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The United States and Iran have agreed in principle to a deal that would wind down the war in the Middle East by reopening the Strait of Hormuz with a commitment from Iran to dispose of its highly enriched uranium, a senior U.S. official told reporters on Sunday.
Updated
May 24,
2026, 12:11 p.m. ET14 minutes ago
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The
United States and Iran have agreed in principle to a deal that would wind down
the war in the Middle East by reopening the Strait of Hormuz with a commitment
from Iran to dispose of its highly enriched uranium, a senior U.S. official
told reporters on Sunday.
There
were no immediate public statements from Iran about a deal being reached. Over
the last 24 hours, Iranian and U.S. officials have offered some conflicting
depictions of what a potential agreement might contain. On Sunday, the U.S.
official said a deal had not yet been signed and was still subject to final
approval from President Trump and Iran’s supreme leader, which could take days.
The
senior U.S. official said the mechanism by which Iran would dispose of its highly enriched uranium was
still being negotiated. Mr. Trump has insisted that the United States seize the
material as part of his vow to curb Iran’s nuclear program.
Mr. Trump
said in a social media post earlier on Sunday that he had ordered his
negotiators “not to rush into a deal,” after saying a day earlier that a
preliminary agreement between the two countries was “largely negotiated.”
If a deal
was certified, Mr. Trump said, the United States could end its blockade of
Iranian ports, which it had used to pressure Tehran to reopen the strait.
Three
Iranian officials said on Saturday that a potential deal would stipulate only
that nuclear matters would be negotiated within 30 to 60 days. Like the U.S.
official, they spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to discuss
the sensitive subject.
U.S. and
Iranian officials have said any agreement would be an initial framework that
would lead to further negotiations, rather than the last word.
The
possible deal does not address Iran’s supply of missiles nor does it stipulate
a moratorium on enrichment, the U.S. official said on Sunday. Those issues
would be addressed in future negotiations, the official said. In previous
rounds of negotiations, the United States has sought at least a 20-year
commitment.
For Mr.
Trump, a deal with Iran could offer a path to ending the turmoil wrought by the
war, which began in late February when the United States and Israel attacked
Iran. The conflict has killed thousands, rattled global energy markets and been
broadly unpopular among the American public.
Here’s
what else we’re covering:
Cease-fire
backdrop: The United States, Israel and Iran agreed to a cease-fire in early
April to allow for talks on Iran’s nuclear program and the reopening of the
Strait of Hormuz. Mr. Trump’s latest announcement followed a wave of last-ditch
diplomatic efforts to stave off a return to full-scale war.
Congressional
backlash: Iran hawks, including some Congressional Republicans, slammed the
emerging agreement as effectively undermining Mr. Trump’s own war goals.
Senator Roger Wicker, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee,
called the proposal “a disaster” and cast doubt on the notion that Iran would
“ever engage in good faith.”
Iran projects victory in potential deal with Washington.
May 24,
2026, 8:46 a.m. ET35 minutes ago
Erika
Solomon
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05/24/world/iran-war-trump
Iran
projects victory in potential deal with Washington.
As
President Trump and regional diplomats began to herald the possibility of a
deal with Iran that could end the war, the spokesman for the Iranian foreign
ministry responded with his version of a history lesson.
Esmail
Baghaei, the spokesman, posted an image on social media of a famous relief
carved into an archaeological site in Iran, that portrays a Roman emperor
bowing in submission to a king of the Sassanians, an ancient Iranian empire.
“In the
Roman mind, Rome was the undisputed center of the world,” Mr. Baghaei wrote, in
what appeared to be a reference to the political and military might of
Washington today. “The Iranians shattered that illusion.”
Despite
the military and economic battering Iran has endured during its war with the
United States and Israel, its leaders are casting the reported terms of a
preliminary agreement with Washington as a victory.
On
Saturday, American and Iranian officials announced that a preliminary framework
for an agreement between the two countries had been largely negotiated, though
not finalized. Details of what is in the proposal are unclear, though Mr. Trump
wrote in a social media post that the Strait of Hormuz, a vital waterway for
oil and gas shipments, would be reopened as part of the agreement.
How well
Iran has fared through the negotiations can only be determined once the actual
terms are known. But regional experts say the country will have a good chance
of portraying the results as a win.
“For
their domestic and regional base, they proved themselves the underdog, capable
of taking on two nuclear armed powers,” said Ellie Geranmayeh, an analyst and
the author of the European Council of Foreign Relation’s Iran Nuclear Monitor.
“They consistently refused to surrender to Trump’s maximalist demands on the
nuclear program, and were prepared to go to war twice against the most advanced
army in the world.”
By
comparison, the American and Israeli ambitions against Iran seem to have been
frustrated. The killing of Iran’s supreme leader and top military commanders
has not toppled the country’s autocratic system of clerical rule. Any terms for
curbing Iran’s ballistic missiles or its regional network of allied militias,
according to what has been reported about the preliminary agreement, do not
appear to have been addressed.
And it
remains unclear what commitments Iran would have and under what time frame, to
suspend its nuclear program or remove its stockpile of highly enriched uranium,
which could be turned into a nuclear weapon.
Some
versions of the plan have pushed discussion about those commitments into a
second phase of negotiations, Mr. Geranmayeh said.
Even if
Iran is able to avoid concessions on its major red lines, it still faces many
challenges.
The
country is in the throes of a devastating economic crisis. Critical industries
with both military and civilian uses have been badly bombarded — from steel
factories to petrochemical plants.
Yet,
perhaps most important for Iran’s leaders, Iran will apparently retain its
newfound ability to close the Strait of Hormuz through the threat of renewed
drone or rocket attacks on shipping, said Farzan Sabet, an analyst of Iran and
weapons systems at the Geneva Graduate Institute in Switzerland.
“In the
short to medium term, that’s the sort of deterrence they’re going to be able to
maintain,” he said.
If the
negotiations offer Iran either temporary sanctions waivers to sell its oil, or
an unfreezing of some of its economic assets abroad, Iranian leaders can sell
that domestically as another win, he added.
Much of
the outlook on an agreement depends on it moving beyond just an understanding
to end hostilities, said Ali Vaez, the Iran project director at the
International Crisis Group. He was pessimistic the two sides would actually be
able to move to a second phase of negotiations, when a tentative plan to halt
the war would be transformed into a substantive deal.
“I don’t
like the framing a lot of people use to say this is just a defeat for the U.S.,
or a win for Iran,” he said. “This had really turned into a lose-lose dynamic
for both sides, and I don’t believe either side will be really winning as a
result of this understanding.”
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