Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s top diplomat, said Tuesday that the ceasefire deal between the United States and Tehran hinges on whether Israel continues to attack Lebanon because that war has become “connected to the war with Iran, and the two fronts became intertwined and dependent on one another.”
President Donald Trump said in an interview Monday that he was not too concerned with reports that Iran would end negotiations with the U.S. over Israel’s expanded war in Lebanon and admitted that the talks are becoming “very boring.”
The Israeli government wants the United States to resume its bombing campaign against Iran and kill Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the parliament speaker and top negotiator, according to a report in Capital & Empire.
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said in a statement Monday that it struck an airbase in Kuwait used by U.S. forces after the Pentagon conducted strikes on a communication tower in the southern part of the country amid the fragile ceasefire.
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the Iranian speaker, has been facing pressure from the country’s Paydari faction, which is described as “ultra-conservative,” for appearing too willing to reach a deal to end the war with the United States and Israel, according to the Financial Times.
President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House Wednesday that he sees no reason to end the Iran War if Gulf countries that have not signed onto the Abraham Accords continue to refuse.
Another week and more outright bullshit from the Trump administration about the Iran War and the status of negotiations.
Iran announced Monday that it will end all negotiations with the United States because of repeated ceasefire violations, including Israel’s ongoing offensive in Lebanon, according to Iran’s Tasnim news outlet.
The Iran War will reduce real labor income by 1.1 percent this year and 3 percent in 2027, which is equivalent to abolishing 14 million jobs this year and 43 million next year, the United Nations’ International Labor Organization (ILO) is forecasting.
President Donald Trump rejected polls that say that the Iran War is unpopular in the United States and said he had no other choice but to attack because Tehran could not be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon, because it would mean a “nuclear holocaust.”