DIRECT. War in the Middle East: Donald Trump claims to have found "a good agreement" with Iran, Tehran says it has not made a final decision

Iran is advocating a dilution of stocks of uranium enriched to 60% on its soil, with Washington demanding destruction within the framework of the memorandum of understanding currently under discussion.

“Our position has always been that the only way to manage stocks of enriched materials is to dilute them in Iran,” declared the head of Iranian diplomacy, Abbas Araghchi, on state television.

Diluting uranium to a level below 5%, far from the 90% required to make the nuclear bomb, would considerably reduce the threat of enrichment for military purposes.

The head of Iranian diplomacy, Abbas Araghchi, indicated that the memorandum of understanding would be signed “remotely” once finalized, perhaps in “the coming days”.

“As soon as the final stages of our negotiations are completed, this agreement will be signed and announced. The signing will initially be done digitally. Each party will sign remotely. Then, it will be announced that this memorandum of understanding has been signed by both parties,” he said. detailed the Minister of Foreign Affairs, questioned by state television.

“It could happen in the coming days. I am hopeful,” he added.

The head of Iranian diplomacy, Abbas Araghchi, declared that the draft agreement with the United States provided for the lifting of the American blockade of Iranian ports and a new management of the Strait of Hormuz.

“The naval blockade must be completely lifted. This is the first point mentioned in the agreement,” said the Minister of Foreign Affairs, interviewed by state television.

“Iran has made a firm decision that the administration of the Strait of Hormuz will no longer be the same as before,” he added. He specified that discussions were underway with Oman regarding this strategic sea route for hydrocarbons which had become, according to him, with the war “one of the main instruments of deterrence” of the Islamic Republic.

The head of Iranian diplomacy, Abbas Araghchi, accused Israel of seeking to “derail” a possible agreement with Washington to end the war in the Middle East, announced as close by the various protagonists.

“This agreement has enemies, first and foremost the Zionist regime, which is looking for pretexts to derail it,” the Foreign Minister declared on Iranian state television.

Earlier in the day, Abbas Araghchi assured that an agreement with the United States had “never been so close” to stop this war triggered by Israeli-American strikes on February 28.

A senior American official assured that the agreement under discussion with Iran “includes Lebanon”, expressing optimism that the final result of the negotiations would also suit Israel and the Gulf countries.

Concerning possible reluctance on the Iranian side, he considered that they were “rather minimal”, judging that there was a “broad consensus” in favor of the agreement in Tehran, including within the Revolutionary Guards, among the “hardliners” and among the “authorities civilians”.

Switzerland has offered to host the possible signing of a peace agreement between the United States and Iran, indicated the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The latter says he is “active as a facilitator to support efforts towards a Memorandum of Understanding (memorandum of understanding, Editor’s note) intended to consolidate the truce and open the way to de-escalation in the context of the conflict between Iran and the USA”.

As part of the visit of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to the Élysée, Emmanuel Macron said he valued “the resolution of conflicts through diplomacy”.

“It is this path which will, I hope, enable the agreement between the United States and Iran to be reached very soon. We stand ready to contribute to its implementation by supporting the unconditional resumption of traffic in the Strait of Hormuz and by providing our expertise and support for a global agreement. This must be robust on the nuclear and ballistic aspects as well as on regional stability,” he added.

After weeks of discussions, the Prime Minister of Pakistan claims that an agreement on a peace text between Iran and the United States has been “reached”.

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The head of Iranian diplomacy, Abbas Araghchi, declared on X that the “Islamabad memorandum of understanding”, the document describing the agreement with the United States, “has never been so close”.

“In line with our responsible and transparent approach, all details will be communicated to the public in due course,” he added.

“The US president is currently negotiating a deal with Iran in the interests of the United States, including the common interest with Israel – preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons – and we hope that he sticks to this and other principles regarding missiles and proxies of terrorism,” Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz wrote on X.

The minister also argues that Israel must “ensure in the future” its “capacity to act independently to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.” “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and I have instructed the Israeli army to prepare accordingly,” he added, also assuring that Israel “will not withdraw from the security zones in Lebanon, Syria, and Gaza.”

Donald Trump asserts that “the conditions (of the agreement Editor’s note) that Iran has disclosed to the media spreading false information have NOTHING to do with those which were negotiated in writing” and are “irrelevant to reality”, in a publication on his Truth social network.

“What they said, including their weak and pathetic statement about reaching an agreement, has no relation to the truth,” maintains the American president, accusing Iran of being “dishonest”.

