President Donald Trump on Saturday declared that a U.S.-Iran agreement is scheduled to be signed Sunday, saying the deal would permanently block Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and immediately reopen the Strait of Hormuz to global shipping.
In a Truth Social post, Trump contrasted the emerging accord with former President Barack Obama's 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, arguing the previous agreement created a pathway for Iran to eventually acquire a nuclear weapon.
"My Agreement with Iran is the exact opposite, A WALL TO NO NUCLEAR WEAPON!" Trump wrote.
Trump said Iran has agreed it will not obtain a nuclear weapon "either through purchase, development, or any other form of procurement."
"The Deal is scheduled to get signed tomorrow, and immediately after it is signed, the Hormuz Strait is OPEN TO ALL," Trump wrote.
The president's comments came a day after Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said negotiators had agreed on the final text of a peace framework and that an electronic signing could occur within 24 hours. Pakistan has played a key role in mediating talks between Washington and Tehran.
Iranian officials, however, have continued to urge caution about predicting when a final agreement will be completed.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said Saturday that the release of frozen Iranian assets remains "an integral part" of any agreement and warned against assuming a signing date had been finalized.
"We must be cautious about making any comment about the signing date due to the hesitation of the other side," Baghaei said, according to Iranian state media.
Baghaei also said the possibility of signing what Iranian officials have called an "Islamabad memorandum" in the coming days could not be ruled out, but stressed that no signing was expected immediately.
Trump's post offered the most detailed description yet of what he said would be included in the agreement.
In addition to barring Iran from pursuing nuclear weapons, Trump said no money would be transferred to Tehran as part of the arrangement.
"Unlike Obama's Hundreds of Billions of Dollars in payments to them, including 1.7 Billion Dollars in green, cold cash, no money will exchange hands," Trump wrote.
Trump also said the United States would eventually remove and destroy remaining nuclear material buried deep inside Iran's hardened facilities, crediting U.S. B-2 bomber strikes with placing those sites beyond use.
"At the appropriate time, when all is calm, we will go in and get the Nuclear Dust ... and downblend and destroy it," he wrote.
The president said he hopes the agreement will usher in a new era of cooperation between Washington and Tehran.
"We look forward to working with Iran, and the entire Middle East, long into the future," Trump wrote.
Still, Trump ended the post with a warning that military options remain available if diplomacy fails.
"If it doesn't, we have the ultimate alternative, hopefully never to be used again!" he wrote.