US and Iranian negotiators have reached a potential agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and begin nuclear talks, the White House confirmed Thursday — though President Trump has not yet signed off on the plan.
If approved, the deal would see the US drop its blockade on Iranian ports in exchange for a return to “unrestricted” shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, according to the White House. It would also begin a 60-day period for the US and Iran to begin negotiating on Tehran’s nuclear issues.
“This administration — President Trump — has done something that no other administration is able to do: we have gotten the Iranians to talk about their nuclear program, and to perhaps commit to not having one,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Thursday on the emerging deal. “That has never happened before; it had been off the table.”
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