75 meters. A ceasefire proposal. And no one responds. Word broken

Trump had promised it. After the first Israeli attack on South Pars in March, he said publicly that Israel would not strike there again. Defense Minister Israel Katz personally confirmed the second attack on the facility on Monday. South Pars is Iran’s largest petrochemical complex, responsible for around 50 percent of national production, and at the same time the largest gas field in the world, shared between Iran and Qatar.

Trump had put it down himself. In a public post, he declared that there would be no further attacks on the South Pars gas field. Reality followed a different course. (March 19, 2026)

A promise. Broken. Without explanation.

75 meters. That is how close another strike passed by the Bushehr nuclear power plant. The UN nuclear watchdog IAEA confirmed it on Monday. Director General Rafael Grossi called for an immediate end to such attacks and spoke of a very real danger to nuclear safety. The plant supplies around one million households with electricity, operated with low enriched uranium from Russia, with Russian technicians on site. Since the beginning of the war, there have been four attacks in the immediate vicinity of the site. The last one killed a security employee and damaged an auxiliary building.

In the morning, there were several attacks on the Iranian air force base in Bushehr.

75 meters away from the worst imaginable scenario

Egypt, Pakistan, and Turkey delivered a mediation proposal to both sides late Sunday evening. 45 days ceasefire, opening of the Strait of Hormuz, followed by comprehensive negotiations. The proposal was sent to Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff. Both sides have not responded so far. Iran insists on financial reparations and a guarantee not to be attacked again. At the same time, Trump threatens to strike power plants and bridges if Hormuz is not opened by Tuesday, and says in a Fox News interview that Iranian negotiators have been granted immunity from death, the nuclear questions are effectively already conceded.

Threat and negotiation. Immunity and threat of destruction. From the same mouth, within hours.

The cats of Tehran no longer flinch. They have learned it, the way one learns things one never wanted to learn - not by decision, but through the gradual fading of shock, until where fear once was, only silence remains. Human and animal in the same city, under the same sky, both long arrived in a reality that neither of them chose. Getting used to it is not peace. It is the opposite - the moment when the unbearable stops sounding unbearable and simply becomes the next morning. Tehran has had many such mornings.

EU Council President António Costa said escalation will not bring a ceasefire. Only negotiations can do that. Any attack on civilian infrastructure is illegal and unacceptable. The Iranian civilian population is the main victim of the Iranian regime - it would also be the main victim of an expansion of the military campaign. Costa directed these words clearly at Trump, without naming him. This is how European diplomacy works in this war: loud enough to be heard, quiet enough to risk nothing.

The proposal is on the table. The attacks continue. In the ruins of Eslamshar, Jnah, Haifa, and Ain Saadeh, people are still searching for those they knew.