an hour agoUS and Iranian presidents sign ceasefire agreement, but Trump says it can resume attacks
Periskopi(15 hours ago)
(15 hours ago)The US and Iran published on Wednesday the text of a temporary agreement their presidents have signed to end their war, with US President Donald Trump threatening to resume attacks and kill Iranian officials if they do not meet their commitments.
Trump, who participated in the G7 with other leaders in France, also withdrew at least one of his stated reasons for the attack on Iran from the beginning, saying it would be unfair""that Tehran did not have ballistic missiles, since he had earlier pledged to eliminate them, reports Reuters, broadcast Periscope.
We'll bomb them with all our might if they violate the” agreement, has declared Trump for Iran at a press conference. “I don't want them to. I want them to respect the” agreement. He also called Iranians “clever people”, while US and Iranian negotiators over the next 60 days will work for a permanent ceasefire, which Trump said he hoped would bring peace to the Middle East and lower oil prices.
Earlier, he had said: “If I don't like it, if you don't behave, we'll go right back to throwing bombs right into their head, okay?”
Iran's leaders did not address new threats as they celebrated the moment, publishing photos of what is believed to be the first agreement signed by a US president and an Iranian president since the founding of the Islamic Republic in 1979.
“Anything we asked to achieve through military action, we achieved several times through negotiations; it wasn't comparable,” has declared Iran's chief negotiator, Mohammed Bacher Qalibaf, for state television on the deal, which includes unlocking billions of dollars in Iranian assets.
The US and Israel launched a war against Iran on 28 February, killing the 86-year-old Supreme Leader, Ajatollah Ali Khamenei, and the military leaders from the first day. This soon turned into a regional conflict that killed more than seven thousand people, mainly in Iran and Lebanon; has raised energy prices; new inflationary pressures; and sparked concerns about a major food supply crisis in developing countries.
The 14-point agreement extends the ceasefire declared in April with another 60 days, including in Lebanon, to allow both sides to negotiate a final ceasefire. Both Trump and Iranian President Massoud Peschian have digitally signed the memorandum in English and Persian, US and Iranian officials have said, with Iran's Foreign Ministry saying the agreement has already been in force since Wednesday.
Trump signed shortly before a grand dinner with French President Emmanuel Macron in the Palace of Versailles, the site of the treaty signing with the same name that officially ended World War I.
