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Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:18:30 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: From: Chas Freeman Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 07:18:16 -0400 X-Gm-Features: AVVi8CemxUEEppK3NL3KgSLBFsnbAnbvonAFT4F_M96gC8dPDxWpE4v4luBRE-g Message-ID: To: "salon@listserve.com" Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="00000000000069dff30653d049e6" Subject: [Salon] =?utf-8?q?Fwd=3A_=22Israel=E2=80=99s_Futile_War_in_Leban?= =?utf-8?q?on_Deepens=22_=28CounterPunch=2C_6/8/26=29?= X-BeenThere: salon@listserve.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion List for the Committee For The Republic List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:18:33 -0000 --00000000000069dff30653d049e6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable *https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/06/08/israels-futile-war-in-lebanon-deep= ens/ * *Israel=E2=80=99s Futile War in Lebanon Deepens* *Binoy Kampmark* 6/8/26 *IDF 162nd Division on the Israel=E2=80=93Lebanon border. Photograph Source= : IDF Spokesperson=E2=80=99s Unit =E2=80=93 CC BY-SA 3.0 * *Call it a repeating script, a rusty template, or simply a creaky model to emulate time and again. The structural and homicidal destruction of Gaza undertaken by Israeli forces is now finding full expression in southern Lebanon, a cause of concern even for those in Washington. The war=E2=80=99= s increasing savagery is a reminder of how hollow the exhortations by the Netanyahu government seem following the official cessation of hostilities against Hezbollah in November 2024.* *Israel=E2=80=99s pre-emptive war on Iran, commencing on February 28 with t= he full and criminal connivance of the United States, took place alongside an incursion into southern Lebanon that has become a burgeoning invasion ostensibly to create a chunky buffer against Hezbollah=E2=80=99s attacks. Presumably, the wishful thinking here was to eliminate Iran as a threat, thereby removing Hezbollah=E2=80=99s most ardent patron and sponsor= . At the time, coteries of commentators and Israeli leaders lavished praise on the country=E2=80=99s technical and military achievements, forgetting the c= entral point that Hezbollah remains an idea as much as a physical movement, a deep well rather than defined, terminable cul-de-sac. Ideas, which can only really be battled by better ones, prove sleekly stubborn before tanks, missiles and jets.* *From March, the southern part of Lebanon was subjected to infrastructural degradation, population displacement and the wholesale destruction of villages, all on the spurious premise that the security of Israeli settlements near the border will be somehow improved. In April, in the long cast shadow of the Iran War, another ceasefire was brokered between Israel and Lebanon, with another extension to the truce for another 45 days agreed to mid-May. This farcical theatre has taken place amidst ongoing IDF operations which have, as of June 1, displaced over a million Lebanese and seen more than 3,300 deaths. Israel has lost 24 soldiers and 4 civilians during that time.* *With Iran resiliently stubborn in diplomacy, collaterally backed by its continued blocking of the Strait of Hormuz, and Hezbollah showing signs of renewed martial vigour, the two-pronged plan has been defanged. Hezbollah=E2=80=99s revivified hunger for battle has taken the f= orm of lethal attacks on the IDF with drones resistant to electronic jamming. These explosive-laden fibre-optic First-Person View drones, connected to their operators with a bare yet lengthy optical wire, permit visibility and manoeuvrability for miles. Israeli soldiers, long seen as having immune breastplates against Hezbollah=E2=80=99s attacks, are now dyi= ng.* *Former Israeli national security official Orna Mizrahi, who heads the Lebanon program at Tel Aviv=E2=80=99s Institute for National Studies, accep= ts that =E2=80=9Cthe drones made for some confusion, because it was a surprise. Th= e IDF didn=E2=80=99t think that it would be such a dangerous weapon. In Israel, t= hey looked at it as a toy.=E2=80=9D Remarks from the IDF reported in theTimes of Israel show that the military has been disabused of this notion. The FPV drones posed =E2=80=9Ca dynamic and evolving threat, chara= cterized by inexpensive, readily made tools with a high rate of variability.=E2=80= =9D* *The BBC reports the troubled account of a council chief from the northern Israeli town of Shomera, Sami Zanetti: =E2=80=9CThe problem is you don=E2=80=99t feel them = coming. You=E2=80=99re sitting there, and suddenly it arrives. And if you run away, it follows you.=E2=80=9D Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, acknowledging the dangers= posed by these economical, effective packages of death, promises that a =E2=80=9Cspecial te= am=E2=80=9D is labouring away to =E2=80=9Csolve this.=E2=80=9D* *Despite the increasingly attritive toll on its forces, the propaganda channels on Israeli triumphs continue to prove thick and hefty, attempting to justify a campaign described by Michael Koplow of the Israeli Policy Forum as =E2=80=9Ca political imperati= ve in search of a strategy.=E2=80=9D The May 31 seizure of the Beaufort Castle a= rea and the Ali al-Taher Ridge was celebrated by the Israeli Alma Research and Education Center as one of =E2=80=9Coperation= al significance, as it constitutes a strategic zone in southern Lebanon and psychological significance for all parties involved in the conflict.=E2=80= =9D The =E2=80=9Closs of control over the Beaufort area=E2=80=9D was deemed =E2=80= =9Ca direct operational setback for=E2=80=9D Hezbollah.* *These ground operations, false heralds of decisiveness, barely conceal the increasing desperation within the Netanyahu government, culminating in threats made on June 1 to attack the Lebanese capital. On June 2, the Israeli Minister of Defence, Israel Katz, told a gathering at the Defense Export Conference that the bombing of certain neighbourhoods of Beirut with alleged ties with Hezbollah was in the offing. =E2=80=9CThe pr= oof of this policy in protecting the settlements [near the border] will be simple and will become clear in the coming days: if the shooting against the settlements ceases, or if it continues and we attack Dahiy=C3=A9 in Beirut,= this equation will become a reality.=E2=80=9D* *Currently, another counterfeit, jejune ceasefire is in play, one that was only reached after a ranting call of colour and invective between US President Donald Trump and Netanyahu on June 1. (According to a US official quoted by Axios, Trump is said to have bellowed the following: =E2=80=9CYou=E2=80=99re fucki= ng crazy. You=E2=80=99d be in prison if it weren=E2=80=99t for me. I=E2=80=99m saving your ass. Ev= erybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this.=E2=80=9D) While Trump fi= nds himself held in an Iranian lock, tightened by Tehran=E2=80=99s insistence on tying a halt of Israeli hostilities in Lebanon with a broader cessation of conflict, Israel has been ensnared by its own too-clever-by-half logic in Lebanon. The un-snaring will be sanguinary and ugly.* --00000000000069dff30653d049e6 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Israel=E2=80=99s Futile War in Lebanon Deepens=

Binoy Kamp= mark=C2=A0 6/8/26
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IDF 162nd Divis= ion on the Israel=E2=80=93Lebanon border. Photograph Source: IDF Spokespers= on=E2=80=99s Unit =E2=80=93=C2=A0CC BY-SA 3.0

Call it a repeating script, a rusty template, or simply a creaky mo= del to emulate time and again.=C2=A0=C2=A0The structural and homicidal dest= ruction of Gaza undertaken by Israeli forces is now finding full expression= in southern Lebanon, a cause of concern even for those in Washington.=C2= =A0=C2=A0The war=E2=80=99s increasing savagery is a reminder of how hollow = the exhortations by the Netanyahu government seem following the=C2=A0o= fficial cessation of hostilities=C2=A0against Hezbollah in November 202= 4.

Israel=E2=80=99s pre-emptive war on Iran, commenc= ing on February 28 with the full and criminal connivance of the United Stat= es, took place alongside an incursion into southern Lebanon that has become= a burgeoning invasion ostensibly to create a chunky buffer against Hezboll= ah=E2=80=99s attacks.=C2=A0=C2=A0Presumably, the wishful thinking here was = to eliminate Iran as a threat, thereby removing Hezbollah=E2=80=99s most ar= dent patron and sponsor. At the time, coteries of commentators and=C2=A0Israeli leaders lavished praise=C2=A0= on the country=E2=80=99s technical and military achievements, forgetting th= e central point that Hezbollah remains an idea as much as a physical moveme= nt, a deep well rather than defined, terminable cul-de-sac.=C2=A0=C2=A0Idea= s, which can only really be battled by better ones, prove sleekly stubborn = before tanks, missiles and jets.

From March, the sou= thern part of Lebanon was=C2=A0su= bjected=C2=A0to infrastructural degradation, population displacement an= d the wholesale destruction of villages, all on the spurious premise that t= he security of Israeli settlements near the border will be somehow improved= .=C2=A0=C2=A0In April, in the long cast shadow of the Iran War,=C2=A0another ceasefire=C2=A0was bro= kered between Israel and Lebanon, with another extension to the truce for a= nother 45 days agreed to mid-May.=C2=A0=C2=A0This farcical theatre has take= n place amidst ongoing IDF operations which have, as of June 1, displaced o= ver a million Lebanese and seen more than 3,300 deaths.=C2=A0=C2=A0Israel h= as=C2=A0lost=C2=A024 soldiers and 4 civilians during that= time.

With Iran resiliently stubborn in diplomacy, = collaterally backed by its continued blocking of the Strait of Hormuz, and = Hezbollah showing signs of renewed martial vigour, the two-pronged plan has= been defanged.=C2=A0=C2=A0Hezbollah=E2=80=99s revivified hunger for battle= has taken the form of lethal attacks on the IDF with drones resistant to e= lectronic jamming.=C2=A0=C2=A0These explosive-laden fibre-optic=C2=A0First-Person View=C2=A0drones, connected to= their operators with a bare yet lengthy optical wire, permit visibility an= d manoeuvrability for miles.=C2=A0=C2=A0Israeli soldiers, long seen as havi= ng immune breastplates against Hezbollah=E2=80=99s attacks, are now dying.<= /b>

Former Israeli national security official Orna Mizra= hi, who heads the Lebanon program at Tel Aviv=E2=80=99s Institute for Natio= nal Studies,=C2=A0accepts=C2=A0that =E2= =80=9Cthe drones made for some confusion, because it was a surprise.=C2=A0= =C2=A0The IDF didn=E2=80=99t think that it would be such a dangerous weapon= . In Israel, they looked at it as a toy.=E2=80=9D=C2=A0=C2=A0Remarks from t= he IDF=C2=A0reported=C2=A0in theTimes of Israel= =C2=A0show that the military has been disabused of this notion.=C2=A0=C2=A0= The FPV drones posed =E2=80=9Ca dynamic and evolving threat, characterized = by inexpensive, readily made tools with a high rate of variability.=E2=80= =9D

The BBC=C2=A0reports=C2=A0the troubled account of= a council chief from the northern Israeli town of Shomera, Sami Zanetti: = =E2=80=9CThe problem is you don=E2=80=99t feel them coming.=C2=A0=C2=A0You= =E2=80=99re sitting there, and suddenly it arrives.=C2=A0=C2=A0And if you r= un away, it follows you.=E2=80=9D=C2=A0=C2=A0Prime Minister Benjamin Netany= ahu, acknowledging the dangers posed by these economical, effective package= s of death,=C2=A0promises=C2=A0that a =E2=80=9Cspecial team=E2=80=9D is labo= uring away to =E2=80=9Csolve this.=E2=80=9D

Despite = the increasingly attritive toll on its forces, the propaganda channels on I= sraeli triumphs continue to prove thick and hefty, attempting to justify a = campaign=C2=A0described=C2=A0by Michael K= oplow of the Israeli Policy Forum as =E2=80=9Ca political imperative in sea= rch of a strategy.=E2=80=9D=C2=A0=C2=A0The May 31 seizure of the Beaufort C= astle area and the Ali al-Taher Ridge was=C2=A0celebrated=C2=A0by the Isr= aeli Alma Research and Education Center as one of =E2=80=9Coperational sign= ificance, as it constitutes a strategic zone in southern Lebanon and psycho= logical significance for all parties involved in the conflict.=E2=80=9D=C2= =A0=C2=A0The =E2=80=9Closs of control over the Beaufort area=E2=80=9D was d= eemed =E2=80=9Ca direct operational setback for=E2=80=9D Hezbollah.

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These ground operations, false heralds of decisiveness, bar= ely conceal the increasing desperation within the Netanyahu government, cul= minating in=C2=A0threats=C2=A0made on June 1 to attack the Lebanese capital.= =C2=A0=C2=A0On June 2, the Israeli Minister of Defence, Israel Katz,=C2=A0<= a href=3D"https://www.democrata.es/en/international/katz-threatens-to-attac= k-beirut-neighborhoods-if-launches-from-lebanon-persist/" style=3D"text-dec= oration:none;color:rgb(65,110,210);max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank">told a= gathering=C2=A0at the Defense Export Conference that the bombing of ce= rtain neighbourhoods of Beirut with alleged ties with Hezbollah was in the = offing.=C2=A0=C2=A0=E2=80=9CThe proof of this policy in protecting the sett= lements [near the border] will be simple and will become clear in the comin= g days: if the shooting against the settlements ceases, or if it continues = and we attack Dahiy=C3=A9 in Beirut, this equation will become a reality.= =E2=80=9D

Currently, another counterfeit, jejune cea= sefire is in play, one that was only reached after a=C2=A0= ranting call=C2=A0of colour and invective between US President Donald T= rump and Netanyahu on June 1.=C2=A0=C2=A0(According to a US official=C2=A0<= a href=3D"https://www.axios.com/2026/06/01/trump-netanyahu-israel-lebanon-c= all" style=3D"text-decoration:none;color:rgb(65,110,210);max-width:100%" ta= rget=3D"_blank">quoted=C2=A0by=C2=A0Axios, Trump is said to have bellowed the following: =E2=80=9CYou=E2=80=99re f= ucking crazy.=C2=A0=C2=A0You=E2=80=99d be in prison if it weren=E2=80=99t f= or me. I=E2=80=99m saving your ass.=C2=A0=C2=A0Everybody hates you now.=C2= =A0=C2=A0Everybody hates Israel because of this.=E2=80=9D)=C2=A0=C2=A0While= Trump finds himself held in an Iranian lock, tightened by Tehran=E2=80=99s= =C2=A0insistence=C2=A0on tying a halt of Israeli hostilities in Lebanon with a broader ces= sation of conflict, Israel has been ensnared by its own too-clever-by-half = logic in Lebanon.=C2=A0=C2=A0The un-snaring will be sanguinary and ugly.

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Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:18:44 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: From: Chas Freeman Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 07:18:30 -0400 X-Gm-Features: AVVi8CctmTBwxmgwWH-TijJGPAfQdzOMn9b59WAGesehndPVV_ripxtxPdrDE60 Message-ID: To: "salon@listserve.com" Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="000000000000423d050653d04a06" Subject: [Salon] =?utf-8?q?Fwd=3A_Larry_C=2E_Johnson=3A_=22Israel_Crosses?= =?utf-8?q?_Iran=E2=80=99s_Redline_in_a_Mission_to_Prevent_Trump_Fr?= =?utf-8?q?om_Signing_a_Peace_Deal_with_Iran=2E=22_=286/8/26=29?= X-BeenThere: salon@listserve.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion List for the Committee For The Republic List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:18:46 -0000 --000000000000423d050653d04a06 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable *https://larrycjohnson.substack.com/p/israel-crosses-irans-redline-in-a?utm= _source=3Dpost-email-title&publication_id=3D1225061&post_id=3D201105422&utm= _campaign=3Demail-post-title&isFreemail=3Dfalse&r=3D210kv&triedRedirect=3Dt= rue&utm_medium=3Demail * *Israel Crosses Iran=E2=80=99s Redline in a Mission to Prevent Trump From S= igning a Peace Deal with Iran* *Larry C Johnson* 6/8/26 *Nine days after Iran warned the West, Israel in particular, that any further attacks on Beirut would result in Iran retaliating against Israel, Israel hit the Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh. The attack on Sunday afternoon sent plumes of smoke rising over the suburb, with strikes targeting two apartments in two buildings. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu=E2= =80=99s office announced the attack in the Dahiyeh district, saying it was in retaliation for an earlier Hezbollah strike on Israel. At least two people were killed and 11 wounded in the strike on the densely populated civilian neighborhood, according to Lebanon=E2=80=99s state-run National News Agency= .* *Iran, as promised, wasted little time in responding and launched 20 missiles in five waves at Israel. Donald Trump called Bibi Netanyahu, telling him to hold off in retaliating against Iran because he anticipated signing a peace deal with Iran. Trump also reportedly told Netanyahu that if Israel decided to retaliate the Israelis would not have US support. What did Netanyahu do? He launched a retaliatory strike using 11 missiles against Iran.* *As I write this, Iran is responding with a larger missile launch against Israel and there are visible impacts in Israel despite Israeli claims that the IDF intercepted the missiles. Not to be left on the sidelines, the Houthis joined in by launching a missile at Israel. Media reports blamed the Houthis for also striking the Prince Saud Airbase in Saudi Arabia, but there is no independent confirmation to substantiate that claim. In addition, the Houthis announced they are closing the Bab al-Mandab Strait, which is certain to roil the financial markets. Finally,Hezbollah stepped up its engagement of Israeli targets and launched more missiles and drones into northern Israel.* *The IRGC has officially announced the beginning of the =E2=80=98Nasr=E2=80= =98 military operation against two major Israeli airbases: Tel Nof and Nevatim. This is retaliation for Israel=E2=80=99s strike on radar facilities in Iran. If suc= cessful, these Iranian strikes will do significant damage to two critical air fields and could hamper Israel=E2=80=99s ability to carry out further strikes on I= ran.* *I believe that the Israeli decision to attack Beirut had one objective=E2= =80=A6 force the Iranian hand in launching an attack on Israel in hopes of bringing the US back into the war and sabotaging any chance for Trump to sign a Pakistani peace deal with Iran. So far, the Israelis have failed. Donald Trump is staying on the sidelines for now, which has sparked mass hysteria among the neo-cons and Zionist fanatics.* *Trump appears genuinely sincere in wanting to sign on to the Pakistani deal. It is possible he could do so while letting Israel and Iran fight it out. Alternatively, Trump will come under intense pressure from the Zionist crowd to re-enter the war. It is a fluid situation and I hope to have an update by noon Monday about Pakistan=E2=80=99s view of the situation.* *If Trump stands firm and refuses to re-enter the war to assist Israel, the situation could evolve along the lines of the 12-day war last June=E2=80=A6= i.e., when Israel begged the US to convince Iran to stop bombarding Israel with missiles. Times have changed, however, and I do not think Iran will agree to another orchestrated end to the conflict. Instead, Iran will hold out and demand that Israel withdraw from Lebanon and withdraw from Gaza=E2=80= =A6 otherwise, Iran will continue hitting Israel with missiles until it is forced to surrender. We are in new territory and Iran is in a better position to carry out a war of attrition with Israel.* --000000000000423d050653d04a06 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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Larry C J= ohnson=C2=A0 =C2=A06/8/26
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Nine days after Iran warned = the West, Israel in particular, that any further attacks on Beirut would re= sult in Iran retaliating against Israel, Israel hit the Beirut suburb of Da= hiyeh. The attack on Sunday afternoon sent plumes of smoke rising over the = suburb, with strikes targeting two apartments in two buildings. Israeli Pri= me Minister Benjamin Netanyahu=E2=80=99s office announced the attack in the= Dahiyeh district, saying it was in retaliation for an earlier Hezbollah st= rike on Israel. At least two people were killed and 11 wounded in the strik= e on the densely populated civilian neighborhood, according to Lebanon=E2= =80=99s state-run National News Agency.

