Trump nearing decision on Iran deal, Tehran says no final agreement

U.S. President Donald Trump announced Friday he was nearing a decision on a potential deal aimed at ending the Middle East war with Iran. However, Tehran insisted that "no final agreement" had been reached, with Iran's Fars news agency rebutting key aspects of Trump's public statements, describing them as a "mixture of truth and lies" based on informed sources.

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no final agreement has been reached yet.

Sources familiar with the negotiations told AFP that the deal was awaiting Trump's final approval after weeks of difficult talks. Trump reportedly participated in a two-hour meeting in the White House Situation Room on Friday but did not finalize a decision on any new agreement with Iran, according to The New York Times.

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mixture of truth and lies.

In a social media post, Trump reiterated long-standing demands for Iran to permanently forgo nuclear weapons and to open the vital Strait of Hormuz shipping lane. He claimed Tehran would remove mines and end its blockade of the waterway without tolls, while the U.S. would lift its blockade of Iranian ports. Trump also stated that no money would be exchanged until further notice.

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no such clause appears in the text of the agreement.

Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei, however, told state media that Iran had "said goodbye to the language of 'must' 47 years ago" and that "exchanges of messages are continuing, but no final agreement has been reached yet." Fars news agency, citing Iranian sources, reported that Tehran was demanding the "immediate release of $12 billion in frozen Iranian assets" and that "until this payment is made, Iran will not move to the next phase of negotiations." The sources also stated that "no such clause appears in the text of the agreement" regarding the toll-free reopening of Hormuz, and that comments about destroying Iran's nuclear material were "fundamentally baseless."

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the US must drop “excessive demands and shifting and contradictory positions,”