🇮🇷🇺🇸⚡️ — NEW: Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei confirms the US-Iran memorandum of understanding has been officially finalized and electronically signed by Presidents Pezeshkian and Trump, making the agreement fully formal and binding.

➡️ No official signing ceremony will be held Friday — instead, delegations led by Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf and US VP JD Vance will meet in Switzerland to launch the first round of 30-day technical talks on implementation.

➡️ Lebanon appears three times in the MoU’s first clause, emphasizing respect for the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity — Baghaei says securing a ceasefire in Lebanon was as important to Tehran as the Iran-related provisions.

➡️ Iranian ships are already moving freely in and out of ports, which Baghaei described as the beginning of US efforts to lift the naval blockade.

➡️ Iran’s obligations under the agreement, including those related to the Strait of Hormuz, take effect following the memorandum’s signing.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — Trump and Pezeshkian sign a ceasefire memorandum ending the US-Iran war, though Trump warns strikes will resume if Tehran breaks its commitments, Reuters reports.

➡️ The agreement halts fighting on all fronts including Lebanon, reopens the Strait of Hormuz free of charge, lifts the US naval blockade, waives sanctions, unfreezes Iranian assets, and establishes a $300 billion reconstruction fund for Iran.

➡️ Iran pledges not to develop nuclear weapons and agrees to down-blend its enriched uranium stockpile under IAEA supervision inside Iran — rejecting Trump's demand to remove it from the country.

➡️ "We're going to bomb the hell out of them if they violate the agreement" — Trump at the G7 press conference.

➡️ Israel, excluded from negotiations, insists it retains the right to use force — five Israeli soldiers were wounded in two Hezbollah drone strikes in southern Lebanon Wednesday.

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🇮🇱🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇷⚡️ — NEW: Israel is in talks with Washington over maintaining its military presence in southern Lebanon, one day after the US-Iran MoU called for Lebanon's territorial integrity to be respected, Reuters reports, citing two Israeli officials.

➡️ A senior official close to Netanyahu says Israel is pushing hard to keep its troops south of the Litani River and will not retreat from that position.

➡️ Israel classifies its occupied territories in Lebanon, Gaza, and Syria as "buffer zones" — Netanyahu has consistently rejected withdrawal demands.

➡️ Whether Israel ultimately complies hinges on whether Trump chooses to pressure Netanyahu with concrete consequences, a second Israeli official says.

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