“I don’t care” if an agreement is reached with Iran, Trump says. “I don’t care” whether an agreement is reached with Iran or not, Donald Trump asserted on Saturday, the first day of peace talks between Washington and Tehran in Pakistan. “We are in advanced negotiations with Iran. We are winning anyway, we have defeated them militarily,” the American president assured the press, also stating: “Let’s see what happens. But from my point of view, I don’t care.”
A likely third round of negotiations “tonight or tomorrow” between Iran and the United States. The Iranian state television stated that two peace negotiation sessions between the Islamic Republic and the United States took place on Saturday in Pakistan, and a third one would be held “likely tonight or tomorrow” on Sunday. “Experts from both sides are exchanging texts” to reach a peace agreement beyond the two-week ceasefire in effect since Wednesday, the television reported, citing information from “a source close to the Iranian negotiators.”
18 deaths in Lebanon from new Israeli strikes. New Israeli strikes killed 10 people, including three rescuers, on Saturday in the south of the country. The strikes targeted three locations in the Nabatieh district, killing a member of the civil defense and two rescuers from the Islamic Health Committee affiliated with Hezbollah. Additionally, in the town in the Saada region, other Israeli strikes killed eight people and wounded nine others, five of them seriously, as reported by the Ministry of Health.
The death toll from Israeli strikes surpasses 2,000 in Lebanon. Israeli strikes in Lebanon have killed 2,020 people since the beginning of the war between the pro-Iranian Hezbollah and Israel on March 2, the Lebanese Ministry of Health reported on Saturday. This new toll includes 248 women, 165 children, and 85 medical and rescue personnel killed, with 6,436 injured.
Israel wants a lasting peace agreement with Lebanon “that will hold for generations,” Netanyahu assures. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated on Saturday evening that his country seeks a durable peace agreement with Lebanon. “Lebanon approached us for direct negotiations (…) I set two conditions: we want Hezbollah’s disarmament and we want a real peace agreement that will hold for generations,” he said during a televised address.
Macron urges Iran to “seize the opportunity” of talks in Pakistan for a “lasting de-escalation.” Emmanuel Macron spoke with his Iranian counterpart Massoud Pezeshkian on Saturday, urging him to “seize the opportunity” presented by the discussions launched in Islamabad (Pakistan) to pave the way for a lasting de-escalation, he stated on X.
“Enough displays of strength! Enough war!” the Pope demands. Pope Leo XIV criticized warmongers and “displays of strength” during a prayer for peace on Saturday, in one of his most vehement criticisms to date of the conflicts that ignite the planet. “Enough of self-idolatry and money! Enough of displays of strength! Enough war! True strength is shown in serving life,” the pontiff declared in a speech given at the Basilica of Saint Peter in Rome.
