onsdag 27 maj 2026
Iran: Has received draft agreement framework
Iran has received a draft of a first framework for an agreement with the US, the country's state media reported.
US President Donald Trump is expected to brief his ministers on the peace talks on Wednesday.
The draft concerns a first, unofficial framework for a memorandum of understanding with the US, Iranian state media reported.
According to the draft, commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz should return to pre-war levels within a month, the AFP news agency reported. In return, the US should withdraw its forces from Iran's vicinity and lift the naval blockade of Iranian ports.
Ship traffic through the strait will be managed by Iran in cooperation with Oman, according to the information. Iran will also be able to charge fees for passage through the strait, which was not the case before the war.
Within 60 days
If a final agreement is reached within 60 days, it will reportedly be approved as a binding resolution in the UN Security Council, according to the draft.
The meeting between Trump and the administration will be held at the White House on Wednesday, the AP news agency reports.
Over the weekend, Trump said that negotiations were underway on the final details of a proposed peace agreement. An Iranian spokesman also stated that the parties had agreed on a framework.
Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Baqeri Kani reiterated on Wednesday that the issue of highly enriched uranium is not part of the ongoing talks with the United States, the Fars news agency reports.
Economic pressure
Iran’s intelligence ministry says it has received intelligence that the US and Israel are trying to “intensify economic pressure” on Iran, create divisions and carry out sabotage, AFP reports.
“The enemy is now striving by other means to overthrow and divide the country, a goal that it openly declared at the beginning of the last war, but failed to achieve through military strikes,” the ministry said in a statement published in Iranian media.
The war broke out on February 28 when the US and Israel launched attacks on Iran. A ceasefire has been in place since April 8.
Middle East Crisis Peace Talks
Trump Gathers Cabinet – Expected to Talk About Iran Deal
The US president will gather his cabinet at the White House on Wednesday afternoon, likely to give an update on the peace talks with Iran, reports Sky News.
Over the weekend, Trump stated that negotiations were underway on the final details of a peace deal. Iran said at the time that the parties had agreed on a “framework”.
At the same time, Iran’s intelligence ministry said on Wednesday that Israel and the US’s goal remains to overthrow the religious regime and divide the country, reports AFP. The ministry says it has information that shows that the US and Israeli sides intend to try to increase economic pressure on the country.
Information: Hormuz traffic to be restored within a month according to draft agreement
Iranian media have published details of what is said to be a draft of a “memorandum of understanding” between the US and Iran, Sky News reports.
According to the draft, US forces will withdraw from Iran’s vicinity and the blockade of the country’s ports will be lifted. In return, Iran will ensure that international traffic through the Strait of Hormuz is restored within a month.
According to the draft, traffic through the strait will be administered by Iran and Oman.
If a final agreement is reached within 60 days, the agreement will be approved in the form of a binding resolution in the UN Security Council, according to the information.
Middle East Crisis Iran war
Analysis: White House is chasing an acceptable end to the Iran war
Americans
are tired of the Iran war. But they do not have much faith that Donald
Trump has a good way out of it, writes CNN’s Aaron Blake in an analysis.
Blake
identifies two mistakes that the president seems to have made from the
start: he entered the war without a credible exit plan – and without
having public opinion on his side.
Now the White House seems to be chasing an acceptable conclusion rather than a clear victory, writes Blake.
Despite
claims of progress in the negotiations, several issues still appear to
be unresolved, the AP news agency notes in an analytical text. A key
question is whether Iran will agree to give up its highly enriched
uranium and promise not to produce any more.
Reaching an answer to that question will take time, predicts Amber Phillips in the Washington Post.
When asked what Iran will get in return, Phillips' conclusion is: "Probably money."
Middle East Crisis Gaza war
Hamas military leader reportedly killed in Israeli attack
Hamas
military leader Mohammed Odeh has been killed in an Israeli attack on
Gaza, Israel reports according to AFP. The attack reportedly took place
on Tuesday, less than two weeks after his predecessor Ezzedine al-Haddad
was killed in a similar attack.
According to Hamas sources, Odeh
was killed along with his wife and sons in Gaza City. This afternoon,
Hamas confirmed that Odeh had been killed.
Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu claimed after the attack that Odeh was one of the
architects behind the October 7 terrorist attacks.
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Political situation in the UK
Tony Blair in unusual attack: “Labour is playing with fire”
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is entering the debate about the future of Labour. He accuses both current Prime Minister Keir Starmer and potential successors of lacking a “coherent plan” for the country and of having introduced policies that have hampered business.
“The Labour Party is playing with fire – or, more precisely, with its own future and that of the country,” Blair writes in a critical essay of over 30,000 characters, published on his think tank’s website.
Blair criticizes, among other things, the government’s labor market policy, climate policy and plans to phase out the oil and gas industry. He also wants to see closer ties with Donald Trump.
He also warns that a change of leadership within the party would be “irrelevant if it does not start with a political debate.”
British media describe the text as a very unusual move from a former Labour Prime Minister. Strong reactions are expected within the party, writes The Guardian.
Downing Street has declined to comment on the essay, but tells the BBC that Keir Starmer is “completely focused on delivering change for working people”.
Political situation in Brazil
Trump receives Bolsonaro’s son at the White House
On Wednesday, Flávio Bolsonaro, the main challenger to Brazil’s leftist President Lula da Silva, visited Donald Trump at the White House.
Bolsonaro, the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who was sentenced to 27 years in prison for a coup attempt, shows a picture of himself and Trump in the Oval Office on social media. He gives no details about the meeting, but says they will come later.
Lula and Bolsonaro are relatively even in opinion polls ahead of the election in October, but Lula has a lead of a few percentage points.
Change of power in Hungary
Hungary blocks Orbán’s decision – stays in ICC
Hungary’s new parliament has voted by a wide margin to block the country’s withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC), writes AFP.
The withdrawal was initiated last year by then-Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
Energy shift
Sources: Irritated EU leaders forced to charge
There is a growing irritation among EU Commission staff traveling between Strasbourg and Brussels: the need to stop and charge their electric cars at a rest area outside Luxembourg. This is according to sources for Politico, which writes under the headline “Not exactly Air Force One”.
The forced break has reportedly become a source of frustration within President Ursula von der Leyen’s team. The Commission’s green vehicle fleet cannot quite make the 440-kilometer journey without a charging stop, which adds up to half an hour to the already five-hour drive.
The criticism reflects objections from political groups and lobbyists, who believe that the EU Commission is pushing the green transition faster than both consumers and charging networks have time to adapt.
The hunt for RAF terrorists
67-year-old RAF member sentenced after decades on the run
German Baader Meinhof member Daniela Klette has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for a series of armed robberies, German media report. 67-year-old Klette was arrested in 2024 after more than 30 years on the run.
The robberies she is convicted of were committed while on the run when she was living undercover. In addition to the robberies, she is also charged with having machine-gunned the US embassy in 1991.
Klette is believed to have committed the robberies together with two other members of the terrorist organization, Burkhard Garweg and Ernst-Volker Staub, who are still at large. The three were part of what is usually called the third generation of the Red Army Faction (RAF), also called the Baader Meinhof League after the front figures Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof, writes TT.
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