DIRECT. War in the Middle East: Iran calls on Lebanese president to save his country against his "real enemy" Israel

At the microphone of BFMTV, the Deputy Minister of Veterans Affairs, Alice Rufo, assured that “there are things moving forward” in the negotiations between Iran and the United States. “We need to separate the question of Hormuz from the rest,” also estimated the member of the French government. “We support the fact that there are negotiations and we are ready, in a framework where there is a negotiated solution, to be there to restore freedom of movement, peace and security in the region,” continued Alice Rufo.

The Israeli army announced in the evening that it had struck “around 150” positions of the Lebanese Islamist movement Hezbollah in 48 hours in southern Lebanon, where President Joseph Aoun denounced the “incessant Israeli attacks, which remain unpunished” despite the ceasefire supposed to be in force.

Among the targets are “weapons depots, general quarters, [et] launchers” of missiles or rockets, indicates an Israeli military press release.

The Iranian football team flew to Mexico after a 15-day training camp in Antalya, Turkey, Iranian state television announced on Saturday, a few days before the start of the World Cup in North America.

The players must arrive in Tijuana, their base camp for the duration of the competition, after obtaining their visas for the United States where they must play their first match on June 15.

Iran criticizes new American strikes during the night against radar and coastal surveillance installations in the Gulf, which according to Tehran constitute a “blatant violation of the ceasefire” in force with the United States since April 8.

It is “a military aggression against the national sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Islamic Republic of Iran”, adds the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a press release, condemning “the hostile and provocative behavior of the American regime”.

US President Donald Trump said Friday that Iran had “21 to 22%” of its missiles left, in an interview with NBC, after more than three months of war in the Middle East.

“They have a few missiles, they have a few drones. I would say in percentage maybe 21, 22% of their missiles. It’s a lot of missiles, but it’s not what it was when we launched our first attack,” he declared in a first extract broadcast by the channel, before the interview in his entire Sunday.

The American president had nevertheless affirmed at the beginning of May that Tehran had “18 to 19%” of its stock of missiles remaining.

The Israeli airstrike which “targeted a military vehicle on the road” between Khardali and Nabatiyé resulted in the death of three soldiers, “two officers, a brigadier general and a captain, as well as a soldier”, wrote the Lebanese army in a press release.

This attack constitutes a “blatant violation of Lebanese sovereignty and international law”, condemned President Joseph Aoun.

Kuwait denounces this Saturday a “dangerous escalation” after new Iranian strikes in the Gulf.

The military advisor to the Iranian Supreme Leader, Mohsen Rezaï, declared that negotiations between Washington and Tehran were stumbling in particular over the issue of Iranian assets frozen abroad, in a television interview broadcast on Friday.

Iran has been the subject of US sanctions for decades which penalize its economy and financial system. The country also saw its foreign assets frozen following the Islamic Revolution in 1979.

“If he (Donald Trump) wants to reach an agreement with Iran, these 24 billion dollars constitute a test” of confidence, said Mohsen Rezaï, according to comments in English translated from Persian, from an interview with the American channel CNN.

Bahrain, already targeted at the start of the week, today denounces the strikes carried out by Iran against its territory and neighboring Kuwait, saying it has intercepted seven missiles.

“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly condemns these new attacks,” he wrote in a press release. “This blatant aggression constitutes a clear violation of the sovereignty of both countries,” he adds.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards said overnight that they had fired ballistic missiles at the Ali Al-Salem air base in Kuwait, where American aircraft are stationed, and the headquarters of the 5th Fleet, in retaliation for American strikes. American in Bahrain.

The Lebanese army announces the death of several of its members in an Israeli strike in the south of the country, despite the ceasefire theoretically in force in Israel and the pro-Iranian Hezbollah.

“Several soldiers, including an officer,” were killed “in a brutal Israeli attack which targeted one of its vehicles on the road linking Al-Khaldiya to Nabatiyé,” the army said in a statement.

The American army announced yesterday that it had bombed, in “self-defense”, radar sites in Iran after having shot down four Iranian drones which, according to Washington, threatened civilian maritime traffic in the region.

American forces “shot down four drones (…) launched towards the Strait of Hormuz”, which “represented an immediate threat to regional maritime traffic”, writes the American Military Command for the Middle East (Centcom) on X.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards announced today that they had attacked “enemy bases” in the region, after American bombings on radar installations in Iran.

In a statement relayed by state television Irib, Iran’s ideological army said that “enemy bases in the region were hit by aerial missiles.”

Iran fired seven missiles against Kuwait and Bahrain, the American army announced today, specifying that six had been intercepted and that the last had not reached its target.

“Iran fired seven ballistic missiles towards Kuwait and Bahrain (…) according to initial assessments, six were intercepted and a seventh did not reach its intended target”, writes the American army on X, adding that there was no no injuries in its ranks at this stage and denying any damage to any of its infrastructure in Bahrain.

Hello and welcome to this live broadcast devoted to the evolution of the war in the Middle East this Saturday, June 6.

The Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abbas Araghchi, calls on Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, who the day before had ordered Tehran to no longer “intervene” in the affairs of his country, to “save” Lebanon against its “real enemy”, Israel.