{"id":61756,"date":"2026-05-24T23:46:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T20:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=61756"},"modified":"2026-05-24T23:46:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T20:46:04","slug":"trump-says-no-rush-for-iran-deal-us-blockade-stays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/trump-says-no-rush-for-iran-deal-us-blockade-stays\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Says No Rush for Iran Deal, US Blockade Stays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>US President Donald Trump said on Sunday he had told his representatives not to rush into any deal with Iran, appearing to dampen hopes of an imminent breakthrough in the three-month-old war that had been raised by both sides a day earlier.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The US blockade on Iranian ships on the Strait of Hormuz would &#8220;remain in full force and effect until an agreement is reached, certified, and signed&#8221;, Trump wrote on Truth Social.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Negotiations were progressing and the US relationship with Iran had become more professional and productive, he said. But he added: &#8220;Both sides must take their time and get it right. There can be no mistakes!&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>A day earlier, Trump said Washington and Iran had &#8220;largely negotiated&#8221; a memorandum of understanding on a peace deal that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which before the conflict carried one-fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas shipments.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Trump has repeatedly played up the prospect of an agreement to end the war that the US and Israel started on February 28, so far without success.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It was not clear whether the agreement he was \u200creferring to on Sunday \u200cwas the initial memorandum of understanding that has been under discussion, or a much more challenging broad \u200cpeace settlement, \u2060likely to take \u2060much longer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The two sides remain at odds over numerous difficult issues, such as Iran&#8217;s nuclear ambitions and Tehran&#8217;s demands for the lifting of sanctions and the release of tens of billions of dollars of Iranian oil revenues frozen in foreign banks.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Various media in the US and Iran had said the memorandum setting out a framework for ending months of fighting would, if concluded, lift a US blockade on Iranian shipping and reopen the waterway, which Iran has shut with threats to attack shipping.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump said on Sunday he had told his representatives not to rush into any deal with Iran, appearing to dampen hopes of an imminent breakthrough in the three-month-old war that had been raised by both sides a day earlier. The US blockade on Iranian ships on the Strait of Hormuz would &#8220;remain &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61758,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61756\/revisions\/61758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}