Iran on Tuesday denounced the previous day’s US strikes as a sign of “bad faith and unreliability” as negotiations for a framework for an agreement to end the war hang by a thread. The U.S. military confirmed it had attacked vessels near the southern Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas on Monday in what it called “self-defense attacks,” while Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it shot down an MQ-9 Reaper drone that entered Iranian airspace.
Meanwhile, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Central Bank Governor Abdolnaser Hemmati traveled to Doha on Monday afternoon to continue talks with mediators.
A senior Iranian official told Drop Site on Friday that Tehran had presented a series of terms as a framework for a deal, including the provisional reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, conditional on ending the US blockade of Iranian ports, the release of billions of dollars in frozen Iranian assets and a plan to compensate Iran for damages suffered in the war. The official also stated that the Iranian framework would first require an agreement to permanently end the war, followed by immediate negotiations to reach an agreement on the nuclear program.
Drop sites Jeremy Scahill talk to Dr. Foad Izadiprofessor of American studies and international relations at the University of Tehran, on the latest developments. Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Jeremy also talks to Eyad Amawi of the Gaza Aid Committee in Deir al-Balah on the escalation of the Israeli attack on Gaza and the growing hunger crisis. Sharif also discusses the latest in Lebanon as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu steps up Israeli attacks and Jeremy contours how President Donald Trump’s Peace Board has unilaterally rewritten the Gaza ceasefire agreement in an effort to force Palestinians to give up their liberation cause and institutionalize Israeli domination over the future of the Gaza Strip.