Iran, as promis= ed, wasted little time in responding and launched 20 missiles in five waves= at Israel. Donald Trump called Bibi Netanyahu, telling him to hold off in = retaliating against Iran because he anticipated signing a peace deal with I= ran. Trump also reportedly told Netanyahu that if Israel decided to retalia= te the Israelis would not have US support. What did Netanyahu do? He launch= ed a retaliatory strike using 11 missiles against Iran.

As I write this, Iran is responding with a larger missile launch against I= srael and there are visible impacts in Israel despite Israeli claims that t= he IDF intercepted the missiles. Not to be left on the sidelines, the Houth= is joined in by launching a missile at Israel. Media reports blamed the Hou= this for also striking the Prince Saud Airbase in Saudi Arabia, but there i= s no independent confirmation to substantiate that claim. In addition, the = Houthis announced they are closing the Bab al-Mandab Strait, which is certa= in to roil the financial markets. Finally,Hezbollah stepped up its engageme= nt of Israeli targets and launched more missiles and drones into northern I= srael.

The IRGC has offi= cially announced the beginning of the =E2=80=98Nasr=E2=80=98 military operation = against two major Israeli airbases: Tel Nof and Nevatim. This is retaliatio= n for Israel=E2=80=99s strike on radar facilities in Iran. If successful, t= hese Iranian strikes will do significant damage to two critical air fields = and could hamper Israel=E2=80=99s ability to carry out further strikes on I= ran.

<= b>I believe that the Israeli decision to atta= ck Beirut had one objective=E2=80=A6 force the Iranian hand in launching an= attack on Israel in hopes of bringing the US back into the war and sabotag= ing any chance for Trump to sign a Pakistani peace deal with Iran. So far, = the Israelis have failed. Donald Trump is staying on the sidelines for now,= which has sparked mass hysteria among the neo-cons and Zionist fanatics.

Trump appears genuinely sincere in wanting to sign on t= o the Pakistani deal. It is possible he could do so while letting Israel an= d Iran fight it out. Alternatively, Trump will come under intense pressure = from the Zionist crowd to re-enter the war. It is a fluid situation and I h= ope to have an update by noon Monday about Pakistan=E2=80=99s view of the s= ituation.

= If Trump stands firm and refuses to re-enter = the war to assist Israel, the situation could evolve along the lines of the= 12-day war last June=E2=80=A6 i.e., when Israel begged the US to convince = Iran to stop bombarding Israel with missiles. Times have changed, however, = and I do not think Iran will agree to another orchestrated end to the confl= ict. Instead, Iran will hold out and demand that Israel withdraw from Leban= on and withdraw from Gaza=E2=80=A6 otherwise, Iran will continue hitting Is= rael with missiles until it is forced to surrender. We are in new territory= and Iran is in a better position to carry out a war of attrition with Isra= el.


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Larijani is a prominent Iranian Shia cleric, conservative politician, and senior regime figure. He is best known for serving as Chief Justice (Head of the Judiciary) of Iran from 2009 to 2019 and as Chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council since late 2018. His now deceased brother, Ali Larijani, was the Speaker of the Parliament and National Security advisor to the Ayatollah before he was killed by Israel. The Larijanis are clerical and political royalty in Iran.= * *As the current head of Iran=E2=80=99s Expediency Discernment Council, chai= rman Larijani announced that Tehran=E2=80=99s intervention in support of Lebanon constitutes a formal declaration of a new strategic doctrine. Under the terms of this doctrine, attacks on any component of the Resistance Axis (Hezbollah and the Palestinians) will trigger an Iranian response that extends beyond geographical boundaries and reshapes regional equations.* *Larijani explained that Iran has entered a new phase in which it no longer waits for threats to emerge before acting to preserve its regional position, but instead will take the initiative. He also warned that any expansion of the conflict or attack on critical Iranian infrastructure would be met with a comprehensive and deterrent response.* *This introduces a new, dynamic variable into the calculus of the Levant. This marks the first time since the founding of the Islamic Republic in 1979 that Iran has committed itself to taking military action on behalf of Hezbollah and the Lebanese people, and the Palestinians. The conservative Israeli newspaper, Israel Hayom, reported that security officials admitted Israel did not expect Iran to fully follow through on threats, viewing it as a miscalculation. There was noted frustration that Iran dictated terms via the new =E2=80=9Cequation=E2=80=9D and that Israel faced pressure (incl= uding from the U.S./Trump) to limit its response to avoid full war.* *Israel continued its attacks in southern Lebanon on Monday, hitting the city of Tyre and killing more civilians. So far, Iran has not reacted. If Israel continues these attacks we will find out if Mr. Larijani was making an idle threat or if Iran is serious about punishing Israel with a new barrage of missiles for its attacks on the Lebanese civilians.* *Meanwhile, Iran=E2=80=99s UN Ambassador confirmed today that Pakistan is p= laying a central role in trying to broker a peace deal between Iran and the United States. Iran=E2=80=99s UN Ambassador Amir-Saeid Iravani said:* *We have not yet reached the final text, but we are pursuing it.* *The US and Iran are providing and exchanging views and opinions to reach the final text through Pakistan.* *This partially confirms the story that Pepe Escobar and I broke last Monday and conforms with Donald Trump=E2=80=99s recent claim that the US an= d Iran are closing in on an agreement to end the war. This also explains why Israel, according to a recent NY Times report, has intensified its spying on key members of the Trump administration in order to ferret out the details of the proposed agreement. Trump=E2=80=99s former lawyer, Robert Ba= rnes, told the Jim Webb podcast today that US and Iranian negotiators had reached consensus on six separate MOU=E2=80=99s during the = last three months and that Trump has rejected every one at the last minute. 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Iran says it will no long= er wait for threats, declaring new strategic regional defense doctrine, so says Sadeq Larijani. Larijani is a pr= ominent Iranian Shia cleric, conservative politician, and senior regime fig= ure. He is best known for serving as Chief Justice (Head of the Judiciary) = of Iran from 2009 to 2019 and as Chairman of the Expediency Discernment Cou= ncil since late 2018. His now deceased brother, Ali Larijani, was the Speak= er of the Parliament and National Security advisor to the Ayatollah before = he was killed by Israel. The Larijanis are clerical and political royalty i= n Iran.

As the current head of Iran=E2=80=99s= Expediency Discernment Council, chairman Larijani announced that Tehran=E2= =80=99s intervention in support of Lebanon constitutes a formal declaration= of a new strategic doctrine. Under the terms of this doctrine, attacks on = any component of the Resistance Axis (Hezbollah and the Palestinians) will = trigger an Iranian response that extends beyond geographical boundaries and= reshapes regional equations.

Larijani explained tha= t Iran has entered a new phase in which it no longer waits for threats to e= merge before acting to preserve its regional position, but instead will tak= e the initiative. He also warned that any expansion of the conflict or atta= ck on critical Iranian infrastructure would be met with a comprehensive and= deterrent response.

This introduces a new, dynamic = variable into the calculus of the Levant. This marks the first time since t= he founding of the Islamic Republic in 1979 that Iran has committed itself = to taking military action on behalf of Hezbollah and the Lebanese people, a= nd the Palestinians. The conservative Israeli newspaper, Israel Hayom, repo= rted that security officials admitted Israel did not expect Iran to fully f= ollow through on threats, viewing it as a miscalculation. There was noted f= rustration that Iran dictated terms via the new =E2=80=9Cequation=E2=80=9D = and that Israel faced pressure (including from the U.S./Trump) to limit its= response to avoid full war.

Israel continued its at= tacks in southern Lebanon on Monday, hitting the city of Tyre and killing m= ore civilians. So far, Iran has not reacted. If Israel continues these atta= cks we will find out if Mr. Larijani was making an idle threat or if Iran i= s serious about punishing Israel with a new barrage of missiles for its att= acks on the Lebanese civilians.

Meanwhile, Iran=E2= =80=99s UN Ambassador confirmed today that Pakistan is playing a central ro= le in trying to broker a peace deal between Iran and the United States. Ira= n=E2=80=99s UN Ambassador Amir-Saeid Iravani said:

We have not yet reached the final text, but we are purs= uing it.

The US and Iran are providin= g and exchanging views and opinions to reach the final text through Pakista= n.

This = partially confirms the story that Pepe Escobar and I broke last Monday and = conforms with Donald Trump=E2=80=99s recent claim that the US and Iran are = closing in on an agreement to end the war. This also explains why Israel, a= ccording to a recent NY Times report, has intensified its spying on key mem= bers of the Trump administration in order to ferret out the details of the = proposed agreement. Trump=E2=80=99s former lawyer, Robert Barnes, told the<= span>=C2=A0Jim Webb podcast=C2=A0today that US and Irania= n negotiators had reached consensus on six separate MOU=E2=80=99s during th= e last three months and that Trump has rejected every one at the last minut= e. We=E2=80=99ll see if this one makes it over the finish line.<= /p>


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Israeli media, citing unnamed officials, reported that Israel had agreed to halt airstrikes on Iran but would continue military operations in southern Lebanon.* *The region has been on edge since the US and Israel launched airstrikes on Iran in late February, triggering Iranian retaliation on Israel and other regional countries hosting US assets.* *A temporary ceasefire was reached on April 8, but negotiations later stalled amid disputes over its implementation and subsequent regional developments, even as Trump extended the truce indefinitely.* *An agreement to fully end the US-Israeli war on Iran has proven elusive, with Iran insisting that any negotiations to address its nuclear program be subsequent to a full end to the war.* --0000000000001591b20653d098f4 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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Vance says US to pursue Iran nuclear deal regardles= s of Israel's position

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The US will continue to seek an agreement with Iran o= ver its nuclear program regardless of whatever position Israel takes, Vice = President JD Vance said Monday.

"Thanks to what= 9;s happened over the last few months, but really over the last year and a = half, we've created the space necessary where the president believes, a= nd I think that he's right, that we can get the long-term settlement to= Iran's nuclear deal," Vance said during an interview with Fox New= s.

"Now, Israel may like that, they may not like t= hat, but fundamentally, we think this is in the best interest of the United= States of America. So we're going to keep on pursuing it, because that= 's what the president of the United States was elected to do. That'= s what we have to do in order to properly serve the American people," = he added.

= The comments are the latest sign of a potenti= al strain in ties between the US and Israel after President Donald Trump ca= lled on Israel not to retaliate to Iranian missile strikes on Sunday, a dem= and that went ignored.

Tensions escalated on Sunday whe= n Israel bombed the Lebanese capital of Beirut despite an ongoing ceasefire= , prompting Iran to launch missiles toward northern Israel in retaliation.<= /font>

Israel subsequently carried out several waves of airstr= ikes against Iran, while Tehran responded with additional missile launches.=

Iran=E2=80=99s military said early Monday that it was = halting attacks on Israel while warning of a =E2=80=9Ccrushing=E2=80=9D res= ponse if Israeli attacks on Lebanon continued. Israeli media, citing unname= d officials, reported that Israel had agreed to halt airstrikes on Iran but= would continue military operations in southern Lebanon.

A temporary ceas= efire was reached on April 8, but negotiations later stalled amid disputes = over its implementation and subsequent regional developments, even as Trump= extended the truce indefinitely.

An agreement to fully= end the US-Israeli war on Iran has proven elusive, with Iran insisting tha= t any negotiations to address its nuclear program be subsequent to a full e= nd to the war.

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The Lebanese resistance group swiftly rejected the negotiations, calling them "absurd, humiliating and insulting".For over ten weeks, Hezbollah has fought Israel's renewed assault on the south with a leaner war of attrition, leaning on drones and small specialised units to bleed Israeli forces while keeping its own structure intact.Nearly 70 days after Hezbollah entered the Ramadan War, the latest round of fighting that erupted in March 2026, one can cautiously yet clearly say that today's Hezbollah differs significantly from the force that fought in 2024, at least in its military organisation, battlefield readiness and operational flexibility.That assessment rests on the course of the fighting and the performance of the movement in the current war, on a comparison with the War of Support (Harb al-Isnad) of 2023 and the 66-day war of 2024, and on direct field observation and conversations with political actors, commanders and resistance fighters within Hezbollah.This difference is not limited to equipment, weaponry or combat tactics. It points to a deeper reconsideration of command mechanisms, combat doctrine and force deployment, and even of the very definitions of victory and defeat in war.What is unfolding in southern Lebanon today resembles a gradual process of reconstructionand organisational adaptation after a costly and exhausting 30-month experience, from 8 October 2023 to 2 March 2026.Yet, as Lebanon's leaders sign on to a deal that would disarm the resistance while demanding nothing of the occupier, its survival may turn less on the battlefield than on the internal politics and fragility of Lebanon itself.A rebuilt forcePerhaps the most important transformation lies in command and control.During the 66-day war, one of Hezbollah's principal weaknesses was the vulnerability of its communications chain and the difficulty of coordinating between command headquarters and field units.At certain stages, this led to disruptions in decision-making, delayed responses and the attrition of combat capability.In the recent war, however, operations have continued across multiple fronts simultaneously, unit performance has held without prolonged interruption, and the connection between the battlefield and headquarters has been sustained.This indicates that Hezbollah has, to a large extent, successfully restructured its communications and command mechanisms.Even under severe pressure and heavy attacks, such as the attacks of 8 April 2026, the military organisation did not collapse, and the command chain managed to preserve its cohesion.One important sign of this transformation is effective fire control, the orderly rotation of forces, the delivery of weapons to frontline positions, and even the offline collection and continuous publication of battlefield footage from units in action.Unlike the previous period, when troop movements were sometimes disrupted under wartime pressure, these processes now appear to follow prearranged schedules and predefined patterns.In the new model, the primary objective is not to saturate the battlefield with manpower, but to preserve instead a certain level of combat effectiveness and prevent the attrition of operational forces.One key factor behind this transformation appears to be the new Hezbollah leadership's policy of greater centralisation in military command: reducing multilayered decision-making, empowering younger and more motivated commanders, and monitoring them closely and holding them accountable for their missions.Moreover, there are several indications that Hezbollah, having learned from the experiences of the War of Support and the 66-day war, has fundamentally transformed the structure of its military organisation.Previously, each commander held a degree of authority and discretion. That arrangement had its advantages, but it also slowed decisions when speed mattered most. The movement has now concentrated authority under a unified command, which can accelerate critical decisions and protect command cohesion.At the same time, and seemingly in tension with this, Hezbollah has reduced the dependence of field units on central headquarters and granted mid-level commanders greater operational authority, allowing them to make decisions according to battlefield conditions.This is not merely a tactical adjustment; rather, it reflects a new understanding of contemporary warfare.Quality over quantityIn a prolonged war of attrition against an enemy that dominates the air and constantly targets forces and infrastructure, the more successful organisation is the one that can preserve its combat effectiveness and sustain fire even if central command is disrupted.Hezbollah today appears to be moving towards a model in which flexibility, survivability and continuity of operations take precedence over absolute centralisation - a design in which mission takes priority over structure. This has enabled some field units to keep operating and maintain fire under intense pressure, without waiting for direct orders, acting instead within predefined frameworks.One of Hezbollah's most important lessons from the previous war has been a reassessment of how it uses manpower and weaponry. The resistance appears to have concluded that a model based on accumulating forces, maintaining an extensive battlefield presence and massing firepower against Israel is not only ineffective, but can also be ruinously costly in lives.Accordingly, the movement is now prioritising quality - limited but specialised forces equipped with precise and effective weaponry - over quantity. In this logic, idad, or preparedness, matters more than tadad, or numbers.Quality, skill, endurance and operational effectiveness have gained the upper hand over sheer numerical strength and the flooding of the battlefield with units.This is precisely why the main burden of the current war rests on drone units, missile forces, anti-armour units and the emerging first-person view (FPV) drone units.Unlike the previous period, Hezbollah no longer favours the large-scale deployment of manpower in combat zones. It prefers to keep most of its forces - especially infantry and non-specialised units - in reserve, both to limit its own casualties and to strike more effectively deep into enemy territory.A war of attritionIts most far-reaching change, though, may be in combat doctrine.In the 2024 war, the central principle was to defend territory and block any enemy advance at almost any cost, even at the price of heavy casualties. Today, the signs suggest Hezbollah has shifted towards a different logic of imposing continuous costs on the enemy by every possible means.This approach, centred on gradual attrition and mounting enemy casualties, reflects a redefinition of victory and defeat on the battlefield. Preventing the enemy from consolidating its position now matters more than preventing the temporary occupation of territory.From Hezbollah's current perspective, then, losing part of the territory may no longer necessarily signify defeat and humiliation. What matters more is that the enemy cannot consolidate its presence and remains exposed to continuous attrition.By this logic, even the complete fall of the area south of the Litani would not necessarily amount to a definitive strategic defeat.Such an outcome would undoubtedly be painful and costly for Hezbollah, psychologically and politically. But, much as in the 1980s and 1990s, it could at the same time increase the social legitimacy of anti-occupation resistance, reduce domestic pressure on the movement, and create the conditions for a prolonged and costly war of attrition against Israel, built around an FPV-drone model.In such a doctrine, FPV drones would play the role once held by the martyrdom operations of the 1980s and 1990s.Alongside these structural changes, the war has brought a marked and tangible recovery in the morale of both field forces and the resistance's social base.Between the 66-day war and the current conflict, Hezbollah's fighters and its support base in Lebanon faced a series of psychological and reputational pressures: a sense of failure in the War of Support, the heavy losses of the 66-day war, the killing of hundreds of Hezbollah members during the 15-month ceasefire, and the anger and disillusionment that followed the assassination of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.Yet these same factors appear to have become sources of motivation for Hezbollah's base and cadres, and a source of pressure from below on the command to re-enter the war with Israel.In parallel, the visible results of the reconstruction of the military organisation on the battlefield - not least through the FPV-drone footage Hezbollah has published - have helped restore self-confidence and lift the morale and resilience of both its social base and its structure.Despite all these gains, the main threat Hezbollah faces today is not necessarily the battlefield itself, but rather Lebanon's fragile domestic situation.The refugee crisis and its economic and social consequences, together with efforts by certain domestic actors - including the current Lebanese government - to inflame political and sectarian tensions, could undermine the Hezbollah's battlefield performance and its ability to sustain a successful war of attrition.So while the signs of Hezbollah's adaptation and reconstruction on the battlefield are clear, the durability of this situation will ultimately depend on the dynamics of Lebanon's internal environment - an environment that may, in the end, prove more decisive than the warfront itself.The views expressed in this article belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Middle East Eye.* --000000000000045fcc0653d0af27 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/how-hezbollah-rebuilt-itself-war-att= rition-israel

