Jun 19, 2026

United States President Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, which came into immediate effect, to end the war in the Middle East. A formal ceremony is scheduled to take place in Switzerland on Friday.

Iranian and US media showed the two leaders signing and holding up a document finalizing the deal without an in-person ceremony. The provisions of the deal include stopping the war on all fronts, including in Lebanon.

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif wrote in a post on X on Thursday that he was "honoured" to announce that the "historic Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding has been electronically signed today between the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran", which was "also endorsed by me as the mediator".

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