Who to embody the voice of reason? On the fourth day of conflict between Israel and Iran, missile shooting exchanges continue to raining in the two countries. This Monday, June 16, new strikes resonated in Musiyan, west of Iran, and in the capital, Tehran.
To end the conflict and avoid climbing in the regions of the Middle East, several countries have been offered as mediators: the Gulf, Qatar and the Oman, Russia countries, with the support of the president of the United States, Donald Trump and Turkey.
According to Iran’s Ministry of Health, Israeli attacks have killed at least 224 people, mostly civilians in Iran since Friday. For its part, the Israeli prime minister’s office said that 24 people were killed in the Iranian fire, which wounded 87 people.
• Qatar and Oman, the gulf mediators
According to the information of the British news agency ReutersCommunicated on Monday, Iran would have asked Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Oman to press the US President Donald Trump to use his influence in Israel for a high immediate fire.
During these exchanges, Tehran would also have asked Qatar and Oman to serve as a mediator for a return to nuclear negotiations with Washington, a regional source in Reuters told Reuters.
However, this information was denied during the day by an Iranian official interviewed by AFP. In the process, this same source, under anonymity, said that Iran had rejected the negotiations whenever it was attacked.
“The Iranians told Qatar and Omanai mediators that they would support real negotiations only once their response to Israeli preventive strikes were completed, while clearly specifying that they would not negotiate under attacks,” reports the AFP manager.
The choice of Qatar as a negotiator would not be trivial. The Gulf country already plays a preponderant role in the implementation of a temporary break of military operations against Gaza and at the launch of the hostages of October 7. The reason for this success “is, of course, in the links that Qatar has been able to establish in recent years with the two main protagonists of the current war: Hamas and the State of Israel”, underline the Institute of International and International Relations (Iris Iris).
On the other hand, Oman also appears as a privileged interlocutor for possible negotiations between Iran and Israel. The Mascato, the capital of the Sultanate of Oman, had already been imposed last April as the place of conversations between Iran and the United States in the Iranian nuclear program. And this, to the detriment of other regional capitals such as Doha, Abu Dhabi or Riad who had proposed to play the role of mediator.
• Vladimir Putin, “worried” about climbing conflicts
Ready to take the opportunity to appear on the international scene, this time as a hero, Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed as a mediator to put an end to the conflict between Israel and Iran. During a fifty -minute telephone conversation with Donald Trump on Saturday, the Kremlin chief firmly condemned the operation released by Israel against Iran, expressing “serious concerns about a possible escalation of the conflict.”
As expected, Donald Trump said he was “open” to a mediation by Vladimir Putin between the two countries. “He is ready to do it. He called me on this issue. We had a long discussion,” said the US president in an interview for the ABC television channel, without excluding the possibility that the United States is also involved in the conflict.
If Vladimir Putin’s intervention in the conflict seems to welcome Donald Trump, Emmanuel Macron remains skeptical. On the occasion of his visit to Greenland on Sunday, the Head of State expressed his disapproval of the role that Russia could play, already too occupied by the war that began in Ukraine since February 24, 2022.
“I do not believe that Russia, which today is involved in a high intensity conflict and has decided not to respect the Charter of the United Nations, for several years, may be a mediator at anything,” said the President of the Republic before the media.
Regarding the war in Ukraine, he also announced that he wanted to take advantage of the G7, to clarify the position of President Trump and know if he would be ready to apply “much stronger sanctions towards Russia” in case of a negative of high fire.
While the bombardment of the bombing continues to increase in Iran and Israel, the leaders of the G7, gathered in Kananaskis in Canada from June 15 to 17, may require the de -escalacus or decide to support Israel wielding their “right to defend themselves.”
• Rece Tayyip Erdogan, as a “facilitator”
In turn, the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, told his Iranian counterpart Massaud fishshkian on Monday that he was ready to play a “facilitating role” to put an end to the conflict between Israel and Tehran and “return to nuclear negotiations.” It is true that Turkey has had ancient relations with the Hebrew State, since it was the first Muslim majority country, in recognizing it in 1949. “Since then, family members have successfully succeeded in times of crisis and tensions,” Iris said.
Aware of the potential role that Vladimir Putin could play in the negotiations, President Erdogan spoke on the same day with his Russian counterpart, accusing Israel to “endanger the security of the entire region.” “The illegal attitude of the Netanyahu government is a clear threat to the international system,” Vladimir Putin told Vladimir.
At the end of this interview, the two men jointly called on Monday “the immediate cessation of hostilities” between Israel and Iran, expressing “their deep concern against the continuation of the climb” between the two rival powers.
To weigh a little more on the scale, Rece Tayyip Erdogan had already prepared the field exchanging with the US president last Saturday. The Turkish president had notably praised the recent statements of US President Trump on the agreement of the conflict between Israel and Iran and stressed the need to “act urgently” to avoid “a disaster that probably turns on to the entire region.”
After three days of strikes, the Israeli army offensive on Iranian soil is not ready to stop. The shots will even have to “intensify”, according to Israel’s ambassador to France, Joshua Zarka, “while we completely get rid of the possibility that Iran will develop nuclear weapons.” “It’s not over,” said BFMTV on Sunday. In response, Iran has promised more devastating attacks against Israeli vital objectives.
Source: BFM TV