How Hezbollah rebuilt itself for a war of att= rition with Israel

H= adi Masoumi Zare=C2=A0 =C2=A0 6/8/26

= Last week, the Israeli and Lebanese governments announced a US-mediated agr= eement in Washington to renew their "ceasefire" and pursue a &quo= t;comprehensive" settlement.

Despite the ongoing Israeli bombin= g and military incursion into south Lebanon, the terms require only Hezboll= ah to halt its attacks. The Lebanese resistance group swiftly rejected the = negotiations, calling them "absurd, humiliating and insulting".
For over ten weeks, Hezbollah has fought Israel's renewed assault= on the south with a leaner war of attrition, leaning on drones and small s= pecialised units to bleed Israeli forces while keeping its own structure in= tact.

Nearly 70 days after Hezbollah entered the Ramadan War, the la= test round of fighting that erupted in March 2026, one can cautiously yet c= learly say that today's Hezbollah differs significantly from the force = that fought in 2024, at least in its military organisation, battlefield rea= diness and operational flexibility.

That assessment rests on the cou= rse of the fighting and the performance of the movement in the current war,= on a comparison with the War of Support (Harb al-Isnad) of 2023 and the 66= -day war of 2024, and on direct field observation and conversations with po= litical actors, commanders and resistance fighters within Hezbollah.
This difference is not limited to equipment, weaponry or combat tactics. I= t points to a deeper reconsideration of command mechanisms, combat doctrine= and force deployment, and even of the very definitions of victory and defe= at in war.

What is unfolding in southern Lebanon today resembles a g= radual process of reconstructionand organisational adaptation after a costl= y and exhausting 30-month experience, from 8 October 2023 to 2 March 2026.<= br>
Yet, as Lebanon's leaders sign on to a deal that would disarm th= e resistance while demanding nothing of the occupier, its survival may turn= less on the battlefield than on the internal politics and fragility of Leb= anon itself.

A rebuilt force

Perhaps the most important trans= formation lies in command and control.

During the 66-day war, one of= Hezbollah's principal weaknesses was the vulnerability of its communic= ations chain and the difficulty of coordinating between command headquarter= s and field units.

At certain stages, this led to disruptions in dec= ision-making, delayed responses and the attrition of combat capability.
=
In the recent war, however, operations have continued across multiple f= ronts simultaneously, unit performance has held without prolonged interrupt= ion, and the connection between the battlefield and headquarters has been s= ustained.

This indicates that Hezbollah has, to a large extent, succ= essfully restructured its communications and command mechanisms.

Eve= n under severe pressure and heavy attacks, such as the attacks of 8 April 2= 026, the military organisation did not collapse, and the command chain mana= ged to preserve its cohesion.

One important sign of this transformat= ion is effective fire control, the orderly rotation of forces, the delivery= of weapons to frontline positions, and even the offline collection and con= tinuous publication of battlefield footage from units in action.

Unl= ike the previous period, when troop movements were sometimes disrupted unde= r wartime pressure, these processes now appear to follow prearranged schedu= les and predefined patterns.

In the new model, the primary objective= is not to saturate the battlefield with manpower, but to preserve instead = a certain level of combat effectiveness and prevent the attrition of operat= ional forces.

One key factor behind this transformation appears to b= e the new Hezbollah leadership's policy of greater centralisation in mi= litary command: reducing multilayered decision-making, empowering younger a= nd more motivated commanders, and monitoring them closely and holding them = accountable for their missions.

Moreover, there are several indicati= ons that Hezbollah, having learned from the experiences of the War of Suppo= rt and the 66-day war, has fundamentally transformed the structure of its m= ilitary organisation.

Previously, each commander held a degree of au= thority and discretion. That arrangement had its advantages, but it also sl= owed decisions when speed mattered most. The movement has now concentrated = authority under a unified command, which can accelerate critical decisions = and protect command cohesion.

At the same time, and seemingly in ten= sion with this, Hezbollah has reduced the dependence of field units on cent= ral headquarters and granted mid-level commanders greater operational autho= rity, allowing them to make decisions according to battlefield conditions.<= br>
This is not merely a tactical adjustment; rather, it reflects a new = understanding of contemporary warfare.

Quality over quantity

= In a prolonged war of attrition against an enemy that dominates the air and= constantly targets forces and infrastructure, the more successful organisa= tion is the one that can preserve its combat effectiveness and sustain fire= even if central command is disrupted.

Hezbollah today appears to be= moving towards a model in which flexibility, survivability and continuity = of operations take precedence over absolute centralisation - a design in wh= ich mission takes priority over structure. This has enabled some field unit= s to keep operating and maintain fire under intense pressure, without waiti= ng for direct orders, acting instead within predefined frameworks.

O= ne of Hezbollah's most important lessons from the previous war has been= a reassessment of how it uses manpower and weaponry. The resistance appear= s to have concluded that a model based on accumulating forces, maintaining = an extensive battlefield presence and massing firepower against Israel is n= ot only ineffective, but can also be ruinously costly in lives.

Acco= rdingly, the movement is now prioritising quality - limited but specialised= forces equipped with precise and effective weaponry - over quantity. In th= is logic, idad, or preparedness, matters more than tadad, or numbers.
Quality, skill, endurance and operational effectiveness have gained the u= pper hand over sheer numerical strength and the flooding of the battlefield= with units.

This is precisely why the main burden of the current wa= r rests on drone units, missile forces, anti-armour units and the emerging = first-person view (FPV) drone units.

Unlike the previous period, Hez= bollah no longer favours the large-scale deployment of manpower in combat z= ones. It prefers to keep most of its forces - especially infantry and non-s= pecialised units - in reserve, both to limit its own casualties and to stri= ke more effectively deep into enemy territory.

A war of attrition
Its most far-reaching change, though, may be in combat doctrine.
In the 2024 war, the central principle was to defend territory and block = any enemy advance at almost any cost, even at the price of heavy casualties= . Today, the signs suggest Hezbollah has shifted towards a different logic = of imposing continuous costs on the enemy by every possible means.

T= his approach, centred on gradual attrition and mounting enemy casualties, r= eflects a redefinition of victory and defeat on the battlefield. Preventing= the enemy from consolidating its position now matters more than preventing= the temporary occupation of territory.

From Hezbollah's current= perspective, then, losing part of the territory may no longer necessarily = signify defeat and humiliation. What matters more is that the enemy cannot = consolidate its presence and remains exposed to continuous attrition.
By this logic, even the complete fall of the area south of the Litani wou= ld not necessarily amount to a definitive strategic defeat.

Such an = outcome would undoubtedly be painful and costly for Hezbollah, psychologica= lly and politically. But, much as in the 1980s and 1990s, it could at the s= ame time increase the social legitimacy of anti-occupation resistance, redu= ce domestic pressure on the movement, and create the conditions for a prolo= nged and costly war of attrition against Israel, built around an FPV-drone = model.

In such a doctrine, FPV drones would play the role once held = by the martyrdom operations of the 1980s and 1990s.

Alongside these = structural changes, the war has brought a marked and tangible recovery in t= he morale of both field forces and the resistance's social base.
Between the 66-day war and the current conflict, Hezbollah's fighters = and its support base in Lebanon faced a series of psychological and reputat= ional pressures: a sense of failure in the War of Support, the heavy losses= of the 66-day war, the killing of hundreds of Hezbollah members during the= 15-month ceasefire, and the anger and disillusionment that followed the as= sassination of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Ye= t these same factors =C2=A0appear to have become sources of motivation for = Hezbollah's base and cadres, and a source of pressure from below on the= command to re-enter the war with Israel.

In parallel, the visible r= esults of the reconstruction of the military organisation on the battlefiel= d - not least through the FPV-drone footage Hezbollah has published - have = helped restore self-confidence and lift the morale and resilience of both i= ts social base and its structure.

Despite all these gains, the main = threat Hezbollah faces today is not necessarily the battlefield itself, but= rather Lebanon's fragile domestic situation.

The refugee crisis= and its economic and social consequences, together with efforts by certain= domestic actors - including the current Lebanese government - to inflame p= olitical and sectarian tensions, could undermine the Hezbollah's battle= field performance and its ability to sustain a successful war of attrition.=

So while the signs of Hezbollah's adaptation and reconstruction= on the battlefield are clear, the durability of this situation will ultima= tely depend on the dynamics of Lebanon's internal environment - an envi= ronment that may, in the end, prove more decisive than the warfront itself.=

The views expressed in this article belong to the author and do not= necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Middle East Eye.
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Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:49:49 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: From: Chas Freeman Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 07:49:33 -0400 X-Gm-Features: AVVi8CdtCxogUv6ZzsuNxgknM1mGi2cuwvrq35i01TEyasnJPvCo7oAdSJcrH38 Message-ID: To: "salon@listserve.com" Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="000000000000668e920653d0b9d2" Subject: [Salon] Israeli media slams Netanyahu over attack on Beirut Southern Suburb X-BeenThere: salon@listserve.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion List for the Committee For The Republic List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:49:51 -0000 --000000000000668e920653d0b9d2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable *https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-media-slams-netanyahu= -over-attack-on-beirut-southern * *6/8/26* Israeli media slams Netanyahu over attack on Beirut Southern Suburb *The decision to renew attacks on Beirut's Southern Suburb amounts to a reckless gamble that puts the entire region at risk while delivering no strategic gain or rational calculation , Israeli media reported in a scathing criticism of Benjamin Netanyahu's policy.* *In an article published by the Israeli newspaper Maariv, journalist Dan Perry questioned the utility of attacking the southern suburb at a time when "Israel", he argued, needs coordination with Washington to confront Iran more than ever.* *Perry noted that the latest assault contributed nothing and only provoked a direct response: Iranian ballistic missile strikes on northern "Israel", along with a tangible threat of wider regional escalation, all while the US president publicly states his desire to bring the current episode to an end.* *The article further stated that =E2=80=9Cany harm to Lebanese civilians or infrastructure without clear justification linked to Hezbollah only strengthens the Resistance's narrative and helps it present itself again as the defender of the state against Israeli aggression.=E2=80=9D The journalist added that =E2=80=9Cthe leadership in Jerusalem completely ignor= es this equation and fails to think two steps ahead, especially given that the current central arena is Iran, not Lebanon.=E2=80=9D* Israeli political independence is a complete illusion *Maariv emphasized that talk of Israeli =E2=80=9Cindependence=E2=80=9D is a= complete illusion . Without the US air bridge, munitions, the veto at the United Nations, and diplomatic protection before European and international institutions, "Israel" cannot manage a major war for more than a few weeks before running out of ammunition and facing sanctions.* *Perry wrote that =E2=80=9CIsrael has maneuvered itself into a corner where= it is now required to contain even Iranian strikes and respond to de-escalation efforts because it cannot sustain a wide-scale war without American backing.=E2=80=9D* *The article linked the US stance to domestic pressures on President Trump including a boiling angry public, rising energy prices, and looming midterm elections. It added that Trump understands a prolonged regional war could turn him into a =E2=80=9Clame duck=E2=80=9D and cause Republicans to lose control of Congress, opening the door to investigations and potential impeachment attempts.* *=E2=80=9CWashington is therefore looking for a non-humiliating exit and wants de-escalation, making Israeli insistence on igniting the southern suburb a step that invites direct confrontation and intense, embarrassing American pressure on Israel,=E2=80=9D the article continued.* Trump and Netanyahu's political paths diverge *On the domestic political front for 2026, Perry pointed to diverging paths for Trump and Netanyahu . While Trump needs stability, Netanyahu needs to change the political landscape due to his sharp deficit in opinion polls, vast gaps in the surveys, and indicators pointing toward electoral defeat.* *The report concluded by noting that a significant portion of the Israeli public does not rule out the possibility that the government is deliberately raising the flames and creating a new state of emergency in order to delay elections, indifferent to Israelis returning to shelters, the shutdown of schools and air travel, and the waste of billions.* *Perry described such thinking, allowing =E2=80=9Cforeign and personal considerations=E2=80=9D to enter war calculations, as a shameful deteriorat= ion that "Israel" has never witnessed under any of its previous historical leaders.* --000000000000668e920653d0b9d2 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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6/= 8/26

Israeli media slams Netanyahu over at= tack on Beirut Southern Suburb

The decision = to renew attacks on Beirut's Southern Suburb amounts to a reckless gamb= le that puts the entire region at risk while=C2=A0delivering no strategic gain or ration= al calculation, Israeli media reported in a scathing criticism of Benja= min Netanyahu's policy.

In an article= published by the Israeli newspaper=C2=A0Maariv, journalist Dan Perry questioned the utility of attacki= ng the southern suburb at a time when "Israel", he argued,= =C2=A0needs coordination w= ith Washington to confront Iran=C2=A0more than ever.

Perry noted that the=C2=A0latest assault contributed nothing= =C2=A0and only provoked a direct response: Iranian ballistic m= issile strikes on northern "Israel", along with a tangible threat= of wider regional escalation, all while the US president publicly states h= is desire to bring the current episode to an end.

The article further stated that =E2=80=9Cany harm to Lebanese civi= lians or infrastructure without clear justification linked to Hezbollah onl= y=C2=A0strengt= hens the Resistance's narrative and helps it present=C2=A0itself again as the defender of the state against Israeli aggression.= =E2=80=9D The journalist added that =E2=80=9Cthe leadership in Jerusalem co= mpletely ignores this equation and fails to think two steps ahead, especial= ly given that the current central arena is Iran, not Lebanon.=E2=80=9D

Israeli political independence is a = complete illusion

Maariv=C2=A0emphasized that talk of=C2=A0= Israeli =E2=80=9Cindependen= ce=E2=80=9D is a complete illusion. Without the US air bridge, munition= s, the veto at the United Nations, and diplomatic protection before Europea= n and international institutions, "Israel" cannot manage a major = war for more than a few weeks before running out of ammunition and facing s= anctions.

Perry wrote that =E2=80=9CIsrae= l has maneuvered itself into a corner where it is now required to contain e= ven Iranian strikes and respond to de-escalation efforts because it cannot = sustain a wide-scale war without American backing.=E2=80=9D

<= p style=3D"max-width:100%;font-family:"Times New Roman"">The article linked the US stance to domestic pressures o= n President Trump including a boiling angry public, rising energy prices, a= nd looming midterm elections. It added that Trump understands a prolonged r= egional war=C2=A0could turn him into a =E2=80=9Clame duck=E2=80=9D=C2=A0and cause Republicans to lose control of Congress, opening the door to inv= estigations and potential impeachment attempts.

=E2=80=9CWashington is therefore=C2=A0looking for a non-humiliating exit=C2=A0and wants de-escalation, making Israeli insistence on ignitin= g the southern suburb a step that invites direct confrontation and intense,= embarrassing American pressure on Israel,=E2=80=9D the article continued.<= /font>

Trump and Netanyahu's politi= cal paths diverge

On the domestic political = front for 2026, Perry pointed to=C2=A0diverging paths for Trump and Netanyahu. While= Trump needs stability, Netanyahu needs to change the political landscape d= ue to his sharp deficit in opinion polls, vast gaps in the surveys, and ind= icators pointing toward electoral defeat.

