The President of the United States, Donald Trump, backtracks and now says he will review Iran’s peace proposal sent on Friday, which he had said did not satisfy him. “I cannot imagine it being acceptable, as they have not yet paid a high enough price for what they have done to humanity,” the president said early this morning in a brief message on his social network Truth. The Republican has admitted that there is “a possibility” that his forces will resume attacks against Tehran and has also assured that the soldiers he will withdraw from Germany will be “many more” than the 5,000 announced by the Pentagon as a protest against the chancellery’s position on the war, which represents an increase in tensions between the White House and its allies. Meanwhile, Iran believes that “the United States must choose between the path of diplomacy or the continuation of a strategy based on confrontation,” in the words of Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi. .
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Israel admits to damaging a Catholic convent in southern Lebanon and blames Hezbollah
The Israeli Army has acknowledged damaging part of the infrastructure of a Catholic convent located in southern Lebanon but denied having “demolished” it, justifying that the attack on the religious site was in response to the offensive against the Shiite militia Hezbollah, which was using the complex as a base to launch rockets, according to reports.
According to Israeli forces, during operations in the border village of Yaroun, they caused damage to a structure that “did not show external signs indicating it was a religious building.” “The Israel Defense Forces are concerned only with destroying terrorist infrastructure and have no intention of damaging religious buildings,” the Army added in a statement. After condemnation by religious authorities, Israel sought to justify its action and stated that the armed group Hezbollah operated from inside the convent to launch rockets “on multiple occasions” during the course of the offensive. (EP)
An Iranian tanker with 1.9 million barrels of crude on board evades the Hormuz blockade
An Iranian supertanker carrying more than 1.9 million barrels of crude oil, valued at about 220 million dollars, managed to evade the Hormuz blockade early this morning and is currently sailing through the Lombok Strait in Indonesia, heading towards the Riau archipelago, according to the specialized portal TankerTrackers and reported by Europa Press. With no progress in negotiations, the energy crisis threatens to derail the economy if the Strait of Hormuz does not reopen in the coming weeks. The US armed forces have prevented the passage of about fifty ships with departure or destination to Iranian ports during this time.
Trump backtracks and now assures he will review the latest peace plan sent by Iran
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, backtracks and now says he will review Iran’s peace proposal sent on Friday, which he had said did not satisfy him. “I cannot imagine it being acceptable, as they have not yet paid a high enough price for what they have done to humanity and the world over the last 47 years,” the Republican said tonight in a brief message on his social network Truth.
Before writing this message on Truth, Trump spoke in the same terms to journalists when confirming he would review the mentioned plan. “They explained the concept of the agreement to me. They will give me the exact wording now,” he told the press last night as he boarded Air Force One in Florida, where he has his private residence, heading to Washington, according to CNN. According to information released tonight by the Iranian agency Tasnim, Iran presented, through a Pakistani mediator, a response to the nine-point proposal from the United States focused on the issue of “ending the war.”
The United States had requested a two-month ceasefire in its proposal, but Iran emphasized that pending issues must be resolved within 30 days and that, instead of focusing on extending the truce, the process should focus on the “definitive end of the war.” Among the points included in the Iranian proposal of 14 sections are guarantees of no military aggression, the withdrawal of US forces from Iran’s vicinity, lifting the naval blockade, releasing frozen Iranian assets, payment of compensations, lifting sanctions, and ending the war on all fronts, including Lebanon, as well as a new mechanism for the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran is awaiting an official response from the United States to its proposals. Meanwhile, Trump has expressed dissatisfaction this week with the progress of negotiations with Iran although he maintains a ceasefire without reopening the Strait of Hormuz, which mainly harms Washington’s allies. “They want to reach an agreement. I am not satisfied with it, so we will see what happens,” Trump said this Friday from the White House. The president has sent confusing messages, assuring that his Administration maintains conversations by phone, while reiterating that they do not know who makes decisions in Tehran because its leadership is decimated or hidden after 40 days of attacks that entered a pause on April 8. (Agencies)
WAR AGAINST IRAN
Generals consolidate their power in Iran with the supreme leader absent
Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader who perished in the Israeli assassination on February 28, had managed to accumulate omnipotent power. His figure was that of a supreme arbiter; he had the final word on almost everything: the nuclear program, religious doctrine, foreign policy, moral issues, and often fierce repression, according to the United Nations. Even above that opaque power structure of which he himself was part and which is known as the “deep state”; the networks of influence of the military and security apparatus, intelligence, and economic bureaucracy. His son and new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, has not yet shown signs of exercising that almost absolute power, perhaps because, as new testimonies from Iranian officials indicate, he is alive but still recovering from the serious injuries he suffered in the bombing that killed his father. Meanwhile, prominent generals consolidate their power.
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WAR AGAINST IRAN
The world stands on the brink after two months of Hormuz closure
The lockdown of the Strait of Hormuz was what in jargon is usually called, not without some bombast, a “tail risk”: an event as extreme as it is unlikely. Another gamble, it was said, like so many times before. But it came. On Monday, March 2, under Israeli and American bombs, the Revolutionary Guard announced the blockade of that narrow but crucial stretch of sea for the world. By mid-April, a second lock would arrive, imposed by the United States to strangle the Iranian economy and which has ended up cutting off the transit of crude oil, gas, diesel, and fertilizers from the Persian Gulf. Since then, the world has been relying on reserves and audacity. But ingenuity also has limits.
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Good morning. We begin the live narration of the situation in the Middle East. The President of the United States, Donald Trump, backtracks and now says he will review Iran’s peace proposal sent on Friday, which he had said did not satisfy him. “I cannot imagine it being acceptable, as they have not yet paid a high enough price for what they have done to humanity and the world over the last 47 years,” the Republican said tonight in a brief message on his social network Truth.
With no progress in negotiations, the energy crisis threatens to derail the economy if the Strait of Hormuz does not reopen in the coming weeks. The US armed forces have prevented the passage of about fifty ships with departure or destination to Iranian ports during this time. An Iranian supertanker carrying more than 1.9 million barrels of crude oil, valued at about 220 million dollars, managed to evade the blockade early this morning and is currently sailing through the Lombok Strait in Indonesia, heading towards the Riau archipelago.
