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Agreement was struck despite an Israeli strike on Lebanon on Sunday that drew criticism from both Iran and Trump
Jason Burke at The Guardian:
A peace deal between the US and Iran has been reached following nearly four months of fighting in the region, Donald Trump and senior Iranian officials have said.
Iranian deputy foreign minister Kazem Gharibabadi confirmed the agreement in televised comments in the early hours of Monday, saying it puts an “immediate end” to the countries’ war, and that it included Lebanon.
The precise terms of the deal were not immediately known, however, in a statement posted to Truth Social Sunday evening, the US president announced the opening of the strait of Hormuz as well as the removal of the US naval blockade. “Ships of the World, start your engines. Let the oil flow!”, said Trump in the celebratory post.
He later clarified that the opening of the strait would be contingent upon the signing of the deal on Friday – which mediator Pakistan said would take place in Geneva – “for purposes of mine removal”
However, Iran’s Mehr state news reported that the memorandum of understanding agreed with the US calls for the reopening of the strait within 30 days under “Iranian arrangements”.
Pakistan’s prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, announced the agreement on Sunday afternoon, with both sides declaring “the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon”.
The agreement was struck despite an Israeli strike on Lebanon on Sunday that drew criticism from both Iran and US President Donald Trump.
“Following intensive talks, we are pleased to announce that the Peace Deal between the United States of America and Islamic Republic of Iran has been REACHED,” Sharif said in a post on X. A signing ceremony for the peace agreement is expected to take place on 19 June in Switzerland, he added.
Trump had called for restraint on Sunday after Israel launched fresh airstrikes on Beirut, as mediators sought to reach a preliminary peace deal to definitively end the three-month war in the Middle East.
Trump had previously suggested the US could sign an agreement with Iran on Sunday, but as the evening came in the Middle East, there was no sign of a breakthrough. Instead, Iranian officials threatened a military response to the Israeli attack on Beirut, which destroyed a building in the Lebanese capital’s southern suburbs, killing three and injuring six.
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Even if the strait of Hormuz is reopened, relief for the world economy will come slowly, analysts say. Safe passage for shipping trapped in the narrow waterway is far from assured and infrastructure damaged during the conflict will take months to fully repair.
The US and Iran agreed to a new peace deal that is substantially similar to the JCPOA agreement under Obama that was torn up under Donald Trump’s 1st term, and contains a provision to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
See Also:
HuffPost: U.S., Iran Reach Deal To End The War, Reopen Strait Of Hormuz
My name is Jess and I was a high school Literature teacher for 16 years until I decided to run as a Democrat in a rural, red district in Mis
Jess Piper at The View From Rural Missouri:
I have two Facebook accounts. The one I log into most days is my Piper for Missouri account, where I post political content and essays and news articles. I have around 100k friends on that page, and it is where many folks keep up with me and my commentary on Missouri.
It’s also where my ugliest trolls pop up.
I still have my old Facebook page that I opened about 15 years back. It was full of family updates and photos of my kids through the years, and is now scrubbed clean of family references and photos, because there are crazy folks out there, and I work in politics in a very red state. I don’t post on that Facebook page anymore, but I do log in a few times a month to scroll through Facebook Marketplace.
I may not want anyone to see my kids or grandkids, but I am a sucker for a deal, and Marketplace is one of my favorite haunts.
I have been looking for end tables for my living room for several months. My current mismatched ones are fine, but I’d like the look of something farmhouse-like but not farmhouse kitsch. The real stuff. Old farmhouse antiques.
When I logged into my old Facebook to start scrolling for treasures, a post from a local woman caught my attention because I saw my State Senator’s name. I paused to read the long post about the same meeting I wrote about a couple of weeks ago, and my Senator’s smug appearance in town.
The lady writing the post had a different point of view. She was gushing praise for our lawmakers who showed up “when they didn’t have to.”
What? Showed up when they didn’t have to?
That is one of the biggest responsibilities in being a Representative — they are supposed to show up and listen, but they rarely do, so I don’t think they need praise for doing the bare minimum, but it wasn’t my post, and I digress.
The lady went on for a few paragraphs, and then towards the end of her post, she referenced the folks in the audience who were “unhinged.” She had an apology for the lawmakers who were subjected to questions — unhinged questions from a constituent.
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I was not unhinged in that meeting, but I did shout out a question to my lawmaker, asking him to address the hundreds of thousands of dollars he has accepted from an organization that sends Missouri taxpayer money to private religious schools. I did tell him that I was forced to shout a question because he refuses to answer emails and phone calls asking him the same question.
Unhinged is not a word I would use to describe a constituent calmly asking a hard question of her Representative, but I do think the word is applicable to many folks in the meeting, including the one who made the post in the first place.
The updated Parentage Act aims to ensure children have legally recognized relationships with their parents regardless of biology, marital st
Christopher Wiggins at The Adovcate:
As conservative lawmakers across the country target transgender rights and revisit long-settled questions about LGBTQ+ equality, Delaware moved in the opposite direction.
On Tuesday, Gov. Matt Meyer, a Democrat, signed legislation modernizing the state's parentage laws, expanding legal protections for children and families formed through assisted reproduction, surrogacy, donor conception, and other paths to parenthood commonly used by LGBTQ+ people.
The updated Delaware Parentage Act may lack the political flash of debates over bathrooms, sports, or marriage equality — but for many LGBTQ+ families, advocates say, few laws are more consequential.
The Advocate requested comment from Meyer's office, but did not receive a response.
Parentage determines who is legally recognized as a child's parent. It governs everything from custody rights and inheritance to health insurance coverage, medical decision-making, Social Security benefits, and access to a parent following a divorce. When those relationships are unclear under state law, children can be left vulnerable.
"Parentage is the legal relationship between a parent and their child," Meg York, chief legal and policy officer at COLAGE, told The Advocate ahead of the bill signing. "Sometimes people don't realize that they may be parenting, but they may not have parentage."
The legislation updates Delaware law to align with the 2017 Uniform Parentage Act, a model law designed to ensure children have legally recognized relationships with their parents regardless of marital status, biological connection, sexual orientation, or method of conception.
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That broader argument comes as debates over family recognition, reproductive technology, and LGBTQ+ rights have become increasingly politicized. "I think there is an extremist position that wants to redefine who families are," York said. "What this is about is whether the law protects real families as they exist."
Mark Purpura, a board member of Equality Delaware, said the measure reflects a straightforward principle. "Delaware is strongest when the law respects and protects all families," he said in a statement.
Good news: Delaware expands protections for LGBTQ+ families, as Gov. Matt Meyer (D) signs a bill updating the Delaware Parentage Act.
The president said Congress should pass the resolution to scrub his first-term impeachments, claiming he did ‘nothing wrong’
Rhian Lubin in New York Friday 12 June 2026 14:58 BST
Trump was impeached twice by the Democratic-led House of Representatives; first in 2019 over allegations of abusing the power of his office by attempting to extort a political favor from Ukraine, and again in January 2021 with charges of “incitement of insurrection” following the January 6 Capitol riots. The Senate acquitted him in both cases, which left him in office.
The president’s latest move to void the impeachments from the record follows his recent attempts to reverse the outcomes of multiple legal cases that ruled against him.
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