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Donald Trump will only accept a possible agreement with Iran if his “red lines” are respected, a White House official said on Friday. This statement comes after a meeting of nearly two hours in the Situation Room, presented as important by the American president, but which did not give rise to any immediate announcement.

According to this source, Washington’s position remains unchanged: Iran must not be able to acquire nuclear weapons.

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Hezbollah announced Friday that it had carried out several attacks against Israeli military positions in northern Israel, near the Lebanese border, while military discussions between the two countries continue in Washington.

In several press releases, the movement supported by Iran claims to have used drones to target groups of Israeli soldiers, a military camp in the Galilee as well as a barracks located in the north of the country.

Iranian diplomacy affirmed Friday evening that the nuclear issue was not part of current discussions with the United States, thus contradicting Donald Trump’s declarations on a possible agreement. According to Tehran, current exchanges are exclusively focused on the end of hostilities.

“Our main objective today is to put an end to the war and no negotiations are underway on the nuclear issue,” declared the spokesperson for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Esmaïl Baghaï, during an intervention on the state television. A few hours earlier, Donald Trump had nevertheless suggested that an agreement was close and that Iran had agreed to abandon its stock of highly enriched uranium.

Hamas strongly criticized Benjamin Netanyahu’s announcement on Friday aimed at expanding Israeli territorial control in the Gaza Strip, believing that this decision contravenes the ceasefire concluded in October 2025.

“In a blatant violation of all agreements, as usual, Netanyahu announced the extension of control to 70% of the Gaza Strip, even as the killings and famine continue,†declared the spokesperson for the Palestinian Islamist movement, Bassem Naïm. Under the terms of the truce, Israeli forces were to remain positioned behind the “yellow line”, which left Israel in control of a little more than half of the Palestinian territory.

Iranian diplomacy indicated Friday evening that no agreement had yet been concluded with the United States despite Donald Trump’s declarations suggesting an imminent outcome to the conflict. “Discussions are continuing, but no final agreement has been reached at this stage,†declared the spokesperson for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Esmaïl Baghaï, quoted by official media.

A few hours earlier, the American president had claimed to be on the verge of making a “final decision” concerning a possible agreement. However, Iranian sources cited by the Fars agency contested several of his statements, notably on an unconditional reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and on a possible destruction of Iranian enriched uranium, affirming that these elements do not appear in the current discussions.

Iranian sources cited Friday by the Iranian news agency Fars News Agency strongly contested Donald Trump’s statements on a possible agreement intended to end the conflict, believing that they were a “mixture of truth and lies.” According to them, no provision in the text provides that Iran guarantees the opening of the Strait of Hormuz without passage fees, contrary to what the former American president would have affirmed.

The same sources also denied that the agreement includes a clause requiring the destruction of Iranian nuclear materials. A few hours earlier, Donald Trump had indicated on Truth Social that he was preparing to make a “final decision” regarding this potential agreement, calling for an “immediate” reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and demanding that Iranian enriched uranium be “DESTROYED,” a word he had written in capital letters.

At the end of June, Bulgaria will lift the authorization to park American army tanker planes in Sofia, failing to obtain from Washington the abolition of the visas to which its nationals are still subject.

“I don’t have a positive answer at this stage,” Prime Minister Rumen Radev said on Friday, claiming to have raised the issue of Bulgarians entering the United States during an interview with US President Donald Trump last week.

US Air Force KC-135 Stratotankers have been stationed at the Bulgarian capital’s airport since mid-February.

The initial authorization granted to Washington was part of military cooperation between NATO allies, according to Sofia. She ran until the end of May.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun affirmed Friday to the head of American diplomacy Marco Rubio that a ceasefire with Israel was a prerequisite for any diplomatic progress between the two countries which began military negotiations in Washington.

Joseph Aoun considered it necessary “to deploy all possible efforts to bring about an end” to the war, the truce being “the obligatory passage to any new stage” of negotiations with Israel, according to a press release from the presidency.

The Israeli army crossed the Litani River located in southern Lebanon, about thirty kilometers north of the border with Israel, said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Visiting northern Israel with soldiers near the border, the Israeli Prime Minister hailed the army’s advance in strategic areas, saying Israeli forces had “crossed the Litani,” according to a video transmitted by his office.

The Air Force also operates “in Beirut, in the Bekaa (east), on the entire Lebanese front” and “we are hitting Hezbollah head on,” he assured, two days after the army said consider much of southern Lebanon a “combat zone” despite the ceasefire theoretically in force.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards have killed two Kurdish activists who had been living in hiding since the demonstrations which shook Iran in January, NGOs announced, with the Iranian media accusing them of having been instigators of this protest movement.

According to the Norwegian-based human rights organization Hengaw, the Guardians surrounded their hideout in a village in the western province of Kermanshah and opened fire “without warning.”

Meisam and Mojtaba Visi, two brothers, were followers of Yarsanism in this predominantly Shiite Muslim country.

Israeli and Russian security forces have been added to the UN blacklist on sexual violence during conflicts, in particular in connection with accusations made by prisoners, according to an annual report seen Thursday by AFP.

Last August, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Israel and Russia against possible inclusion on this list, but “incidents and patterns of sexual violence have continued to be recorded by the United Nations” in the context of the war in Ukraine and in the occupied Palestinian territories, indicates its new report which must be sent shortly to the members of the Security Council.

The Lebanese authorities denounced on Thursday Israeli attacks carried out near historical sites and monuments classified by Unesco in the south of the country.

The Lebanese Minister of Culture, Ghassan Salamé, “increased contacts with his counterparts around the world and relevant international organizations, in order to draw their attention to the considerable damage caused to archaeological sites and heritage districts” in the south of the country, indicated the National Agency Lebanese information (Ani).

US Vice President JD Vance said Thursday that discussions between Washington and Tehran were progressing in an encouraging manner, while emphasizing that no final decision had yet been taken by Donald Trump.

According to him, negotiators are still working on several aspects of the text. “Significant progress has been made,” he said, adding that certain points remained to be finalized before the American president could decide on a possible agreement.