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The two sides have signed the deal virtually but no text of the agreement has been made public. Vice President JD Vance told NBC News it won’t be released until Friday.
With the signing ceremony of the U.S-Iran agreement set to take place in Switzerland on Friday, the Iranian side will be represented by Iran’s top negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf.
“It is still unclear how the signing will take place and whether it will be conducted electronically. Discussions will begin after the signing,” Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Takht-Ravanchi said, according to Iran’s semi-official Tasnim News agency.
“From the American side, Mr. Vance will participate, and from the Iranian side, Mr. Ghalibaf will participate,” he said.
The United States will not be investing money in Iran as part of the agreement, Trump said, dismissing the claim as a “rumor that got out there yesterday.”
Trump said the most important element of the deal is that “Iran will never have a nuclear weapon,” adding that if Tehran moves toward developing one, “all hell” will rain “down on them.”
As European leaders try to convince Trump to refocus on Ukraine and apply more pressure on Russia to end the war, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy said “substantive meetings” have already begun and the schedule for the day was packed.
Zelenskyy was invited by the host of the summit, French President Emmanuel Macron, in hopes of raising the war in Ukraine to the top of the agenda for the G7 leaders while Trump was attending.
“The key focus is to strengthen air defense for Ukraine and advance diplomacy, to make Russia end its war. Peace is needed,” Zelenskyy wrote in a post on X.
President Trump met privately for a little under an hour with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy and French President Macron on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Evian today, according to a U.S. official.
There was no press coverage of any kind of that meeting, though Zelenskyy has posted photos to social media with the message “it is important to coordinate positions.”
Trump also appeared to confirm the meeting during his bilateral talks with the Qatari emir.
Earlier, a hot mic picked up some of a conversation between Macron and Zelenskyy about today’s program, and the fact that Zelenskyy didn’t have a Trump meeting scheduled. Macron appeared to offer to help fix that.
Abdul El-Sayed is launching his first major TV ad of the hotly contested Democratic Senate primary in Michigan, touting his endorsement from Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and his support for “Medicare for All.”
El-Sayed is the first candidate in the race to hit the airwaves, according to the ad-tracking firm AdImpact, although outside groups backing Rep. Haley Stevens and state Sen. Mallory McMorrow have launched ads in the race to replace retiring Democratic Sen. Gary Peters.
The 60-second spot pitches El-Sayed, the former Wayne County health director, as someone who “ain’t no politician” and “as Michigan as you get.” El-Sayed also says in the ad that his campaign is focused on three ideas: “money out of politics, money in your pocket and Medicare for All.”
El-Sayed clarified in an interview with NBC News earlier this year that he supports two approaches to a single-payer health care program, noting he supports Sanders’ “Medicare for All” legislation but does not believe it has enough votes to pass. El-Sayed explained that he also supports a system where all Americans are enrolled in Medicare, but they can also receive supplemental coverage through private insurance, describing the approach as “public guaranteed, private option.”
El-Sayed’s campaign did launch a TV ad late last year, but the new ad is backed by a much larger buy. His campaign is spending $398,000 on the ad through Saturday, and expects to increase that spend next week.
Asked whether the Iran deal could survive if Israel carries out new strikes in Lebanon, Trump said “it can.” But he also expressed frustration with Israeli actions in Lebanon.
“Israel is fighting Hezbollah too long, and too many people are being killed,” he said. Trump added that “if Israel can’t do the job without killing everyone else,” then “Syria will do the job” against militant group Hezbollah.
Trump insisted he still had a great relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but criticized a recent attack on Beirut that he said “was too much.”
“I’ve had a great relationship with Bibi, but now Bibi has to be more responsible with respect to Lebanon,” Trump added.
President Trump said he had a “very good meeting” with Ukraine’s president earlier today, and that the two are expected to meet again later in the day at the G7 summit.
As things stand no bilateral meeting with Zelenskyy is on Trump’s schedule.
Answering a question from reporters about the war in Ukraine, Trump said “Russia should make a deal,” adding that he spoke with President Vladimir Putin on Sunday.
“They lose so many soldiers, not since WW2 has anything like this happened,” Trump said, referring to casualties on both sides.
Speaking to reporters during his meeting with the Emir of Qatar, Trump said that the Iran deal is done and will go to a second stage, which will be “easier.”
He said the U.S. will not be investing any money in Iran as part of the deal.
Trump with Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani today. Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty Images
The Qatari emir praised the agreement, but said there is still a lot of work to be done, with Qatar ready to help.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said today that bringing an end to the U.S.-Iran war includes the end of Israel’s ‘occupation’ of Lebanese territory.
“Without the withdrawal of Israeli forces from territories occupied during this war, the war will not be fully over,” Araghchi said, according to Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency.
