Senior US official says ’80-85%’ confident of signing Iran deal

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and AFP 12 June 2026, 8:18 pm

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The United States is “80 to 85 percent” confident of signing a peace deal with Iran in the coming days, a senior official in President Donald Trump’s administration says.

“We do expect us to be signing this agreement over the next few days. I can’t give you an exact date,” the senior official tells reporters in a call, speaking on condition of anonymity.

“If I were to give you a confidence that we were going to be signing this agreement, I maybe would have said 75% this morning, it’s probably more like 80-85% now, but it’s not 100 percent.”

“We’re not quite at the finish line yet, but we are very close,” he says.