning.
What does the agreement mean for the war?
The agreement is intended to be the cornerstone for further negotiations on issues such as Tehran’s nuclear program, which is probably the most important point from the perspective of the US government and its ally Israel. And even if it holds, the toughest questions remain unanswered, as Richard Fontaine of the Center for a New American Security think tank pointed out. The points left out of the framework agreement were exactly the ones that led to war in the first place, he wrote on Platform X.
The provisional agreement is by no means the end of the war, not even “the beginning of the end”. But it could be a first step in the right direction, says Fontaine.
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Europeans want to show initiative
As a result of the agreement, Germany, France, Great Britain and Italy agreed to support the resumption of shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. This also includes “a purely defensive, independent mission to encourage merchant shipping and carry out mine clearance,” explained Chancellor Merz, French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in a joint statement.
Israel and Hezbollah jeopardize agreement
In the hours before, the deal had once again been in jeopardy. This was triggered by renewed mutual attacks in the conflict between Israel and the Lebanese Hezbollah militia. An attack on northern Israel was followed by an Israeli counterattack in the suburbs of Beirut on Sunday afternoon. Trump then warned Israel and called on all sides to show restraint.
According to Vice President Vance, at this time there was growing evidence that Iran was preparing a serious attack on Israel. However, the talks succeeded in dissuading Tehran from retaliating and instead reaching an agreement, he told Fox News.
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Daniela Wyler (wy) has been working from abroad for 20 minutes in the news desk as a night shift since 2023.
