This is reported in the US media. Iran also says: we cannot say the breakthrough is imminent<\/p>\n
Iranian observer, ‘real truce in Lebanon key to negotiations with US’<\/p>\n
Negotiations between Washington and Tehran “will be able to move forward” in the event that “Iran succeeds in achieving a true ceasefire in Lebanon and an end to the war on all fronts”: this is the view expressed by Iranian observer Foad Izadi, an associate professor at the University of Tehran, in an interview with Al Jazeera. “Lebanon is the key,” Izadi added, pointing out that at the moment there is a truce between Israel and Hezbollah in the country “only on paper” and that reaching an end to this conflict would be “the test to see” whether US President Donald Trump “can finally have an independent foreign policy”. Indeed, the Iranian academic points out that “the general consensus in Tehran is that this is the war” of Israeli PM Netanyahu and that the latter “has managed to drag the US president along with him”. According to Izadi himself, the Iranian leadership would be willing to “accept concessions” on its nuclear programme, but with one condition: that these concessions be “accompanied by an easing of the sanctions in force and the release of frozen Iranian assets<\/p>\n
Iran, Nyt: US excluded Israel from negotiations with Tehran<\/p>\n
Israel was not involved in any way in the discussions leading up to the ceasefire and learned of developments in the US-Iran talks through regional diplomatic contacts and surveillance activities, writes the New York Times citing Israeli officials on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n
The article notes that in the run-up to the start of the war against the Iranian regime earlier this year, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in close coordination with Trump and led a discussion in the Situation Room in Washington.<\/p>\n
“Exclusion from the cockpit and relegation to economy class could have significant consequences for Israel,” concluded the journalist<\/p>\n
Iran, Marcegaglia: companies held out but real impact in the coming months<\/p>\n
“For the time being, companies have been bearing the costs” arising from the increase in energy and some commodity prices caused by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, but “if the situation does not settle down quickly, this will lead to more inflation, falling margins for businesses, falling investment and falling consumption. The reality is that if everything is not resolved soon the real impact will be seen in the coming months’. This was emphasised at the Trento Festival of Economics by Emma Marcegaglia, president and CEO of Marcegaglia Holding.<\/p>\n
‘Businesses,’ he added, ‘have held up for now, but we have to realise that there is a limit, also because the economy is not particularly strong.<\/p>\n
“For an entrepreneur the problem is not just having the cost of energy high, but not knowing whether the cost of energy tomorrow will be 100, 70 or 120. To do business you need certainty and I think this is Europe’s weakness. We must push Europe, and our country, to make different strategic policies,’ Marcegaglia pointed out.<\/p>\n
“Having an energy dependency impacts the accounts of households and businesses and, therefore, impacts the ability to create wealth. If we are no longer competitive and able to stay in the markets, we will move towards a decline and a process of deindustrialisation, which in part is already underway,” he added, pointing out that Europe has “too many dependencies” and that “we should better organise value chains”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LiveLast updated 3 minutes ago This is reported in the US media. Iran also says: we cannot say…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-660294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}