June 14, 2026
The US says it is close to signing a peace deal that would end the three-month-old war with Iran, though terms have not yet been made public.
It is not clear at this point how any agreement would stack up against the 2015 deal with Iran, which lifted sanctions in exchange for restrictions on its nuclear activities.
The agreement, signed by Iran, the US, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany, aimed to extend the time Iran would need to produce a nuclear bomb from two to three months to a year. Tehran says it has never had a nuclear weapons programme.
Trump pulled the US out of the deal in 2018 during his first term in office and re-imposed sanctions. Iran began breaching its terms in 2019, and United Nations sanctions were reimposed in 2025. The deal is now effectively dead.
