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Published on: 04/28/2026 - 06:28 Modified on: 04/28/2026 - 07:43

On the front page of the press, this Tuesday, April 28, the results of two months of the Israeli-American offensive against Iran, and the growing exasperation of the rest of the world in the face of this conflict. The unprecedented rise in overall military spending. The upcoming publication, in France, of the Alloncle report on public broadcasting. And two legal oddities.

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On the front page of the press, the results of two months of Israeli-American offensive against Iran, which still refuses to capitulate.

Two months later, the United States is still looking for a way out of this war, which has transformed into an economic standoff around the Strait of Hormuz. For Le Figaro, “logic would dictate that each of the protagonists take a step to get out of this devastating impasse”, but worries that “in war, logic rarely wins”. “What if Trump’s blockade made Iran bend?” According to L’Opinion, “Iran could suffer real economic asphyxiation” but cites analysts, according to which Tehran could choose to “assume escalation”. According to The New York Times, Donald Trump, for his part, told his advisers that he was not satisfied with the latest Iranian proposal aimed at reopening the Strait of Hormuz, but leaving aside discussions on nuclear power. The newspaper believes that “in the absence of a resumption of hostilities, there is little chance that (this) position will evolve”.

Meanwhile, the Iranians are left to their own devices. The Belgian newspaper Le Soir, which cites members of the diaspora who managed to contact their loved ones despite the internet shutdown, “many Iranians” suffer from an “immense feeling of anxiety” and feel “trapped”, their hopes for freedom and democracy having “vanished”. El Pais, the Spanish newspaper, claims that repression has "hardened" since the ceasefire, with more than 250 people arrested last Saturday alone - notably for "espionage" and "sending images of sites hit by missiles", and a sharp increase, also, in the number of executions. According to the opposition site Iran International, Iran's Supreme National Security Council recently examined an intelligence report raising "the possibility of a resumption of demonstrations in the coming days" due to the economic crisis.

The impact of this war in Iran on the world economy is getting worse every day. “The United States started war, and the rest of the world is suffering the consequences”: The New York Times observes that “in just eight weeks, much of the world economy has been severely disrupted,” but that “America has been relatively spared from these upheavals.” This situation is causing growing exasperation, particularly among the Thai Prime Minister. In an interview with the Washington Post, Sihasak Phuangkekeow accuses the Trump Administration of offering “no direct aid” to his country, even though it is a “long-time ally of the United States.” “This war should not have taken place,” he asserts, regretting that Washington’s “only gesture” was to offer to buy American gas and oil.

The United States, whose military spending decreased last year, unlike the rest of the world. 2,887 billion dollars: this is the figure from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute on global spending on defense in 2025 - a report widely relayed by the French press, including La Tribune, which specifies that this spending has particularly increased in Europe and Asia. While Washington is increasing criticism against the Spanish government, accusing it of its lack of commitment to common defense, this report offers "an argument", according to El Pais, to Spain, which comes at the top of those having increased their military spending the most last year, with an increase of 50%, for a total reaching more than 34 billion euros.

In France, members of the commission of inquiry into public broadcasting voted yesterday in favor of the official publication of the report written by far-right MP Charles Alloncle. 12 for, 10 against, 8 abstentions: Le Figaro mentions a “very close” vote and is delighted to see the document escape “censorship”. This report will be available from May 4 on the National Assembly website. A “welcome” publication, also for L'Opinion, which considers that “fundamentally, unless we consider France Télés and Radio France untouchable, the recommendations (of this document, which proposes for example the merger of France 24 with France Info, Editor's note), do not deserve the cries of horror” that it triggered. Conversely, L'Humanité regrets that this “scandalous” report could have been adopted, because it advocates the suppression of channels and stations, but also because it engages, according to it, in a “denigration of the words of others”, through its “ad hominem accusations, its slanderous attacks, its insinuations, its lies”. “After the adoption of the text, the far-right is rubbing its hands”: the Mediapart info site accuses the “ecosystem” of industrialist Vincent Bolloré of having “pushed all its weight to fuel this offensive against public service”.

A word, to finish, about the misadventure of a Frenchman, indicted in Singapore for having... licked a straw in Singapore. The Huffington Post reports that a young 18-year-old Frenchman was charged with breach of public order, for having actually licked a straw and then placed it back in a drinks dispenser. A joke for which he faces three months in prison. Also in the judicial section, in Germany, this time. On the other hand, a Munich court yesterday exonerated a parcel delivery man who had taken refuge on the hood of a customer's Porsche to escape his two Dalmatians. The judges ruled that he did not have to pay the 2,700 euros in repair costs demanded by the owner of the vehicle and the doggies. Read in Le Parisien/Aujourd’hui en France.

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