{"id":92675,"date":"2026-05-24T08:14:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T13:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/?p=92675"},"modified":"2026-05-26T05:39:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T10:39:22","slug":"trump-says-he-has-largely-negotiated-iran-deal-including-strait-of-hormuz-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/trump-says-he-has-largely-negotiated-iran-deal-including-strait-of-hormuz-opening\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he has \u2018largely negotiated\u2019 Iran deal, including Strait of Hormuz opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By GRACE GILSON<\/p>\n<p>(JTA) \u2014 President Donald Trump announced in a post on Truth Social Saturday afternoon that a deal with Iran had been \u201clargely negotiated,\u201d despite saying earlier in the day that he was undecided on whether to agree to a proposal or resume strikes.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_92676\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/trump26.avif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92676\" class=\"wp-image-92676\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/trump26.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-92676\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump speaks at the White House on May 22, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Trump described the deal as a \u201cMemorandum of Understanding pertaining to PEACE\u201d that was \u201csubject to finalization\u201d by the United States, Iran and other countries that participated in talks on Saturday. He noted that he\u2019d \u201cjust had a very good call\u201d with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan and Bahrain.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said in his Truth Social post that, separately, he had spoken with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a conversation that \u201cwent very well.\u201d There was no immediate statement released by the Prime Minister\u2019s Office following Trump\u2019s post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinal aspects and details of the Deal are currently being discussed, and will be announced shortly,\u201d Trump added.<\/p>\n<p>In the post, Trump said the deal would include the opening of the Strait of Hormuz, though a widely reported quote from Iran\u2019s Fars New Agency, which is close to Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said that Trump\u2019s assertion was \u201cincomplete and inconsistent with reality\u201d and that the strait would remain under Iranian control.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s announcement comes over a month since he unilaterally extended a fragile U.S.-Iran ceasefire in April.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement did not make mention of Iran\u2019s nuclear program or highly enriched uranium, which Trump has previously stressed must be included in a deal.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s announcement came hours after he told Axios that he was a \u201csolid 50\/50\u201d on whether he would be able to make a \u201cgood\u201d deal with Iran, or else \u201cblow them to kingdom come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump also told Axios that Netanyahu was \u201ctorn\u201d over the potential deal but rejected the idea that the Israeli leader was \u201cworried\u201d that he might strike an unfavorable agreement.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Trump%20says%20he%20has%20%E2%80%98largely%20negotiated%E2%80%99%20Iran%20deal%2C%20including%20Strait%20of%20Hormuz%20opening\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":92676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,25],"tags":[184,8790,8795,8788,15153],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92677,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92675\/revisions\/92677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}