The last days of the truce between the United States, Israel and Iran are taking place within a tense calm that, at times, has threatened the end of the ceasefire. In just over 48 hours, the conflict has gone from being in relative pause to jumping into the air again.
On Friday, Iran announced the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz until the end of the truce. News that the president of the United States celebrated with euphoria, although he warned that, for his part, the blockades against the Iranians were maintained. The news was very well received by the stock markets and the price of oil fell by 10%. However, the joy was short-lived.
On Saturday morning, the Iranian Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, announced the closure of the Strait of Hormuz because, supposedly, the United States had breached the ceasefire. This caused Trump to once again charge against Iran, on whom he would use “all his force” so that the transaction of the conditions set out in the agreement is met.
Bombings on UK ships and the death of a French blue helmet
Thus, the day developed with attacks by Iran on two vessels located off the coast of Oman and a bombing against a United Kingdom tanker in Hormuz, according to the British Royal Navy agency. In addition, Iran warned that all vessels that did not abandon their anchorages in the Gulf would be accused of “cooperating with the enemy.”
The situation did not end here. The President of the Republic of France, Emmanuel Macron, reported that a French soldier of the UN forces was killed in an attack on Lebanon, allegedly carried out by Hezbollah, but the group has denied any responsibility for the attack.
Threats have continued from both sides. Although according to Trump the talks are “going very well”, he did not want to give clues about what will happen on Wednesday if an agreement has not been reached. Yes, he has threatened a blockade and “dropping bombs again”, while Iran, in the words of General Mohammed Naqdi, will use missiles.
In fact, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard has already warned the US that if it attacks its ships it will deal “a heavy blow.” Even so, they have confessed that there is progress in the negotiations, with “understanding on some issues”, but the final agreement is “far away.”
Trump warns that the agreement will be achieved “by hook or by crook”
Thus, on April 20, negotiators from both sides will meet again in Pakistan and the US president has already warned that, if the Iranians do not accept the deal, which is “very fair and reasonable”, the US will attack Iranian power plants and bridges. That is why he believes that there will be peace “by hook or by crook.”
“They will fall fast, they will fall easily, and if they don’t accept the deal, it will be my honor to do what needs to be done; something other presidents do,” Trump said on Truth Social. In addition, he has denied that he will admit the Iranian condition of releasing its frozen funds to facilitate the agreement and that he will not make the “mistake” of his predecessor, Barack Obama, in reference to the international nuclear agreement with Iran reached in 2015.
The US president reiterates that the conditions to end the war are the total reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and the delivery by Iran of all the enriched uranium they have stored to guarantee that they are not going to make an atomic bomb with this material, something that the Persian country has always denied.
