US President Donald Trump is holding a “summit” phone conversation now with the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Oman, as well Egypt, Jordan and Turkey, on the updated text of a potential interim agreement to end the war and set conditions for substantive negotiations, Channel 12’s Barak Ravid reports.
Reuters reported earlier that Pakistan would also be on the call.
There is no suggestion that Israel, which jointly launched the war against Iran with the US on February 28, is present on the call.
Ravid, who spoke to Trump a short while ago, said the president would also be meeting with his envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, and Vice President JD Vance, on the potential deal.
The text has reportedly been undergoing numerous revisions. Saudi site Al-Arabiya published what it said was a text yesterday.
The reported draft agreement does not explicitly mention key US demands, including the dismantling of Iran’s nuclear program and export of its stockpile of 60%-enriched uranium, limiting its ballistic missiles and ending its support for terrorist proxies.
It provides for negotiations on the unspecified “outstanding issues” to begin within seven days of the agreement taking effect. Although it conditions US sanctions relief on Iran’s commitment to the terms of the agreement, it does not appear to specify the consequences if the outstanding issues are not resolved.
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