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President Donald Trump attended the G7 Summit in France on Monday, fresh off his triumphant announcement over the weekend that a deal between the United States and Iran had been made.
The U.S. president, while sitting beside French President Emmanuel Macron, was asked by a reporter whether the MOU, or memorandum of understanding, between the United States and Iran, would be released.
“I think pretty soon,” President Trump said. “…I want it to be released because it’s a very powerful document. It’s not like the Obama document, which was just a terrible document…I would say…sometime after Friday.”
The “Obama document” President Trump was referring to in his comments was the JCPOA, or the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, signed in 2015 during former President Barack Obama’s tenure.
President Trump pulled the U.S. out of that agreement during his first term in 2018.
President Trump also suggested that the Strait of Hormuz could be completely open by Friday, following work to clean up mines in the shipping corridor.
“The Strait is already partially opened – as you know, they’re doing a little hunting for a couple of mines that they’ve already found,” the president said in France. “…Ships are starting to go out now. On Friday, it will be completely opened.”
The president said that, very importantly, “oil is plummeting down,” referring to oil and gas market responses to news that a preliminary deal with Iran could be within reach.
“The main thing is that Iran will not have a nuclear weapon – they fully agreed to that, with strong policing powers…which is what it was all about,” President Trump remarked.
President Trump slammed the past JCPOA, calling it a “horrible” deal that was a “road to a nuclear weapon.”
“It was a deal where billions of dollars were given to Iran,” he said.
The president looked to the future, stating that he hoped the U.S. and Iran would “hopefully” have a “good relationship and we’re gonna get along, and if we don’t, we go back to where we started, but I don’t think that’s going to be necessary.”
President Trump said that this preliminary deal with Iran is “going to bring a lot of success to the world, because the oil was really clogged up there for a while.”
