Iran war day 111: Tehran warns US as 14-point plan takes effect

Iran and the US accidental a woody to extremity the struggle is successful force, but questions stay implicit its implementation.

US President Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian have electronically signed a memorandum of knowing aimed astatine ending the astir four-month-long struggle betwixt the United States, Israel and Iran.

According to Pakistani officials and statements from some sides, the statement has already taken effect. It includes commitments to end subject operations connected each fronts, forestall Iran from processing oregon acquiring a atomic limb and afloat reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a cardinal planetary shipping route.

The statement is being welcomed arsenic a imaginable breakthrough, but questions stay astir its implementation.

Here is what we know:

In Iran

• Iran says the memorandum is present successful force: Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said Tehran and Washington person finalised and electronically signed the agreement, paving the mode for talks connected a last woody wrong the adjacent 60 days.
• Iran warns it volition intimately show US compliance: Baghaei said Tehran volition ticker Washington’s implementation of the memorandum “without immoderate leniency” and volition not fulfil its commitments if the US fails to conscionable its obligations. He reiterated that Iran’s rocket programme is not unfastened for negotiation.
• Experts expect atomic talks to widen beyond 60 days: Kenneth Katzman, a elder chap astatine the Soufan Center, said negotiations betwixt the US and Iran implicit Tehran’s atomic programme are apt to instrumentality longer than the 60-day timeline outlined successful the memorandum. Describing the talks arsenic “very detailed” and “very exhaustive”. He added that issues specified arsenic uranium enrichment, stockpiles of highly enriched uranium, verification measures and inspections volition necessitate extended enactment by method experts.

In the US

• Trump faces Republican backlash implicit Iran deal: Several salient Republicans, including erstwhile Vice President Mike Pence, erstwhile UN ambassador Nikki Haley and Senator Bill Cassidy, criticised Trump’s interim agreement with Iran. Critics reason the woody does not bash capable to curb Tehran’s atomic ambitions and entity to the $300bn reconstruction program for Iran. Some Republicans person compared the statement with erstwhile President Barack Obama’s 2015 atomic deal, which Trump unilaterally withdrew from during his archetypal term.

In Lebanon

• Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon could instrumentality months: Rami Khouri, a distinguished chap astatine the American University of Beirut, said a afloat Israeli withdrawal from confederate Lebanon is improbable successful the adjacent term. He told Al Jazeera that negotiations betwixt the US and Iran could instrumentality “four to 5 months” to conclude, and that broader determination issues would inactive request to beryllium addressed.
• Lebanon’s aboriginal remains uncertain: Reporting from confederate Lebanon, Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr said the struggle is “far from over” arsenic Israeli attacks proceed successful the region. Khodr besides said galore residents stay acrophobic astir whether Israel volition respect the ceasefire, portion ample areas of confederate Lebanon stay inaccessible to civilians aft months of warring and destruction. Security sources besides told Al Jazeera they judge Israel whitethorn inactive question to grow its power implicit strategical areas on the border.