War in the Middle East: Donald Trump is preparing to take a "final decision" on a possible agreement with Iran, but for Tehran "no final agreement has yet been reached"

The last meters are often the hardest to cover. Donald Trump held a meeting at the White House on Friday May 29 during which he was to take a “final decision” on a possible agreement with Tehran. According to the New York Times, the meeting lasted two hours, but Donald Trump did not make a decision immediately.

“Iran must accept that they will never have a nuclear weapon. The Strait of Hormuz must be opened immediately“and Tehran must commit to demining it, listed the leader before the meeting on his Truth Social network. Donald Trump also demanded, in capital letters, that Iran’s stock of highly enriched uranium be “DESTROYED”.

Cited by the Fars news agency, Iranian sources described the American president’s statements as “mixture of truth and lies”providing a denial of two major issues in the talks: the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and Iranian nuclear power. “Exchanges continue but no final agreement has yet been reached”reacted the spokesperson for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Esmaïl Baghaï. He also denied any discussion at this stage on the nuclear issue and defended “the special situation” of the Strait of Hormuz, by its geographical location in the territorial waters of Iran and Oman.

The Iranian power had previously castigated “excessive demands as well as changing and contradictory positions” of the United States. “Reaching a final agreement depends on stopping the attitude of the American side”insisted the head of Iranian diplomacy, Abbas Araghchi, in a call with his Omani counterpart. In the same tone of distrust, chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf declared: “We don’t trust promises or words, only actions count.” Among other points of contention, the Iranian government is seeking to obtain the release of 24 billion in assets frozen abroad, with the payment of a first half upon the conclusion of the memorandum of understanding. But Donald Trump said Friday that there would be no “no money exchange at the moment”.

Tehran is also calling for an end to the fighting on all fronts, particularly in Lebanon where its ally, Hezbollah, and Israel are clashing, while the truce in force since April 17 has never been respected. The Israeli army further extended its “combat zone” on Friday while continuing its deadly strikes. The pro-Iranian movement, for its part, claimed responsibility for a new series of attacks against military targets in northern Israel, near the border with Lebanon, at a time when discussions on the military plan are taking place in Washington. Lebanese President Joseph Aoun stressed to the head of American diplomacy Marco Rubio that a cessation of hostilities was a “obligatory step” before any diplomatic progress.

According to the latest official report, Israeli strikes have killed 3,355 people in Lebanon since the start of the war in early March, when Hezbollah attacked Israel in retaliation for the Israeli-American offensive on Iran. Over the past week alone, fifteen children were killed and 62 others injured in Lebanon, Unicef ​​reported on Friday.