The report concluded by noting that a significant portion of the Israeli p= ublic does not rule out the possibility that the government is deliberately= raising the flames and creating a new state of emergency in order to delay= elections, indifferent to Israelis returning to shelters, the shutdown of = schools and air travel, and the waste of billions.

Perry described such thinking, allowing =E2=80=9Cforeign and p= ersonal considerations=E2=80=9D to enter war calculations, as a shameful de= terioration that "Israel" has never witnessed under any of its pr= evious historical leaders.

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X-BeenThere: salon@listserve.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion List for the Committee For The Republic List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:51:53 -0000 --000000000000adff350653d0c043 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable https://x.com/RepMikeLevin/status/2063967518234948041 Trump is trying to turn every federal grant into a political loyalty test. Before any grant for things like medical research, housing, public health, and more gets approved, a political appointee would have to sign off that it serves Trump=E2=80=99s personal agenda. If they don=E2=80=99t like what = you=E2=80=99re working on, the funding disappears. The Founding Fathers gave Congress the power of the purse precisely so no president could ever do what Donald Trump is trying to do right now. It is the most fundamental check in our entire system of government, and Republicans are forfeiting it without a fight. Where on earth are my Republican colleagues on the Appropriations Committee? You and I spent the last year fighting for every single dollar of this funding. Every. Single. Dollar. And you are letting this president TRAMPLE all over Congress and your own job. --000000000000adff350653d0c043 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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Trump is trying to turn every federal grant into a political loyalty test. =

Before any grant for things like medical research, housing, public health, = and more gets approved, a political appointee would have to sign off that i= t serves Trump=E2=80=99s personal agenda. If they don=E2=80=99t like what y= ou=E2=80=99re working on, the funding disappears.

The Founding Fathers gave Congress the power of the purse precisely so no p= resident could ever do what Donald Trump is trying to do right now. It is t= he most fundamental check in our entire system of government, and Republica= ns are forfeiting it without a fight.

Where on earth are my Republican colleagues on the Appropriations Committee= ? You and I spent the last year fighting for every single dollar of this fu= nding. Every. Single. Dollar. And you are letting this president TRAMPLE al= l over Congress and your own job.
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(6/9/26) X-BeenThere: salon@listserve.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion List for the Committee For The Republic List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:54:25 -0000 --000000000000bc761e0653d0c9ab Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable *https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026-06-08/ty-article-opinion/.premium/a-t= en-year-old-palestinian-child-was-arrested-breaking-even-idf-practices/0000= 019e-a7af-db2a-a59f-e7aff7b90000 * 6/8/26 *A 10-year-old Palestinian Child Was Arrested, Breaking Even IDF Practices* [image: Illustration: Eran Wolkovski] *Illustration: Eran Wolkovski* *"What did you do in the army today, sweetie?""I arrested a 10-year-old, mom.""Where?" "In Hizma, northeast of Jerusalem."* *Last Thursday evening, a couple and their 10-year-old son visited the son's grandfather, who lives elsewhere in the village. The child went down to buy something at the grocery store. It was around 11: Late, it's true, but between Thursday and Friday people spend time with family until late. After all, the next day is a day off work.* *Then, while the child was still downstairs, neighbors came and told his father that an officer was looking for him. It turned out that an armed military force in two jeeps had just been raiding the village, as they do daily.* *"Your son threw a stone at me," the officer claimed. How? the father, 46, protested. "He's 10-years-old. He just went to buy something at the convenience store. And look, he's just standing by the store door, crying."= * *The officer decided to arrest both of them. The soldiers put the child in the jeep. They handcuffed the father's hands behind his back and blindfolded him. A video from a nearby camera showed him being put in to the army jeep as cars drove by.* *After the two didn't return for hours, their terrified family tried to locate them. The Israel Police said they didn't have them. Horrific scenarios flashed through the minds of every family member. Every one of them had heard first-person testimonies describing soldiers =E2=80=93 both = regular conscripts and Home Front Command (namely, settlers) =E2=80=93 beating Pale= stinians for pleasure.* *On Friday, a bit before 7 A.M. and after a sleepless night, one of the family members, who is a friend of mine, called me. "We want to know where they are, and we're also looking for a lawyer to get the child released," he said. I made a quick inquiry, and a security official told me that the two were in army custody, and that the military was still figuring out their exact location.* *The journalist in me reminded the security official that the child was 10 years old, and that this arrest was illegal. As described in a 2015 publication by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, "The age of criminal responsibility in the [West Bank] territories is 12. That means it is forbidden to arrest or detain minors under the age of 12." * *However, the army insists that it's allowed to detain such children for up to three hours, and up to six with a lieutenant colonel's approval. This was the IDF Spokesperson's Unit's response to ACRI, in response to a freedom of information request sent at the end of 2014.* *However, by 8 A.M. on Friday, the three hours for arresting a child under 12 permitted by the army's own policy had long passed, even with a special 3-hour extension. Even according to the army's permissive declared practices, the max time for arrest is over =E2=80=93 the entity that was st= ill holding the child was doing so without any authority.* *"The army is looking for them," I told my friend. He responded, "If they're in the army's custody, it must be in one of the two military bases in the area =E2=80=93 Anata Base and al-Ram base." I reported this to the s= ecurity official, who promised to check. At 9:57, my friend called, saying that the father had just called to let them know they'd been released from Anata Base and were on their way back to Hizma. And as if answering a question I was afraid to ask, my friend let me know: They weren't beaten.* *They weren't beaten, but according to the father's testimony to Haaretz, this is how they were treated.* *When they arrived at the camp and were taken out of the jeep, according to what the father understood, a female soldier asked someone in Hebrew if it was allowed to handcuff a 10-year-old child and cover his eyes. She received positive confirmation, and that's what the soldiers did: They also handcuffed the 10-year-old child and wrapped a plastic bag around his eyes.= * *Both were made to sit outside, on the asphalt. They were cold. The child cried, asking his father, "When will they let us go?" Time dragged on. They couldn't fall asleep, of course. The father begged for them to be allowed to go to the bathroom. The child couldn't hold it any longer, and wet his pants. The father continued to shout that he needed to use the bathroom. A female soldier guarding them shouted "Shut up! Shut up!" in Arabic. Finally, a soldier came and took the father behind a trailer in the base, took his handcuffs off, and warned him not to move from there, or he would shoot him. Afterwards, the father was cuffed again, and the handcuffs were tightened. He said it hurt, and the soldier replied "shut up" in Arabic.* *Time continued to drag on. Someone came and shined a flashlight on them, and then took a photo of them. They were given water. Time crawled further, while they remained awake. The sun rose, the handcuffs hurt more and more. A jeep arrived around 7:30, and the two soldiers that came out of it told him that they were being released. But, as the father understood it, the female soldier told them that the order for their release hadn't arrived yet. Time continued to drag on. The sun's heat started to be unpleasant. Finally, they were released at 9:30, without any interrogation, questioning or summons.* *The IDF Spokesperson's Unit responded to me as follows: "On Thursday, during operational activity in the village of Hizma IDF forces identified a suspect and a Palestinian minor who appeared to have intended to throw stones at a road. The suspect and minor were detained for several hours for questioning, and were released immediately after the questioning."* *So many lies in a single short answer.* --000000000000bc761e0653d0c9ab Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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A 10-year-= old Palestinian Child Was Arrested, Breaking Even IDF Practices<= /h1>
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Illustration: Eran= Wolkovski

"Wha= t did you do in the army today, sweetie?"
"I arrested a 10-year-old, mom."= ;
"Where= ?"=C2=A0
"In Hizma, northeast of Jerusalem."

Last Thursday evening, a couple and their 10-year-old son visi= ted the son's grandfather, who lives elsewhere in the village. The chil= d went down to buy something at the grocery store. It was around 11: Late, = it's true,=C2=A0but between Thursday and Friday people spend ti= me with family until late. After all, the next day is a day off work.

Then, while the child was still downstairs, neighbors cam= e and told his father that an officer was looking for him. It turned out th= at an armed military force in two jeeps had just been raiding the village, = as they do daily.

"Your son threw a stone at me= ," the officer claimed. How? the father, 46, protested. "He's= 10-years-old. He just went to buy something at the convenience store. And = look, he's just standing by the store door, crying."

The officer decided to arrest both of them. The soldi= ers put the child in the jeep. They handcuffed the father's hands behin= d his back and blindfolded him. A video from a nearby camera showed him bei= ng put in to the army jeep as cars drove by.

After the two didn't return for hours, their terrified family t= ried to locate them. The Israel Police said they didn't have them. Horr= ific scenarios flashed through the minds of every family member. Every one = of them had heard first-person testimonies describing soldiers =E2=80=93 bo= th regular conscripts and Home Front Command (namely, settlers) =E2=80=93 b= eating Palestinians for pleasure.

On Friday, a bit b= efore 7 A.M. and after a sleepless night, one of the family members, who is= a friend of mine, called me. "We want to know where they are, and we&= #39;re also looking for a lawyer to get the child released," he said. = I made a quick inquiry, and a security official told me that the two were i= n army custody, and that the military was still figuring out their exact lo= cation.

The journalist in me reminded the security o= fficial that the child was 10 years old, and that this arrest was illegal. = As described in a 2015 publication by the Association for Civil Rights in I= srael, "The age of=C2=A0criminal responsibility=C2=A0in the [West= Bank] territories is 12. That means it is forbidden to arrest or detain mi= nors under the age of 12."=C2=A0

H= owever, the army insists that it's allowed to detain such children for = up to three hours, and up to six with a lieutenant colonel's approval. = This was the IDF Spokesperson's Unit's response to ACRI, in respons= e to a freedom of information request sent at the end of 2014.

However, by 8 A.M. on Friday, the three hours for arresting a ch= ild under 12 permitted by the army's own policy had long passed, even w= ith a special 3-hour extension. Even according to the army's permissive= declared practices, the max time for arrest is over =E2=80=93 the entity t= hat was still holding the child was doing so without any authority.

=

"The army is looking for them," I told my friend.= He responded, "If they're in the army's custody, it must be i= n one of the two military bases in the area =E2=80=93 Anata Base and al-Ram= base." I reported this to the security official, who promised to chec= k. At 9:57, my friend called, saying that the father had just called to let= them know they'd been released from Anata Base and were=C2=A0on their way back to = Hizma.=C2=A0And as if answering a question I was afraid to= ask, my friend let me know: They weren't beaten.

<= b>They weren't beaten, but according to the father's testimony to H= aaretz, this is how they were treated.

When they arr= ived at the camp and were taken out of the jeep, according to what the fath= er understood, a female soldier asked someone in Hebrew if it was allowed t= o handcuff a 10-year-old child and cover his eyes. She received positive co= nfirmation, and that's what the soldiers did: They also handcuffed the = 10-year-old child and wrapped a plastic bag around his eyes.

Both were made to sit outside, on the asphalt. They were cold. The= child cried, asking his father, "When will they let us go?" Time= dragged on. They couldn't fall asleep, of course. The father begged fo= r them to be allowed to go to the bathroom. The child couldn't hold it = any longer, and wet his pants. The father continued to shout that he needed= to use the bathroom. A female soldier guarding them shouted "Shut up!= Shut up!" in Arabic. Finally, a soldier came and took the father behi= nd a trailer in the base, took his handcuffs off, and warned him not to mov= e from there, or he would shoot him. Afterwards, the father was cuffed agai= n, and the handcuffs were tightened. He said it hurt, and the soldier repli= ed "shut up" in Arabic.

Time continued to = drag on. Someone came and shined a flashlight on them, and then took a phot= o of them. They were given water. Time crawled further, while they remained= awake. The sun rose, the handcuffs hurt more and more. A jeep arrived arou= nd 7:30, and the two soldiers that came out of it told him that they were b= eing released. But, as the father understood it, the female soldier told th= em that the order for their release hadn't arrived yet. Time continued = to drag on. The sun's heat started to be unpleasant. Finally, they were= released at 9:30, without any interrogation, questioning or summons.

The IDF Spokesperson's Unit responded to me as follow= s: "On Thursday, during operational activity in the village of Hizma I= DF forces identified a suspect and a Palestinian minor who appeared to have= intended to throw stones at a road. The suspect and minor were detained fo= r several hours for questioning, and were released immediately after the qu= estioning."

So many lies in a single short answ= er.

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(6/8/26) X-BeenThere: salon@listserve.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion List for the Committee For The Republic List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:56:54 -0000 --000000000000a06a200653d0d226 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable *https://thecradle.co/articles/over-one-third-of-labour-mps-call-on-london-= to-ban-trade-with-illegal-west-bank-settlements * *Over one third of Labour MPs call on London to ban trade with illegal West Bank settlements*The British lawmakers decried explicit Israeli threats to depopulate a Palestinian Bedouin village to expand the E1 settlement bloc *News Desk 6/8/26* *One third of lawmakers from the UK's ruling Labour Party on 8 June called on the government to ban all trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian West Bank, citing a surge in Jewish settler violence and threats to depopulate a Palestinian Bedouin village.* *Nearly 140 MPs from Labour sent a letter to Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper requesting her to "take urgent, concrete action to counter the escalation of violations against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem."* *The MPs urged Cooper to ban products from Israeli settlements, which are built on Palestinian land and illegal under international law.* *"The case for ending trade with settlements is clear. The international court of justice has directed third states not to enter into 'trade dealings with Israel concerning the occupied Palestinian territory', which is widely interpreted as meaning states must not trade with settlements," the letter stated.* *MPs also cited the threat issued by Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich last month to approve an order to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar.* *The village lies near the E1 settlement bloc, which Israel is expanding to cut the West Bank in half and prevent the future establishment of a Palestinian state on contiguous territory.* *Smotrich issued the threat after reports emerged that prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) had requested that judges issue an arrest warrant against him.* *"Khan al-Ahmar has been embroiled in a grueling struggle against erasure, displacement, and state-backed settler violence as part of Israel's E1 plan," the MPs wrote.* *Forcibly driving out Khan al-Ahmar's residents would constitute a war crime, the lawmakers added.* *MP Melanie Ward, who previously worked as the chief executive of Medical Aid for Palestinians, led the initiative to prepare the letter and send it to the Foreign Secretary.* *MP Wes Streeting also signed the letter. He has previously accused Israel of committing war crimes in Gaza, describing Israel as a =E2=80=9Crogue sta= te.=E2=80=9D* *"Settlement expansion is illegal, it is an injustice inflicted on the Palestinians, it undermines two states and doesn't make Israel any safer," Streeting wrote on X on Sunday.* *Streeting plans to challenge Prime Minister Keir Starmer for the leadership of the Labour Party.* *Earlier this year, the UK government announced that it would take steps to counter settlement expansion, forcible displacement, and annexation in the West Bank.* *The MPs' letter noted, however, that "the situation has worsened considerably" since that time, and the "government has taken no further action. This is unacceptable."* *On 3 June, Smotrich announced a new and major illegal settlement project in the occupied West Bank, which aims to see the construction of around 2,000 houses on Palestinian land. * *Israel conquered and occupied the West Bank during the Six-Day War in 1967. Since that time, it has built settlements to house hundreds of thousands of Israelis, in a bid to colonize and Judaize the Palestinian territory.* *Since Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government took office in late 2022, Smotrich and other Israeli ministers have accelerated plans for the de facto annexation of the occupied West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem. = * --000000000000a06a200653d0d226 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
https://thecradle.co/articles/over-one-third-of-labour-= mps-call-on-london-to-ban-trade-with-illegal-west-bank-settlements

Over one thi= rd of Labour MPs call on London to ban trade with illegal West Bank settlem= ents

The British lawmaker= s decried explicit Israeli threats to depopulate a Palestinian Bedouin vill= age to expand the E1 settlement bloc

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One third of lawmakers from the= UK's ruling Labour Party on 8 June=C2=A0called=C2=A0on the government to ban all= trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian West Bank, citi= ng a surge in Jewish settler violence and threats to depopulate a Palestini= an Bedouin village.

Nearly 140 MPs from Labour sent a letter to Foreign Secretary Yvette Coope= r requesting her to "take urgent, concrete action to counter the escal= ation of violations against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and East= Jerusalem."

T= he MPs urged Cooper to ban products from Israeli settlements, which are bui= lt on Palestinian land and illegal under international law.

"The case for ending trade wi= th settlements is clear. The international court of justice has directed th= ird states not to enter into 'trade dealings with Israel concerning the= occupied Palestinian territory', which is widely interpreted as meanin= g states must not trade with settlements," the letter stated.

MPs also cited the threat issued = by Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich last month to approve an order= to ethnically cleanse the=C2=A0Palestinian Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahma= r.

The village lies= near the E1 settlement bloc, which Israel is expanding to cut the West Ban= k in half and prevent the future establishment of a Palestinian state on co= ntiguous territory.

Smotrich issued the threat after reports emerged that prosecutors at the I= nternational Criminal Court (ICC) had requested that judges issue an arrest= warrant against him.

"Khan al-Ahmar has been embroiled in a grueling struggle against er= asure, displacement, and state-backed settler violence as part of=C2=A0Isra= el's E1 plan," the MPs wrote.

Forcibly driving out Khan al-Ahmar's residents woul= d constitute a war crime, the lawmakers added.

MP Melanie Ward, who previously worked as the c= hief executive of Medical Aid for Palestinians, led the initiative to prepa= re the letter and send it to the Foreign Secretary.

MP Wes Streeting also signed the letter. H= e has previously=C2=A0accused Israel of committing war crimes in Gaza, desc= ribing Israel as a =E2=80=9Crogue state.=E2=80=9D

"Settlement expansion is illegal, it is= an injustice inflicted on the Palestinians, it undermines two states and d= oesn't make Israel any safer," Streeting wrote on X on Sunday.

