The United States and Iran on Wednesday released the full text of an interim accord signed by the two countries’ presidents. Even after the deal, reached to end the war, U.S. President Donald Trump warned that strikes would resume and Iranian officials could be killed if Iran broke its commitments, Reuters reported.
Trump made the remarks while attending the G7 summit in France. He also stepped back from at least one of his earlier positions in favor of striking Iran, saying it would not be “unfair” for Tehran to have ballistic missiles, although he had previously vowed to destroy Iran’s missile capability entirely.
At a news conference, Trump said: “If they violate the agreement, we will bomb them severely. I don’t want that. I want them to abide by the deal.” He also called the Iranian people “smart people.”
U.S. and Iranian negotiators are currently continuing talks aimed at establishing a permanent ceasefire within the next 60 days. Trump said he hoped the process would restore peace to the Middle East and help lower global oil prices. He had earlier said: “If I don’t like it, if they don’t behave properly, then we’ll go back and drop bombs right in the middle of their heads.”
Iranian leaders, meanwhile, made no public response to Trump’s fresh threats. Instead, they marked the event as a significant political moment. Iran released images said to be of the first agreement signed by an American and an Iranian president since the founding of the Islamic Republic in 1979.
Iran’s chief negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, told state television: “What we sought to achieve through military action, we have gained many times over through negotiation. There is no comparison.” He said that, as part of the deal, several billion dollars of Iran’s long-frozen assets would also be released.
The United States and Israel began the war against Iran earlier, on February 28. On the first day of the war, the 86-year-old supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and several military commanders were killed. The conflict then quickly turned into a regional war. More than 6,000 people were killed, most of them residents of Iran and Lebanon. The war also drove up fuel prices, created fresh inflationary pressure and raised fears of a major food-supply crisis in developing countries.
The 14-point interim accord extends the ceasefire announced in April by another 60 days. Lebanon has also been brought under its scope, so that the two sides have an opportunity to negotiate a final ceasefire. According to U.S. and Iranian officials, Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian digitally signed a memorandum prepared in English and Persian. Iran’s foreign ministry said the agreement took effect from Wednesday.
Trump signed the accord just before joining a state dinner hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron at the Palace of Versailles. It was at this historic palace that the treaty formally ending World War I was once signed.
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