Trump says he may or may not attend Iran deal signing

President Trump on Monday did not commit to attending the signing of the agreement to end the Iran war later in the week.

Trump, having just arrived for the Group of Seven summit and seated next to French President Emmanuel Macron in Évian-les-Bains, France, told reporters that “it depends” whether he will sign the physical document in Geneva on Friday.

“JD’s coming in for it, he was originally going to do it,” he continued, referring to Vice President Vance. “I’ll probably be gone by then. We’re having dinner in a day and a half, right? We’re going to be staying quite late. So, I may be involved, I may not, but JD was coming in for that, specifically.”

Trump called the agreement a “very powerful document,” more so than the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action designed by the Obama administration to restrain Iran’s nuclear program.

No details about the new agreement have been released, though the U.S. and Iran have agreed to a 60-day timeline to negotiate the future of Iran’s nuclear program.

“Hopefully it’s going to be a good relationship and we’re going to get along,” Trump said. “And if we don’t, we go back to where we started. But I don’t think that’s going to be necessary. The Iran deal that we made is going to bring a lot of success to the world because the oil was really clogged up there for a while.”

The president told reporters in France that details from the agreement will likely be released “probably pretty soon, I would say sometime after Friday.” Senior U.S. officials, however, previously told The Hill that the details would be released in 24 to 48 hours.

The president and vice president electronically signed the memorandum of understanding with Iran on Sunday, as did Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf. Vance and the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner are expected to be present in Geneva for the signing ceremony.

Vance previously told Fox News’s Trey Yingst that “it’s possible the president himself could be there.”

“I think we’re still figuring out the logistics of who’s going to attend that signing ceremony,” he said.

The initial agreement will reopen the Strait of Hormuz, allowing the passage of roughly 20 percent of the world’s oil exports. The closure choked off those exports, causing oil and fuel prices to soar worldwide.

The deal will also lead to the release of frozen assets to Iran. The Islamic regime has so far not received any of these assets.

The deal does not include a requirement for Israel to withdraw from Lebanon, one U.S. official previously said to The Hill. Israeli defense officials have vowed to fight Iran-backed Hezbollah militants in Lebanon, with Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, saying his nation is not “subject to the United States.”