Streeting plans to cha= llenge Prime Minister Keir Starmer for the leadership of the Labour Party.<= /font>

Earlier this year, = the UK government announced that it would take steps to counter settlement = expansion, forcible displacement, and annexation in the West Bank.

The MPs' letter noted, howeve= r, that "the situation has worsened considerably" since that time= , and the "government has taken no further action. This is unacceptabl= e."

On 3 June,= Smotrich=C2=A0announc= ed=C2=A0a new and ma= jor illegal settlement project in the occupied West Bank, which aims to see= the construction of around 2,000 houses on Palestinian land.=C2=A0<= /font>

Israel conquered and occup= ied the West Bank during the Six-Day War in 1967. Since that time, it has b= uilt settlements to house hundreds of thousands of Israelis, in a bid to co= lonize and Judaize the Palestinian territory.

Since Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's go= vernment took office in late 2022, Smotrich and other Israeli ministers hav= e accelerated plans for the de facto annexation of the occupied West Bank a= nd occupied East Jerusalem.=C2=A0

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X-BeenThere: salon@listserve.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion List for the Committee For The Republic List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:31:05 -0000 --000000000000dc76070653d14c8e Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable *https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2026-06-07/ty-article-magazine/.premium/wh= ats-behind-reports-of-israeli-espionage-against-the-united-states/0000019e-= a33f-d7a4-a9bf-f7ffab1f0000 * *What's Behind Reports of Israeli Espionage Against the United States? - U.S. News* [image: U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset on the day of Trump's address last October.] *WASHINGTON =E2=80=93 Reports over the past 48 hours concerning Israel's al= leged increased espionage efforts against the U.S. have brought about renewed scrutiny of one of Washington's closest intelligence alliances, entangled in the already hot debate over U.S. ties to Israel.* *Reports in NBC News and The New York Times detailed how the Defense Department's intelligence arm recently raised its reading on the level of counterintelligence threat posed by Israel to the highest level. The Times detailed specific instances of Israeli espionage attempts in recent years, highlighting senior U.S. officials allegedly targeted in such operations.* *The White House and the Israeli Embassy in Washington dismissed the reports as inaccurate, anonymously sourced and politically motivated.* *On one hand, the reports bring into the spotlight questions that have only been discussed in hushed tones or conspiratorial shouts =E2=80=93 do the U.= S. and Israel, allies that crucially depend on one another for security and intelligence coordination, secretly spy on each other?* *While not dismissing the reports' veracity, nor downplaying any wider conversation about the implications of any eavesdropping or espionage efforts, it is impossible to view the timing of the reports without also considering the more acute crises concerning Iran negotiations and future U.S.-Israel ties.* *This is particularly pertinent in recent days, given controversy over looming legislation that would fundamentally alter the structure of U.S. military and intelligence assistance and cooperation with Israel.* *The reports also come amid whispers of dissatisfaction within the Trump administration over Israel's push for the Iran war. When combined with its lackadaisical results, the whispers have grown exponentially louder in recent weeks.* [image: A cabinet meeting last month, including U.S. President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff.] *A cabinet meeting last month, including U.S. President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff. Credit: Evan Vucci/Reuters* *Israel, for its part, has denied spying on any of its allies save for the notorious case of Jonathan Pollard in the 1980s, the U.S. Navy intelligence analyst turned Israeli spy who spent three decades in prison before his release. Israel apologized for the episode, calling it a "regretful mistake."* *Pollard has since become a vociferous critic of Steve Witkoff, Trump's close confidant and special envoy, allegedly among the targets of increased Israeli eavesdropping efforts. His meeting with U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee in November, at the outrage of the local CIA station chief, only rehashed concerns in Israel and among its supporters about any willingness to brush over the more nefarious elements of the relationship.* *Pertinent political timing * *Over the past several decades, examples of small-scale device planting by Israel have emerged, with reports usually coinciding with periods of particular political volatility. During the previous Trump administration, for example, a 2019 Politico report alleged the FBI believed Israel planted phone tracking devices to intercept cellphone communications around Washington.* *"I don't think the Israelis were spying on us," Trump said at the time. "My relationship with Israel has been great =E2=80=A6 Anything is possible,= but I don't believe it."* 'Nations committing genocide don=E2=80=99t recognize it in real time': Yuli= Novak on Israel=E2=80=99s moral crisis *Israel observers, even those who give Israel the benefit of the doubt when it comes to its spycraft, generally believe Israel (like any state operating according to the logic of realpolitik) attempts to get a leg up on intelligence gathering as part of its own worldview of being under existential threat.* *This has been accepted as fact by successive administrations =E2=80=93 whe= ther related to looming military campaigns, threats to Israel's security, or diplomatic efforts concerning the Palestinians or Iran.* *Throughout all of this, however, Israel has continued to flat-out deny spying on its allies. Its defenders in the U.S. have only gone so far as to acknowledge its aggressive intel-gathering strategies, but which stop short of unambiguous espionage.* *The intelligence reports of increased Israeli surveillance efforts, therefore, should be viewed as motivated by Israel's desire to understand where the ongoing U.S.-Iran talks are heading. This is especially because it has been increasingly sidelined in recent weeks as Witkoff's efforts have intensified and Trump has openly castigated Netanyahu for his actions in Lebanon, potentially jeopardizing diplomatic efforts.* [image: U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby delivers a speech on Saturday. He was another Pentagon official reportedly targeted by Israeli eavesdropping.] *U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby delivers a speech on Saturday. He was another Pentagon official reportedly targeted by Israeli eavesdropping. Credit: Lou Benoist/AFP* *It should also be noted that The Times reported that two other targets of Israel's increased eavesdropping were senior Pentagon officials Elbridge Colby and Michael DiMino, both of whom were flagged by pro-Israel advocates as alarmingly hostile to the U.S.-Israel status quo upon their appointments.* *Colby has previously called for a "reset" on the U.S.-Israel relationship while arguing that containing a nuclear Iran "is an eminently plausible and practical objective."* *He has more recently maintained positions more consistent with official Trump administration policy during its first year-and-a-half, though questions about his actual views and their influence within policy circles have undoubtedly not abated.* *This also holds for DiMino, who previously argued the Middle East poses a "minimal to nonexistent" threat to U.S. security but received outsize attention, and has called the threat of Iran for the Mideast region "fearmongering" and "pablum [that's] not supported by the facts."* *One month after Hamas' October 7 attack, DiMino called for the U.S. to avoid direct military involvement in the war, saying, "No major U.S. interest is served by direct involvement, Israel can handle its own defense, and the risk of escalation and blowback against the United States is profound."* *Towards legislation for a 'new era' of U.S. aid to Israel* *These reports are also part and parcel of pending legislation that would fundamentally alter the U.S.-Israel defense relationship, adding a new layer of sensitivity to questions about intelligence sharing. This comes months after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself first called for ending Israeli reliance on U.S. military aid. * *Rep. Marlin Stutzman, a Republican congressman, visited Israel last week and is introducing the resolution to shift the U.S.-Israel relationship "away from one of traditional foreign assistance towards a new era of mutual cooperation, joint investment, and shared development."* *Stutzman said the alliance between the two countries is rooted in "shared Western values," and that "as long as those values are under threat, we will defend them side by side." He added that the resolution affirms the U.S. "stands with Israel not out of obligation, but out of shared strength and shared strategic interest. Israel has come of age where our nations should contribute equally and share results equally."* [image: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth at a House Committee on Armed Services meeting, which is about to vote on an annual defense appropriations bill] *Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth at a House Committee on Armed Services meeting, which is about to vote on an annual defense appropriations bill Credit: Rod Lamkey Jr./AP * *The resolution comes just ahead of a House Armed Services Committee vote on an annual defense appropriations bill, which includes a provision that critics charge would actually increase U.S.-Israeli military and technology cooperation rather than weaning Israel away from U.S. assistance.* *The relevant section =E2=80=93 formally known as Section 224 of the Nation= al Defense Authorization Act =E2=80=93 would increase U.S. and Israeli militar= y cooperation by committing to bilateral research and development, weapons co-production, joint ventures, licensing agreements, and deeply integrating both countries' weapons industries.* *The section goes beyond traditional foreign military sales and existing cooperative programs. In a letter to Strutzman last week backing the plan, Netanyahu described the concept as "my plan to shift the framework for U.S.-Israel defense cooperation."* *It has generated some strong pushback. "This is what complete capture to a foreign government looks like and there hasn't been a single shot fired," said former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, still considered one of the most influential voices of the isolationist right despite resigning from Congress.* *Rep. Ro Khanna, a Democratic member of the committee, failed in his bid to pass an amendment stripping the bill of the relevant section. Rep. Thomas Massie, the harshest Republican critic of Israel in Congress who recently lost his primary, vowed he would offer an amendment on the House floor after it advanced out of the committee.* *Most Republican proponents of the bill, however, are defending any outrage as misguided and misleading.* *Rep. Mike Rogers said the legislation "simply adds transparency and improves efficiency by designating a single official to coordinate existing initiatives," dismissing claims that it gives away control of the military. "Misinformation in relation to Israel and our close partnership with them has always run rampant, and bad actors are all too happy to stoke these flames when given the opportunity," he added.* *The NDAA still must pass the full House, then be reconciled with the Senate's version of the bill, and then be signed by Trump before becoming law. This is all an increasingly tall order considering Congressional gridlock and Israel's increasing pariah status among U.S. lawmakers and voters =E2=80=93 a fact born out by repeated polling.* *Expect stories, reports and concerns over Israel's behavior to become more commonplace in the coming weeks as the legislation advances and Iran talks proceed.* --000000000000dc76070653d14c8e Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
What's Behind Reports of Israeli Espionage A= gainst the United States? - U.S. News
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WASHINGT= ON =E2=80=93 Reports over the past 48 hours concerning Israel's alleged= increased espionage efforts against the U.S. have brought about renewed sc= rutiny of one of Washington's closest intelligence alliances, entangled= in the already hot debate over U.S. ties to Israel.

Re= ports in=C2=A0NBC News=C2=A0and=C2=A0The New York Times=C2=A0detailed how the Defense Departm= ent's intelligence arm recently raised its reading on the level of coun= terintelligence threat posed by Israel to the highest level. The Times deta= iled specific instances of Israeli espionage attempts in recent years, high= lighting senior U.S. officials allegedly targeted in such operations.

The White House and the Israeli Embassy in Washington dismis= sed the reports as inaccurate, anonymously sourced and politically motivate= d.

On one hand, the reports bring into the spotlight qu= estions that have only been discussed in hushed tones or conspiratorial sho= uts =E2=80=93 do the U.S. and Israel, allies that crucially depend on one a= nother for security and intelligence coordination, secretly spy on each oth= er?

While not dismissing the reports' veracity, nor= downplaying any wider conversation about the implications of any eavesdrop= ping or espionage efforts, it is impossible to view the timing of the repor= ts without also considering the more acute crises concerning Iran negotiati= ons and future U.S.-Israel ties.

This is particularly p= ertinent in recent days, given controversy over looming legislation that wo= uld fundamentally alter the structure of U.S. military and intelligence ass= istance and cooperation with Israel.

The reports also c= ome amid whispers of dissatisfaction within the Trump administration over I= srael's push for the Iran war. When combined with its lackadaisical res= ults, the whispers have grown exponentially louder in recent weeks.<= /b>

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A ca= binet meeting last month, including U.S. President Donald Trump, Secretary = of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and U.S. Special Envoy= Steve Witkoff.=C2=A0Credit: Evan Vucci/Reuters

Israel, for its part, has denied spying on any of its allies sav= e for the notorious case of Jonathan Pollard in the 1980s, the U.S. Navy in= telligence analyst turned Israeli spy who spent three decades in prison bef= ore his release. Israel apologized for the episode, calling it a "regr= etful mistake."

Pollard has since become a vocifer= ous critic of Steve Witkoff, Trump's close confidant and special envoy,= allegedly among the targets of increased Israeli eavesdropping efforts.=C2=A0His meeti= ng with U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee=C2=A0in No= vember, at the outrage of the local CIA station chief, only rehashed concer= ns in Israel and among its supporters about any willingness to brush over t= he more nefarious elements of the relationship.

Pertinent political timing=C2=A0

<= b>Over the past several decades, examples of = small-scale device planting by Israel have emerged, with reports usually co= inciding with periods of particular political volatility. During the previo= us Trump administration, for example,=C2=A0a 2019 Politico report=C2=A0<= /a>alleged the FBI believed Israel planted phone tracking devices to interc= ept cellphone communications around Washington.

"I= don't think the Israelis were spying on us," Trump said at the ti= me. "My relationship with Israel has been great =E2=80=A6 Anything is = possible, but I don't believe it."

Israel ob= servers, even those who give Israel the benefit of the doubt when it comes = to its spycraft, generally believe Israel (like any state operating accordi= ng to the logic of realpolitik) attempts to get a leg up on intelligence ga= thering as part of its own worldview of being under existential threat.

This has been accepted as fact by successive administratio= ns =E2=80=93 whether related to looming military campaigns, threats to Isra= el's security, or diplomatic efforts concerning the Palestinians or Ira= n.

Throughout all of this, however, Israel has continue= d to flat-out deny spying on its allies. Its defenders in the U.S. have onl= y gone so far as to acknowledge its aggressive intel-gathering strategies, = but which stop short of unambiguous espionage.

The inte= lligence reports of increased Israeli surveillance efforts, therefore, shou= ld be viewed as motivated by Israel's desire to understand where the on= going U.S.-Iran talks are heading. This is especially because it has been i= ncreasingly sidelined in recent weeks as Witkoff's efforts have intensi= fied and=C2=A0Trump has openly castigated Netanyahu=C2=A0for his actio= ns in Lebanon, potentially jeopardizing diplomatic efforts.

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U.S. Under Secretar= y of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby delivers a speech on Saturday. He wa= s another Pentagon official reportedly targeted by Israeli eavesdropping.=C2=A0Credit: Lou Benoist/AFP

It should= also be noted that The Times reported that two other targets of Israel'= ;s increased eavesdropping were senior Pentagon officials Elbridge Colby an= d Michael DiMino, both of whom were flagged by pro-Israel advocates as alar= mingly hostile to the U.S.-Israel status quo upon their appointments.

Colby has previously called for a "reset" on the U= .S.-Israel relationship while arguing that containing a nuclear Iran "= is an eminently plausible and practical objective."

This also holds for DiMino, who p= reviously argued the Middle East poses a "minimal to nonexistent"= threat to U.S. security but received outsize attention, and has called the= threat of Iran for the Mideast region "fearmongering" and "= pablum [that's] not supported by the facts."

O= ne month after Hamas' October 7 attack, DiMino called for the U.S. to a= void direct military involvement in the war, saying, "No major U.S. in= terest is served by direct involvement, Israel can handle its own defense, = and the risk of escalation and blowback against the United States is profou= nd."

Tow= ards legislation for a 'new era' of U.S. aid to Israel

These reports are also part and parcel of pending legislation= that would fundamentally alter the U.S.-Israel defense relationship, addin= g a new layer of sensitivity to questions about intelligence sharing. This = comes months after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself first=C2= =A0called for endi= ng Israeli reliance on U.S. military aid.=C2=A0=

Rep. Marlin Stutzman, a Republican congressman, visited Israel la= st week and is introducing the resolution to shift the U.S.-Israel relation= ship "away from one of traditional foreign assistance towards a new er= a of mutual cooperation, joint investment, and shared development."

Stutzman said the alliance between the two countries is= rooted in "shared Western values," and that "as long as tho= se values are under threat, we will defend them side by side." He adde= d that the resolution affirms the U.S. "stands with Israel not out of = obligation, but out of shared strength and shared strategic interest. Israe= l has come of age where our nations should contribute equally and share res= ults equally."

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Secretary of Defense Pet= e Hegseth at a House Committee on Armed Services meeting, which is about to= vote on an annual defense appropriations bill=C2=A0Credit: = Rod Lamkey Jr./AP=C2=A0

The resolution = comes just ahead of a House Armed Services Committee vote on an annual defe= nse appropriations bill, which includes a provision that critics charge wou= ld actually increase U.S.-Israeli military and technology cooperation rathe= r than weaning Israel away from U.S. assistance.

The re= levant section =E2=80=93 formally known as Section 224 of the National Defe= nse Authorization Act =E2=80=93 would increase U.S. and Israeli military co= operation by committing to bilateral research and development, weapons co-p= roduction, joint ventures, licensing agreements, and deeply integrating bot= h countries' weapons industries.

The section goes b= eyond traditional foreign military sales and existing cooperative programs.= In a letter to Strutzman last week backing the plan, Netanyahu described t= he concept as "my plan to shift the framework for U.S.-Israel defense = cooperation."

It has generated some strong pushbac= k. "This is what complete capture to a foreign government looks like a= nd there hasn't been a single shot fired," said former Rep. Marjor= ie Taylor Greene, still considered one of the most influential voices of th= e isolationist right=C2=A0despite resigning from Congress.

Re= p. Ro Khanna, a Democratic member of the committee, failed in his bid to pa= ss an amendment stripping the bill of the relevant section.=C2=A0Rep. Thomas Massie= , the harshest Republican critic of Israel in Congress who recently lost hi= s primary, vowed he would offer an amendment on the House floor after it ad= vanced out of the committee.

Most Republican proponents= of the bill, however, are defending any outrage as misguided and misleadin= g.

Rep. Mike Rogers said the legislation "simply a= dds transparency and improves efficiency by designating a single official t= o coordinate existing initiatives," dismissing claims that it gives aw= ay control of the military. "Misinformation in relation to Israel and = our close partnership with them has always run rampant, and bad actors are = all too happy to stoke these flames when given the opportunity," he ad= ded.

