US, Iran agree peace deal, ending 100+ days fighting

U.S. and – The United States and Iran agreed to a peace deal after more than 100 days of war, with both sides declaring an immediate and permanent stop to military operations. Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said meetings with mediators will continue through the

By the time Donald Trump posted the U.S. acceptance of a new peace deal with Iran, the message was already traveling beyond Washington—toward a Strait of Hormuz that has been under blockade and toward the people living along the edges of a wider conflict.

Sunday’s announcement came from Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. who said his country served as mediator for talks that finally produced “the Peace Deal between the United States of America and Islamic Republic of Iran.” In a statement on X on June 14. 2026. Sharif said both countries had declared the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts.

Sharif said the two governments will participate in meetings with mediators throughout the week. He added that the deal would be signed Friday in Switzerland.

Trump confirmed the U.S. acceptance shortly after, posting on Truth Social that the deal “is now complete.” In the same post, he authorized the “toll free opening of the Strait of Hormuz” and, simultaneously, authorized “the immediate removal of the United States Naval blockade.”

For weeks, the conflict had been described as more than 100 days of fighting. The new deal was framed differently than a classic ceasefire: it has been widely described as a “memorandum of understanding.” Trump. in calling it “a major step” on a call with The Wall Street Journal. emphasized movement toward ending the fighting rather than a formal stoppage.

What the agreement does immediately, Sharif said, is clear: it brings the U.S. and Iran one step closer to ending war operations on “all fronts.” The deal’s mechanics. according to Trump’s public comments. are built around phased openings and negotiations. It provides a framework to reopen the Strait of Hormuz immediately. and it also requires Iran to agree not to obtain nuclear weapons. The agreement allows for 60 days of negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program and frozen foreign assets.

Trump told The Journal that the nuclear timeline would come later. “We’ll get the nuclear dust later on when we’re ready to go in,” he said, adding, “I’d say over the next month or two, there’s no rush.”

There is, however, a line the deal does not cross. The arrangement does not include what Trump allies have long sought: a mandatory regime change.

The moment Sunday’s deal looked closest to closing, the wider conflict tried to pull it back open. The plan was put in jeopardy in the morning after Israel launched airstrikes into Beirut, Lebanon, against Hezbollah targets. Israel said the strikes were retaliatory after Hezbollah struck Northern Israel the day before.

Later in the afternoon, Iran threatened to fire back at Israel on behalf of its proxy, Lebanon—another reminder that even as Washington and Tehran moved toward a negotiated off-ramp, the region’s most active battlefield still ran on momentum and retaliation.

Taken together. the sequence of announcements and reversals shows how fragile “immediate and permanent” language can feel when other fronts are already moving. A deal meant to freeze military operations between the U.S. and Iran comes at a time when Israel-Hezbollah escalation is pushing new threats into the day—and when the promised nuclear and asset negotiations still stretch forward on a clock that starts. for now. at 60 days.

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