A two-hour secret mission in Iran: Americans offer to stop the attack

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A two-hour secret mission in Iran: Americans offer to stop the attack
Tehran

Payam Airport, 30 km north of Tehran serves only cargo planes, no scheduled flights. Last Thursday, a few hours after the assassination of the political leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, several American officials and their companions from Oman disembarked from a private plane.

The small group entered a hangar, where an Iranian delegation was waiting for them for a secret meeting that lasted two hours, according to Corriere della Sera. The American visit had a clear mission, to send a message to Iran from the White House security adviser, Jake Sullivan.

"First, that the US knew nothing about the plan to eliminate the leader of Hamas, and President Joe Biden is furious.

The second is that the Ayatollahs do not fall into the trap of a super-attack, which would only strengthen Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The third is that if Tehran does not react too harshly, Washington could lift some sanctions and return to a nuclear deal, which also broke down under Trump.

And the fourth handed over the list of the ten Mossad agents who killed Haniyeh, aided by a group of Afghan expatriates."

According to the Italian media, the Americans ended the meeting by saying that "even though we do not want a war with Iran, our position is known and we will defend Israel."

Diplomacy tries everything, but it is certain that Pasdaran is reserving for itself "the right time, place and way to strike". And the deadly Iskander missiles arriving in Tehran from Russia, the same ones used in Ukraine, do not bode well. Not even the supertunnel for Israeli ministers opened in Jerusalem, "suitable for a multi-day attack".

Netanyahu says he is ready to resist on seven fronts and strikes coming from 1,800 km from Iran, 1,400 km from Yemen, 800 km from Iraq and 600 km from Syria. But the scenario is very different from the multi-front wars of '48, '67 or '73, and no one hides the fact that Nahaja, the Iranian air force, in April only wanted to perform a show of force with the 300 drones that they set out with great fanfare and easily overtook Israel.

The weapons have changed today and this has been shown by the Yemeni Houthis, who have shot down a sophisticated American drone Mq-9, worth 30 million dollars, which flies at 15 thousand meters and is considered almost indestructible.

Westerners have called on Tel Aviv not to underestimate Tehran's strength. "The Italians must leave Lebanon as soon as possible", warned the Italian Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani. The Americans, the English, the Canadians, the French and the Saudis have made the same call one after the other for the civilians.

"Get away from the logic of retaliation," urged French President Emmanuel Macron along with Jordan's King Abdallah II, as for the first time in 20 years, Amman's foreign minister flew to Tehran. Ayman Safadi explained to the new "reformist" president Masoud Pezeshkian that he too would be strengthened if Iran showed wisdom.

Three ships were also moved for possible emergency evacuations in the Mediterranean. And as the drums of a regional war beat, negotiators are playing their last cards.

Could Iran rethink the idea of ​​an attack? "I don't know," Joe Biden told reporters, even though the secret American mission at the Iranian airport, first revealed by the Kuwaiti press, is one of many moves on the chessboard.

At the G7 meeting coordinated by Tajani, other mediation channels were also discussed with the explanation that "no country would benefit from a further escalation".

"We're doing everything we can to keep things from blowing up," says Jon Finer, Sullivan's deputy. In a phone call to Lebanon from the Gulf countries, Hezbollah explained that a response to Israel "will cross the red line" and will be inevitable, "without us worrying if it will cause a war."

For Arabs, the date of the attack could be August 12, the symbolic Jewish holiday of Tisha B'av commemorating the destruction of the Temple.


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