The NDAA still must pass the full House, then be r= econciled with the Senate's version of the bill, and then be signed by = Trump before becoming law. This is all an increasingly tall order consideri= ng Congressional gridlock and Israel's increasing pariah status among U= .S. lawmakers and voters =E2=80=93 a fact born out by repeated polling.

Expect stories, reports and concerns over Israel's beh= avior to become more commonplace in the coming weeks as the legislation adv= ances and Iran talks proceed.

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Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:38:06 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Chas Freeman Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 08:37:50 -0400 X-Gm-Features: AVVi8Ce2rqWO7fsWs5FbTf_ufDZALRpcq55jkzBPti0aBSl703acikDv65k7874 Message-ID: To: "salon@listserve.com" Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0000000000001adaa70653d16674" Subject: [Salon] Iran Defends Lebanon While Lebanon's Government Collaborates With the Enemy X-BeenThere: salon@listserve.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion List for the Committee For The Republic List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:38:09 -0000 --0000000000001adaa70653d16674 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Rania Khalek Iran Defends Lebanon While Lebanon's Government Collaborates With the Enemy My Al Jazeera analysis on tonight's Iranian strike on Israel Rania Khalek Jun 07, 2026 ------------------------------ Iran just bombed Israel in retaliation for strikes on Beirut, doing what Lebanon=E2=80=99s own government has refused to do. Here=E2=80=99s how I broke it down on Al Jazeera: - Iran had explicitly warned: bomb Beirut and we retaliate. The US called that bluff by green lighting Israel anyway. Tonight Iran answered. - The Lebanese government has condemned Iran for trying to secure a ceasefire for Iran while allying with the Americans who arm, fund and coordinate with Israel=E2=80=99s strikes on Beirut. - Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam came to power on the back of a weakened Hezbollah post-2024. Hezbollah supporter= s warned they were American clients who would sell Lebanon out. They are being vindicated in real time. - The anti-Hezbollah camp is trying to achieve through Israeli bombs what they cannot win democratically. Hezbollah is part of Lebanon=E2=80=99s l= argest elected parliamentary bloc. This is violent gerrymandering, using a fore= ign army to destroy a political rival you can=E2=80=99t beat at the ballot b= ox. (I forgot to add that they did the same in 2006) - The people of the South feel completely abandoned by a government that has joined the enemy. - Israel wants permanent war. Trump wants a deal. Israel is using Lebanon to torpedo that deal. Tonight we find out if Trump actually has the political will to end this disastrous war. --0000000000001adaa70653d16674 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Rania K= halek
Iran Defends Lebanon While Leban= on's Government Collaborates With the Enemy
My Al Jazeera ana= lysis on tonight's Iranian strike on Israel
Rania Khalek
Jun 07, 2026
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Iran just bombed Israel in retaliation for strikes on B= eirut, doing what Lebanon=E2=80=99s own government has refused to do.

Here=E2= =80=99s how I broke it down on Al Jazeera:

  • Iran had explicitly warned: bomb Beirut and= we retaliate. The US called that bluff by green lighting Israel anyway. To= night Iran answered.

  • Th= e Lebanese government has condemned Iran for trying to secure a ceasefire f= or Iran while allying with the Americans who arm, fund and coordinate with = Israel=E2=80=99s strikes on Beirut.

  • Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam = came to power on the back of a weakened Hezbollah post-2024. Hezbollah supp= orters warned they were American clients who would sell Lebanon out. They a= re being vindicated in real time.

  • The anti-Hezbollah camp is trying to achieve through Israeli bom= bs what they cannot win democratically. Hezbollah is part of Lebanon=E2=80= =99s largest elected parliamentary bloc. This is violent gerrymandering, us= ing a foreign army to destroy a political rival you can=E2=80=99t beat at t= he ballot box. (I forgot to add that they did the same in 2006)

    • The people of the South feel compl= etely abandoned by a government that has joined the enemy.

  • Israel wants permanent war. Trump wants= a deal. Israel is using Lebanon to torpedo that deal. Tonight we find out = if Trump actually has the political will to end this disastrous war.

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Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:56:35 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Chas Freeman Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 09:56:19 -0400 X-Gm-Features: AVVi8Ce8JLM0nvo1Opp6PiXcI-AFwtTMwIl78da1ddrtYimPU_ZbEZqrdk3QHBg Message-ID: To: "salon@listserve.com" Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="000000000000c991b00653d27e2e" Subject: [Salon] Did CNN just out Azerbaijan as Israel's secret military partner? X-BeenThere: salon@listserve.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion List for the Committee For The Republic List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:56:38 -0000 --000000000000c991b00653d27e2e Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Did CNN just out Azerbaijan as Israel's secret military partner? A new report suggests someone wants to burn Baku's plausible deniability, which puts it in hot water with its Iranian neighbor Eldar Mamedov Jun 09, 2026 https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-azerbaijan/ Years ago, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev *described* Baku=E2=80=99s relationship with Israel as an iceberg, with 90% hidden below the surface. Last week, CNN *attempted* to pull the hidden portion into full view. Notably, the report relied on four anonymous sources with apparent knowledge of highly sensitive Israeli military and intelligence activities in the greater Middle East . While CNN did not identify them, the nature of the information disclosed strongly suggests that the sources were either American, Israeli, or closely connected to the security establishments of one or both countries. According to these sources Israel secretly deployed elite military and intelligence units =E2=80=94 including special operations forces, Mossad pe= rsonnel, and heliborne rescue teams =E2=80=94 to multiple locations in southern Azer= baijan during the recent war with Iran . >From positions just 60 miles from Tabriz, a major Iranian city in the north, Israeli commandos allegedly conducted drone operations, installed listening devices, and even helped prepare the ground for the assassination of an IRGC intelligence chief. CNN put this all in the context of other covert sites used by Israel in *Iraq* , the UAE, and *Somaliland* during the war, pointing to a ring of forward positions around Iran. Predictably, Baku reacted to the CNN report with fury. The Azerbaijani foreign ministry *called* the report =E2=80=9Centirely baseless=E2=80=9D and a violation of journalistic = ethics, insisting that =E2=80=9CAzerbaijan has never allowed, and will never allow,= its territory to be used for such purposes.=E2=80=9D Baku demanded that CNN ret= ract what it called =E2=80=9Cunfounded allegations.=E2=80=9D Whether or not CNN=E2=80=99s reporting proves fully accurate, the allegatio= ns fit a strategic relationship that has long been the subject of regional scrutiny. Israel provides Azerbaijan with advanced weapons (according to the *Stockholm-based SIPRI* , up to 70% of its arms imports) and buys its oil (*around 40%* of Israel=E2=80=99s consumption). Israel gets a foothold on Iran=E2=80=99s bor= ders, and Azerbaijan gets the support of the *powerful pro-Israel lobby* in Washington. The late Quincy Institute fellow Mark Perry reported in a *deta= iled essay* in Foreign Policy as early as 2012 that Azerbaijan was =E2=80=9CIsrael=E2=80= =99s secret staging ground=E2=80=9D against Iran. But why are the details being leaked now? While no official claims have been made, one possibility could be that the U.S. and Israel want to ensure Azerbaijan won=E2=80=99t rescind its cooperation. If so, by publicizing the= alleged bases, Washington and Tel Aviv are burning Baku=E2=80=99s plausible deniabi= lity with Tehran. This dovetails with a pattern. After the active phase of the war, reports *emerged* of a secret visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the UAE. Emirati officials *vehemently denied* them, while their Israeli counterparts *openly boasted* about the trip. The leak may have been at least partially *linked* to Israeli domestic political considerations =E2=80=94 Netanyahu needs to burn= ish his credentials as a statesman to see off a tough challenge from his main rival Naftali Bennett in elections later this year. But its effect was to further tie Abu Dhabi to Israel=E2=80=99s regional posture toward Iran. The same lo= gic may apply here: tie Azerbaijan=E2=80=99s hands. If Iran lashes out at either UA= E or Azerbaijan, or both, the logic presumably goes, they=E2=80=99d have to turn= to Israel for protection, thus solidifying their security dependence on Tel Aviv. So far, Tehran has shown restraint. The Iranian drone attack on Nakhchivan in March =E2=80=94 which Aliyev called *=E2=80=9Can act of terror=E2=80=9D* =E2=80=94 has been interpreted by Iranian sources as a warning shot, not an opening salvo for greater hostilities. Iran has avoided a northern front throughout the war, concentrating instead on the Persian Gulf and its missile exchanges with Israel. If that was indeed Tehran=E2=80=99s message, then it succeeded: despite his *vows of retaliation* , Aliyev has to date *done nothing* =E2=80=94 and in f= act, shipped humanitarian cargoes to Iran soon thereafter. Neither Baku nor Tehran wanted an open confrontation at that stage, but the more recent revelations can provide fuel for Tehran to act against Baku next time =E2=80=94 if the war resumes. That is the real danger. If hostilities restart, Iran could treat Azerbaijan as a legitimate military target. Baku would then be forced to choose between full alignment with Israel =E2=80=94 and devastating retalia= tion =E2=80=94 or a break with its most important defense partner, alongside Turkey. However, there is a crucial caveat. Baku's direct, operational involvement in specific hostile actions against Iran =E2=80=94 such as enabling Israeli= air sorties from Azerbaijan as opposed to logistical roles, such as hosting Israeli commando units that helped kill an IRGC general on Iranian soil =E2= =80=94 is a distinction that matters enormously. This could be considered a potential *casus belli*. Tehran=E2=80=99s muted reaction so far suggests that it will first review t= he CNN claims carefully and reach its own conclusions. Iranian actions so far have indicated caution. Tehran is calculating: is this disclosure useful? Does it provide leverage? Or does it force Tehran=E2=80=99s hand before it is re= ady? There is also the Turkish factor. Despite *recent friction* , Ankara remains Baku=E2=80=99s steadfast ally. Iran sees Turkey as a militar= y peer, and would not precipitate any action that would put it on a collision course with Ankara. And, as Amwaj Media=E2=80=99s Mohammad Ali Shabani *poi= nts out* , Ankara played a helpful role in restraining Kurdish groups from mounting a campaign against Iran in the opening days of the U.S.-Israeli war that was launched February 29 =E2=80=94 a service Tehran won=E2=80=99t forget. All of this plays into the next steps for Tehran. Tangentially, the CNN story is also a blow to the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity (TRIPP) =E2=80=94 the so-called *"Caucas= us Corridor"* announced by the U.S. president as part of a peace deal between Azerbaijan and Armenia. TRIPP has been touted as a *strategic wedge* against Russian and Iranian influence in the South Caucasus. It is designed to link Azerbaijan overland through Armenia to its Nakhchevan exclave and Turkey, bypassing Iran. But TRIPP requires stability. The investors need to be assured that the region is a safe, neutral transit hub, not a forward operating base for Israeli commandos. A fresh crisis on its Azeri leg could scare off potential investors, already *shaken by the Iran war* . Despite TRIPP=E2=80=99s status as one of Trump=E2=80=99s signature peace pr= ojects that, in his view, should earn him the Nobel Peace Prize, Israel is unlikely to let Azerbaijan off very easily =E2=80=94 Baku has become their strategic depth = now. That may be the whole point of the CNN leak =E2=80=94 whether intended or n= ot: to make any future Azerbaijani reconciliation with Iran politically impossible. The iceberg has been mapped. Now Baku, Tehran and everyone else has to sail around it. Or try to blow it up. Eldar Mamedov Eldar Mamedov is a Brussels-based foreign policy expert and Non-resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute. The views expressed by authors on Responsible Statecraft do not necessarily reflect those of the Quincy Institute or its associates. --000000000000c991b00653d27e2e Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Did CNN just o= ut Azerbaijan as Israel's secret military partner?

A new repo= rt suggests someone wants to burn Baku's plausible deniability, which p= uts it in hot water with its Iranian neighbor


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Years ago, Azerbaijani President I= lham Aliyev=C2=A0described= =C2=A0Baku=E2=80=99s relationship with=C2=A0Israel=C2=A0as an iceberg, with 90%= hidden below the surface. Last week, CNN=C2=A0attempted=C2=A0to pull the hidden portion into full view.
Not= ably, the report relied on four anonymous sources with apparent knowledge o= f highly sensitive Israeli military and intelligence activities in the grea= ter=C2=A0Middle East. While CNN did not identify them, the nature of t= he information disclosed strongly suggests that the sources were either Ame= rican, Israeli, or closely connected to the security establishments of one = or both countries.

According to these sources Israel secretly deployed el= ite military and intelligence units =E2=80=94 including special operations = forces, Mossad personnel, and heliborne rescue teams =E2=80=94 to multiple = locations in southern Azerbaijan during the recent war with=C2=A0Iran.

From pos= itions just 60 miles from Tabriz, a major Iranian city in the north, Israel= i commandos allegedly conducted drone operations, installed listening devic= es, and even helped prepare the ground for the assassination of an IRGC int= elligence chief. CNN put this all in the context of other covert sites used= by Israel in=C2=A0Iraq, the UAE, and= =C2=A0Somaliland=C2=A0during the= war, pointing to a ring of forward positions around Iran.

Predictably, Baku reacted to the CNN report with fury= . The Azerbaijani foreign ministry=C2=A0called=C2=A0the report =E2= =80=9Centirely baseless=E2=80=9D and a violation of journalistic ethics, in= sisting that =E2=80=9CAzerbaijan has never allowed, and will never allow, i= ts territory to be used for such purposes.=E2=80=9D Baku demanded that CNN = retract what it called =E2=80=9Cunfounded allegations.=E2=80=9D

Whether o= r not CNN=E2=80=99s reporting proves fully accurate, the allegations fit a = strategic relationship that has long been the subject of regional scrutiny.= Israel provides Azerbaijan with advanced weapons (according to the=C2=A0Stockholm-base= d SIPRI, up to 70% of its arms imports) and buys its oil (around 40%=C2=A0of = Israel=E2=80=99s consumption). Israel gets a foothold on Iran=E2=80=99s bor= ders, and Azerbaijan gets the support of the=C2=A0powerful pro-Israel lobby=C2=A0in Washington. Th= e late Quincy Institute fellow Mark Perry reported in a=C2=A0detailed essay=C2=A0in Foreign Policy as early as 2012 that A= zerbaijan was =E2=80=9CIsrael=E2=80=99s secret staging ground=E2=80=9D agai= nst Iran.

But why are the details being leaked now? While no official cla= ims have been made, one possibility could be that the U.S. and Israel want = to ensure Azerbaijan won=E2=80=99t rescind its cooperation. If so, by publi= cizing the alleged bases, Washington and Tel Aviv are burning Baku=E2=80=99= s plausible deniability with Tehran.

This dovetails with a pattern. After= the active phase of the war, reports=C2=A0emerged=C2=A0of a secret vis= it by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the UAE. Emirati officia= ls=C2=A0vehemently denied=C2=A0them, while their Israeli co= unterparts=C2=A0openly boasted=C2=A0about the trip. The leak may hav= e been at least partially=C2=A0linked=C2=A0to Israeli domestic pol= itical considerations =E2=80=94 Netanyahu needs to burnish his credentials = as a statesman to see off a tough challenge from his main rival Naftali Ben= nett in elections later this year. But its effect was to further tie Abu Dh= abi to Israel=E2=80=99s regional posture toward Iran. The same logic may ap= ply here: tie Azerbaijan=E2=80=99s hands. If Iran lashes out at either UAE = or Azerbaijan, or both, the logic presumably goes, they=E2=80=99d have to t= urn to Israel for protection, thus solidifying their security dependence on= Tel Aviv.

So far, Tehran has shown r= estraint. The Iranian drone attack on Nakhchivan in March =E2=80=94 which A= liyev called=C2=A0=E2=80=9Can act of terror=E2= =80=9D=C2=A0=E2=80=94 has been interpreted by Iranian sources as a = warning shot, not an opening salvo for greater hostilities. Iran has avoide= d a northern front throughout the war, concentrating instead on the Persian= Gulf and its missile exchanges with Israel. If that was indeed Tehran=E2= =80=99s message, then it succeeded: despite his=C2=A0vows of retaliation, Aliyev has to date=C2=A0done nothing=C2=A0=E2=80= =94 and in fact, shipped humanitarian cargoes to Iran soon thereafter.

<= p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;line-height:28.6px">Ne= ither Baku nor Tehran wanted an open confrontation at that stage, but the m= ore recent revelations can provide fuel for Tehran to act against Baku next= time =E2=80=94 if the war resumes.

That is the real danger. If hostiliti= es restart, Iran could treat Azerbaijan as a legitimate military target. Ba= ku would then be forced to choose between full alignment with Israel =E2=80= =94 and devastating retaliation =E2=80=94 or a break with its most importan= t defense partner, alongside Turkey.

However, there is a crucial caveat. = Baku's direct, operational involvement in specific hostile actions agai= nst Iran =E2=80=94 such as enabling Israeli air sorties from Azerbaijan as = opposed to logistical roles, such as hosting Israeli commando units that he= lped kill an IRGC general on Iranian soil =E2=80=94 is a distinction that m= atters enormously. This could be considered a potential=C2=A0casus belli<= /em>.

Tehran=E2=80=99s muted reaction so far suggests that it will first = review the CNN claims carefully and reach its own conclusions. Iranian acti= ons so far have indicated caution. Tehran is calculating: is this disclosur= e useful? Does it provide leverage? Or does it force Tehran=E2=80=99s hand = before it is ready?

There is also the Turkish factor. Despite=C2=A0recent friction, Ankara remains Baku=E2=80=99s steadf= ast ally. Iran sees Turkey as a military peer, and would not precipitate an= y action that would put it on a collision course with Ankara. And, as Amwaj= Media=E2=80=99s Mohammad Ali Shabani=C2=A0points out, Ankara played a helpful role in restr= aining Kurdish groups from mounting a campaign against Iran in the opening = days of the U.S.-Israeli war that was launched February 29 =E2=80=94 a serv= ice Tehran won=E2=80=99t forget.

