It was not immediately clear from Trump’s statement on Truth Social which of his make-or-break conditions are already part of a preliminary agreement that U.S. and Iranian negotiators are currently working on to pause the three-month-old war.
Iran “must agree” to never have a nuclear weapon, and the Strait of Hormuz must be “immediately open” to unrestricted shipping traffic, Trump demanded in the post.
He also said that the retaliatory U.S. naval blockade against Iran in the Gulf of Oman “will now be lifted,” though it was unclear if he meant that that step would only be taken if the prior conditions were met.
Trump’s post additionally stated that the enriched material located at the site of last year’s attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities will be “unearthed” by the U.S. “in close coordination and conjunction with the Islamic Republic of Iran, plus the International Atomic Energy Agency, and DESTROYED.”
“No money will be exchanged, until further notice,” Trump added. “Other items, of far less importance, have been agreed to.”
“I will be meeting now, in the Situation Room, to make a final determination,” he said.
Oil prices fell following Trump’s post.
Iranian officials, in X posts published prior to Trump’s statement Friday morning, appeared defiant toward the U.S., touting their ties with their Middle East neighbors including Oman, a recent target of Trump’s threats.
Oman has reportedly been in talks with Iran about charging vessels transiting the Hormuz Strait, the vital global oil-shipping route that has been largely blocked by Iranian threats since the war began.
Trump, at a Cabinet meeting Wednesday, said that “Oman will behave just like everybody else, or we’ll have to blow ’em up.” On Thursday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned Oman that the U.S. will “aggressively target” anyone involved in “facilitating tolls” for the strait.
A social media account attributed to Iran’s parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, in a translated X post Friday morning, offered a cryptic but aggressive readout of the status of the talks.
“We seize concessions not through dialogue, but with missiles; in negotiations, we merely make them understand,” Ghalibaf’s account wrote.
“We have no trust in guarantees or words—only actions are the measure. No action will be taken before the other side acts,” the post said. “The winner of any agreement is the one who is better prepared for war from the day after.”
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi posted that he spoke with his Omani counterpart and “expressed Iran’s solidarity with Oman in face of any threat.”
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