Donald Trump posted on Truth Social at about 21:12 UTC on 14 June 2026 that the deal with Iran was "now complete", authorising a "toll free" reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and the immediate removal of the United States naval blockade. 1 the strait of Hormuz is the chokepoint between Iran and Oman through which roughly a fifth of the world's seaborne oil passes; the blockade is the standing US naval operation that has bottled it up through the war. Trump signed off with "Ships of the World, start your engines." It is the largest claimed change of state in the conflict.
The action ledger says nothing has moved. The White House Presidential Actions index carries no executive order, proclamation or national security presidential memorandum (NSPM), the standing directive a president uses to set security policy, on Iran or the blockade for 14 or 15 June. 2 The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the US Treasury bureau that administers Iran sanctions, has published no relief, no general licence and no FAQ; its last Iran action was 5 June. 3 The Federal Register, the official journal of the federal government, is blank. The blockade-lift exists only as the post, with no Central Command stand-down order anyone can cite.
Trump had run this play before. He stood down the third strike day and touted the same unsigned memorandum on 11 June , then named Vice President JD Vance and Iran's parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf as signatories the day before this declaration while the register stayed empty . Senator Lindsey Graham said any nuclear terms must go to Congress for a vote, and added he was "somewhat concerned that Iran's view of the agreement seems different than what the American negotiating team is claiming." 4 A presidential post carries no Federal Register citation, so CENTCOM has no order to lift the blockade against; ending a standing military operation needs a stand-down instruction, not a declaration. The signing ceremony has now slipped a third time, to Friday 19 June in Switzerland.