All of this plays into the next steps fo= r Tehran.

Tangentially, the CNN story is also a blow to the Trump Route f= or International Peace and Prosperity (TRIPP) =E2=80=94 the so-called=C2=A0= "Caucasus Corr= idor"=C2=A0announced by the U.S. president as part of a peace = deal between Azerbaijan and Armenia. TRIPP has been touted as a=C2=A0<= u style=3D"box-sizing:border-box">strategic wedge=C2=A0against Russ= ian and Iranian influence in the South Caucasus. It is designed to link Aze= rbaijan overland through Armenia to its Nakhchevan exclave and Turkey, bypa= ssing Iran.

But TRIPP requires stability. The investors need to be assure= d that the region is a safe, neutral transit hub, not a forward operating b= ase for Israeli commandos. A fresh crisis on its Azeri leg could scare off = potential investors, already=C2=A0shake= n by the Iran war.

Despite TRIPP=E2=80=99s status as one of Trump= =E2=80=99s signature peace projects that, in his view, should earn him the = Nobel Peace Prize, Israel is unlikely to let Azerbaijan off very easily =E2= =80=94 Baku has become their strategic depth now.

That may be the whole p= oint of the CNN leak =E2=80=94 whether intended or not: to make any future = Azerbaijani reconciliation with Iran politically impossible. The iceberg ha= s been mapped. Now Baku, Tehran and everyone else has to sail around it. Or= try to blow it up.


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Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:02:12 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Chas Freeman Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 10:01:56 -0400 X-Gm-Features: AVVi8Cff6QlvbCwgkSmiJoPGPuZEtJo3pTwMi98DR3HaBRwcIZfLfV7cLxcixrg Message-ID: To: "salon@listserve.com" Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="000000000000e32f6e0653d29222" Subject: [Salon] Next 72 hrs will tell us whether Israel plans to kill Trump peace X-BeenThere: salon@listserve.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion List for the Committee For The Republic List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:02:15 -0000 --000000000000e32f6e0653d29222 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Next 72 hrs will tell us whether Israel plans to kill Trump peace News from White House suggests Trump imposing limits on partner Netanyahu and that US did not provide missile defense in latest exchange of fire Trita Parsi Jun 08, 2026 https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-netanyahu-iran/ It remains unclear whether Iran's effort to establish a new equation in the region has truly succeeded =E2=80=94 an equation in which, for the first ti= me, Iran would directly strike Israel if Israel attacks Lebanon. What is clear is that recent events suggest the strategic landscape may be shifting. Israel chose to defy President Trump and carry out strikes against Iran. Yet according to both Iranian and American sources, those Israeli attacks appear to have been deliberately calibrated to inflict limited damage, perhaps reflecting U.S. pressure to avoid a broader escalation. Iran, for its part, responded by striking Israel once more after the Israeli attacks. The full extent of the damage caused by Iran's two rounds of attacks remains unknown, however, due to extensive Israeli military censorship . As a result, outside observers still lack a complete picture of the military and strategic consequences of these exchanges. The real test of whether a new regional equation has emerged may not lie in what has already happened, but in what comes next. Specifically: Will Israel strike Beirut again? Even if it does, Israeli decision-makers will now have to factor in a cost that did not previously exis t=E2=80=94 the likelihood of a direct Iranian = response against Israel. For decades, Israel enjoyed near-complete freedom of maneuver in much of the region. It could bomb targets in Lebanon at will without facing meaningful costs imposed by third parties. That assumption may no longer hold. At the same time, the United States has signaled clearly that it no longer intends to be an active participant in Israel's confrontation with Iran. The White House has, for instance, *stated that it did not partake in Israel's defense this time around* . This would be a first and a very alarming development for Israel, if true. Washington's desire to avoid direct involvement has become increasingly evident, even as it continues to support Israel in other ways. Taken together, these developments suggest that a new strategic reality may be in the making. The picture remains murky, and it is far too early to declare that a durable deterrence framework has been established. Much will depend on future Israeli actions, Iranian responses, and the degree to which both sides internalize the risks of escalation. But if Israel now has to weigh the prospect of direct Iranian retaliation before striking Lebanon, then something important has changed. Whether that change proves temporary or enduring remains to be seen. The next question is whether this emerging equation can be translated into renewed momentum for U.S.-Iran diplomacy. The Iranians believe that their action demonstrated to the US that the value of the Memorandum is so low that Iran is willing to risk a complete collapse of diplomacy. The hope is that Trump yields on what appears to be the last sticking point in the talks, which is the release of $12 billion of Iranian frozen assets. Trump, on the other hand, may calculate that the exchange of fire demonstrated both the cost to Iran if full-scale war were to break out again, as well as Trump's ability to impose certain restraints on the Israelis. As a result, the Iranians should feel confident in Trump=E2=80=99= s ability to deliver on his end of the bargain and not insist on the release of the assets at the outset of the MOU. But all sides should be aware: If no movement is achieved in the next 72 hours, Netanyahu may once again feel emboldened to attempt another sabotage of the talks. How many flare-ups can this diplomatic process absorb before it collapses? Trita Parsi Trita Parsi is the co-founder and Executive Vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. The views expressed by authors on Responsible Statecraft do not necessarily reflect those of the Quincy Institute or its associates. --000000000000e32f6e0653d29222 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Next 72 hrs will tell us whether Israel plans t= o kill Trump peace

News from White House suggests Trump imposing limits on par= tner Netanyahu and that US did not provide missile defense in latest exchan= ge of fire



It remains unclear whethe= r Iran's effort to establish a new equation in the region has truly suc= ceeded =E2=80=94 an equation in which, for the first time,=C2=A0Iran=C2=A0would directly strike= =C2=A0Israel=C2=A0i= f Israel attacks Lebanon.

What is clear is that recent events suggest the= strategic landscape may be shifting. Israel chose to defy President Trump = and carry out strikes against Iran. Yet according to both Iranian and Ameri= can sources, those Israeli attacks appear to have been deliberately calibra= ted to inflict limited damage, perhaps reflecting U.S. pressure to avoid a = broader escalation.

Iran, for its part, responded by striking Israel once= more after the Israeli attacks. The full extent of the damage caused by Ir= an's two rounds of attacks remains unknown, however,=C2=A0due to extensive Israeli military censorship. As a result, outside ob= servers still lack a complete picture of the military and strategic consequ= ences of these exchanges.

The real test of whether a new regional equatio= n has emerged may not lie in what has already happened, but in what comes n= ext. Specifically: Will Israel strike Beirut again?

Even if it does, Isra= eli decision-makers will now have to factor in a cost that did not previous= ly exis t=E2=80=94 the likelihood of a direct Iranian response against Isra= el. For decades, Israel enjoyed near-complete freedom of maneuver in much o= f the region. It could bomb targets in Lebanon at will without facing meani= ngful costs imposed by third parties. That assumption may no longer hold.

At the same time, the United States has signaled clearly that it no longer= intends to be an active participant in Israel's confrontation with Ira= n. The White House has, for instance,=C2=A0stated that it did not partake in Israel's defense t= his time around. This would be a first and a very alarming developm= ent for Israel, if true. Washington's desire to avoid direct involvemen= t has become increasingly evident, even as it continues to support Israel i= n other ways.

Taken together, these developments suggest that a new strat= egic reality may be in the making. The picture remains murky, and it is far= too early to declare that a durable deterrence framework has been establis= hed. Much will depend on future Israeli actions, Iranian responses, and the= degree to which both sides internalize the risks of escalation.

But if I= srael now has to weigh the prospect of direct Iranian retaliation before st= riking Lebanon, then something important has changed. Whether that change p= roves temporary or enduring remains to be seen.

The next question is whet= her this emerging equation can be translated into renewed momentum for U.S.= -Iran diplomacy.

The Iranians believe that their action demonstrated to t= he US that the value of the Memorandum is so low that Iran is willing to ri= sk a complete collapse of diplomacy. The hope is that Trump yields on what = appears to be the last sticking point in the talks, which is the release of= $12 billion of Iranian frozen assets.

Trump, on the other hand, may calc= ulate that the exchange of fire demonstrated both the cost to Iran if full-= scale war were to break out again, as well as Trump's ability to impose= certain restraints on the Israelis. As a result, the Iranians should feel = confident in Trump=E2=80=99s ability to deliver on his end of the bargain a= nd not insist on the release of the assets at the outset of the MOU.

But = all sides should be aware: If no movement is achieved in the next 72 hours,= Netanyahu may once again feel emboldened to attempt another sabotage of th= e talks. How many flare-ups can this diplomatic process absorb before it co= llapses?


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Trita Parsi
Trita Parsi is the co-founder an= d Executive Vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecra= ft.
The views expressed by authors on Responsi= ble Statecraft do not necessarily reflect those of the Quincy Institute or = its associates.
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Abir Sultan / EPA* *Published: June 8, 2026 8:11am EDT* *Iran fired barrages of missiles at Israel for the first time in two months on June 7. The initial trigger was an Israeli strike against a Hezbollah target in the Lebanese capital of Beirut earlier that day, an attack that Donald Trump had only recently asked the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to avoid carrying out.* *Israel=E2=80=99s military soon launched retaliatory strikes on targets in western and central Iran, again defying calls by Trump for restraint. Iran subsequently launched fresh strikes of its own, before the Iranian military announced it was bringing its attacks to an end. In a statement , Iran warned it would carry out a =E2=80=9Cmore severe=E2=80=9D response if Israe= l=E2=80=99s attacks on Lebanon continue.* *What caught my attention about this round of fighting is the geopolitical context in which it has occurred. Iran is trying to establish a new regional order, based on new rules. And it might just pull it off.* *The first notable feature of this order is that Iran dictates to Israel and the US what they may and may not do. Iran started this latest round of fighting not because of an attack on Iranian territory, but as an attempt to dictate Israeli military actions in Lebanon. * *Six months ago, Israel could do as it pleased in Lebanon without Iranian intervention. Now, thanks to Trump and Netanyahu=E2=80=99s war, Tehran feel= s empowered enough to try and place limits on Israeli action on Israel=E2=80= =99s own borders.* *We have seen, somewhat more obliquely, the same principle apply in the Strait of Hormuz over the past month or so. Iran established a chokehold over the vital waterway shortly after the start of the war in late February. And it has no intention of letting its control go.* *This, too, is part of Iran=E2=80=99s new regional order. It is telling its opponents: do as we say or we tighten our stranglehold on the global economy. For now at least, US actions show that Washington would rather accept the continued existence of this reality than fight to change it.* [image: People wave Iranian and Hezbollah flags during a rally in Tehran.] *People wave Iranian and Hezbollah flags during a rally in Valiasr square, Tehran, on June 7 following Iran=E2=80=99s attack on Israel. Abedin Taherke= nareh / EPA* *A second aspect of the new regional order is Iran=E2=80=99s expanding ways= of inflicting pain on its enemies in order to force acceptance of this new world. Iran has established that it can rain missiles on Israel, strike infrastructure across the Gulf states, kill American soldiers and choke the global economy of oil, all without facing a realistic attempt at regime change.* *Iran also still has many cards in its pocket. These range from expanding the scope of energy and desalination targets it hits across the Gulf to activating the Houthis to block energy traffic in the Red Sea. The Houthis have announced a ban on Israeli shipping in the Red Sea following the latest escalation.* *The US has threatened many times now to attack Iranian civilian infrastructure, invade its Kharg island export terminal or to escort ships through Hormuz. However, it has backed down from all of them out of fear of the consequences.* Strained US-Israeli ties *The third feature of the new regional order is that Israel and the US no longer march in lockstep. Trump responded to Iran=E2=80=99s attack on Israe= l by emphasising that his priority was to stop Israel from retaliating. =E2=80=9CI am going to call Bibi right now and tell him n= ot to retaliate,=E2=80=9D he said following the initial Iranian strikes.* *Netanyahu has managed to manoeuvre Israel into a position in which a Republican president is telling him not to respond to incoming Iranian missile barrages targeting Israeli civilians. This situation would scarcely have been believable six months ago.* *Separating Israel from the US is a longstanding dream of Tehran. So far at least, there is no hint that Trump is threatening to withhold missile interceptor defences from Israel over the resumption in hostilities. But even while keeping American defensive aid, it would be very difficult for Israel to sustain further conflict with Iran. * *Hunting missiles launchers would alone prove a challenge, because Israeli air power would be stretched much more thinly without American assistance in hitting targets. If the northern front against Hezbollah remains active as well, the Israeli military=E2=80=99s resources will be even more straine= d.* *And for how long is the US going to accept running down its missile interceptor stocks in order to defend Israel from a bout of warfare that its famously mercurial president told the country not to start? In the short term, perhaps for a while. But over the longer term, it is not sustainable for the US to dedicate a substantial portion of its missile defences to protecting Israel. * [image: A missile crosses the night sky over the West Bank city of Nablus.] *A missile crosses the night sky over the West Bank city of Nablus on June 7. Alaa Badarneh / EPA* *The fourth and final feature of the new regional order is that peace seems impossible to imagine. Netanyahu cannot accept an Iranian veto over Israel=E2=80=99s actions in Lebanon, nor absorb the implications for Israel= i deterrence if he lets attacks from Iran go unanswered. * *Trump cannot get his peace deal with Iran while Israel is bombing Lebanon. And Iran has the incentive to keep pushing for more, inflicting more costs on its opponents, because in the new regional order it can do so without many consequences. * *This is the result of a disastrous war of choice which will go down as one of the most ill-conceived in American history.* --0000000000003a68d20653d3039a Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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Iran=E2=80=99s attacks on Israel were an attempt to shape= the region on its own terms =E2=80=93 and it might just do=C2=A0so

Andrew Gawthorpe=C2=A0Publis= hed: June 8, 2026=C2=A0

An Israeli man looks at the remains of an Iranian bal= listic missile that landed in a field next to the West Bank settlement of M= evo'ot Yericho on June 8.=C2=A0A= bir Sultan / EPA

P= ublished: June 8, 2026 8:11am EDT

Iran fired = barrages of missiles at Israel for the first time in two months on June 7. = The initial trigger was an Israeli strike against a Hezbollah target in the= Lebanese capital of Beirut earlier that day, an attack that Donald Trump h= ad only recently asked the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to a= void carrying out.

Israel=E2=80=99s military soon= =C2=A0launched retalia= tory strikes=C2=A0on targets in western and central Iran, = again defying calls by Trump for restraint.=C2=A0Iran=C2=A0subsequently la= unched fresh strikes of its own, before the Iranian military announced it w= as bringing its attacks to an end. In a=C2=A0statement, Iran warned = it would carry out a =E2=80=9Cmore severe=E2=80=9D response if Israel=E2=80= =99s attacks on Lebanon continue.

What caught my attentio= n about this round of fighting is the geopolitical context in which it has = occurred. Iran is trying to establish a new regional order, based on new ru= les. And it might just pull it off.

The first notable fea= ture of this order is that Iran dictates to Israel and the US what they may= and may not do. Iran started this latest round of fighting not because of = an attack on Iranian territory, but as an attempt to dictate Israeli milita= ry actions in Lebanon.=C2=A0

Six months ago,= Israel could do as it pleased in Lebanon without Iranian intervention. Now= , thanks to Trump and Netanyahu=E2=80=99s war, Tehran feels empowered enoug= h to try and place limits on Israeli action on Israel=E2=80=99s own borders= .

We have seen, somewhat more obliquely, the same princip= le apply in the Strait of Hormuz over the past month or so. Iran establishe= d a chokehold over the vital waterway shortly after the start of the war in= late February. And it=C2=A0has no intention=C2=A0of letting its = control go.

This, too, is part of Iran=E2=80=99s new regi= onal order. It is telling its opponents: do as we say or we tighten our str= anglehold on the global economy. For now at least, US actions show that Was= hington would rather accept the continued existence of this reality than fi= ght to change it.

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People w= ave Iranian and Hezbollah flags during a rally in Valiasr square, Tehran, o= n June 7 following Iran=E2=80=99s attack on Israel.=C2=A0Abedin Taherkenareh / EPA<= /b>

A second aspect of the new regional order is Iran=E2=80=99s expandin= g ways of inflicting pain on its enemies in order to force acceptance of th= is new world. Iran has established that it can rain missiles on Israel, str= ike infrastructure across the Gulf states,=C2=A0kill American soldiers= =C2=A0and choke the global economy of oil, all without fac= ing a realistic attempt at regime change.

Iran also still= has many cards in its pocket. These range from expanding the scope of ener= gy and desalination targets it hits across the Gulf to activating the Houth= is to block energy traffic in the Red Sea. The Houthis have=C2=A0announced a ban=C2=A0<= /span>on Israeli shipping in the Red Sea following the latest escalation.

The US has threatened many times now to attack Iranian civ= ilian infrastructure, invade its Kharg island export terminal or to escort = ships through Hormuz. However, it has backed down from all of them out of f= ear of the consequences.

Strained US-Israeli tie= s

The third feature of the new regional order is that Israel= and the US no longer march in lockstep. Trump responded to Iran=E2=80=99s = attack on Israel by emphasising that his priority=C2=A0was to stop= =C2=A0Israel from retaliating. =E2=80=9CI am going to call Bib= i right now and tell him not to retaliate,=E2=80=9D he said following the i= nitial Iranian strikes.

Netanyahu has managed to manoeuvr= e Israel into a position in which a Republican president is telling him not= to respond to incoming Iranian missile barrages targeting Israeli civilian= s. This situation would scarcely have been believable six months ago.

