"Venger" Khamenei est "inévitable", prévient le guide suprême iranien
Iran's supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, warned on Saturday that "revenge" was "inevitable" after the funeral of his father, killed in the Israeli-American attacks, while Donald Trump accused the Islamic Republic of wanting to assassinate him.
For his part, the Iranian representative to the UN, Amir Saeid Iravani, warned that his country would no longer feel bound by the memorandum of understanding concluded in June between Iran and the United States if they "continue to fail to meet their obligations", according to state television.
The Ayatollah spoke out, in a written message dated Friday but released Saturday, for the first time since the national funeral of his father and predecessor, Ali Khamenei, who was buried on Thursday.
"I tell our martyred leader that we swear to avenge his pure blood and that of all the martyrs of these two wars," wrote Mojtaba Khamenei, appointed supreme leader in March but who has not appeared in public since. "This vengeance is the will of our nation and it must be carried out, inevitably."
"These criminals, whose names are on a list, will take to their graves the wish for a peaceful death in their beds," he added.
On Friday, Donald Trump accused Iran of wanting to assassinate him, returning to his bellicose tone by promising once again to annihilate the country.
"The US military is prepared (...) for a period of one year, which may be extended, to decimate and completely destroy all areas of Iran," the US president wrote on Truth Social.
He added that "1,000 missiles" were "pointed towards the Islamic Republic", with "thousands more" available.
This hardening of rhetoric follows exchanges of blows this week, which have since ceased.
The United States struck Iran two nights in a row starting Tuesday after blaming Tehran for attacks on three commercial ships in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world's hydrocarbon trade passed before the war.
According to the Iranian Ministry of Health, 17 Iranians were killed and 115 injured.
While Washington claims to have targeted military sites, Tehran accuses it of also hitting civilian infrastructure in order to prevent Iranians from attending Khamenei's funeral.
Iran, for its part, targeted its Gulf neighbors: Kuwait, where at least one person was injured, Bahrain and Qatar.
The head of the Supreme National Security Council, Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, warned on Friday that his country would retaliate "to any attack" against its infrastructure, including by attacking Israel.
As both sides harden their stance, mediators strive to get diplomacy back on track.
A delegation from Qatar, the mediating country, arrived in Iran on Friday, according to local media.
And on Saturday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi was received, according to his office, by his Omani counterpart Badr al-Busaidi, to discuss the Strait of Hormuz, a passage located in Iranian and Omani waters.
According to journalist Barak Ravid of the American media outlet Axios, Qatari officials are also participating in the discussions in Muscat, where the opening of a free "middle way" in the international waters of the strait could be announced.
Donald Trump agreed to continue discussions, although he claimed that the ceasefire was "over".
A source close to the Iranian negotiators told the Fars news agency that one of the issues to be resolved was that of "transit through the Strait (of Hormuz) according to the terms desired by Iran".
Tehran had blocked the strait in response to the Israeli-American attack on Iran on February 28 that triggered the war.
It now allows only one navigation corridor, along its coasts, and excludes any return to the pre-war situation, when passage was free, although the law of the sea provides for freedom of navigation "without hindrance".
According to Axios and the American media outlet Politico, Washington informed Tehran that it was giving them until Saturday to publicly commit to no longer attacking ships in Hormuz.
AFP
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