Iran announced on Saturday the formal suspension of its commitments under the Islamabad Memorandum, the fragile ceasefire agreement reached with the United States last month, amid an escalation of clashes that has resulted in dozens of deaths and hundreds of injuries on both sides.
According to The Times of Israel, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi announced the decision through the Fars news agency, accusing Washington of breaking the pact first: "The United States has violated and suspended all its commitments under the Islamabad Memorandum."
«We have also suspended our commitments; we are not implementing them, and we are busy defending the country», Gharibabadi added in the same statement.
The memorandum, mediated by Pakistan with the participation of Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey, was electronically signed by President Donald Trump on June 17, 2026, and ratified in person in Switzerland on the 18th and 19th of that month by Vice President JD Vance and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.
The agreement established a 60-day truce, the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, the initiation of denuclearization negotiations, and the unfreezing of between 12,000 and 25,000 million dollars in Iranian assets. However, the document—barely a page and a half long—left at least eight critical issues unresolved, leading to contradictory statements from both parties right from the start.
The breakdown occurred when the Islamic Revolutionary Guard attacked commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz on July sixth and seventh, leading Trump to declare the agreement "terminated" during the NATO summit in Ankara on July eighth.
Since then, the U.S. has carried out at least five consecutive waves of bombings against more than 300 Iranian military targets, including missile facilities, drones, naval capabilities of the Revolutionary Guard, and ammunition depots.
Iran responded by launching ballistic missiles and drones against U.S. bases in Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan, Oman, and Qatar, resulting in at least one death and 60 injuries among U.S. forces. The Iranian Ministry of Health, for its part, reported 50 deaths and 500 injuries within Iranian territory during the three weeks of attacks.
Tehran also accused the U.S. Treasury Department of revoking the temporary suspension of sanctions on the sale of Iranian oil, describing it as a "flagrant violation of Article 10" of the memorandum.
The deterioration of diplomatic relations was evident last Friday when Iran unveiled a mural in Palestine Square in Tehran featuring coffins of Trump, Melania, and their children under the slogan "Blood for Blood."
The Institute for the Study of War had already classified the situation on July 13 as the effective end of the ceasefire, with exchanges of fire in the Persian Gulf being more intense than during the ceasefire itself. The fifth wave of U.S. attacks against Iran occurred this Friday, a day before the Iranian announcement of suspension.
The new supreme leader of Iran, Mojtaba Jamenei —appointed in March 2026 following the death of his father Ali Jamenei— had ordered the continuation of attacks on July 11, dismissing any return to the negotiating table in the short term.
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