Donald Trump has vowed that Iran will not be able to enrich uranium and that the US will coordinate with Tehran to extract ‘nuclear dust’ buried deep underground.
Trump announced last night that Iran has agreed to a two-week ceasefire and will reopen the Strait of Hormuz, while a 10-point peace plan is considered by both sides.
The President wrote on Truth Social on Wednesday: ‘There will be no enrichment of uranium, and the United States will, working with Iran, dig up and remove all of the deeply buried (B-2 bombers) nuclear “dust.”’
Trump said Washington was working ‘closely with Iran, which we have determined has gone through what will be a very productive regime change.’
‘Nothing has been touched from the date of attack,’ the President added, claiming that the nuclear site has been watched closely since it was bombed.
It is not clear whether Trump was referring to the US bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities in June, or to more recent strikes during the current Iran war.
Trump said that tariff and sanctions relief were being discussed as part of a peace plan with ‘many’ points already agreed.
The President also threatened a 50 percent tariff on any country selling arms to Iran.
The exact terms of the peace deal have not been revealed.
Trump told Sky News this morning: ‘They are very good points – and most of them have been fully negotiated. If it isn’t good, we’ll go right back to it very easily.’
However, earlier, an unnamed regional official told the Associated Press that Iran wants to charge tolls of up to $1 million on ships that pass through the Strait during the two-week period.
The ten-point plan, according to Iran’s Tasnim news agency, says that the US should accept Tehran’s continued control over the Strait, recognize its right to uranium enrichment, lift all sanctions, pay reparations, and withdraw all troops from the region.
Iran would then use the money it raises for reconstruction following the weeks-long conflict.
Trump described the deal as ‘total and complete victory’ on Tuesday.
The President said the US would be ‘helping with the traffic buildup in the Strait of Hormuz,’ adding: ‘Big money will be made.’
Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, said that if attacks against Iran stop, Iranian operations will cease as well.
The country’s military will coordinate safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz during the ceasefire, he added in a post on X.
The US and Iran will now engage in negotiations over the next two weeks, buying some time to try to reach a permanent settlement.
It is unlikely to be smooth sailing, but in after-hours trading, the price of a barrel of oil dropped below the $100 mark for the first time in days, and US stock futures soared.
Following the confirmation of the deal, the US President hailed ‘a big day for world peace’ after agreeing to pause the attacks.
Iran has ‘had enough’ of the conflict, the US president said on Truth Social, and there will now be ‘lots of positive action’.
Israel has also agreed to halt attacks on Iran for two weeks, a senior White House official told Axios, with the ceasefire taking effect once the Strait of Hormuz is reopened.
Iran accepted the Pakistan-brokered deal after a last-minute Chinese intervention urged Tehran to show flexibility over the war’s economic fallout, three Iranian officials told the New York Times.
