War in the Middle East: Iran demands "guarantee of their rights" before any agreement with the United States

On Sunday May 31, Iran made any agreement with the United States conditional on “guarantee of one’s rights”, emphasizing that he did not believe “neither words nor promises” Americans in the laborious ongoing negotiations to end the war in the Middle East. “We will not approve any agreement until we are certain that the rights of the Iranian people have been fully guaranteed,” declared in a video broadcast on Sunday by state television the main Iranian negotiator, the head of Parliament Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf.

While the two countries seemed, in recent days, to be getting closer to an agreement, the New York Times reported on Saturday, without further details, that the American president had toughened his proposal and sent a new version of a possible memorandum of understanding to Tehran.

“Fighters in the diplomatic field believe neither the words nor the promises of the enemy”he added. According to the American site Axios, Donald Trump, whose declared priority is to put an end to the Iranian nuclear program and to restore maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, wants more firmness in Washington’s position.

In an interview recorded during the week and broadcast on Fox News on Saturday, he took advantage of Tehran’s renewed commitment not to acquire atomic weapons. “The only guarantee I have to have is that there will be no nuclear weapons. They accepted that, and that was very interesting,” a affirmé Donald Trump.

For its part, Iran considers the lifting of American sanctions and the release of its frozen assets as part of its rights, and claims to maintain control over the strategic Strait of Hormuz, which it virtually locked down at the start of the war. Tehran also insists that any agreement includes an end to hostilities in Lebanon, where Israel is intensifying its operations against pro-Iranian Hezbollah. The American president affirmed that he was not “no hurry”. “Slowly but surely, I believe we are getting what we want”, otherwise “things will end differently”, he added.