Whats the deal? What we know about the US-Iran peace agreement to be signed as soon as this weekend
President Trump on Thursday said Iran has pledged never to build or buy a nuclear weapon in an agreement accepted by the US and to be signed in days, marking a breakthrough in negotiations that have been months in the making.“We just made a great settlement of the war with Iran,” Trump told reporters at the White House.“And we’re going to be subject to finalization of documents, we should get done over the next few days.” “[Iran] will not only not have — they will not purchase, develop in any way, any shape, in any way, shape, or form, a nuclear weapon.
They will not have a nuclear weapon,” he added.The deal, which Trump said was approved by Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, is expected to be signed as soon as this weekend, with Trump saying he would send Vice President JD Vance to sign the document in-person, “maybe in Europe.”“It’s a great thing,” Trump said.“Stock market’s up 1,000 points.
That means they like the deal.”It comes after The Post reported Iran finalized and submitted a draft to Qatari authorities Wednesday night.But what is in the agreement, which has taken more than two months to achieve? Here’s what we know:The memorandum of understanding, once signed, will kick off nuclear discussions between the US and Iran.Trump’s north star — stopping Iran from getting nuclear weapons — is nominally achieved in the text of the MOU itself, as the president said Tehran agreed in the document to never develop or buy a nuclear warhead.“Most importantly, we have a deal that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, which was the whole purpose of what we had to go through to get this, so it was a big, very big thing,” he said.But words alone are not enough to satisfy Trump, as Iran in its 2015 nuclear deal with President Obama had already promised never to develop a nuke.That’s why further negotiations will still be necessary, with the US seeking the abandonment of Iran’s uranium enrichment program and the destru...