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19-06-2026
WASHINGTON: US vice-president JD Vance has said nuclear inspectors will “absolutely” be allowed to return to Iran as part of the deal with Washington to end the war.
“In fact, one of the core parts of the agreement is that the (International Atomic Energy Agency) and the United States are going to help Iran destroy the highly enriched stockpile, and that’s something that’s spelled out very clearly” in the memorandum of understanding the US and Iran had already agreed to, media quoted Vance as saying in an interview on Monday.
What the deal specifies about the future of Iran’s nuclear program has not yet been made clear, as the details are still to be revealed publicly and both sides have given different accounts of what has been agreed so far.
Donald Trump has repeated that “Iran will never have a nuclear weapon” while officials from Pakistan, which mediated the deal, reportedly said talks on the nuclear issue would continue over the next 60 days under the agreement.
Trump has said the US could resume attacks on Iran if it failed to reach a nuclear deal.
The US agreement with Iran is “very weak” and will mean Washington goes into the coming talks over Iran’s nuclear program in a weak position and with no guarantee of getting what it wants, according to a former US ambassador to Israel.
Dan Shapiro posted on social media after appearing on CNN to talk about the framework agreement:
It’s a very weak deal that we have to do to open the Strait of Hormuz and end the war but we will go into the nuclear negotiations in a weak position, with no certainty we will get the results we need.”
Hezbollah said it attacked Israeli forces “advancing” in the south on Monday and Lebanese media said an Israeli drone earlier targeted a car, killing the driver.
Fighters from the Iran-backed militia used rockets and drones to block an Israeli force consisting of an excavator and two Merkava tanks that was “advancing” in the vicinity of Kfar Tebnit town near the southern city of Nabatieh, Hezbollah said in a statement.
In another statement late on Monday, it added:
The enemy army regrouped its forces in the vicinity of the crossing area by bringing in an armoured force consisting of five Merkava tanks and four vehicles.
The mujahideen of the Islamic Resistance targeted them with rocket barrages and artillery shells, and the clashes are still ongoing.”
Agence France-Presse also reports that earlier on Monday, an Israeli drone targeted a car in the same area “killing its driver”, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency, marking the first deadly strike since the US-Iran agreement was announced.
Meanwhile, UN secretary general Antonio Guterres’s spokesperson said there had been fewer clashes on Monday.
Stephane Dujarric said UN peacekeepers reported that from midnight to 4pm local time, they saw a decrease in violence and exchanges of fire, “recording 133 trajectories of projectiles and two airstrikes attributed to the IDF” (Israel defence forces). “No trajectories from Hezbollah or non-state actors were reported during that time.”
Three oil tankers and two cargo ships carrying goods have passed through the Strait of Hormuz area that had been subject to a US naval blockade, Iranian media said on Monday evening.
Donald Trump said earlier in the day that ships were again moving through the strait and that the key oil route would be “completely open” by Friday after the agreed deal between the US and Iran. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
