{"id":34189,"date":"2026-04-14T19:45:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T18:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=34189"},"modified":"2026-04-14T19:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T18:45:09","slug":"alle-telefonieren-niemand-schweigt-israel-und-libanon-im-direkten-kontakt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/alle-telefonieren-niemand-schweigt-israel-und-libanon-im-direkten-kontakt\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone is on the phone, no one is silent - Israel and Lebanon in direct contact"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump told the New York Post that a second round of negotiations with Iran could take place within the next two days. First he named Europe as a possible location. Then he corrected himself. Pakistan again. He himself will not be there. He did not say who will represent the United States. The first round had lasted 21 hours and produced nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At the same time, the US Navy is blocking Iranian ports. Six commercial ships turned around in the first 24 hours. One did not. The tanker Rich Starry, listed by the US Treasury as linked to Iranian shipping, owned by a Chinese company, bound for China, passed through the strait early Tuesday morning. US Central Command did not respond to questions about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Scott Bessent said on the sidelines of the IMF spring meeting in Washington that Chinese ships would no longer get through. \u201cThey will not get their oil.\u201d Anyone who pays transit fees to Iran violates US sanctions. \u201cThat never ends well.\u201d Iran had made tolls a condition for reopening the strait. Iran normally exports two million barrels of oil per day through the Strait of Hormuz. The blockade is aimed at removing up to two percent of the global oil supply from the market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Marco Rubio (US Secretary of State), Mike Waltz (US Ambassador to the United Nations), Michel Issa (US Ambassador to Lebanon), Michael Needham (advisor at the US State Department), Yechiel Leiter (Israeli Ambassador to the United States), Nada Hamadeh Moawad (Lebanese Ambassador to the United States)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In Washington, Israeli and Lebanese diplomats met for the first direct talks since 1993. Secretary of State Marco Rubio was there, along with Israeli Ambassador Yechiel Leiter and Lebanese Ambassador Nada Hamadeh Moawad. Rubio said: \u201cThis is a process, not an event.\u201d He does not expect a quick agreement. \u201cWe are working against decades of history.\u201d Netanyahu said last week he was opening direct negotiations at Lebanon\u2019s request. Topic: disarming Hezbollah and peace relations. Lebanese President Joseph Aoun put it differently - his side wants to talk about a ceasefire and the start of negotiations under American sponsorship. Both are sitting at the same table and mean something different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n