President Donald Trump said the deal will be signed Friday, reopening the Strait of Hormuz after mine clearance. J.D. Vance said the agreement, if honored by Iran, could reshape the Middle East for decades. The New York Times reported Iran canceled a planned retaliatory attack on Israel following Trump's mediation, while a senior Iranian diplomat linked the deal to an IDF withdrawal from southern Lebanon.
Just after midnight, a new element emerged in the already fast-moving US-Iran deal narrative: reports, attributed to The New York Times, that Iran had canceled a planned retaliatory attack on Israel following President Trump's mediation. The report, which arrived shortly before 02:00 Jerusalem, added a security-layer to a diplomatic story that had already seen multiple Trump announcements and sign-off timelines during the preceding hour.
As The Zioneer tracked through the night, the core sequence began with Trump's confirmation of a completed agreement at 00:39, followed by his authorization to lift the naval blockade and reopen the Strait of Hormuz at 01:27. By 01:43 he had called the deal 'historic' and set Friday as the signing date after mine clearance. Those earlier versions still carried the qualifier 'unverified pending official U.S. confirmation' — a hedge that had receded in the latest rounds as Trump remained the sole on-record source. The New York Times report, while itself citing unnamed officials, introduced corroboration from a second newsroom for the first time in this thread, though the core claim of a canceled Iranian attack is not independently confirmed by either the Pentagon or the IDF.
As The Zioneer reported on Friday June 12 (08:39), the outlines of a preliminary 60-day ceasefire and sanctions-for-reopening exchange — dubbed the 'Islamabad Agreement' — had already been described by Trump. Background reporting from that day (08:22) noted that US and Israeli forces were three hours from launching a major strike on Iran before Trump aborted the operation. The current deal framework appears to incorporate regional de-escalation elements that those earlier drafts signaled.
The specific claim that a planned retaliation was called off remains attributed to NYT sources, and has not been confirmed by any official Israeli or Iranian channel. The timing and scale of the alleged planned attack are unknown, and the scope of Iran's retained military options — including its proxies across the region — remains opaque.
17 developments
- StrongTrump: US and Iran close to 60-day ceasefire deal, Strait of Hormuz to reopen
- StrongTrump says Strait of Hormuz to reopen as early as Saturday or Monday
- ConfirmedU.S. and Iran reportedly near agreement on nuclear freeze, sanctions relief, and Strait of Hormuz reopening
- DevelopingSecurity Cabinet to Convene Wednesday on US-Iran Deal Aftermath
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