Vance says US hopes to release text of Iran agreement this week

Vice President Vance said on Monday the U.S. has signed the preliminary agreement with Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz and that the text of the deal would be released this week.

“We’ll be releasing the text this week and what everybody will see is that Iran doesn’t get a dime of money unless they perform their obligations, and the money that we’re talking about is fundamentally sanctions relief,” Vance said in an interview with ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

The Trump administration announced on Sunday that a preliminary deal with Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz had been reached.

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who has mediated talks between Washington and Tehran, wrote Sunday on the social platform X that an official signing ceremony will take place on Friday in Switzerland. Trump has previously said Vance could represent the U.S. in Switzerland.

The vice president spent Monday morning making the rounds on morning news shows in the U.S., pledging that under the deal “not a single dollar” of U.S. money will go to Iran, but that Washington is “willing to give significant sanctions relief” if Iran makes long-term commitments including giving up their nuclear weapons program and halting their funding of terror activities in the Middle East.

While a number of key details of the preliminary deal have yet to be released, the agreement has already been met with criticism from Democrats and wariness from Trump allies.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said in a post on X on Sunday that he is “somewhat concerned that Iran’s view of the agreement seems different than what the American negotiating team is claiming.”

Vance responded to Graham during the ABC interview, cautioning the Republican senator not to believe Iranian propaganda.

“I’d caution Lindsey Graham and anybody else not to believe the hardliner propaganda in Iran, but to believe what’s actually in the agreement,” the vice president said.

Vance also noted that a fundamental difference between the preliminary deal between the Trump administration and Iran and the Obama-era deal is that U.S. allies “love” the current deal.

“They feel that it’s going to create a totally new dynamic in the Middle East,” he said. “That’s a great testament to what the president and the entire team has accomplished.

Updated at 10:37 a.m. EDT

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