Trump Says Iran Deal 'All Signed' as Geneva Ceremony Still Set for Friday
President Trump told reporters Monday the US-Iran agreement is 'all signed' and the Strait of Hormuz will open Friday, even as the formal Geneva signing remains scheduled for June 19.
Developing story — this page will be updated as information becomes available.
President Donald Trump said Monday that the agreement with Iran is “all signed” and that the Strait of Hormuz will be “completely opened” on Friday, according to BBC and Guardian reporting from his remarks at the G7 summit in Evian. The statement came as a senior US official told Middle East Monitor the two governments have already signed a memorandum of understanding ending the four-month conflict, even though the formal signing ceremony in Geneva remains scheduled for Friday, June 19.
What we know
Trump, speaking publicly on Monday, said the US-Iran agreement is “all signed” and that text would be released “pretty soon” after the formal signing on Friday, per BBC. Al Jazeera carried the same remarks on video.
A senior US official, cited by Middle East Monitor, described a signed memorandum of understanding outlining a phased framework linking sanctions relief, nuclear verification, and a return of normal shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. The framework contains no restrictions on Iran’s ballistic missile program and does not call for regime change, according to Guardian analysis of the deal’s structure.
Trump separately told reporters ships were “starting to move” through the Strait of Hormuz, per Al Jazeera, a claim consistent with the first LNG tanker transit confirmed earlier Monday and covered in our Hormuz tanker piece.
What we don’t know
The full text of the agreement has not been released. The discrepancy between Trump’s “all signed” language and the still-scheduled Friday ceremony in Geneva has not been clarified by either the White House or the Iranian foreign ministry. Guardian reports “inherent ambiguities could yet derail signing.” Whether the document Trump describes as signed is the political framework, the MOU described by the senior US official, or the formal Geneva instrument is not yet established. This story is developing.
Context
The Sunday announcement of a Pakistan-mediated accord and the June 19 Geneva ceremony are covered in our original accord report. The mechanics of what the MOU does and doesn’t do are walked through in our Geneva MOU explainer. The G7 meeting at Evian, where Trump made Monday’s remarks, is the first multilateral test of the accord — analysed in our G7 Evian preview.
Trump’s Monday framing — that the deal is already signed and the strait opens Friday — collapses the political announcement, the MOU, and the formal ceremony into a single act. The Guardian and BBC both note that questions remain over waterway transit fees, sequencing of sanctions relief, and Israeli compliance with the ceasefire in Lebanon.
What to watch
- Whether the White House or Iranian foreign ministry releases any signed text before Friday’s Geneva ceremony, or clarifies what “all signed” refers to.
- The G7 Evian communiqué language on the accord — the first multilateral document to treat the deal as a settled instrument.
- Whether Tehran responds publicly to Trump’s “all signed” characterisation, and whether the proposed Iranian transit tolls for Hormuz are formalised before Friday.
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