"Technical level talks" are expected to follow next week, a Pakistani official said
US President Donald Trump said that a deal with Iran to end the war in the Middle East could be signed on Sunday, and that the strategic Strait of Hormuz would be “open to all” immediately after.
Iran had offered a different timeline earlier in the day, but nonetheless signalled an agreement was in the offing, as both the warring parties and their mediators expressed increasing optimism that weeks of halting negotiations were drawing to a close.
The leader of key mediator Pakistan said a deal was closer “than ever before”.
The “finalisation” of this agreement is expected “within the next 24 hours”, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Saturday on X, adding that it will be signed electronically, without going into further detail or specifying what this would involve.
