war | US intelligence agencies: Netanyahu could sabotage Iran deal

The world’s oil reserves have shrunk sharply during the Iran war. Now the signs in the Middle East point to relaxation, but supplies remain disrupted. Read more about this here.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard has the Strait of Hormuz apparently closed again. The reason is the Israeli attacks in Lebanon. Read more about this here.

Israel’s Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvirhas threatened an “unprecedented escalation” after the deaths of four Israeli soldiers in an illegal military operation in southern Lebanon.

“For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must cry,” the right-wing extremist minister wrote on the short message service X. “The entire Lebanon must burn.” A corresponding escalation of the war in Lebanon could jeopardize the peace agreement between Iran and the USA. One of Iran’s demands is that Israel withdraw from the currently occupied areas in southern Lebanon and stop attacks on targets of the terrorist organization Hezbollah and against civilians.

The finance minister Bezalel Smotrich, who is also a right-wing extremist, is also threatening an escalation in the war: “It is time to speak with fire, to open the gates of hell,” he writes on X.

According to the Swiss Foreign Ministry, the talks between the USA and Iran planned for this Friday have been canceled. The ministry announced on Friday morning that the meeting on the Bürgenstock near Lucerne would not take place. There, negotiators from both sides should negotiate a permanent ceasefire.

US President Donald Trump and Iranian President Massoud Peseschkian have already signed a framework agreement that extends the ceasefire announced in April and, among other things, provides for the opening of the Strait of Hormuz. A deadline of 60 days was set for the subsequent negotiations. US Vice President JD Vance had already canceled his participation.