US ‘80-85%’ confident of signing peace deal with Iran, senior official says

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The Trump administration expresses high confidence in signing a peace deal with Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the Middle East conflict.

The Trump administration on Friday said that it is “80-85 per cent” confident of signing the peace agreement with Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the war in the Middle East. “We do expect to be signing this agreement over the next few days … if I were to give you a confidence that we were going to be signing this agreement, I maybe would have said 75 per cent this morning; it’s probably more like 80-85 per cent now, but it’s not 100 per cent,” a senior administration official...

Topics covered

• peace deal
• Iran
• Middle East conflict
• Strait of Hormuz
• US foreign policy

Keywords

• peace deal
• Iran
• Strait of Hormuz
• Trump administration
• Middle East

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Trump administration

Places: Iran, Strait of Hormuz

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