Pakistan Announces Final Text of US-Iran Peace Agreement, Warns of Sabotage Campaign

Pakistan’s prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, declared on Friday that a final, agreed text for a peace agreement between the United States and Iran had been reached, marking the most concrete step yet in months of quiet mediation by Islamabad. In a statement posted on X, Sharif confirmed that “a final and consensual text of the peace agreement has been achieved” and that Pakistan was now “working closely with both sides to finalise the next steps.” The announcement, dated 12 June, was accompanied by an unusually direct warning: that a “relentless disinformation campaign” was being waged by those intent on sabotaging the deal.

Viewed from Washington, the picture was immediately more complicated. President Donald Trump had earlier accused Tehran of negotiating in bad faith, insisting that leaked Iranian accounts of the talks did not reflect what had been agreed. German broadsheet Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung noted that Trump had gone so far as to cancel previously announced military strikes, a detail that underscores the fragility of the diplomatic track. The White House has yet to issue a formal response to Sharif’s announcement, leaving analysts in European capitals to question whether the two sides are truly aligned on the substance of the text.

From Tehran’s vantage point, the tone was markedly more optimistic. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi wrote on X that an agreement was “closer than ever,” referring specifically to an “Islamabad memorandum of understanding.” He urged media outlets to refrain from speculating about its contents until the document was finalised. Araghchi’s intervention appeared calibrated to reinforce Pakistan’s narrative while pushing back against the same leaks and disinformation that Sharif had condemned.

The prime minister’s explicit reference to a sabotage campaign adds a layer of intrigue rarely seen in such public diplomacy. Sharif’s post, as carried by outlets from Bild to Sky News Arabia, spoke of being “fully aware of the incessant disinformation campaign” run by those who “want to sabotage the peace agreement.” Neither Islamabad nor the parties have identified who might be behind the alleged effort, but the accusation suggests that the negotiations are unfolding in a highly contested information environment, where regional spoilers or domestic hardliners could seek to derail progress.

What has been agreed appears, for now, to be a framework accord rather than a final peace treaty. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung characterised the text as a “Rahmenabkommen” that sets out modalities for further negotiations. Pakistan’s role as mediator—confirmed by multiple sources including Noticias Argentinas and Valor Econômico—places it at the centre of a process that could reshape the Middle East’s security architecture. Yet the gap between Sharif’s confident announcement and Trump’s scepticism illustrates the distance still to be travelled. As one European diplomat observed, the coming days will test whether the text is a genuine breakthrough or merely a diplomatic mirage.