President Trump Says Deal With Iran Is Close

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🗓️ 7 May 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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President Trump is pushing for a peace deal, but the U.S. still has two aircraft carrier strike groups and more than two dozen warships in the region of Iran. The President said he expects Tehran may respond to the latest US proposal within a week which would then start a 30-day negotiation on the details of an agreement. The US demands are expected to include Iran renouncing nuclear weapons, the dismantlement of its three main nuclear facilities and a ban on building them underground. FOX’s Eben Brown speaks with E.J. Kimball, the Director of Policy for the US-Israel Education Association, who says any deal with Iran must have a verification process that can prove they are fulfilling their agreed obligations. Click Here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Charlie Hurt.
0:00.8	I'm Kaylee McEnany.
0:02.0	I'm Brian Kilmead, and this is the Fox News Rundown.
0:09.0	Thursday, May 7th, 2026.
0:11.8	I'm Eben Brown.
0:12.8	We wait to hear if Iran is ready for peace and disarmament.
0:16.9	Meanwhile, President Trump promises more military strikes if he's rebuffed yet again.
0:22.7	A deal that is a good deal would require not just the full dismantlement of the nuclear enrichment facilities and the ballistic missile production, but also verifiable dismantlement of all of this.
0:37.5	This is the Fox News Rundown Operation Epic Fury.
0:45.7	President Trump could soon resume Project Freedom if Iran's regime doesn't agree to surrender,
0:51.6	turn over its nuclear material, and agree to inspection.
0:54.8	Project Freedom is the use of the U.S. Navy to secure passage for merchant and commercial ships
0:59.5	transiting the Strait of Hormuz. Iran's been threatening those ships in the Persian Gulf as an
1:04.6	attempt to build international economic pressure against the U.S. So far, it has not really
1:10.5	worked despite upticks and energy costs,
1:13.2	but President Trump is waiting to see if whoever he's been communicating with on the Iranian
1:18.5	side is ready to make a deal. There isn't much confidence there. This runs into the problem that
1:25.0	Secretary Rubio mentioned the other day, which is we don't know exactly who is in charge in Iran.
1:32.7	We hear what they're saying, but that's different than what's happening on the ground.
1:37.3	E.J. Kimball is the director of policy for the U.S. Israel Education Association.
1:42.4	We see when Vice President Vance was in Pakistan and
1:47.5	negotiating what happened after, they had to take it back, go through channels, and then get a
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