US-Iran War News Live Updates: US Paying Iran $300 Million Is Fake, Says Trump; Peace Deal On Friday
President Trump announced Iran has agreed to never acquire nuclear weapons and denied US payments to Iran as fake news.
In a Truth Social post, President Donald Trump said "Iran has agreed to never have a Nuclear Weapon!" He also called reports that the US is paying Iran $300 million "Fake News, put out by the Dumocrats!!!"
Vice President JD Vance will lead the US delegation for the in-person signing of the peace deal with Iran in Switzerland on Friday, President Donald Trump said. US Both Trump and Vance have electronically signed the framework agreement with Iran's lead negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, according to a senior US official quoted by The New York Times.
In a media interaction in France, Trump said Vance will attend the signing ceremony. In media interviews in Washington, Vance said the peace agreement was signed digitally on Sunday, and its full text was likely to be made public later this week.
The deal was negotiated through mediators that included Pakistan and Qatar.
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday said that his country would host the signing ceremony of the deal between the US and Iran in Switzerland on June 19.
The Hormuz Strait will be fully open by Friday, and heavy tankers will get priority movement to ensure that the oil and gas supplies flow very quickly, the NYT quoted the senior US official as saying.
Iran War Live Updates: Oil Prices At Three-Month Low
Oil steadied on Tuesday after suffering its sharpest one-day decline in more than two weeks, as traders weighed the prospects of a US-Iran agreement that could reopen the Strait of Hormuz and restore a key artery of global energy trade.
Iran War Live Updates: Security Comes First, Says Netanyahu
Responding to speculations of a "fallout" with the US President, Netanyahu said during the press conference, "There are times when President Trump and I don't see eye to eye. Israel's security interests need to be defended wisely."
He also ruled out withdrawing from South Lebanon, a matter many feel could derail the proposed deal, which calls for a total cessation of hostilities.
"We have established deep security zones around the State of Israel. We did this in Gaza, in Lebanon and in Syria, where we eliminated all of Assad's army weapons. I want to make it clear - we will remain in the security zones as long as necessary to protect our country," Netanyahu said.
"We beheaded the leaders of the terror regime, we crushed the terror factories," he said, adding, "You [Israelis] were all in terrible danger of death."
"We will stay in the Lebanon security buffer zone for as long as necessary," the Israeli leader stressed.
Iran War Live Updates: Bennett Slams Netanyahu
Assailing Netanyahu's leadership, former Prime Minister and prominent challenger for Prime Ministership Naftali Bennett earlier told the reporters that the term of this Netanyahu government began with a civil war, continued with the October 7 massacre, and is now ending with a historic failure against Iran.
Promising to “restore security for Israel,” Bennett said that he would have done “everything” differently, including diplomatically by using his “credit with the President (Donald Trump) most sympathetic to Israel that we have ever had, solely for the benefit of Israel’s national interests,” in an apparent dig at Trump’s repeated calls to pardon Netanyahu in his ongoing criminal trial.
Iran War Live Updates: Iran Will Never Have Nuclear Weapons
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday evening defended his actions, emphasising that "Iran will not have nuclear weapons, with or without an agreement".
"Iran will never have nuclear weapons, not today and not tomorrow," Netanyahu asserted during a brief press conference in Hebrew.
"People ask me what we have achieved? And I answer them - What we have achieved? We removed the immediate threat of annihilation from ourselves. Most importantly, we saved the State of Israel from the threat of total destruction", the Israeli Premier said following a day of criticism from the opposition as well as coalition partners.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says, "For decades, I have been fighting Iran's efforts to acquire nuclear weapons. I can define this as my life's mission. I have upheld it until now, and I will uphold it in the future as well. With or without a deal, Iran will not have… pic.twitter.com/EutkzM2y0p
— ANI (@ANI) June 15, 2026
Iran War Live Updates: US Not Paying Iran $300 Million
In a post on social media platform Truth Social, US President Donald Trump wrote, "Iran has agreed to never have a Nuclear Weapon! Also, the story that the U.S. is paying Iran 300 million Dollars is Fake News, put out by the Dumocrats!!!" - President DJT
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