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The ceasefire with Iran is “on life support”, according to Donald Trump. On Monday, May 11, he rejected Iran’s response to its plan to end the war, deeming Tehran’s demands “totally unacceptable.”
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Nothing is moving forward. Like the tankers becalmed in the Strait of Hormuz. American and Iranian negotiations have returned to a standstill after the demands made on Sunday May 10 by the Iranians. “Is the demand to stop maritime piracy, what they called the blockade, or Iran’s demand to unblock Iranian assets, unjustly frozen for years because of the Americans, excessive demands? Ensuring safe navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, is that excessive demand ?”asked Esmaïl Baghaï, spokesperson for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Requests immediately swept away by a message posted by Donald Trump: “I just read the response from the so-called representatives of Iran. I don’t like it. It’s totally unacceptable.” After more than a month of truce, punctuated by incidents around the Strait of Hormuz, where each of the belligerents is trying to impose its law, the diplomatic channel is stalling.
Especially since in southern Lebanon, the IDF is continuing its military operations to consolidate the buffer zone which isolates Israel from Hezbollah attacks. The tone is not at the peace talks. “This war has accomplished a lot, but it is not over. There is still uranium that needs to be removed from Iran. And there are still groups supported by Iran and there are these ballistic missiles that they still want to make.”indicated Benjamin Netanyahu.
In this context, in the absence of diplomatic prospects, oil prices are rising again and the international initiative to secure the strait, co-led by France and the United Kingdom around the Charles de Gaulle, seems a little more destined to stay away from the theater of conflict.
