Ceasefire Agreement a “big day for World Peace”: Trump

Washington (AP): US President Donald Trump in a social media post declared the ceasefire agreement a “big day for World Peace” and that the US “will be helping with the traffic buildup in the Strait of Hormuz.”

“There will be lots of positive action!” Trump predicted in his post.

“Big money will be made. Iran can start the reconstruction process. We'll be loading up with supplies of all kinds, and just hangin' around' in order to make sure that everything goes well. I feel confident that it will.”

Trump's message on his Truth Social website signals Washington's concern about Iran maintaining its chokehold over the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf, through which 20% of all oil and natural gas passes in peacetime.

Another report quoted Trump as saying US will work with Iran to “dig up and remove” its enriched uranium that was buried under joint US-Israeli strikes last summer.

The president said on social media that “There will be no enrichment of Uranium” and that none of the material had been touched since the June attacks.

Trump had previously said the US would retrieve the deeply buried material, which is expected to be an intensive undertaking, if it struck an agreement with Iran.

Trump added: “We are, and will be, talking Tariff and Sanctions relief with Iran.”

In a related development, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday said the US could strike again if Iran does not hand over enriched uranium.

The Pentagon chief did not offer any details about whether Iran had agreed to Trump's statement that the US would work with them to “dig up” the buried material.

However, Hegseth said Iran will “give it to us voluntarily,” or the US might do “something like” its strikes last summer with Israel hitting Iran's nuclear sites.

“We reserve that opportunity,” Hegseth said.