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Sun, 24 May 2026 06:00:00 -0500

On Saturday afternoon, while millions of Americans were loading up cars and planning cookouts for the long weekend ahead, President Trump posted to social media that an agreement with Iran had been “largely negotiated” and would be “announced shortly.” He listed the countries he’d spoken with: Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, Bahrain, and Israel. The Strait of Hormuz, shut since late February when U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iranian facilities triggered a naval confrontation in the Gulf, would reopen as part of the terms.

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