Overview
- Pakistan’s prime minister said Saturday that negotiators from Washington and Tehran have agreed a final draft of a framework peace text and that Islamabad is preparing for an electronic signing.
- Iran’s foreign minister described an Islamabad memorandum as “closer than ever,” but Iranian officials also warned the signature timing was more likely to come in the coming days rather than immediately.
- President Donald Trump called the talks a breakthrough and said planned attacks were called off while publicly rejecting Iranian media accounts of specific deal terms as false.
- The US military reported it shot down multiple Iranian drones that threatened commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz, showing that kinetic threats continue even as diplomacy advances.
- Key unresolved, high‑stakes issues remain: how the Strait of Hormuz will be managed and reopened, the sequencing and scope of US sanctions relief and frozen funds, and the fate of Iran’s highly enriched uranium.