US and Iran agree timetable for peace deal as Trump says Strait of Hormuz to reopen

US and Iran agree timetable for peace deal as Trump says Strait of Hormuz to reopen22 minutes agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleMallory MoenchJim Lo Scalzo/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe US and Iran have agreed to a framework for a deal to end their conflict, with US President Donald Trump saying the crucial Strait of Hormuz oil shipping channel would also reopen.Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, whose nation has been acting as a mediator, announced the deal on Sunday evening.He said both sides had declared "the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon", where Israel and the Iran-backed group Hezbollah have been fighting.Trump said he had ordered the immediate removal of a US naval blockade of Iranian ports and said the Strait of Hormuz would be opened when the preliminary agreement was signed in Switzerland on Friday."Ships of the World, start your engines. Let the oil flow!" Trump wrote on Truth Social. In another post, he said the deal "will bring Peace and Security to the whole Region".Iran's deputy foreign minister Kazem Gharibabadi confirmed the end of military operations in a phone call on Iranian state TV, which portrayed the framework deal as a victory for Iran.Iran's top military command, Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, said that Iranians, together with the country's armed forces and Tehran's proxies and allies in the region, had shown the US and Israel that they had "no option but to accept defeat and surrender".Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir wrote on X on Monday that "Trump's agreement does not bind us" and vowed to dismantle Hezbollah.Gharibabadi told Iranian state media that Qatari mediators held "nearly 14 to 15 hours of lengthy talks" in Tehran to reach the initial agreement.The deal will extend a ceasefire agreed on 8 April for another 60 days, during...