The United States and Iran remotely signed their memorandum of understanding to end the war and open the Strait of Hormuz for the second time on Wednesday, the White House told the Washington Examiner.
The signing comes before the two countries are expected to ink the agreement in person during a meeting in Switzerland on Friday. It was not immediately clear why the deal was signed a second time.
Vice President JD Vance said Monday that the U.S. and Iran had initially digitally signed the agreement on Sunday. Trump on Monday also confirmed that the deal had been electronically signed during comments to reporters from the G7 summit in France. It appears that the agreement was signed by Trump, Vance, and Iranian parliamentary speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf.
On Wednesday, the agreement was electronically signed by officials for a second time, this time by both Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. U.S. officials told Axios that Trump signed the document while at a dinner alongside President Emmanuel Macron.
Esmail Baghaei, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, told Iranian state media that the Wednesday agreement was signed by both Trump and Pezeshkian.