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Trump linked a possible exit from Iran to oil control and spoke about Venezuela
The U.S. president said his country will eventually leave Iran, unless it decides to stay for the oil. He also said he still does not see conditions for elections in Venezuela.
Donald Trump said that the United States will eventually withdraw from Iran, although he left open the possibility of staying if Washington decided to keep the oil. According to El País based on EFE and AFP, the president made those remarks to the press in Ireland when asked about a meeting on the future of the Strait of Hormuz that Iranian media had announced for this Monday and that was ultimately postponed, according to the negotiators, to create better conditions.
In that context, Trump said he was not concerned about that meeting and noted that what mattered was that Israel and the countries involved were satisfied. He also said that the United States received “thousands and thousands and thousands of millions of dollars” and that with that it paid for the war many times over.
The U.S. president also compared the Iranian situation with that of Venezuela. According to El País, he said that in that country the population was going through a difficult situation, but that now oil companies are entering and a lot of money is being made. Asked about the possibility of elections in Venezuela, he replied that they will happen when they are ready and reiterated that he does not see conditions for them to be held.
On the other hand, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that the agreement reached with Oman on the Strait of Hormuz, whose announcement was scheduled for this Monday, will not mean the reopening of that route while the United States does not resume the commitments assumed in the memorandum of understanding for peace signed in June, according to El País.
The Uruguayan newspaper also cited a report by the New York Times according to which a hardline faction in Iran would have derailed the peace deal with Trump by launching an unauthorized attack on a ship flying the Qatari flag in the Strait of Hormuz and by violating the cease-fire. According to that outlet, Iranian officials said that neither President Masud Pezeshkian nor Ahmad Vahidi, head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, were aware of that action.
Still according to the New York Times, much of the Iranian leadership was unaware that that sector had decided to act on its own, which affected negotiations with the U.S. administration. The report added that the new supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, has not appeared in public since March.
Meanwhile, El País noted that the Houthis consolidated their control over the Red Sea coast and islands, as well as over the Bab el Mandeb Strait, a key passage for maritime traffic linked to the Suez Canal. It also reported that they attacked a military base in Saudi Arabia.
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Sobre esta nota. Written by El Notero with the assistance of artificial intelligence, based on what was published by the cited outlet. El Notero did not conduct its own reporting on this event.