The draft framework agreement between Iran and the United States, distributed by the Iranian press agency Mehr News, provides for a 60-day period of negotiations on nuclear power.

“This is where the difficult part begins because the 60-day period must make it possible to resolve difficult questions, nuclear power but also the question of proxies and other complex questions,” declared at the microphone of BFM2 the head of EU diplomacy, Kaja Kallas, traveling to Paris for a meeting around the solution to two states between Israeli and Palestinian citizens.

“Europe can help, we have experts who have already negotiated with Iran in the past,” says the former Prime Minister of Estonia.

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The head of EU diplomacy, Kaja Kallas, claims on BFM2 to have been in contact this morning with the Deputy Prime Minister of Pakistan, mediator country between the United States and Iran. “He told me that indeed, there was an agreement on the table, so we can be a little optimistic,” she says.

“We have been waiting for this agreement for a long time (…) We have reason to hope that this framework agreement will actually be signed, we hope that it will be very soon”, adds Kaja Kallas, saying however she is “still waiting”.

The Arabic-speaking spokesperson for the Israeli army, Avichay Adraee, urged Lebanese in three villages in southern Lebanon to “evacuate their homes immediately” and move north to the Zahrani River, before the IDF strikes Hezbollah.
Despite the ceasefire theoretically in force since April 17, the Israeli army continues to advance deep into the country, and to cause the forced displacement of populations.

Note that in recent months, Israeli injunctions have mainly focused on the strip located south of the Litani. Now they are extended north of the Litani: the Zahrani River is north of the Litani River.

Benjamin Netanyahu declares on X that Iran “will not have a nuclear weapon” as long as he is Prime Minister of Israel.

“There is total agreement between President Trump and I on this subject. I have been on the front line of the international fight against Iran’s nuclear program for more than 30 years. Without this fight, Iran would have long had atomic bombs to destroy Israel,” he adds.

India once again summons the American charge d’affaires to New Delhi to protest against a third attack by the United States targeting Indian sailors on ships off the coast of Oman.

The American army this week claimed three missile attacks on oil tankers, two registered in the Palau Islands and the third in Guinea-Bissau, which, according to it, were trying to export oil from Iran despite the blockade imposed by Washington.

American attacks have left a total of three dead this week, says the Indian government.

The official Iranian news agency IRNA indicates that Tehran would not relinquish control of the strategic Strait of Hormuz under the terms of the proposed framework agreement with the United States aimed at ending the war in the Middle East.

“In this text, Iran makes no commitment to cede management of the strait or to reestablish the conditions that prevailed before the American and Israeli military aggression,” according to Irna, which describes “the main lines of the current text” currently being finalized.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean Noël Barrot, spoke this morning with his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araghchi, confirms the Quai d’Orsay.

According to the Iranian state press agency, Mehr News, the peace agreement announced by Donald Trump provides for the release of $24 billion in Iranian assets, as well as 60 days of negotiations on nuclear power.

Signing this agreement with Washington would also end the war in Lebanon.

The energy shock observed after the outbreak of war in the Middle East will be “persistent” whatever “geopolitical developments in the short term”, estimates the new governor of the Bank of France, Emmanuel Moulin, in a message posted on the social network Linkedin.

“The rise in oil and gas prices has begun to be transmitted to other prices in the consumer basket,” writes Emmanuel Moulin.

Consumer prices in France increased by 2.4% over one year in May, after 2.2% in April, an increase linked to the acceleration in energy prices, notes INSEE.

As the Football World Cup approaches, Iranian embassies are publishing regime propaganda videos generated by AI.

Fireworks, XXL floats… The images depict the arrival of the Iranian delegation during the opening ceremony.

Two days ago, the Iranian national news agency (IRNA) published a similar video on its social networks accompanied by a song in praise of the regime.

Oil prices are falling this morning, with the market anticipating a very imminent end to the war in the Middle East, accompanied by a reopening of the strategic Strait of Hormuz, after declarations from Donald Trump to this effect on Thursday.

Around 10:50 a.m. in Paris, the price of a barrel of Brent from the North Sea, for delivery in August, lost 4.37% to 86.43 dollars.

Its American equivalent, a barrel of West Texas Intermediate, for delivery in July, fell 4.42% to 83.83 dollars.

The Israeli army claims to have “eliminated” over the last seven days “around 80 terrorists” from Hezbollah in Lebanon. It also indicates having targeted 310 targets of this pro-Iranian movement.

In the morning, the Israeli army struck several towns in southern Lebanon, including the town of Bayyada, near Tyre, Qalaway and Bayssariyé, reports the Lebanese national news agency, Ani.

