Now Trump says that Iran “will not receive a cent” and the agreement falls into uncertainty two days after being signed

Additionally, President Donald Trump raised more doubts and controversy by stating that the Iranians “they will not receive even 10 cents”, when the memorandum establishes an aid fund for the reconstruction of the country.

Israel announced this Friday that it had attacked Hezbollah targets in southern and eastern Lebanon in response to the death of four Israeli soldiers, including a battalion commander, in an attack on a tank in the Lebanese village of Kfar Tebnit.

The resumption of fighting in that explosive zone jeopardized the memorandum of understanding between the United States and Iran reached earlier this week. However, tension eased somewhat because, late in the afternoon in the Middle East, officials said Israel and Hezbollah, the Iran-backed group, had agreed to a new ceasefire following mediation efforts by the United States, Iran and Qatar.

“A ceasefire has come into effect,” an Israeli official told the American press. “We remain in the security zone, and if they attack us, we will respond.” Another diplomat with knowledge of the mediation efforts said: “Hezbollah and Israel have agreed to cease hostilities.” Two sources close to Hezbollah also told Reuters that the ceasefire was “immediate.”

As clashes continued earlier in the day, U.S. and Iranian officials They postponed the negotiations they had planned to start in Switzerland this Friday. Vice President JD Vance delayed his trip to that country leading a US delegation, and the Iranian delegation also did not travel to Switzerland as planned, insisting that the fighting in Lebanon must stop before any talks.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday that his country “will demand a very high price from Hezbollah” for the deaths of the four soldiers, adding that the Israel Defense Forces will maintain its buffer zone along the border with Lebanon “for as long as necessary.”

While all this was happening, from the White House, Trump published some phrases on his social networks that added uncertainty and confusion to the panorama. Concerned by the strong criticism that the preliminary points of the agreement have received in the United States, even from within his own Republican party, Trump stated: “We did not meet out of our own desperation, it was because of Iran’s. They are finished! We will develop it (the agreement) in 60 days. “They don’t get any money, not even ten cents!”

The magnate was thus referring to two of the issues of the agreement that caused the most controversy: the unfreezing of Iranian assets and the creation of a fund of 300 billion dollars for the reconstruction of the country. He also responded to the statement by Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, who had indicated that the head of the White House was desperate.

Do Trump’s statements mean that those points of the agreement they are no longer useful? Nobody knows. It seems to be aimed more at calming the home front. Senators from his own party have gone so far as to say that the pact was “the worst foreign policy mistake in decades.”

The president also sought to promote a resounding American victory on the ground: “The war has weakened Iran! It no longer has an Air Force, Navy, anti-aircraft equipment, radar or practically anything else, and yet the ‘dumbocrats’ (the term used to accuse Democrats of being stupid) say that Iran is better off now than it was four months ago. Can you imagine getting away with this??? How stupid can some people be???”

Israel’s incursions into Lebanon They have been a headache for Trump. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has launched them (although many times in response to Hezbollah attacks) even when the head of the White House had expressly asked him not to do so so as not to complicate negotiations between the United States and Iran.

Netanyahu ignores him, Trump seems to have lost patience and has had strong conversations: he has even told him that, thanks to him and the war, he had saved “his ass from going to jail” for accusations of corruption. The Israeli leader plays his own game: the war boosted his popularity and there are general elections in October.

But precisely what Trump wants the least is a protracted war: the conflict extends much longer than he had imagined and has had a ferocious impact on the price of fuel in the United States and on inflation. It is a panorama that he wants to change right now, especially in view of the legislative elections in November.

The agreement between the United States and Iran, reached this week, requires the cessation of hostilities on all fronts and respect for the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Lebanon.

Israel insists it must continue its military operations, which include airstrikes and the occupation of territory in the south, to combat Hezbollah, which has been launching attacks against northern Israel.

The hawks in Israel are furious with the pact and are stoking the offensive. Responding to the news that Hezbollah had killed four soldiers, far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir wrote on social media: “All of Lebanon must burn.”

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who shares this same opinion, called on Israel to: “Open the gates of hell.”

Lebanon became embroiled in the war between Israel, the United States and Iran shortly after it began, when Hezbollah launched rockets into Israel in retaliation for an attack that killed Iran’s supreme leader.

Israel responded by launching a bombing campaign throughout Lebanon and occupying around 5% of the territory of the country in the south, with the aim of expelling Hezbollah fighters from its northern border.

According to Lebanon’s Ministry of Health, at least 3,912 people have been killed, including women and children, and another 11,699 have been injured since the latest conflict began. Around a million people remain displaced, while dozens of communities in the south have been completely destroyed.