Donald Trump announces imminent agreement with Iran after talks with Netanyahu. But the Pasdaran hold back: “Only propaganda.”
A direct line between Washington and the chancelleries of the Middle East pierces the diplomatic night, revealing a glimmer in the wall of fire that encloses the region. Donald Trump chooses the stage of White House to announce that the final details of a historic agreement with theIran they are now on the table for discussion and will be formalized shortly. The tycoon’s words come at the end of a hectic day, punctuated by a dense network of very high-level contacts that redefined the boundaries of a crisis that seemed irreversible.
The turning point came immediately after a long telephone conversation with the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahuarchived by the American president with a laconic but eloquent: “It went well”. A strategic axis that expanded in the following hours through a series of armored calls with the leaders of the Gulf countries and the regional mediators of the Pakistanarchitects of a parallel channel aimed at defusing military escalation. The architecture of the agreement would be based, according to the rumors gathered by Financial Timeson a new strategic truce lasting sixty days.
Iran-USA, Trump announces the turning point: «Agreement ready, reopens the Strait of Hormuz»
The economic and geopolitical package on the table is monumental: on the scales there would be the immediate unlocking of benefits 25 billion dollars in Iranian assets frozen abroad, accompanied by the simultaneous suspension of war hostilities on the hottest fronts, including the theater of war in Lebanon. The dossier also closely affects global maritime trade, with the promise of guaranteeing freedom of transit and the commercial reopening of Strait of Hormuza crucial and vital hub for global oil routes. In the midst of the negotiation, Trump wanted to issue a peremptory warning via his Truth platform, spelling out that “time is running out” and adding a grave warning: “There will be nothing left of Iran if it does not accept a deal”. Interviewed subsequently by the Israeli broadcaster Channel 12, the tycoon himself however left a margin of negotiation open, declaring: “If they don’t come to us with a better offer, we will hit them harder than we have so far.”. On the domestic front, commenting on the stormy diplomatic confrontation with Netanyahu over the blocking of the raids, the American president dismissed the issue with a blunt joke: “Do what I want on Iran”.
However, the optimism displayed by the Oval Office must come to terms with the harsh reality of the balance of power within the Islamic Republic. From Tehran, i pasdaran they immediately raised a wall of skepticism, dismissing the American leader’s statements as a pure internal propaganda operation. Revolutionary Guards and Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei sharply curbed international expectations by saying that “we cannot necessarily say that an agreement is imminent”. The ayatollahs also specified that the management and control of the waters of the Strait remain firmly under Iranian authority, defining the tycoon’s announcement as incomplete, inconsistent with the real state of the facts and devoid of any concrete commitment on the very delicate front of nuclear program.
