As Americans and Iranians negotiate in Pakistan on Saturday, April 11, the Israeli army continues its deadly strikes and conquests in southern Lebanon.
The American and Iranian delegations are meeting in Pakistan on Saturday, April 11, in an effort to engage in discussions to end the conflict triggered at the end of February by bombings from the United States and Israel on Iran.
A high-ranking Iranian source declared that the United States had accepted one of the preconditions set by Tehran for opening these discussions, namely the unfreezing of Iranian assets held in Qatar and banks in other foreign countries. This gesture, not yet confirmed by Washington and reportedly denied by the Israeli opposition newspaper Haaretz, would be “directly linked” to allowing a reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.
Israel, on the other hand, continues to strike.
In addition to the question of frozen assets, another precondition that Iran demands is a ceasefire in Lebanon before negotiating with the United States, while the Israeli campaign against the Lebanese Hezbollah, an ally of Tehran, has resulted in “more than 2,000 deaths in the country since early March.”
Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon killed 10 people, including three rescuers, on Saturday, according to the Ministry of Health, with a dozen targeted localities in the region. The Ministry of Health denounces Israeli “systematic” attacks on rescuers suspected by the Israeli regime of being affiliated with Hezbollah, particularly members of the Islamic Health Committee.
Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon aim to control, even annex, or seize this territory, representing about 10% of the country.
And even as the United States and Iran are in discussions, Benjamin Netanyahu and his government of “Jewish supremacists,” as described by Israeli opposition, continue their plan. Haaretz reports, “Israel is more cunning than American President Donald Trump; it carries out actions of annihilation and destruction in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, and Syria without the world mobilizing to stop it.”
