Towards the end of the ceasefire? “I just read the response from the so-called représentants from Iran. I don’t like that – TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE! “, wrote this Sunday evening the American president, Donald Trump, on his Truth Social network. Iran had earlier indicated that it had responded to the American plan aimed at putting an end to the war in the Middle East.
This is centered on “the end of the war and maritime security”. “The main focus of Iran’s response to the American proposal concerns the end of the war and maritime security in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz,” Isna wrote on his Telegram account shortly after.
This Saturday, Iran questioned the seriousness of American diplomacy to end the conflict. A month after the entry into force of a truce, the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abbas Araghchi, expressed this skepticism during a telephone interview with his Turkish counterpart, Hakan Fidan, the day after new skirmishes in the waters of the Gulf.
Iran’s leaders ‘won’t be laughing much longer’
This Sunday, the American president accused Iran of making fun of the United States for decades and promised that “they won’t laugh much longer.” “Iran has been leading the United States and the rest of the world for 47 years,” he wrote on his Truth Social platform. They “make fun of our country which has now regained its greatness but they won’t laugh much longer! “, he added.
Since the start of the war on February 28, triggered by an Israeli-American attack against Iran, Tehran has blocked the Strait of Hormuz, to which Washington responded by imposing a blockade of Iranian ports on April 13.
The American army announced on Friday that it had “neutralized” by air two Iranian oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman, the gateway to the strait, a strategic passage for the world trade in hydrocarbons. If the ships were not carrying cargo according to the army, the images broadcast by the American military command for the region (Centcom) showed thick columns of smoke escaping from the cockpits. Tehran had denounced to the UN a “flagrant violation” of the truce.
