“The United States, Israel, and Iran agree on one thing: the ceasefire is in effect,” Axios wrote on April 8th. But they contradict each other, even themselves, regarding the actual terms of the agreement and what should happen next.”
The most obvious of these contradictions, this Wednesday, concerns Lebanon: “The Pakistani mediators announced that the ceasefire also applied to Lebanon. Israel says this is not the case and has intensified its attacks.” An Israeli claim that was later backed by Donald Trump in statements to the American public broadcaster PBS. Iranian media close to the authorities reported that tankers had been stopped in the Strait of Hormuz or that Iran was considering withdrawing from the ceasefire due to these attacks in Lebanon, while the Revolutionary Guards threatened to retaliate.
“The opening of the Strait of Hormuz was President Trump’s essential condition for a ceasefire, but we still don’t know how exactly it will be “open,'” Axios notes. In Washington, Defense Minister Pete Hegseth assured that “what was agreed upon is that the strait should be open.” Iran was more measured, indicating that “there would be a limit in
