President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Iran agreed to long-term nuclear inspections and that he would lift the threat of a renewed U.S. naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, claims Iranian officials disputed.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said Iran had “fully and completely agreed to highest level Nuclear inspections long into the future.” He said the agreement would insure what he called “Nuclear Honesty,” and that there would be no further negotiations without it.
“fully and completely agreed to highest level Nuclear inspections long into the future” — President Donald Trump, Truth Social
Iranian officials contradicted that account. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei said Tehran has no plans to admit International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors to the nuclear sites struck by the United States, according to NBC News.
Citing the inspections pledge and “other major concessions,” Trump said he agreed to keep the Strait of Hormuz open and impose no new naval blockade. He said U.S. ships would stay in place in case a blockade had to be reinstated, an outcome he called highly unlikely.
Iran’s chief negotiator pushed back on that framing. Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said the strait would never return to its pre-war conditions and would stay under Iranian control, according to CBS News.
Trump said funds and sanctions relief released by the U.S. Treasury would go into a U.S.-controlled escrow account. He said the money would buy food and medical supplies only from American suppliers, including corn, wheat and soybeans.
He described the supplies as desperately needed and the situation as a humanitarian crisis requiring immediate action. Trump also said talks were going well.
The dispute lands in the middle of a 60-day negotiating window, opened by a memorandum of understanding that ended more than three months of war, according to news reports.
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