An American offensive on the Iranian island of Kharg, northwest of the Strait of Hormuz, is entirely “possible”, according to General Patrick Dutartre.

“This island could have the effect of a coup by the United States. An air-land operation is possible. Everything is possible,” maintains Patrick Dutartre on BFMTV.

Yesterday, Donald Trump promised to hit Iran “very hard” in the evening, threatening in particular to “take the island of Kharg”, its main oil terminal, before retracting.

The Iranian army still has “stocks of cruise missiles, ballistic missiles”, assures General Patrick Dutartre on BFMTV. On several occasions, the United States and Israel had claimed to have destroyed almost all of Iran’s military resources.

“The Iranian capacity for nuisance still exists, but at what level? That’s the whole question,” adds Patrick Dutartre, who nevertheless says he is “skeptical” about Iran’s ability to rearm.

Less than 24 hours after Donald Trump’s announcement of a “found” agreement with Tehran, General Patrick Dutartre believes that Iran and the United States are not yet on the same wavelength.

“Donald Trump is transforming this into a peace agreement but, in the Iranian mind, I am not sure that it is the same thing,” suggests this former leader of the Patrouille de France on BFMTV.

“We’re getting a little lost, the world is hanging on President Trump’s posts, we’re wondering if he’s not transforming his desires into reality,” he adds.

South of Beirut, Fadel is preparing to take the baccalaureate. “I was able to bring back some books and notebooks found under the rubble, but I recovered them only two days ago by going there between the strikes,” he tells BFMTV.

A missile fell on his house during an Israeli attack. Since then, this high school student has lived in a modest apartment with his family.

“Here, we’re crowded together with three other families. It’s impossible to concentrate with the noise, or even to work,” worries the teenager who is still hoping for a postponement of the tests.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said last night that Donald Trump had promised that any agreement between Iran and the United States would include commitments to remove enriched nuclear material from Tehran.

“The Prime Minister expressed gratitude for (US) President Trump’s commitment that the final agreement, at the end of negotiations, will include the elimination of enriched uranium, the dismantling of enrichment infrastructure, limits on missile production, as well as an end to Iran’s support for its terrorist proxies in the region,” he said on X, after an interview between the two men.

Donald Trump assured yesterday that he had found a “very good agreement” with Iran to end the war. This surge of optimism is not new, however.

Since March 23 and his first message to this effect, he has theorized at least 39 times that a deal was close to being made or that Iran was desperate to make one.

That’s almost one message every two days. Enough to make us more and more skeptical with each intervention mentioning the end of the fighting in the Middle East.

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In recent hours, the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the hydrocarbons consumed in the world passed before the war, has concentrated new tensions.

The Iranian maritime authority announced that it would completely close it “until further notice”, although the passage of around twenty ships per day was previously authorized.

Iran has locked it down since the start of the conflict on February 28, with the United States imposing a blockade of Iranian ports in return.

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Tempering the announcements of the American president, Iranian diplomacy indicates this morning that it has not yet decided on the agreement announced by the American president to end the war.

“So far, Iran has not yet reached a final conclusion regarding the agreement,” spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei told Iranian state media.

The hope of a resolution to the conflict is dragging down oil, with the price of a barrel of Brent from the North Sea, a benchmark for the world market, dropping 1.11% to 89.37 dollars around 4:30 a.m. (Paris time) this morning.

Reassured, the Asian markets also jumped, the Nikkei index in Tokyo climbing by almost 4%, and the Kospi in Seoul surging by more than 7%.

Egypt calls on Washington and Tehran to seize the “opportunity” of an agreement to end the war, after the cancellation of strikes on Iran by Donald Trump.

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry says it hopes “that the opportunity that presents itself will be seized to reach an agreement on the various outstanding issues and prepare the ground for the end of the war and the start of a new phase of stability regional”, in a press release published late yesterday.

Yesterday, Donald Trump promised to strike Iran “very hard” in the evening, threatening in particular to “take the island of Kharg”, its main oil terminal.

But “taking note of the fact that the discussions with the Islamic Republic of Iran were seen and approved by the highest Iranian authorities”, he later announced that he had “canceled the strikes and bombings which were planned against Iran”, on his Truth Social network.

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Last night, Donald Trump announced that he had found “a very good agreement” with Iran, just after having canceled American strikes.

“We have just reached a very good agreement to end the war with Iran and, once the documents are finalized, which should be done in the coming days, we will probably have a signature, perhaps in Europe,” declared the American president from the Oval Office.

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