Trump and Iran's President Pezeshkian sign memorandum aimed to end war

President Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian digitally signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at developing a permanent peace deal to end the war between their two nations, officials said.

Trump earlier said he liked the idea of blaming Vice President JD Vance if a deal to end the war with Iran does not work out.

The MOU calls for the immediate end to military actions by Israel in Lebanon and the full reopening of the Strait of Hormuz without tolls by Iran for at least 60 days.

The MOU includes an agreement for the U.S. and Iran to resolve the question of how to dispose of the Islamic Republic's stockpile of highly-enriched uranium.

Meanwhile, a senior administration official told reporters there's no pressing need to retrieve the radioactive materials.

President Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Wednesday digitally signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at developing a permanent peace deal to end the war between their two nations, officials said.

The signing came three days after Vice President JD Vance and Iranian Parliamentary Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf digitally signed the same document, and hours after Trump mused about whether it was a wise idea for him to personally sign the document.

Trump signed the MOU before a dinner in Versailles, France, with French President Emmanuel Macron, France's first lady Brigitte Macron, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and others, according to a video posted online by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino.

Macron shook Trump's hand, telling him, "bravo," "good job," and "great job," the video shows. "It's signed," Trump told reporters after the dinner.

Macron, in a post on X later that contained a video of the signing, wrote, "This agreement paves the way for lasting peace and allows the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz." "It is an important step in the right direction for our compatriots that will soon enable a decrease in energy prices," Macron wrote, in a translation from the original French.

Earlier Wednesday, Trump said he liked the idea of blaming Vance if a deal to end the war with Iran does not work out. "If it works out, I'm going to take the credit.

If it doesn't work out, I'm blaming JD," Trump quipped, after a reporter suggested Trump was setting Vance up to take the fall by sending the vice president in his stead to personally sign an agreement with Iran in coming days.

Trump's comments to reporters at the G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains, France, came as a senior U.S. official separately read the text of the memorandum of understanding with Iran to reporters in a call, and as two Republican senators slammed the agreement.

The text calls for the immediate end to military actions by Israel in Lebanon and the full reopening of the Strait of Hormuz without tolls by Iran for at least 60 days.

The MOU, which includes 14 separate points, includes an agreement for the U.S. and Iran to resolve the question of how to dispose of the Islamic Republic's stockpile of highly-enriched uranium.

One of the officials on the call, who spoke on condition of anonymity to talk about the agreement that hadn't been made public, argued there is no pressing need for the U.S. to enter Iran and retrieve that material because the U.S.'s bombing of nuclear sites last summer was so successful in burying it. "Because of the success of Midnight Hammer, it is very, very much buried," the official said of the nuclear material the administration has said it wants to remove.

Operation Midnight Hammer was strikes the U.S. carried out in June 2025 targeting Iranian nuclear facilities.

Since he launched the war on Feb.

28, Trump has repeatedly argued the U.S. needed to attack Iran again because of the threat of the Islamic Republic imminently developing a nuclear weapon.

The senior official's comment suggesting that the material has not been accessible since last year seemed to undercut Trump's argument.

Trump, in a video address when he announced the beginning of the war, said curtailing Iran's nuclear ambitions was the reason he attacked. "They attempted to rebuild their nuclear program and to continue developing the long range missiles that can now threaten our very good friends and allies in Europe, our troops stationed overseas, and could soon reach the American homeland," he said at the time.

Sen.

Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican, in a post on X, called the deal "the worst foreign policy blunder in decades" Former President Ronald "Reagan is rolling over in his grave," Cassidy wrote.

Iran's nuclear ambitions were not curbed, and they have learned that threatening the Strait of Hormuz works and will undoubtedly leverage it in the future," Cassidy said. "Now, Iran gets to build brand-new infrastructure under this deal.

Before the war, the strait was open, Iran was being crushed by sanctions, and 13 service members were still alive.

Now, 13 Americans are dead, families have paid billions at the pump, sanctions will be lifted, and the bombing has stopped.

Sen.

Thom Tillis, R-N.C., told reporters on Capitol Hill: "$100 billion has been spent since the first kinetic strike.

We've lost two F-18s, several other airframes.

Thirteen people have died.

Several of our Middle East partners have been attacked.

Three hundred and sixty-five people have been injured." "I need more than 14 points," Tillis said.

Trump's comment about preferring Vance attend the signing ceremony came at the very end of a press conference with reporters, where he gave the final question to Fox News' Peter Doocy, who noted he was already in Europe.

Doocy asked, "Why not stick around for the signing ceremony with this Iran peace deal?" But the president suggested he might not. "This is a memorandum of understanding," Trump said. "It's very important, but it might not be the kind of document that I should be signing." Doocy then said, "There's some element to this where you send the vice president, if it works out great, you look like a genius for se