US strikes missile launch sites in Iran

Tensions are still high between Iran and the United States, while Iran accuses the Americans of having violated the ceasefire declared on April 8. The Iranian press reported explosions on Tuesday, around midnight, in Bandar Abbas, in a coastal area near the Strait of Hormuz.

The American terrorist army, continuing its illegal and unjustified actions since the ceasefire […]committed, over the last 48 hours, a flagrant violation of the ceasefire in the Hormozgan regiondeclared the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, without specifying the nature of the facts.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced that it had shot down and repelled drones and a fighter plane that had entered its airspace, according to the official Iranian Mizan news agency. He does not specify when the incident occurred, but assures that he will respond forcefully to any American strike.

In the same vein, the Iranian supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, declared in a press release that American military bases in the Middle East were no longer secure.

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The US Middle East Command (CENTCOM) maintains that the strikes targeted ships attempting to lay mines, as well as missile launch sites, in southern Iran.

The last known American strikes date back to the beginning of May, when the south of the country was targeted, provoking a response from the Iranian army on boats in the Strait of Hormuz.

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Diplomatic efforts in danger?

The strikes, which took place the day after Iranian and Qatari representatives met in Doha, could harm progress in peace negotiations.

The spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry said on Monday that discussions —had resulted in many points of a possible memorandum of understanding with the United States. This does not mean, however, that Iran is about to sign, added Esmaeil Baghaei. Tehran is negotiating to end the conflict, but is not currently discussing its nuclear program, he also said.

The issue of Iran’s nuclear program is among the main sticking points between the two camps, as is Israel’s military campaign in Lebanon and Iranian demands for the unfreezing of billions of dollars in assets.

On Monday, Donald Trump also tempered hopes of a quick conclusion: Either the Iran deal will be an excellent and meaningful deal, or there will be no deala écrit le président américain.

The agreement remains possible, said the American Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, on the sidelines of an official visit to India. It will therefore take a few days, he estimated.

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The need forCompletely eliminate the nuclear threat is an essential negotiating point for Israel, the United States’ ally in this conflict, while Tehran refuses to address it immediately.

Donald Trump will meet his government on Wednesday at Camp David, west of Washington, indicated to theAFP a White House official, at a time when negotiations with Iran do not seem to be producing the expected effects.

L’Iran rétablit l’accès à Internet

Iran announced on Tuesday that it would restore access to the Internet after an almost total cut since the start of the war with the United States and Israel on February 28. The first step towards free and regulated access to cyberspace has been takendeclared Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref in a message published on X, adding that with this measure, the demands of the Iranians will be satisfied.

Real-time data shows partial restoration of connectivity in Iran […] after 2093 hours of almost total isolation from international networksa country-wide record, announced theONG NetBlocks cybersécurité surveillance system.

Access to the international Internet in Iran was first cut on January 8, during the major demonstrations, then at the end of February, after partial restoration.

Since the start of the war, the population had only access to national sites, banking services and state-approved applications, by connecting to the local intranet.

Israeli strikes beyond the yellow line in Lebanon

Furthermore, the Israeli army intensified its campaign against Hezbollah on Tuesday in Lebanon.

It confirms having extended its land operations beyond the “yellow line” that it had established in the south of the country.

An evacuation notice for the entire town of Nabatieh, one of the largest cities in southern Lebanon, warned that airstrikes there were imminent

With information from AFP, Reuters, The Canadian Press, the New York Times, BBC