- The bombings resumed in the Strait of Hormuz, during the night of Thursday May 7 to Friday May 8, and two versions conflict on the identity of the country at the origin of the hostilities.
- According to the United States, Tehran first targeted American warships.
- What the official Iranian version contradicts: “The American army, in a gesture of aggression, targeted an Iranian oil tanker.”
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Middle East: tensions around the Strait of Hormuz, fragile ceasefire in Lebanon
What is the reason for the ceasefire between Iran and the United States? Bombings were heard during the night of Thursday May 7 to Friday May 8. And the two countries accuse each other of having launched the hostilities. “The American army, in a gesture of aggression, targeted an Iranian oil tanker, hostile enemy units present in the area of the Strait of Hormuz were the target of Iranian missile fire”
presents official Iranian television.
Tehran would therefore have responded. If for the White House, it was Iran which first targeted American warships, Donald Trump minimizes the importance of these exchanges of strikes as much as possible: “Missiles were fired at our destroyers and were easily intercepted”
.
According to the American president, these events do not call into question the ceasefire still in force. “I call it a trifle. I will tell you when there is no more ceasefire, you will not need to be informed. You will not need to know, you will just have to watch a huge glow coming out of Iran”
he says.
Trump: “A trifle, the ceasefire holds”Source : TF1 Info
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“It was the Iranian coast that was targeted last night, bombed by the Americans”
explains Magali Barthes, international editorialist for LCI (see the video at the top of this article). “There is the desire to stay within a very limited framework, both geographically and in terms of intensity”
describes for his part Colonel Michel Goya, LCI military consultant.
The Americans still want to negotiate, a proposed agreement is on the table and despite the feverish surge last night, these negotiations are continuing.
