President Trump expressed frustration with Iran after its Foreign Ministry said Tehran “had not reached a final conclusion” on any peace agreement.
The president called them “very dishonorable people to deal with” and warned, “they had better get their act together and fast!”
Iranian state media reported that Tehran will negotiate with the US to retain the country’s uranium enrichment capabilities. It also reported that Iran has not agreed to ceding management of the Strait of Hormuz and wants the release of $24 billion of Iran’s frozen funds as “compensation” for damage incurred from the bombing campaign.
Trump blasted the reports as having “no relation to the truth.”
“What they said, including their weak and pathetic statement on having a deal, bears no relation to the truth,” the president wrote on Truth Social.
Trump said on Thursday the deal was in its final stages of negotiation and that Iran had agreed to end its nuclear program. He said it could be signed as early as this weekend.
The president has been clear that he is holding firm on his demand that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
“The terms that Iran leaked out to the Fake News have NOTHING to do with the terms that were agreed to, in writing…” – President Donald J. Trump pic.twitter.com/y9qA9rXOCQ
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 12, 2026
But Tehran said the current draft of the agreement states that “Iran undertakes no new commitments” on nuclear weapons, with further negotiations on the issue set to take place in a 60-day period following the signing of the agreement.
The original peace plan called for two phases of the de-escalation, and nuclear talks were part of phase two.
However, there have been many contradictory statements between the US and Iran regarding the deal, how close it is to being finished, and what it contains.
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The US has five major points that it wants, a senior administration official told The Post: Iran’s highly enriched uranium will be destroyed; its nuclear program will be dismantled; none of Iran’s frozen funds will be released “until they perform”; the Strait of Hormuz will stay open; and no Iranian funding of terrorist groups.
“This is what they have agreed to. This is a performance-based deal,” the official said.
And it’s close to being done, a White House official said, estimating it’s 75% ready.
“While this is tentative, we feel confident that we will be signing this in the next few days,” the official said.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry agreed that much of the text is finalized but said there are some details to be worked out.
“Textually, the text has almost been finalized in its major parts. The problem is that the contradictory positions of the United States have always caused turbulence and disruption in this process,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei told Iranian state media.
