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EVIAN-LES-BANES, France (AP) — President Donald Trump arrived in the French Alps on Monday to meet world leaders at the Group of Seven summit after announcing an agreement he says will bring an end to the U.S. war with Iran.

Trump is expected to meet with other world leaders at the G7 summit at 1 p.m. EDT. Watch the live stream in our video player above.

Trump and Iranian officials had been saying for days that they were making progress toward reaching an agreement, but until Sunday, things appeared to be on shaky ground after a new round of strikes between Israel and Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants in Lebanon.

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With the agreement, the Republican US president arrived in Evian-les-Bains on Monday with the wind at his back for talks with G7 leaders, including some who have sharply criticized his handling of the 15-week conflict, which has sent global energy prices soaring.

Polls show that American voters largely disapprove of the conflict, which has some Republicans concerned about the political effects it could have on the midterm elections in November.

“Ships of the world, start your engines,” Trump said in a social media post celebrating the deal that he said would lead to the United States ending its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, through which about 20% of the world’s crude oil flowed before the conflict. “Let the oil flow!”

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But Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said that Iran’s closure of the strait will continue until the agreement is signed.

Neither the White House nor Iran published the final agreement or revealed many details. Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, whose country played a mediating role in the negotiations, said that there would be “pre-implementation discussions” this week to pave the way for 60-day technical talks on the Iranian nuclear program.

Vice President J.D. Vance told CNBC on Monday that the White House hopes to release the text of the agreement in the coming days.

The deal may change the dynamics of the G7

Reaching an agreement before heading to the summit could change the dynamic of the caucus for Trump. He has been at odds with French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni over not consulting them before deciding to go to war.

Meanwhile, Trump opposed the four European leaders – members of the NATO military alliance – over their lack of support for the United States in the conflict.

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Trump is expected to discuss with leaders the issue of removing mines in the Strait of Hormuz, the White House says. Britain and France have expressed interest in helping to clear the mines once the conflict stops. Fear of potential mines was among the reasons tanker traffic was grounded during the war, and their rapid removal would be crucial to restoring the confidence of merchant ships.

Macron said on Monday that France was ready to move “very quickly” to deploy assets, including mine-clearing ships, to the area to help.

He added that a French aircraft carrier and its accompanying battle group are already in the region and will be ready to assist within days of the United States and Iran signing the agreement.

Macron, host of the summit, invited the leaders of three countries not part of the G7 – Egypt, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates – to participate in a session on the Middle East on Tuesday, with Iran expected to be the main focus.

The leaders of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and Canada issued a joint statement in which they welcomed the agreement as “a moment of opportunity to restore regional stability and stabilize the global economy.”

In a separate development, before leaving for the summit, Trump told the New York Post that he had warned Macron that the United States “will have no choice” but to impose 100% tariffs on French wine unless Paris repeals the digital tax on US technology companies, renewing a long-standing threat from him dating back to his first administration.

Wine and spirits exported to the United States from the European Union currently face a 15% tariff.

In an interview with TF1, Macron said on Monday that “it is not for the United States to decide what European or French law is.”

Trump is scheduled to meet Macron later on Monday. After their meeting, Macron and Trump will join the other leaders for a working dinner.

Trump faces questions about Tehran’s financial incentives

Trump has strongly criticized President Barack Obama over the 2015 nuclear deal, which Trump said failed to prevent Tehran from progressing toward a nuclear weapon and diverted billions of dollars into the Islamic Republic’s coffers.

In 2018, Trump exited the deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the European Union were signatories to the agreement.

In an interview on Sunday with the New York Times, Trump rejected his comparisons to the nuclear agreement during the Obama era. “We negotiated from a position of strength,” Trump said. “He was basically paying them off.”

But Trump did not detail how his agreement would address some of the key issues related to Iran’s nuclear program, including who would be responsible for verifying Iran’s compliance with the agreement and who would destroy or remove 972 pounds (441 kilograms) of highly enriched uranium believed to be buried beneath nuclear sites that were badly damaged by U.S. strikes last summer.

The agreement is also expected to include some sanctions relief and economic incentives for Tehran as it meets certain criteria aimed at allaying White House concerns, senior administration officials said before the two sides reached an agreement.

Some Democrats and hawkish critics say Trump failed to explain how the financial aid in his deal would differ from what Obama did in the 2015 nuclear deal.

“Despite his criticism of the JCPOA, we had international observers, we actually had a coalition that included the Europeans, and Russia and China were all signatories,” Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, told CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday. He added, “Now America is walking alone or walking with Israel only, and this does not make us safer.”

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, a close ally of Trump and an Iran hawk, expressed doubts, saying Congress would need to review and vote on any nuclear agreement with Iran, and said he expected Vance – the “architect of the agreement” – to introduce it.

“I am somewhat concerned that Iran’s view of the agreement appears to be different from what the US negotiating team claims,” Graham said on social media.

Trump makes phone calls with Putin and Zelensky before the G7 summit

Macron also invited Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to a working session with G7 leaders on Tuesday to discuss the war between Russia and Ukraine.

Currently, Zelensky is not scheduled to hold one-on-one talks with Trump while they are in France, but Trump on Sunday held separate phone calls with Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Russian Presidential Assistant Yuri Ushakov told reporters that Trump stressed the need to end hostilities with Ukraine, and expressed his readiness to influence European allies and Kiev to achieve this goal, including the G7.

According to Ushakov, Trump also said that recent strikes on civilian targets in Russia complicate the settlement. The White House did not comment on the call.

Zelensky said in a statement posted on Telegram that he informed Trump how Ukraine’s situation along the eastern front line had improved and strengthened.

“We agreed to discuss more during our meeting at the G7 summit,” he said.

Madhani reported from Geneva and Superville reported from Washington. AP writer Samuel Petrekin in Paris contributed reporting.