US and Iran Move Closer to Deal, Lebanon Withdraws Troops, More
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News when you want it with Bloomberg News Now. I'm Monica Ricks. Pakistan says a deal between the U.S. and Iran could be finalized within the next 24 hours. But Iran's foreign ministry is now responding and says it may not happen so fast. It's looking at the possibility of a deal over the next few days. Bloomberg's Laura Davison has more from Washington and weighs in on whether an agreement could be signed electronically.
Having this now, you know, being downgraded essentially to some sort of virtual signing or electronic signing suggests that maybe a deal is not quite as firm or that the two sides are not as confident in this deal, that they don't want to have that photo op moment. You know, thinking back to, you know, when Trump established the Board of Peace and signed this big deal with Gaza, you know, about a year ago, he had, you know, the big display, the backdrop, all the world leaders there. This is not shaping up to be that.
That's Bloomberg's Laura Davison on Bloomberg This Weekend. This comes as CENTCOM says U.S. forces shot down multiple Iranian drones near the Strait yesterday as talks continued. They called it self-defense after Iran downed an army helicopter earlier this week. Meantime, the Lebanese army has withdrawn its troops from a base in a southern village after Israeli forces advanced in an area nearby. Airstrikes killed two people in the region overnight as attacks between Israel and Hezbollah continued despite a ceasefire. Oil dropped 3% to end the week, and gas is a little cheaper this morning on hopes for a peace agreement with Iran. For now, though, Energy Secretary Chris Wright says roughly 7 million barrels of daily oil and fuel shipments are flowing through the Strait of Hormuz.
That's about half the volume left stranded there at the start of this war.
Certainly after an agreement is reached, you'll see free flow of traffic of all products out of the Gulf or whatever. You'll see that either way, if there is no deal with Iran, eventually we would restore that militarily full flow as well.
Wright tells Bloomberg the U.S. will fully reopen the waterway with or without Iran's help. But the two sides may sign a deal on the sidelines of the G7 summit next week. President Trump says the U.S. has killed the leader of a Venezuelan drug cartel known as Tren de Aragua.
What recent developments are there in U.S.-Iran relations?
We get more on that from Bloomberg's Ed Kalecki.
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