{"id":252,"date":"2026-09-10T17:07:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T17:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kpdaily.info\/?p=252"},"modified":"2026-09-10T17:07:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T17:07:45","slug":"major-update-on-possible-us-iran-deal-to-end-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kpdaily.info\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"Major Update On Possible US-Iran Deal to End War"},"content":{"rendered":"
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**U.S. and Iran trade diplomacy and fire as Hormuz talks grind on**<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 The Trump administration is pressing to lock in a broader settlement with Iran even as U.S. forces carry out what officials call defensive strikes in the south of the country and negotiators haggle over language that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and constrain Tehran\u2019s nuclear program.<\/p>\n

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, speaking during a stop in India, said the waterway \u201chas to be open\u201d and \u201cis going to be open,\u201d describing Iran\u2019s interference as \u201cunlawful,\u201d \u201cillegal,\u201d \u201cunsustainable for the world\u201d and \u201cunacceptable.\u201d Asked about recent U.S. strikes, he pointed to talks in Qatar and said Washington would take \u201ca few days\u201d to work through \u201cspecific language in the initial document.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe president expressed his desire to make it. He\u2019s either going to make a good deal or no deal,\u201d Rubio said.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump has framed any agreement as a sharper break from the 2015 nuclear accord. He has said a deal with Iran would be \u201cgood and proper,\u201d and has accused the Obama administration of giving Tehran \u201cmassive amounts of cash\u201d and a path toward a nuclear weapon. Vice President JD Vance and other senior officials have been involved in the endgame, according to administration officials familiar with the talks.<\/p>\n

**Talks in Qatar, warnings in Tehran**<\/p>\n

Iranian officials gathered in Qatar this week as the two sides tried to convert a fragile cease-fire \u2014 now about six weeks old, by U.S. accounts \u2014 into a more durable arrangement. Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said Tehran and Washington had reached understandings on \u201ca large portion of the issues under discussion,\u201d but he rejected any suggestion that a signing was imminent.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo say that this means the signing of an agreement is imminent \u2014 no one can make such a claim,\u201d Baqaei said at a weekly briefing, accusing Washington of shifting positions.<\/p>\n

A senior U.S. official said the outlines of a package are coming into view: Iran would surrender or otherwise get rid of highly enriched uranium, reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and accept a long-term, enforceable pledge not to enrich to weapons-usable levels. In return, the United States would lift its blockade of Iranian ports and ease some sanctions if enrichment is curtailed.<\/p>\n

The official said duration \u2014 whether 20 years or 30 \u2014 mattered less than verification. The same official argued that Iran appears more willing to deal after the U.S. military campaign than it was before, and that any final text would go further than the 2015 deal, which allowed limited enrichment.<\/p>\n

Those claims remain unconfirmed in a public text. Iranian officials have repeatedly said they will not surrender what they call a sovereign right to enrich, and they have accused the United States of violating earlier memorandums on Hormuz and the cease-fire.<\/p>\n

**Strikes near Bandar Abbas**<\/p>\n

The diplomacy collided with force on Monday. U.S. Central Command said American forces conducted \u201cself-defense strikes\u201d in southern Iran \u201cto protect our troops from threats posed by Iranian forces.\u201d Capt. Tim Hawkins, a CENTCOM spokesman, said the targets included missile launch sites and Iranian boats attempting to place mines. He declined to name the ships that came under threat or to give precise coordinates.<\/p>\n

A senior U.S. military official said some of the American aircraft and nearly two dozen Navy ships enforcing a blockade in the Gulf of Oman and Arabian Sea \u2014 including two aircraft carriers and their escorts \u2014 had been threatened by Iranian surface-to-air missiles. The official said the strikes were near the port and naval base at Bandar Abbas.<\/p>\n

CENTCOM said it was \u201cusing restraint during the ongoing cease-fire.\u201d Iranian media reported explosions in the Bandar Abbas area. Tehran and Washington have clashed in other limited ways since the truce took effect, and each side has accused the other of breaking it.<\/p>\n

The U.S. presence in the approaches to Hormuz is large: dozens of warplanes and a substantial naval force assigned to keep vessels from entering or leaving Iranian ports. Rubio and other officials have insisted the strait is an international waterway that cannot be closed or tolled.<\/p>\n

**What a deal would have to do**<\/p>\n

Any settlement would have to reconcile three hard problems at once: nuclear material and enrichment; freedom of navigation through a chokepoint that carries a large share of the world\u2019s seaborne oil; and a cease-fire that has never fully silenced the guns.<\/p>\n

U.S. officials say most of the \u201cbasic ideas\u201d are agreed and that work continues on enforcement language. Iranian officials say understandings exist but that Washington keeps moving the goal posts. Mediators in Qatar \u2014 and, in earlier phases, Pakistan and Oman \u2014 have shuttled language back and forth.<\/p>\n

Trump has said he will not sign a weak deal. Rubio has said ships moving freely will be the test, not press conferences. Baqaei has said no one should claim a signature is near.<\/p>\n

For now, the two tracks run in parallel: lawyers and diplomats arguing over paragraphs in Doha, and commanders watching missile sites and small boats off Bandar Abbas. Whether that produces \u201ca good deal or no deal,\u201d as Rubio put it, will be decided in the next several days \u2014 if the cease-fire holds long enough for the text to catch up with the war it is meant to end.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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