The signing ceremony of the agreement protocol reached by the United States and Iran is scheduled to take place this Friday, the 19th, in Switzerland, in a luxury hotel on the Bürgenstock mountain, near Lake Lucerne, the Swiss Foreign Ministry informed this Tuesday, the 16th. AFP.
He explained that the location – difficult to access and easy to protect – “was proposed by Pakistani and Qatari mediators, as well as by the United States and Iran.” Iran’s chief negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, will attend the event.
The United States has already electronically signed the preliminary pact to suspend hostilities in the Middle East and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, according to a senior American official told Reuters on Monday, 15.
According to the source, the document received the signatures of President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and the Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf. The American government expects to release the full terms of the understanding in the coming days.
On Monday, the 15th, the vice president of the United States said that he believes that Iran will not apply tolls in the Strait of Hormuz. The statement came after President Donald Trump’s announcement that the crossing, which he said “is already partially open”, would be fully reopened by Friday.
Fragility of the agreement
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu stated that Israeli troops will remain in southern Lebanon despite the agreement reached between the United States and Iran to end military escalation in the region. According to him, Israel did not participate in the negotiations led by American President Donald Trump and will continue to make decisions based on its own security interests.
At a press conference, Netanyahu said that Iran had pushed for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanese territory to be included in the agreement, but that the demand was not accepted. “Iran wanted us to withdraw from there, but that didn’t happen. Do you know why it didn’t happen? Because I remained very, very firm,” he said.
The prime minister reiterated that his government’s main concern remains preventing Tehran from developing nuclear weapons. “With or without a deal, we will continue to do whatever is necessary to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. As long as I am prime minister of Israel, this will not happen,” he declared.
Israel has maintained a security zone in southern Lebanon since the offensive launched against Hezbollah following attacks by the Iran-backed group on northern Israeli territory during the first days of the war. Since the beginning of negotiations, Tehran has argued that the end of the Israeli military presence in the region is a condition for any understanding with Washington.
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