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An agreement between Tehran and Washington, but on what date? American President Donald Trump assured on his social network Truth Social that the signing of an agreement between the United States and Iran was “expected tomorrow”, Sunday June 14, after more than three months of war. “The signing of the agreement is scheduled for tomorrow, and as soon as it is signed, the Strait of Hormuz will be open to all”said the leader. Iran, however, rules out the signing of an agreement in the next twenty-four hours, the government news agency IRNA announced earlier on Saturday. “We have to wait to know the exact date of the signing. It won’t be tomorrow”declared to Irna the spokesperson for Iranian diplomacy Esmaïl Baghaï, banking instead on “the next few days”.
• Pakistan displayed its optimism. “We are closer than ever to a peace agreement,” Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had declared earlier in a message published on X. “While finalization is likely to take place within the next twenty-four hours, Pakistan is preparing for the electronic signing of the peace agreement immediately thereafter, followed by technical discussions next week,” added the head of the Pakistani government. After weeks of stalled negotiations on the terms of a first memorandum of understanding, the two belligerent countries have estimated in recent days that an agreement had never been so close.
• Israel strikes southern Lebanon. The Israeli army carried out new strikes on Saturday morning in southern Lebanon, where it claims to be targeting pro-Iranian Hezbollah. In the morning, the Arabic-speaking spokesperson for the Israeli army, Colonel Avichay Adraee, called on the population to evacuate “immédiatement” twenty localities, all located in the surroundings and north of Nabatiyé. The day before, the Shiite militia had claimed that its fighters were confronting Israeli forces as they advanced towards a town in southern Lebanon, located five kilometers from the Israeli border. The Israeli army had issued a call to evacuate three villages in the area. The Lebanese national information agency ANI, however, reported strikes on areas not affected by this warning.
• Iranian drones shot down by the United States in the Strait of Hormuz. While Iran and the United States have expressed optimism about the possibility of a peace agreement in the Middle East, the situation remains tense in the Arab-Persian Gulf. In a message published Saturday June 13 on the social network Following these strikes, “maritime traffic in the strait remains fluid”, he added.
• Divergent versions. The versions of a possible compromise given by the Iranian media and Washington present significant differences. The Iranian Mehr news agency published on Friday a text presented as a draft 14-point protocol, with conditions such as maintaining control over the Strait of Hormuz, the right to uranium enrichment, and the rapid release of $24 billion in frozen Iranian funds. the stranger. Washington, for its part, delivered a completely different version of the text. “The terms [d’accord] that Iran leaked to the lying media has NOTHING to do with the terms we agreed to in writing,” annoyed the American president, Donald Trump, in a message published on his Truth Social network.
