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Il presidente Usa pensa a nuovi attacchi in Iran dopo le elezioni di midterm del 3 novembre anche se, allo stesso tempo, afferma di non avere fretta. Pressioni in tal senso sarebbero però arrivate dal premier israeliano Benjamin Netanyahu, mentre il tycoon intende per il momento concedere più tempo alla diplomazia.
Dal canto suo l’Iran afferma di non fidarsi degli Stati Uniti, sebbene proseguano i negoziati.
“Ho avuto un ottimo colloquio con Netanyahu. Abbiamo parlato di Iran”, ha dichiarato Trump, parlando ai giornalisti in partenza per l’Iowa. Ma secondo Axios, che cita una fonte israeliana e una americana, i due leader avrebbero avuto una telefonata particolarmente tesa, incentrata sullo stato dei negoziati tra Washington e Teheran e sui tempi di un’eventuale ripresa delle operazioni militari.
La fonte israeliana ha descritto il colloquio come “duro”, mentre quella americana lo ha definito “diretto”. Netanyahu sarebbe preoccupato dalla volontà di Trump di proseguire i tentativi diplomatici prima di decidere se tornare a colpire l’Iran.
“We still have one or two sites to address, but we can do it in 10 minutes,” Trump had previously said, threatening new attacks against Iran and indicating Pickaxe Mountain, the Islamic Republic's alleged underground nuclear complex, among the possible targets.
"The hand for negotiations has been extended, and those channels have remained open and active. At the same time, we have also been prepared to pursue another path," said US Under Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Donald Blome, speaking at the Manama Dialogue, a security forum underway in Bahrain. "We cannot allow Iran to hold this region and the global economy hostage," the US official added.
Iran, however, continues to negotiate with the United States through the mediation of Qatar and other countries, but remains deeply skeptical of President Trump's intentions, an Iranian security source told Al Jazeera. "Tehran continues negotiations with the American side through Qatari mediators and other interlocutors, but does not harbor even the slightest optimism about Trump's intentions," the source said, adding that the Islamic Republic has positively assessed the message received from US Vice President J.D. Vance and is considering a possible response. "We believe there may be different voices in the United States, but experience has shown that the American president and his entourage are succumbing to the temptations of Netanyahu and the warmongering extremists who support him," the source added. "For this reason, we are obliged to remain fully focused on the need to be fully prepared for a decisive and punitive defense against any aggression and crimes by the United States and Israel."
Talks between Iran and Qatari mediators are continuing on the proposal that has been under discussion for two days, but a "final conclusion" has not yet been reached, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said, referring to the mission to Qatar by a delegation from the Islamic Republic. Araghchi specified that the mission, at the level of Deputy Foreign Minister, is aimed at continuing consultations with Qatari mediators, who have been in Tehran in recent weeks, and not at finalizing negotiations with the United States. Achieving a result will depend on the other side's responses to Iranian requests, explained the Iranian diplomat, who stated that "we are doing our best in this process and hope that rationality will prevail on the other side, prioritizing diplomacy over other avenues."
A new war between Iran and the United States could last longer than the previous conflict, and US President Donald Trump would be unable to dictate its duration or the terms of its conclusion, Iranian military spokesman Mohammad Akraminia said, according to state television. "A possible future conflict could last longer than the previous one, and the US president would not be in a position to dictate the timing or terms of its conclusion," Akraminia stated.
The Iranian Armed Forces are "ready as never before" to respond to a possible new US attack and are working to identify new targets, said Revolutionary Guards spokesman Hossein Mohebi, according to the Iranian news agency Tasnim. "In the next war, we will no longer have geographical limits," Mohebi reiterated during a conference in Kerman, echoing the words spoken yesterday by Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, who ordered the military to respond to any new aggression "without geographical limits." "A broad scope has been defined to strike the enemy and achieve complete deterrence," the Pasdaran spokesman added.
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