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Trump made the announcement Sunday afternoon on his social media platform, Truth Social.
“I do hereby fully authorize the free opening of the Strait of Hormuz and, at the same time, authorize the immediate lifting of the United States naval blockade,” Trump wrote. “Ships of the world, start the engines. Let the oil flow!”
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif added that the agreement would include Lebanon.
“Both sides demand an immediate and final cessation of hostilities on all fronts, including in Lebanon,” Sharif said.
The signing of the new agreement will take place on Friday in Switzerland.
Sunday’s announcement came after a day in which Israel, which has been on the sidelines of the talks, attacked Beirut’s southern suburbs.
Sharif said in a statement that mediators would facilitate a series of meetings this week.
“These pre-implementation discussions will lay the groundwork for technical negotiations and the official signing ceremony,” Sharif wrote, adding that the official signing ceremony will take place on Friday in Switzerland.
Before the announcement, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said that after the ceasefire, it is necessary to work on its extension.
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“The moral choice is to do everything possible to establish a ceasefire and turn it into a lasting ceasefire and eventually peace in the region, including Lebanon,” he said on Sunday morning. “Canada will do everything it can to support that.”
Kearney added that this includes supporting the reduction of threats from Iran and its proxies against its regional neighbors, as well as its nuclear threat.
Iran wanted the ceasefire agreement to include an end to hostilities in Lebanon, where Israel has pushed its incursion deeper than at any time in a quarter-century as it targets Hezbollah. Tehran also said it was seeking the release of billions of dollars in frozen funds.
Tehran’s missile program and support for armed proxy groups in the region such as Hezbollah were among the stated goals of the US and Israel when they launched the war on February 28. The conflict began with strikes that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Khamenei’s son became the new supreme leader of Iran, although he has not appeared in public since the beginning of the war. His approval was necessary for Iran to sign the peace agreement.
Trump has already faced criticism of the deal even before it was announced, including from some members of his own Republican Party. Some politicians have said the proposed agreement does not improve the terms of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal signed under former President Barack Obama, which Trump abandoned during his first term.
The Iranian government also warned hours before the deal was announced that any split in the country over the deal would weaken its negotiating position.
On Sunday morning, Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian called for national unity and called it a “disgrace” for someone to appear before parliament and call anyone who negotiates a traitor.
– with files from the Associated Press
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