60-DAY US-IRAN TRUCE DEAL AWAITS TRUMP NOD

The US and ​Iran have reached an agreement ​on a memorandum of understanding to extend their ceasefire for 60 days, but US President Donald Trump has yet to approve it, four sources familiar with the matter said.
The agreement will state how to address Iran's stockpile of highly enriched uranium, which will ⁠be among the first issues discussed during the 60-day window, according ⁠to an earlier report by Axios, which broke the news.
The White House declined to comment.
The Trump administration has several times said a deal to end the fighting ‌was close, only to have Iran dispute ​or downplay the claims.
Trump ⁠initially said the war would last four to ​six weeks, but it is now ‌three months old. At times, he has suggested the conflict could end within days, only to later ​suggest it could go on for some time.
Over the weekend, expectations of a deal soared when Trump cancelled his weekend plans to stay in Washington and skipped his son's wedding, citing 'circumstances pertaining to government.' On Sunday, a senior Trump administration official downplayed an imminent deal, but said there was agreement in ​principle over the broad contours of a deal.
Trump has come under growing pressure ​from ‌Iran ⁠in his own party, who have urged him not to make any agreement that fails to immediately address Iran's nuclear programme.
Growing voter disquiet ​about high prices, especially for gasoline, has added to ⁠political pressure ​on Trump’s Republican Party, which is widely expected to struggle to keep control of the House of Representatives and possibly the Senate.
Trump has said his key aim in the war is to prevent Iran from developing ​a nuclear weapon with its highly enriched uranium. Tehran has ​consistently denied it has plans to do that.
Meanwhile, the latest attacks, while limited, highlighted the fragility of negotiations to turn the tenuous early-April ceasefire into a lasting agreement to end the three-month-old war - which ‌has killed thousands - and reopen the vital Strait of Hormuz.
US Central Command said US ​forces had shot down five Iranian attack ⁠drones and struck a ground control station in the port city of Bandar Abbas that was about to launch a ​sixth. Kuwaiti forces had then intercepted a ballistic missile ‌fired towards the country, which hosts a large US base.
'These actions were measured, purely defensive and intended to maintain the ceasefire,' a US official, who requested anonymity to speak candidly about military operations, said.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ​said it had targeted the US base responsible for an early-morning attack near Bandar Abbas airport and that any repeat would lead to a 'more decisive response', Tasnim news agency reported.
- Reuters