Iran war updates: Trump says Iran ‘will agree’ to allow weapons inspections

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Here’s a recap of the day’s main developments:

• Vice President JD Vance says negotiators made “a lot of good progress”, and a “very good foundation” has been set for a successful final deal with Iran.⁠
• Trump says Iran “will agree” to have weapons inspections.
• Iran’s top negotiators are returning from Switzerland to Tehran after 18 hours of intensive talks. A team of technical experts remains in Switzerland to continue negotiations based on the Islamabad memorandum of understanding.
• The US Treasury Department has waived sanctions on the sale of Iranian crude ⁠oil, petrochemicals ⁠and petroleum products until ⁠August ⁠21.
• Iran’s President Pezeshkian will make a one-day visit to Pakistan on Tuesday.
• A “ceasefire” has largely held in Lebanon, even as fear of renewed hostilities kept displaced people from returning home.

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Israel is continuing its threats against Lebanon, despite the “ceasefire“.

“The [Israeli army] will continue to act with determination in order to neutralize threats against our soldiers and our citizens, demolish terrorist infrastructure, and maintain the security zone in southern Lebanon,” the Israeli’s Prime Minister’s office said in a tweet.

On his flight after talks in Switzerland, Iranian Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf praised the negotiating teams for lifting the blockade through diplomatic means, adding that “the administration of the Strait of Hormuz would never return to the pre-war situation”.

“We were and are distrustful of the Americans, and it is a condition of reason that we will continue to be distrustful in the future,” he said.

“If we had wanted to do this by military means, it would naturally have been a war and would have caused damage; but you saw that the blockade was lifted overnight.”

“The Zionist regime is strongly opposed to the negotiation process because it sees its own destruction in this path and wants to sabotage it,” he added, referring to the government in Israel.

Oman’s foreign minister says he reaffirmed Muscat’s commitment to ensuring toll-free passage through the Strait of Hormuz during discussions with senior Iranian officials.

In a post on X on Monday, Badr Albusaidi said that there have been “constructive discussions on the recent Iran-US MOU, especially the Strait of Hormuz paragraph”.

“We affirmed commitment to international law and toll-free safe passage,” he added.

Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi and Parliamentary Speaker Ghalibaf visited Oman on Monday to discuss cooperation between the two countries.

Last month, Trump threatened to “blow up” Oman following reports that Muscat, alongside Tehran, could charge vessels a fee for transiting the Strait of Hormuz.

Certainly, the idea is that, as we move through the process and, in American words, “certain benchmarks” are met by the Iranians, they will get more access to money that has been frozen; more assets will be released.

Clearly, there are still a lot of discussions to go, but this is a start, and both sides are hoping they can build on this because at least things are moving in the right direction in the early days of these talks.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has highlighted that more than 1,000 Palestinians have been “killed by the Israeli military since the so-called ceasefire” in Gaza.

“I want to be very clear. We’re talking about a status quo where children are being killed on a daily basis,” Mamdani said in televised remarks.

“Even an Al Jazeera journalist, Ahmed Wishah, was killed this past Saturday by an Israeli strike.”

Mamdani was responding to a reporter’s question about his earlier remarks on the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) lobby group.

“When I am speaking about AIPAC, I’m speaking about an organisation that has been supportive of the status quo, that has fought any attempt to actually deliver safety to people, not just in Palestine but, frankly, throughout much of the region.

“And it is a status quo of immorality. It is one that I will not accept.

“And I think it is important that when we ask ourselves how such death and destruction is happening overseas, we also name those who allow it to take place.”

While most of the global media’s attention is focused on the US-Iran negotiations, Israeli forces and settlers continue to carry out attacks in the occupied West Bank.

Here is the latest from the Wafa news agency:

• Israeli forces stormed the village of Kafr Laqif, east of Qalqilya, just hours after raiding the neighbouring town of Azzun.
• Soldiers also stormed the town of Kobar, north of Ramallah. Troops spread through several streets and fired tear gas canisters.
• Israeli settlers attacked the town of Turmus Aya, northeast of Ramallah.
• Two Palestinian brothers from Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, were arrested by Israeli troops.

We haven’t received any official response from Iran to the latest comments and new threats from Trump.

But from what we understand, these latest remarks from Trump highlight that a lack of trust between both sides still exists, despite the ongoing high-level talks that have been going on in Switzerland.

Iran is right now verifying what has been signed in that MoU.

At the same time, this type of rhetoric from Trump, especially when it comes to threatening language, is not acceptable here.

Omani Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi has met his Iranian counterpart and the speaker of the Iranian parliament to discuss cooperation between the two countries and how to serve their common interests.

“Both sides affirmed the importance of utilising the current diplomatic moment to support peace efforts, enhance de-escalation and stability, in accordance with the principles of international law and good neighbourliness, in a way that bolsters opportunities for de-escalation,” Oman’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

It added that the top officials discussed preserving the region’s security and “the safety of maritime navigation in the Strait of Hormuz and international waterways”.

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The US president says that any Iranian ⁠money that is unfrozen will be used by Tehran to buy food exclusively from the US.

“All that money’s coming back in the form of ⁠purchases of food, which they desperately need. They have 91 million ⁠people; they can’t feed them,” he told reporters. “So, ⁠the money that we lift is going to go to our farmers.”

Separately, Iran’s central bank governor said Tehran is not obliged to buy agricultural inputs from the US under existing agreements, according to the Tasnim news agency.

Iran’s First Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref says the country has “no trust in the enemy”.

“Even in the event of an agreement with the United States, there is no guarantee that hostile actions will stop,” he said, the ISNA news agency reports.

“Therefore, maintaining the country’s readiness and increasing deterrence power through the development of science and technology is a permanent necessity for the Islamic Republic of Iran.”

The US has said since the start that as talks progress, Iran will see the benefit financially. And they’re seeing a big benefit here.

They’ve been able to sell oil before but at hugely discounted rates because the buyers were worried about getting across American sanctions and finding themselves on the wrong end of that.

But now, allowing them to effectively get access to the market, it means they can sell at market value, which means millions more coming in to Iran.

Now, the US has made it clear that as long as the talks keep progressing there are benchmarks that, if they reach, then there will be more sanctions taken away. It will give the Iranians the chance to make more money.

Iran is touting the “deconfliction cell” to end military operations in Lebanon as a victory in its talks with the US.

“The fact that today, as a result of the steadfastness and resistance of the negotiating team, the opposing side has been compelled to retreat on the issue of Lebanon and has ceased the killing and massacre of the oppressed people of that country, this is no small achievement,” President Pezeshkian said, according to Iran’s IRNA.