Israel Katz, the Israeli defense minister, said last week that the IDF will not withdraw from its strongholds inside Lebanon, despite Iranian demands during peace negotiations with the United States that an end to the war in Lebanon is required for the deal to be approved.
A day before Iran’s military attacked a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz, Christopher Wright, the U.S. energy secretary, told a conference in New York that Tehran does not have the ability to shut down the vital waterway.
The U.S. announced that it carried out strikes on targets inside Iran Friday, just minutes after the U.S. stock market closed, which has been the White House’s theme since the start of the war.
President Donald Trump announced early last week that the Iranians made a major concession vis-à-vis their nuclear program and, under the terms of the memorandum of understanding (MOU), “fully and completely agreed” to allow the “highest level Nuclear inspections” inside the country “long into the future (Infinity!!!).
The U.S. military and Iran exchanged military fire on consecutive days last week after both sides accused the other of violating the memorandum of understanding (MOU) in the Strait of Hormuz, which Tehran said included retaliatory strikes on eight U.S. “installations” across the region, including the U.S. Fifth Fleet headquarters at Salman Port in Bahrain.