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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Martin Belam

First Thing: Trump promises ‘great things’ for Middle East and claims Iran deal ‘all signed’

Three people walk over rubble and past a burnt-out car in a partly destroyed building
People walk through the heavily damaged historic market of Nabatieh as those displaced by fighting start to return to southern Lebanon. Photograph: Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP/Getty Images

Good morning. Donald Trump has declared the strait of Hormuz will be “completely open” from Friday. “The deal’s all signed. And the strait ⁠is already partially opened,” the US president said as he arrived at the G7 summit in France.

“I think a lot of great things are going to happen in the Middle East. And very importantly, the oil is plummeting down and the stock market is shooting up like a rocket today,” Trump said. “The main thing is that Iran will not have a nuclear weapon. They fully agreed to that with strong policing powers, and they won’t have a nuclear weapon, which is what it was all about.”

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