In the absence of an end to negotiations whose arrival “has been imminent” for weeks, USA e Iran they have continued exchanging sporadic attacks and bombings during the weekend and early Monday morning, when Tehran has launched several salvos of missiles and drones against a US base in Kuwaitin it Persian Gulf.
On Saturday, the US attacked various Iranian military positions in the Persian Gulf“in response to several aggressive Iranian actions, including the downing of a US MQ-1 drone that operated in international waters”.
The last exchange of attacks occurred on Thursday of last week, and these episodes have been common in the last month, while the talks to reach an agreement, although they have continued and continue, resist bear fruit.
The American president, Donald Trumphas stated on multiple occasions that the signing can occur “pronto” —and even his Secretary of State, Marco Rubioeven stated a week ago that the agreement was “matter of hours“—, but said agreement has still not come.
“The US has violated the cease-fireeven this morning. “Iran will take any measure necessary to defend our national security,” the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Monday. Esmaeil Baqaeíwhich has stated that the talks continue.
“Iran really wants to reach an agreement, and it will be a good agreement both for the United States and for those who are with us. Let everyone sit back and relax, because everything will end well in the end. It always is like that!” Trump declared this Monday morning, in a message on social networks in which he complained about the “noise” carried out by the “foolish Democrats” and several “unpatriotic Republicans.”
A war without end
The obstacles in these negotiations are several, despite the fact that both the US and Iran have claimed to be close to the agreement. But Washington and Iran still seem to have—always according to anonymous leaks to the press—differences regarding possible war reparations from Washington to the Islamic Republic, plus how and when to start nuclear negotiationsdelivery times international assets Iranians frozen abroad and, above all, the end of the war in Lebanon.
Given the real possibility of an agreement between the US and Iran, Israel has greatly accelerated its military campaign in Lebanon, with bombings and attacks both in the south of the small Mediterranean country and in the capital, Beirut. Tehran demands an end to these attacks to reach an agreement.
“The US naval blockade in Hormuz and the escalation of the war crimes in Lebanon by the genocidal Zionist regime [Israel] They are clear evidence that the US does not respect the ceasefire. Every choice has a price, and it will come the time to pay“, the president of the Iranian parliament and chief Persian negotiator has assured on social networks, Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf.
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