According to Trump, Iran and the US are currently negotiating to try to end the conflict that began on February 28
The bombings continued this Wednesday (25) in the Middle East, despite the peace plan announced by Donald Trumpwith Iranian missiles and drones launched against Israel and Gulf countries and Israeli attacks against Tehran and Lebanon.
Iran and the United States are negotiating “at this moment” to try to end the conflict that began on February 28, President Donald Trump said on Tuesday. He reported that his envoy Steve Witkoff, his son-in-law Jared Kushner, Vice President JD Vance and the head of American diplomacy, Marco Rubio, are participating in the process.
Several media outlets, including the New York Times and Israeli television channel Channel 12, claim that the Trump administration proposed a 15-point peace plan to Iran with the mediation of Pakistan, which maintains good relations with the parties.
According to three unidentified sources cited by Channel 12, the United States government proposes a one-month ceasefire, a period for Iranian authorities to analyze their demands.
According to the Israeli channel, of the 15 points in the plan, five refer to the Iranian nuclear program, others require the abandonment of support for Iran’s allies in the region, such as Hezbollah or Hamas, and one topic demands that the Strait of Hormuz remain open to maritime navigation.
In contrast, the Iran would get the lifting of international sanctions and support for its civilian nuclear program. According to the International Maritime Organization (IMO), Iran is easing pressure on Hormuz, where 20% of world hydrocarbon production passed before the war, and will allow the “safe passage of non-hostile ships”.
The blockade of the passage since the beginning of the war caused oil prices to soarwith prices above 100 dollars per barrel.
On Tuesday, Trump mentioned “a very large gift”, a possible reference to the partial reopening of Hormuz, information that caused oil prices to fall.
Iran, however, did not confirm any negotiations and the president of the country’s Parliament, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf — who according to the news website Axios would be Washington’s interlocutor — categorically denied any talks. The American press also reported the sending of 3,000 paratroopers to the Middle East as reinforcements.
Fire at Kuwait airport
The war that began on February 28 with the United States and Israel’s offensive against Iran shows no sign of respite. The Revolutionary Guard, Iran’s ideological army, announced attacks this Wednesday against northern and central Israel, including the Tel Aviv region, as well as against two American military bases in Kuwait, one in Jordan and one in Bahrain.
According to Israeli emergency services, 12 people were injured on Tuesday near Tel Aviv by one or several Iranian missiles. In Kuwait, a drone attack set fire to a fuel depot at the emirate’s international airport, according to the civil aviation authority, which reported no casualties.
As in previous days, the Israeli Army announced a series of attacks “against the infrastructure of the Iranian terrorist regime in Tehran”. “Noise, explosions and missiles are already part of everyday life,” a 35-year-old woman born in Iranian Kurdistan and resident of Tehran told AFP by telephone.
Israel also continues its offensive in Lebanon, where At least nine people died in the early hours of Wednesday in three bombings in the south, according to the official news agency ANI. The region is a historic stronghold of the pro-Iranian Hezbollah movement.
Since Lebanon was drawn into regional war on March 2Israeli attacks killed more than a thousand people and caused the displacement of more than a million residents, according to authorities.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Tuesday that the country’s forces were “maneuvering in Lebanese territory to take control of an advanced defense line” up to the Litani River, almost 30 kilometers from the border.
*AFP
