The first three Iranian tankers carrying oil came out of the blockade zone imposed by the US armed forces in the Straits of Hormuz, announced a specialised service, two days before the framework agreement signing ceremony between Tehran and Washington to end the war in the Middle East and start negotiations on the most thorny issues, in particular the US sanctions and the Iranian nuclear energy programme.

After over three months of war with thousands dead, in their large majority in Iran and Lebanon, laborious negotiations and countless reversals of Donald Trump, the US and Iran ultimately announced that they reached agreement on the broad lines.

Information on its contents comes out with the dropper, however, and the text is "very general" and extends only to "one and a half page", as American Vice President J.D. Vance put it speaking to CNN.

Before the framework agreement is signed, the first results are found, according to Iranian diplomacy. The American blockade of Iranian ports, imposed on 13 April, in retaliation for the closure of the Strait of Hormuz after the outbreak of the armed conflict in late February, has now been lifted.

Three very large crude transport tankers (VLCCs) of the Iranian state-owned National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC), loaded with a total of 4.8 million barrels of oil, passed the perimeter of the blockade, said via X the specialized monitoring service of Tanker Trackers maritime transport.

UPDATE: A 3rd NITC tanker, a Suezmax at that, has now been assigned the blockade line with 1 million bars of Iranian crude oil. pic.twitter. Com/5T28VnlU71— TankerTrackers.com, Inc. (@TankerTrackers) June 17, 2026

Earlier, Iranian state television had announced that now Iranian oil tankers have re-launched.

Donald Trump announced that the Strait of Hormuz will reopen "fully" the day after the signing. His closure caused paralysis of the transport of hydrocarbons by sea and took off oil prices in the markets.

Yesterday, however, the price of Brent North Sea barrel, a reference variety, fell below $80 for the first time since March. Around 06:30 (Greece time), it retreated by 0.32%, at $78.81.

Sales of crude
The Wall Street Journal, citing sources, said Washington gave Tehran the green light to start selling its oil on the "directly" markets under the framework agreement and, to facilitate it, proceeds to lift sanctions in the fields of banking transactions and transport.

However, uncertainties continue in the management of the Strait of Hormuz. Iran does not intend to return to the status quo ante, in the pre-war situation, instead means to collect fees for "services" it offers to ships, while the Trump government wants transits allowed free.

In an article in Time magazine, Ali Vaez, of the International Crisis Group, estimates that the framework agreement is not a "significant progress in the broad sense of the term", as it does not reconcile the incompatible narratives" of either side, nor does it regulate "the dispute" for the Iranian nuclear energy programme, nor does it establish "new regional order".

But it "offers space breathing American diplomacy" and to set aside the violence that he had little to bury it.".

The Signing ceremony expected to take place the day after tomorrow in a luxury hotel in Birgenstock, a term above the lake of Lucerne (centrally), informed the French Agency the government of Switzerland.

Present will be Iran's chief negotiator, Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bayer Galibaf, and US Vice President J.D. Vance, while US President Trump, who is not far from there, on the bank of Lake Leman - is taking part in the G7 summit in Evian, has not been excluded.

Immediately afterwards, the first round of talks to reach a "definitive agreement" is expected to begin, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragci said.

The disagreements are many and the divergences huge. Especially for Iran's nuclear energy programme and for the American sanctions that cause asphyxiation in the Iranian economy.

Talks take place in an atmosphere of mutual mistrust -- last time, after all, they were interrupted when the stormy American-Israeli bombings against Iran were launched on February 28th.

There is "a passive commitment of broken, inapplicable, abandoned, all this we keep in mind," said Mr Aragchi.

The head of Iranian diplomacy still insisted yesterday on the importance Tehran attaches to ending hostilities in Lebanon between Israel's army and the Hezbola movement, which is close to Iran.

The leader of the movement thanked for its support for the Islamic Republic.

But in Israel, where the American-Iran agreement leaves bitter taste, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that the army would stay in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza Strip "for as long as necessary".

Yesterday four people were killed in Israeli blows in southern Lebanon, according to the official ANI news agency. The Israeli army reported that they were launched in retaliation for rocket launches from Hezbola.

Iran's army threatened Iran with "hard punishment" if it does not stop its bombings in Lebanon, with its announcement broadcast by state television IRIB.

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