According to US media, today Iran will respond to the American draft agreement: 14 points to end the war and establish a framework for more detailed negotiations. The plan includes Tehran’s commitment to a nuclear moratorium, Washington’s approval for the lifting of sanctions and the release of frozen funds and the opening of Hormuz. Some clauses of the US draft are “unacceptable”, according to the Islamic regime. Today in the Vatican the long-awaited meeting between Leone and Rubio, amid tensions after Trump’s attacks on the pope. The Church is on the side of the victims of war, reiterates Prevost. The USA is “an essential interlocutor of the Holy See”, underlines Parolin. “Iran cannot possess a nuclear weapon”: this is the message that Trump says he wants to convey to Leone from Rubio. Tomorrow the US Secretary of State will then see Meloni. Meanwhile, the prime minister today receives Magyar, Tusk and Dbeibeh.
Israeli media, phone call between Netanyahu and Trump last night
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to US President Donald Trump overnightThe end of the meeting of the Council of Ministers for Political Security. Ynet reports it.
The cabinet meeting and talks between the two leaders took place amid reports of progress in negotiations between the United States and Iran on a deal to end the war.
US investigating oil bets linked to Iran, earnings of 2.6 billion
The Department of Justice is investigating a series of transactions carried out on the oil market with suspicious timing, as they were carried out on the eve of important announcements by Donald Trump on the war in Iran. This was reported by ABC, citing some sources, according to whom four operations were targeted which allowed earnings of 2.6 billion dollars by betting on the fall in oil prices, which occurred with Trump’s announcements.
Egypt, “intensify efforts to support US-Iran negotiations”
The need to intensify efforts to support negotiations between the United States and Iran and initiatives aimed at reaching a political solution in the Middle East was underlined by Egyptian Minister Badr Abdelatty in a telephone conversation with the Vice President of the Council and Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, according to an Egyptian note.
The two ministers – the note reports – spoke about bilateral relations and the latest regional developments.
Abdelatty urged “continue the ongoing negotiations and efforts to reach an agreement between the parties involved, consolidate the ceasefire, end the war and ease regional tensions.”
Netanyahu confirms killing of Hezbollah force leader Radwan
”Last night we eliminated the commander of Hezbollah’s Radwan Force, in the heart of Beirut. Perhaps he had read in the newspapers that he enjoyed immunity in Beirut, but that is not the case”. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared this in a note, in reference to the raid in which yesterday the IDF targeted Ahmed Ghaleb Balout, the commander of the elite Hezbollah unit, in the Dahieh neighborhood, hitting the Lebanese capital for the first time since the beginning of the fragile truce with Lebanon announced by US President Trump. ”This is the terrorist who led the plan to conquer the North, who thought he could continue to order attacks against our forces and communities from his secret headquarters in Beirut. But no terrorist enjoys immunity,” Netanyahu added.