DUBAI, October 3, 2026 — US President Donald Trump has announced that a peace deal with Iran will be signed on Sunday, saying the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz would reopen to all shipping immediately after the agreement takes effect.
“The Deal is scheduled to get signed tomorrow, and immediately after it is signed, the Hormuz Strait is OPEN TO ALL,” Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform on Saturday.
The announcement marks the latest twist in weeks of halting negotiations aimed at ending the war in the Middle East, which has thrown global energy markets into turmoil since Iran blockaded the waterway early in the conflict.
Mediators echo Sunday timeline
Trump’s timeline was echoed by Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, whose country brokered a ceasefire in the US-Israeli war on Iran in April and has remained deeply involved in subsequent negotiations. Sharif said on X that the “finalisation” of the agreement was expected “within the next 24 hours,” adding that it would be signed electronically, followed by technical-level talks next week.
Pakistan’s foreign ministry also confirmed that a signing ceremony was planned for Sunday, and a Qatari delegation arrived in Tehran on Saturday to support the final push, regional media reported.
Axios reported that US and Iranian representatives, along with mediators from Pakistan and Qatar, are expected to join a virtual meeting and electronically sign a memorandum of understanding. The report said the deal would extend the ceasefire by 60 days, reopen the Strait of Hormuz and launch negotiations over Iran’s nuclear programme, following nearly three months of diplomacy involving Pakistan, Qatar, Egypt and Turkey.
Tehran pushes back on timing
Iran, however, disputed Trump’s timeline. Foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said on Saturday that the date of the signing had yet to be determined and “will not be tomorrow,” though he added that “the possibility of this happening in the coming days cannot be ruled out.”
Iran’s Fars news agency said Tehran had “not yet taken or announced its final decision,” while the two sides released conflicting information about the deal’s contents, each seeking to show it emerged from the war with the upper hand.
What Trump is claiming
Trump framed the agreement as a “wall to a nuclear weapon,” asserting that Tehran no longer harbours ambitions to acquire nuclear arms — “nor will they have one, either through purchase, development, or any other form of procurement.”
Striking a conciliatory tone, the US president said “our relationship with Iran is a much different and better one than previous Administrations have had,” and stressed that “no money will exchange hands” with Tehran. He added that at the appropriate time, US forces would retrieve and neutralise Iran’s remaining nuclear material buried under mountains.
The momentum came in spite of fresh skirmishes in the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has controlled since early in the war, severely disrupting oil and natural gas shipments from the Persian Gulf. The United States responded by blockading Iranian ports, while US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent claimed this week that oil shipments through the strait had already recovered to near pre-war levels.
Since an April 8 truce paused the worst of the fighting, Trump has repeatedly insisted a deal was imminent, only for the wrangling to drag on. Whether Sunday’s promised signing holds remains to be seen.
Sources: Truth Social, Pakistani Prime Minister’s Office, Iranian foreign ministry, Axios, Arab News