But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday that Israeli forces would remain in Lebanese territory “for as long as necessary,” seemingly at odds with those comments.
Araghchi said that any military action by Israel against Lebanon and any continued occupation of territory “from this point onward, will be regarded by us as a violation of the MoU.”
The G7 working session on Ukraine has ended, according to summit organizers. President Trump is now scheduled to meet with the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani.
Trump, Macron and Zelenskyy at the G7 summit today. Thibault Camus / Pool / AFP via Getty Images
That will see attention at the summit increasingly shift toward the Middle East, and the U.S.-Iran agreement that remains shrouded in some secrecy.
The U.K. unveiled dozens of new sanctions against Russia as the summit opened, targeting what it described as the country’s “illicit shadow fleet” and financial networks used to evade Western sanctions and support its military.
The move is Britain’s response to Russia’s “latest abhorrent attacks against Ukraine, killing innocent civilians and destroying holy sites,” the government said in a statement today.
Yesterday, a Russian strike on Kyiv sparked a fire at Ukraine’s cultural landmark monastery.
The sanctions are part of Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s effort to “choke off Russia’s war effort across multiple fronts” and come as he meets with Zelenskyy at the G7 summit.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said negotiations with the United States will be conducted in two stages, citing “difficulties in reaching an understanding,” and what he described as U.S. and Israeli aggression, according to Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency.
“The first stage addresses ending the war, the Strait of Hormuz, the release of Iran’s frozen funds and reconstruction,” Araghchi said.
Negotiations on the “nuclear issue and the lifting of sanctions,” he said, will continue for 60 days after Friday in order to reach a final agreement.
President Trump was gifted a German national team jersey with his name and the number 47 by Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the G7 summit this morning.
Germany kicked off its World Cup campaign with a 7-1 win over Curaçao and is among the favorites for the tournament.
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The bilateral talks between Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron were “a bit tense,” a European Union official tells NBC News.
“Trump is being his usual self, nice sometimes and not so nice sometimes,” the official says.
Trump was also dismissive of E.U. support following the Iran framework agreement, saying he didn’t need Europe’s help, the official said.
The two leaders are expected to dine tomorrow at the historic Palace of Versailles, home to French royalty. This was the “‘shiny’ object he needed to come to France,” the E.U. official said of Trump. But “whether this will keep him happy remains to be seen,” they added.
The president entered the room a short time ago, followed by host Macron and then Zelenskyy.
The session will be starting nearly an hour later than scheduled.
The other G7 leaders had talked animatedly in a circle for a long time — often laughing. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at one point checked his watch.
Leaders have started to gather for an opening session at the G7 summit on Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Leaders from Italy, Germany, Britain, Japan and Canada could be seen in animated conversation and laughing in a circle with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen as they await others.
Trump, Zelenskyy and France’s Emmanuel macron are yet to arrive.
Trump indicated yesterday that he felt there may be hope for progress on ending the war in Ukraine.
“Now that this (Iran) is finished, we’re going to be focusing on that,” Trump said ahead of the summit. Before the war with Iran dominated the foreign policy agenda, the U.S. had been more actively engaged in efforts to broker an end to the conflict, which has now passed 4 years.
Those efforts have largely stalled in recent months, with Zelenskyy repeatedly urging Western allies to refocus attention on Ukraine and increase pressure on Russia.
Energy prices broadly tumbled and global stocks rose Monday — but only moderately — after the U.S. and Iran said they had reached an agreement to end fighting and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
The price of U.S. crude oil closed down 4.8% to $80.75 per barrel, while international Brent crude closed down 4.7% to $83.17 per barrel. For both benchmarks, those closing prices were their lowest since the first week of March, just days after the war with Iran was launched.
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Vice President JD Vance said that nuclear inspectors will be allowed back into Iran as part of a deal with the U.S. to end the monthslong war in the Middle East.
“Yes, absolutely,” Vance told NBC News’ Tom Llamas in an interview. “In fact, one of the core parts of the agreement is that the [International Atomic Energy Agency] and the United States are going to help Iran destroy the highly enriched stockpile, and that’s something that’s spelled out very clearly” in the memorandum of understanding, or MOU, he added.
The text of the MOU — a framework to end the war that was agreed to by both countries — will be released after a formal signing ceremony Friday in Switzerland, Vance said, confirming a timeline shared by President Trump.
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Trump will be meeting with allies who are at odds with him over a pair of wars: one they don’t believe he should have started, and another they want him to do more to stop.
The president will spend two days at the Group of Seven meeting of leading industrialized nations in the resort town of Evian-les-Bains, in which both the Iran war and the Russia-Ukraine conflict figure to loom large.
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