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President Donald Trump has said that Iran has agreed to indefinite nuclear inspections on its facilities accusing “fake news” media of distributing false rebuttals.
“Iran has fully and completely agreed to highest level Nuclear inspections long into the future (Infinity!!!),” he wrote in a post on Truth Social on Tuesday.
Iran has denied that it will allow inspectors into its nuclear sites despite US vice president JD Vance also insisting that Tehran had agreed to the visits.
Foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said on Tuesday that Tehran had agreed “no new commitments” on inspections, adding that Iran would continue its current obligations as a member of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and under its safeguards agreement with the IAEA.
The US has partially lifted sanctions on Iranian oil exports following “encouraging” talks over ending their months-long war.
The Treasury on Monday issued a 60-day sanctions waiver that would allow Iran to sell oil in US dollars for the first time in decades.
Israel killed two people in Lebanon on Tuesday as Tehran warned that violations of an agreement would pose a “challenge” to ongoing talks.
It is nearly four months since the US and Israel launched war on Iran – a decision which had a dramatic and devastating impact stretching almost every corner of the world.
From skyrocketing oil prices, rising costs of global commodities, and deepening levels of food insecurity and poverty, normal people have been paying the price for a war involving the world’s most advanced military and the two most powerful forces in the Middle East.
But a war that many believed would be short-lived – with Donald Trump repeatedly vowing it would end “soon” with a total victory – dragged on for days, weeks, and then months, inflicting spectacular damage not only on global finances, but on the US military’s reputation as an unassailable force.
The global impact of the Iran war ranges from jet fuel prices, to the price of food, to increases in household bills.
Alex Croft reports:
President Donald Trump has insisted that Iran has in fact agreed to indefinite nuclear inspections despite denials by Iran.
“Despite their protestations and false statements to the contrary, coupled with the drumbeat of the Fake News, which is doing everything possible to make the U.S. Victory as small and insignificant as possible, Iran has fully and completely agreed to highest level Nuclear inspections long into the future (Infinity!!!),” he wrote in a post n Truth Social on Tuesday.
“This will insure ‘Nuclear Honesty’. If they did not agree to this, there would be no further negotiations! Based on this and other major concessions being made by Iran, I have agreed to allow the Hormuz Strait to remain OPEN, with no further Naval Blockade.
“However, all ships are remaining in place should it be necessary to reinstitute the Blockade, which seems, at this point, highly unlikely.”
Oil prices have continued their descent towards levels last observed before the Iran war, following the US decision to waive sanctions on Iranian oil amidst progress in peace negotiations.
Brent crude saw a nearly 2 per cent drop in morning trading on Tuesday, reaching 76.4 US dollars a barrel. This marks a new low since early March and brings the price closer to the 72 dollars a barrel recorded before the US-Israel war on Iran commenced on 28 February.
The latest decline is directly linked to the US Treasury’s issuance of a 60-day licence, which waives sanctions on Iranian oil as part of an interim agreement to end the conflict, thereby allowing Iranian oil to re-enter the US market.
Israel said on Tuesday that it had struck “terrorists” in Lebanon who posed an immediate threat to soldiers operating in the security zone in southern Lebanon.
It follows reports that Israeli gunfire killed two people despite a ceasefire.
An Iranian envoy has warned on Tuesday that any violation of a memorandum of understanding signed by the US and Iran last week will pose challenges to ongoing talks.
The first article in the agreement referred to a cessation in conflict between the US, Israel and Iran and would also apply to Lebanon.
However, Israeli gunfire has killed two people on Tuesday, according to reports.
Israeli gun fire in Lebanon has killed two people on Tuesday, the Lebanese civil defence and state media reported.
A New York City coffee shop is facing a Department of Justice investigation after banning a congressman over his views on Israel.
Poetica Coffee posted a photo of NY-10 Representative Dan Goldman at the Brooklyn outlet, with a caustic post saying they would have turned him away if they had recognized him at the time.
The post, which has since been taken down, read: “Hey Congressman Dan Goldman, we see that you stopped by our shop today for a coffee. Do you see how it doesn’t taste like genocide juice? Or are you still having a hard time telling the difference?
Sophie Clark reports:
One person has been killed by Israeli gunfire in a southern Lebanese town on Tuesday.
Lebanese civil defence and security source reported the killing.
Iran’s foreign minister spokesperson Esmail Baqaei has warned against “exaggeration” as technical talks proceed following a ceasefire agreement signed last week
“If power is not proven in war, it will not be proven through exaggeration after agreement either.,” he wrote on X on Tuesday.
“Agreement stands on the shoulders of respect and fidelity to reality; and any self-congratulatory narrative constructed to compensate for past failures will, above all, destroy that very process of agreement.
“Then, defeat and failure extend beyond the battlefield and seep into the negotiating table as well.”
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