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US President Donald Trump has confirmed a peace deal with Iran has been achieved.

The key dangers that threaten Trump’s peace terms with Iran

The US president said he went to war because Iran would not negotiate. Now he claims peace based on a negotiation with a regime he cannot defeat or control.

  • David Crowe

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The US president hailed an agreement to end the conflict in Iran hours before a celebration on the storied South Lawn that once would have seemed unfathomable.

  • Tom Housden
No matter what is agreed to, it will be presented by Trump as a victory.

Everything you need to know about the US-Iran peace deal

The full details of the agreement, hammered out between the two sides over the weekend, are yet to be revealed but the key issue of reopening the Strait of Hormuz may have been resolved.

  • Staff reporter
Iran’s response to a war that Trump thought would be over in weeks, if not days, has embarrassed and weakened America in the eyes of the rest of the world and the nature of the agreement, if one is reached, is likely to confirm that opinion.

Trump’s deal will show how pointless his war was

Oil might soon flow through the Strait of Hormuz, but the damage done by the US president’s war will linger for a very long time.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz

Happy Birthday, Mr President. You’ve had a long, but low life

I’m the same age as Donald Trump. He’s done so much in his 80 years, almost all of it bad.

  • Geoffrey Robertson
President Donald Trump

‘Let the oil flow’: Trump says Iran, US have reached peace deal

The details remain the subject of conjecture as Iran said the final agreement would be negotiated over the next 60 days, amid debate in Israel about whether Trump had given too much away.

  • David Crowe
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President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Thursday.

US, Iran inch closer to deal, timing remains unclear

Donald Trump forecast a Sunday signing of a long-elusive framework agreement to end fighting but Tehran cast doubt over the timing.

  • Phil Stewart, Eman Abouhassira and Saad Sayeed
Trump claimed a deal would involve the Strait of Hormuz being reopened to international shipping traffic.

An unhappy birthday for Trump: His Iran deal – and presidency – on the brink

It’s Donald Trump’s 80th birthday. Iran is yet to deliver his birthday gift, despite all his bluster.

  • Bruce Wolpe
Australia is bracing for another round of petrol panic buying.

Warning over petrol panic-buying as fuel excise discount expires

Fuel suppliers and the federal government are preparing for another surge in petrol demand before a popular tax break is wound up at the end of the month.

  • Mike Foley and Nick Toscano
A woman walks past an anti-American mural on the wall of the former US embassy, now a museum, in Tehran, Iran on Friday.

Will Trump’s 39th Iran promise be another fanciful claim or the real deal?

The US president often makes public threats of a return to all-out war, only to later pull back dramatically. Then come grand statements – and yet no resolution emerges.

  • Iona Cleave