(NewsNation) — The United States and Iran have reached a peace deal set to be signed Sunday, President Donald Trump announced, but Israeli strikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut are complicating the final stages of an agreement that would establish a ceasefire and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

Trump announced the signing on Truth Social on Saturday, saying the strait would “automatically” reopen once the deal is signed. Saudi Arabia will host an electronic signing, with each side expected to sign digitally, according to Pakistan’s deputy prime minister and foreign minister Ishaq Dar.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry, however, pushed back on the timeline. Spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said the signing of the Islamabad memorandum would not take place Sunday, and urged caution on any firm date given possible hesitation from either party — though he did not rule out a signing in the coming days.

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced Friday that both sides had agreed on the final wording of the deal. “Peace has never been this close as it is now,” Sharif wrote on X. Pakistan has served as a key mediator throughout the conflict.

A source briefed on the talks told NewsNation that a Qatari negotiating team was dispatched to Tehran on Sunday to help push the agreement across the finish line. But Israeli strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs the same day are “creating issues” with getting a deal done, the source said.

Iran’s parliament speaker seized on the strikes to slam Washington, saying the Israeli action showed the U.S. “either lacks the will to fulfill its commitments or the ability to do so” and warning that continuing peace talks under such conditions “is not possible.”

The last time Israel struck the Beirut suburbs — one week ago — it triggered the most serious escalation between Iran and Israel since a fragile ceasefire took hold April 7. Iran fired missiles at northern Israeli communities including Haifa, and Israel launched retaliatory strikes on western and central Iran. Iran’s military has signaled it will not allow Sunday’s strikes to go unanswered.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel is not a party to the negotiated deal but stated Friday that he and Trump are in “full agreement” that Iran must not be permitted to obtain nuclear weapons. The deal in its current form is considered a deep disappointment by Israel’s government.

The war began Feb. 28 when the U.S. and Israel launched coordinated strikes across Iran. The ceasefire that has been in place since April 7 has remained fragile, with both sides trading strikes in recent weeks.

Strait of Hormuz to be discussed during G7 summit

The Strait of Hormuz will be a topic of discussion at Monday’s G7 summit, where the president and other world leaders will talk about demining the strait.

G7 members Britain and France have expressed interest in assisting with demining once the conflict has ended. It’s unclear how many mines are in the strait that Iran has effectively controlled since shortly after the war began, virtually shutting down oil and natural gas shipments from the Persian Gulf.

Trump announces deal to be signed Sunday

President Donald Trump said the long-awaited deal between the U.S. and Iran will be signed on Sunday, June 14, along with the Strait of Hormuz being reopened.

“Barack Hussein Obama’s Deal with Iran, the JCPOA, was an easy, beautiful, smooth road to a Nuclear Weapon, which Iran would have had six years ago, and would have used long before now. My Agreement with Iran is the exact opposite, A WALL TO NO NUCLEAR WEAPON! In fact, they no longer want a Nuclear Weapon, nor will they have one, either through purchase, development, or any other form of procurement,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Saturday.

“The Deal is scheduled to get signed tomorrow, and immediately after it is signed, the Hormuz Strait is OPEN TO ALL. Our relationship with Iran is a much different and better one than previous Administrations have had,” the post continued.

“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. At the appropriate time, when all is calm, we will go in and get the Nuclear Dust, buried deep under the powerful sunken granite mountains, thanks to our beautiful B-2 Bombers and their brilliant pilots, and downblend and destroy it, whether in Iran, or the United States. We look forward to working with Iran, and the entire Middle East, long into the future. Hopefully, this process will all work out quickly, easily, and smoothly. If it doesn’t, we have the ultimate alternative, hopefully never to be used again! Thank you for your attention to this matter!!! President DONALD J. TRUMP.”

Iran rules out memorandum signing on Sunday

As the U.S. and Iran work out the final stages of a peace deal, the Iranian side is saying the Islamabad memorandum would not be signed on Sunday, according to a Reuters report.

Esmaeil Baghaei, a spokesperson for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, said while the signing in the coming days could not be ruled out, caution is needed on any talks surrounding the date because of any possible hesitation on the other side.

Meanwhile, Pakistan’s deputy prime minister and foreign minister Ishaq Dar wrote in a post on X Saudi Arabia welcomed hosting the U.S.-Iran negotiations in its finals stages, and will host an electronic signing on Sunday.

Each side is expected to electronically sign the deal.

US shoots down Iranian drones

U.S. forces shot down multiple Iranian one-way attack drones overnight. The U.S. military said the drones were attempting “to strike commercial ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz.”

The Strait remains open, however. This comes as an emerging deal between the two nations hangs in the balance.

Potential White House deal with Iran

In its current form, the agreement would establish a 60-day ceasefire, a memorandum of understanding between Washington and Tehran, and the immediate reopening of the Strait of Hormuz to international shipping.

Oil and natural gas shipments through the strait have been largely disrupted since Iran took effective control of the waterway shortly after the war began Feb. 28.

Trump framed the agreement as a definitive break from the 2015 nuclear deal negotiated under President Barack Obama, describing his agreement as “a wall to no nuclear weapon.”

He said no money would change hands and added that at an appropriate future time, U.S. forces would retrieve and destroy nuclear material buried beneath Iranian mountains — referencing earlier B-2 bomber strikes on underground Iranian nuclear sites.

The deal would include the following provisions, according to a senior administration official:

• Nuclear material destroyed and removed
• Nuclear program dismantled
• No Iranian funding of terrorist groups
• Keep Strait of Hormuz open
• No money released until requirements are met

Trump has long publicly said he would not accept a deal that did not include an agreement by Iran to dismantle its nuclear program.

Iranians, in exchange for these concessions, are hoping to get economic relief, but it would not be immediate.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi said a deal “has never been closer.”

The full text has not been released, but “In line with our responsible and transparent approach, all details will be shared with the public in due course,” Araghchi said.