9:57 a.m. – Israel issues evacuation orders for around 30 Lebanese villages
The Israeli army issued two evacuation orders on Sunday targeting around thirty villages in southern Lebanon, ahead of planned strikes against pro-Iranian Hezbollah, despite the truce in force.
The army’s Arabic-language spokesperson, Colonel Avichay Adraee, published two successive messages on
9:45 a.m. – Talks: a Qatari delegation in Tehran
A delegation from Qatar, mediator country with Pakistan between Iran and the United States, arrived in Tehran on Sunday as part of talks to permanently end the war in the Middle East, according to Iranian media.
According to the ISNA agency, an advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Qatar was sent to Iran. This visit is intended to “examine the latest developments related to the diplomatic process,” according to Tasnim, another Iranian agency.
9:32 a.m. – Trump assures that an agreement will be signed today with Iran
Donald Trump said the United States would sign an agreement with Iran on Sunday to end the war in the Middle East and providing for the immediate reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, a date not confirmed at this stage by Tehran.
At the end of a week marked by new attacks between the Islamic Republic on the one hand and the United States and Israel on the other, raising fears of a new regional conflagration, the two countries indicated that they had made significant progress towards a compromise. But the information that has leaked from both sides on this possible initial agreement – which would open the way to negotiations on the hotly contested technical details – still presents divergences, while the timetable itself remains uncertain.
9:14 a.m. – Trump says US will recover enriched uranium from Iran
US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that the United States would go, once calm was restored, to look for enriched uranium in Iran, in a message on his Truth Social network.
“When the time comes, when all is calm, we will collect the nuclear dust, buried deep” in the mountains “with our magnificent B-2 bombers and their brilliant pilots, and we will dilute and destroy it, whether in Iran or in the United States,” he wrote. In the lengthy message discussing a deal about to be signed to end the war in the Middle East, he also said the Iranians “no longer want nuclear weapons.”
