US President Donald Trump has announced that a peace deal to end the Middle East conflict will be signed on Sunday.
The US President made this announcement in a Truth Social post. Trump also said the Strait of Hormuz will be open to all once the deal is signed.
Trump said the US will work with Iran to remove enriched uranium from the country at an undetermined date.
"The Deal is scheduled to get signed tomorrow, and immediately after it is signed, the Hormuz Strait is OPEN TO ALL," he posted.
Trump said the "Nuclear Dust, buried deep under the powerful sunken granite mountains," will be destroyed, " whether in Iran, or the United States" at an appropriate time.
The US President posted that Washington was looking forward to working with Iran and the entire Middle East in future.
Earlier on Saturday, Iran's state-run news television, IRIB, had said that funeral processions, burial and farewell ceremony for slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been scheduled to be held between July 4 and July 9, sparking hopes that a deal has been reached.
The hostilities were spurred by the US-Israeli strikes on Iran on February 28 that killed Khamenei. The conflict then spread to the entire region as Iran struck at countries including the United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait as a retaliatory measure for aiding US military.
Iran also effected a closure of the Strait of Hormuz, choking energy supplies. A fifth of the world's oil and energy supplies passed through the choke point controlled by Iran before the conflict began. The Strait's closure resulted in a a surge in prices of oil, which rose as high as $120 per barrel.
Pakistan, which has played a key mediatory role, said earlier that the finalisation of a deal was expected within the next 24 hours. Pakistan Prime Minister Shebaz Sharif had announced this, but there were conflicting reports from Iran about the possibility of a deal on Sunday.
"We are closer to a peace deal than ever before. With finalisation likely expected in the next 24 hours, Pakistan is preparing for the electronic signing of the peace deal immediately after, followed by technical level talks next week," Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said in a post on X.
Iran's Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi has also hinted at such a possibility in an X post on Friday.
"The Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding has never been closer. Pending its finalization, the media should refrain from entering speculation about its content."
Trump himself had on many occasions announced that a deal was imminent, though none of it materialized.
