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Trump declares US-Iran peace deal β€˜all signed’ as G7 leaders battle to tie up loose ends

US president says strait of Hormuz will be open from Friday but questions remain over waterway fees and Israeli breaches of ceasefire in Lebanon

Donald Trump has declared that the strait of Hormuz will be β€œcompletely open” from Friday, as western leaders gathering at the G7 summit in Γ‰vian-les-Bains battled to prevent the fragile US deal with Iran from almost immediately unravelling.

β€œThe deal’s all signed. And the strait ⁠is already partially opened,” Trump said as he arrived at the summit in France, but Israeli breaches of the ceasefire in Lebanon and Iran’s claims about its right to charge fees in the crucial waterway revealed the agreement’s many loose ends.

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Β© Photograph: Anna Moneymaker/Reuters

Β© Photograph: Anna Moneymaker/Reuters

Β© Photograph: Anna Moneymaker/Reuters

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