Separating Israel from the US is a longstanding dream of Tehra= n. So far at least, there is no hint that Trump is threatening to withhold<= span>=C2=A0missi= le interceptor defences=C2=A0from Israel over the resumpti= on in hostilities. But even while keeping American defensive aid, it would = be very difficult for Israel to sustain further conflict with Iran.= =C2=A0

Hunting missiles launchers would alone prov= e a challenge, because Israeli air power would be stretched much more thinl= y without American assistance in hitting targets. If the northern front aga= inst Hezbollah remains active as well, the Israeli military=E2=80=99s resou= rces will be even more strained.

= And for how long is the = US going to accept running down its missile interceptor stocks in order to = defend Israel from a bout of warfare that its famously mercurial president = told the country not to start? In the short term, perhaps for a while. But = over the longer term, it is not sustainable for the US to dedicate a substa= ntial portion of its missile defences to protecting Israel.=C2=A0

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A missile crosses the = night sky over the West Bank city of Nablus on June 7.=C2=A0= Alaa Badarneh / EPA=

The fourth and final feature of the new regional order is that peace se= ems impossible to imagine. Netanyahu cannot accept an Iranian veto over Isr= ael=E2=80=99s actions in Lebanon, nor absorb the implications for Israeli d= eterrence if he lets attacks from Iran go unanswered.=C2=A0

Trump cannot get his peace deal with Iran while Israel is b= ombing Lebanon. And Iran has the incentive to keep pushing for more, inflic= ting more costs on its opponents, because in the new regional order it can = do so without many consequences.=C2=A0

This= is the result of a disastrous war of choice which will go down as one of t= he most ill-conceived in American history.


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Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:25:41 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: From: Chas Freeman Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 11:25:24 -0400 X-Gm-Features: AVVi8CfYGoFtvUx1iCyz2ht422JfklBi70UCGKOMcyMRuod30dSC6JqfA1f9VW4 Message-ID: To: "salon@listserve.com" Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0000000000006f267c0653d3bdb2" Subject: [Salon] Iran takes its chances with war X-BeenThere: salon@listserve.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion List for the Committee For The Republic List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:25:44 -0000 --0000000000006f267c0653d3bdb2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable *https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/06/08/iran-takes-its-chances-with-w= ar/ * *Iran takes its chances with war* *Alastair Crooke 6/8/26* *The U.S. war with Iran has moved beyond its initial phase to an emerging new one =E2=80=94 one in which Iran implicitly stakes its chances on the ne= xt phase being war. Most likely this will be in abbreviated episodes of limited war, but possessing nevertheless a potential to widen regionally, should the U.S. (and Israel) elect to sharply escalate.* *The new phase involves risk of course, yet Iran holds the high cards of an ability to impose disproportionately heavier damage upon Gulf infrastructure as retaliation for any hurt inflicted upon it =E2=80=94 and = the awareness that the West is edging ever closer to dropping off the energy =E2=80=98cliff=E2=80=99.* *The three pillars underlying this shift are firstly, confidence that Iran will not (and cannot) be shifted from its hold over Hormuz, and that in consolidating its administrative structures there, the reality of Iran=E2=80=99s hold over Ho= rmuz will increasingly be assimilated by states, and reflected in their coming to terms with Iranian-Omani control.* *Associated with this core principle is Iran=E2=80=99s implementation of es= calated deterrence vis =C3=A1 vi= s the American naval blockade. Any attempt to intercept or attack Iranian vessels or interfere with the Strait=E2=80=99s administration will be met with incr= easingly harsher ripostes. Ultimately this policy may lead to Iran imposing increasing levels of damage to U.S. naval vessels =E2=80=93 another frictio= n point.* *On 3 June, for example, the U.S. fired a hellfire missile at an Iranian oil tanker near the Strait of Hormuz. In response, a U.S.-owned (or partly-owned) ship, The Panaya, was struck with missiles. Additionally Iran launched three waves of cruise missiles at the U.S. air and helicopter base in Kuwait from where the attack had originated. Images have emerged of serious damage at Kuwait international airport too (although the cause of the damage remains disputed).* *The second underlying principle affecting this shift simply reflects Iranian disdain for Trump=E2=80=99s continuous inflating of demands, exagge= rated threats (which palpably fall short of U.S. capacities), together with his continual zigzagging and contemptuous rhetoric towards Iran.* *The Iranian leadership has concluded, it seems, that compromise will likely not be forthcoming, and that it is better to cut the =E2=80=98negoti= ations=E2=80=99 rather =E2=80=9Cthan continue the pointless bad-faith negotiations with a d= eceitful and decrepit American regime=E2=80=9D, as the New York Timeshas termed the = Iran =E2=80=98negotiations=E2=80=99 =E2=80=94 suggesting that the =E2=80=98deal chaos=E2=80=99 is not a singular glitch by Trump confined= to the Iran issue, but rather is a consistent pattern of dysfunctionality repeating itself across virtually all of Trump=E2=80=99s =E2=80=98peace=E2=80=99 init= iatives.* *Behind Iran=E2=80=99s decision to suspend talks however, likely lies the g= radually dawning clarity, seeping out from Israeli and American statements and analysis , that the true objective of the 28 February U.S.-Israeli sneak attack was never regime change per se =E2=80=94 aiming to swap out Iranian =E2=80=98ha= rdliners=E2=80=99 for a =E2=80=98Delcy Rodrigues=E2=80=99-style more moderate leader; but was inten= ded rather, to bring about Iran=E2=80=99s complete destruction and fracturing =E2=80=94 an= insight that was bound to shift Iran=E2=80=99s calculus.* *This insight has consolidated public support for the Islamic Republic hugely, and at the same time has turned the war into an existential struggle to preserve the ethical values of the Revolution. Seen from this optic, there is little for Iran to discuss with Trump, bar some future modus vivendi =E2=80=94 as and when, Washington understands that it = is boxed in, and that new realism takes a hold.* *The third principle undergirding this new phase of conflict is the one enunciated by Iran from the outset of the Islamabad talks: =E2=80=98Ceasefi= re for all; or ceasefire for no one=E2=80=99. This was again re-emphasised in Iran=E2=80=99s latest ultimatum to Trump: =E2=80=98If the Israeli threats from last week to flatten the Beirut southern suburb of Dahiyeh had been executed, then Iran would have stricken northern Israel hard with its missiles. =E2=80=98It was a ceasefire for all= =E2=80=93 or no ceasefire=E2=80=99. * *Trump chose the ceasefire, and subsequent to his call with Netanyahu, announced that it was in effect. He told Netanyahu to cancel his planned bombing of Dahiyeh in south Beirut. In Israel, a massive wave of anger from all sides of the political spectrum attacked Netanyahu at the very notion of curbing any Israeli attacks in Lebanon. Former PM Naftali Bennett accused Netanyahu of =E2=80=98losing control over= Israeli sovereignty=E2=80=99. And former PM Yair Lapid said Israel had been reduced= to a =E2=80=9Cvassal state=E2=80=9D after the strikes were called off.* *The U.S. and Israel for some months have been attempting to bring a segment of leaders in Lebanon to accept the task of disarming Hizbullah, as Rubio explained, =E2=80=9Cso Israel doesn=E2=80=99t have to do it=E2=80=9D = =E2=80=94 something Lebanese leaders clearly cannot do .* *Israel has no coherent Lebanon strategy. Former senior Israeli military intelligence officer, Danny Citrinowicz, outlines a new strategic =E2=80=9CIranian achievement=E2=80=9D: * *=E2=80=9CTehran has effectively succeeded in linking the Lebanese front to= the broader Iranian-Israeli arena. Any escalation in Lebanon is now increasingly viewed through the prism of the U.S.-Iran dynamic=E2=80=9D.* *Nevertheless, he observes:* *=E2=80=9CThe situation in Lebanon remains highly unstable. Israel and Hezb= ollah continue to interpret the current understandings in fundamentally different ways. [Whilst] Israel maintains that it retains freedom of action across Lebanon except Beirut, Hezbollah [on the other hand] insists that any Israeli military activity =E2=80=93 at all =E2=80=93 violates the ceasefire= framework. These competing interpretations create significant potential for renewed friction and escalation on the ground=E2=80=9D. * *In Israel, the situation in northern towns remains neuralgic for nearly all Israelis. Many towns along the Lebanon border and down into the Galilee are half-empty =E2=80= =94 =E2=80=9Centire swaths of land abandoned by [the] government=E2=80=9D, writ= es Ben Caspit. Local politicians claim that they =E2=80=98are Israelis too=E2=80=99 and th= at the government must respond.* *Lebanon is certain to remain a point of contention. It is not a matter of if, but when, the next crisis will strike. Israel will not let the matter stand =E2=80=94 even Liberal opposition leaders demand Hizbullah=E2=80=99s = destruction and protest Trump=E2=80=99s tying of Netanyahu=E2=80=99s hands in Lebanon.* *Iran will not let matters stand either. Mediators have informed the Americans that Iran considers an end to the war on Lebanon, withdrawal of Israeli forces, and a withdrawal from Hormuz, to be binding conditions =E2= =80=94 before discussing other issues.* *So, here we are. The military skirmishes =E2=80=94 effectively an abbrevia= ted series of strikes by U.S. forces on Iranian shipping and Strait infrastructure, arising from Trump=E2=80=99s desire to assert its naval blo= ckade to U.S. public opinion =E2=80=94 continue. This situation is clearly flammable= =E2=80=93 just as is the Lebanon context.* *Iran effectively is acknowledging the reality that in this new phase =E2= =80=94 with so many inherent flash points to it =E2=80=94 American military escala= tion at some point likely will become a political necessity for Trump=E2=80=99s dom= estic and Jewish financers=E2=80=99 needs.* *And the negotiations? They will go nowhere so long as Israel and the U.S. Jewish billionaire donors reject any Iran outcome that leaves Iran both intact and stronger and =E2=80=94 pari passu = in this binary thinking =E2=80=94 the =E2=80=98Israel First=E2=80=99 project within= the U.S. and the region correspondingly weakened.* *A deal that doesn=E2=80=99t see Iran irretrievably weakened will be condem= ned by these latter forces as a =E2=80=98treasonous dereliction=E2=80=99 by Trump.= He will be attacked mercilessly. Yet, he must see that Iran is anyway on the cusp of throwing off the U.S. shackles.* *This phase of the Iranian conflict likely will only end when the West falls off the approaching economic cliff =E2=80=A6* --0000000000006f267c0653d3bdb2 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/06/08/ira= n-takes-its-chances-with-war/

Iran takes i= ts chances with war

Alas= tair Crooke=C2=A0 6/8/26

<= font face=3D"georgia, serif" color=3D"#000000">The U.S. war with Iran ha= s moved beyond its initial phase to an emerging new one =E2=80=94 one in wh= ich Iran implicitly stakes its chances on the next phase being=C2=A0<= /span>war.=C2=A0Most likely = this will be in abbreviated episodes of limited war, but possessing neverth= eless a potential to widen regionally, should the U.S. (and Israel) elect t= o sharply escalate.

The new phase involves risk of course= , yet Iran holds the high cards of an ability to impose disproportionately = heavier damage upon Gulf infrastructure as retaliation for any hurt inflict= ed upon it =E2=80=94 and the awareness that the West is edging ever closer = to dropping off the energy =E2=80=98cliff=E2=80=99.

The = three pillars underlying this shift are firstly, confidence that Iran will = not (and cannot) be shifted from its hold over Hormuz, and that in=C2= =A0consolidating=C2=A0its administrative structures there, the reality of Iran=E2= =80=99s hold over Hormuz will increasingly be assimilated by states, and re= flected in their coming to terms with Iranian-Omani control.

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Associated with this core principle is Iran=E2=80=99s implementation of= =C2=A0escalated deterrence=C2=A0vis =C3=A1 vis the American naval blockade. Any attempt to in= tercept or attack Iranian vessels or interfere with the Strait=E2=80=99s ad= ministration will be met with increasingly harsher ripostes. Ultimately thi= s policy may lead to Iran imposing increasing levels of damage to U.S. nava= l vessels =E2=80=93 another friction point.

On 3 June, fo= r example, the U.S. fired a hellfire missile at an Iranian oil tanker near = the Strait of Hormuz. In response, a U.S.-owned (or partly-owned) ship,=C2=A0The=C2=A0Panaya, was struck with missiles. Additionall= y Iran launched three waves of cruise missiles at the U.S. air and helicopt= er base in Kuwait=C2=A0from where=C2=A0the attack had originated. Images h= ave emerged of serious damage at Kuwait international airport too (although= the cause of the damage remains disputed).

The second un= derlying principle affecting this shift simply reflects Iranian disdain for= Trump=E2=80=99s continuous inflating of demands, exaggerated threats (whic= h palpably fall short of U.S. capacities), together with his continual zigz= agging and contemptuous rhetoric towards Iran.

The Irania= n leadership has concluded, it seems, that compromise will likely not be fo= rthcoming, and that it is better to cut the =E2=80=98negotiations=E2=80=99 = rather=C2=A0=E2=80=9Cthan continu= e the pointless bad-faith negotiations with a deceitful and decrepit Americ= an regime=E2=80=9D, as the=C2=A0New York Timeshas termed the Iran =E2=80=98negotiations=E2=80=99 = =E2=80=94=C2=A0suggesting=C2=A0that the =E2= =80=98deal chaos=E2=80=99 is not a singular glitch by Trump confined to the= Iran issue, but rather is a consistent pattern of dysfunctionality repeati= ng itself across virtually all of Trump=E2=80=99s =E2=80=98peace=E2=80=99 i= nitiatives.

Behind Iran=E2=80=99s decision to suspend tal= ks however, likely lies the gradually dawning clarity, seeping out from Isr= aeli and American statements and=C2=A0analysis, that the true objective of the 28 February U.S.-Isra= eli sneak attack was never regime change=C2=A0per se =E2=80=94=C2=A0aiming to swap out Ira= nian =E2=80=98hardliners=E2=80=99 for a =E2=80=98Delcy Rodrigues=E2=80=99-s= tyle more moderate leader; but was intended rather, to bring about Iran=E2= =80=99s complete destruction and fracturing =E2=80=94 an insight that was b= ound to shift Iran=E2=80=99s calculus.

This insight has c= onsolidated public support for the Islamic Republic hugely, and at the same= time has turned the war into an existential struggle to preserve the ethic= al values of the Revolution. Seen from this optic, there is little for Iran= to discuss with Trump, bar some future=C2=A0modus vivendi=C2=A0=E2=80=94 as and when, Was= hington understands that it is boxed in, and that new realism takes a hold.=

The third principle undergirding this new phase of confl= ict is the one enunciated by Iran from the outset of the Islamabad talks: = =E2=80=98Ceasefire for all; or ceasefire for no one=E2=80=99. This was agai= n re-emphasised in Iran=E2=80=99s=C2=A0latest ultimatum=C2=A0to Trump: = =E2=80=98If the Israeli threats from last week to flatten the Beirut southe= rn suburb of Dahiyeh had been executed, then Iran would have stricken north= ern Israel hard with its missiles.=C2=A0= =E2=80=98It was a ceasefire for all =E2=80=93 or no ceasefire=E2=80= =99.=C2=A0

Trump chose the=C2=A0<= /span>ceasefire,=C2=A0and su= bsequent to his call with Netanyahu, announced that it was in effect. He to= ld Netanyahu=C2=A0to cancel=C2=A0his planned bombing of= Dahiyeh in south Beirut. In Israel, a massive wave of anger from=C2= =A0all sides of the political spectrum=C2=A0attacked Netan= yahu at the very notion of curbing any Israeli attacks in Lebanon. Former P= M Naftali Bennett accused Netanyahu of =E2=80=98losing control over Israeli= sovereignty=E2=80=99. And former PM Yair Lapid said Israel had been reduce= d to a =E2=80=9Cvassal state=E2=80=9D after the strikes were called off.

The U.S. and Israel for some months have been attempting to= bring a segment of leaders in Lebanon to accept the task of disarming Hizb= ullah, as Rubio explained,=C2=A0= =E2=80=9Cso Israel doesn=E2=80=99t have to do it=E2=80=9D=C2=A0<= /span>=E2=80=94 something Lebanese leaders=C2=A0clearly cannot do.

=

Israel has no coherent Lebanon strategy. Former senior Israeli military= intelligence officer, Danny Citrinowicz,=C2=A0outlines= =C2=A0a new strategic=C2=A0=E2=80=9CIranian achievement=E2=80=9D:=C2=A0<= /p>

=E2=80=9CTehran has effectively succeed= ed in linking the Lebanese front to the broader Iranian-Israeli arena. Any = escalation in Lebanon is now increasingly viewed through the prism of the U= .S.-Iran dynamic=E2=80=9D.

<= font face=3D"georgia, serif" color=3D"#000000">Nevertheless, he observes= :

=E2=80=9CThe situation in = Lebanon remains highly unstable. Israel and Hezbollah continue to interpret= the current understandings in fundamentally different ways. [Whilst] Israe= l maintains that it retains freedom of action across Lebanon except Beirut,= Hezbollah [on the other hand] insists that any Israeli military activity = =E2=80=93 at all =E2=80=93 violates the ceasefire framework. These competin= g interpretations create significant potential for renewed friction and esc= alation on the ground=E2=80=9D.=C2=A0

I= n Israel, the situation in northern towns remains neuralgic for nearly all = Israelis. Many towns along the Lebanon border and down into the Galilee are= =C2=A0half-empty=C2=A0=E2=80=94 =E2=80=9Centire swaths of land abandoned by [the] government=E2=80=9D, writes Ben Caspit. Local politicians claim that they =E2=80=98a= re Israelis too=E2=80=99 and that the government must respond.

Lebanon is certain to remain a point of contention. It is not a matte= r of if, but when, the next crisis will strike. Israel will not let the mat= ter stand =E2=80=94 even Liberal opposition leaders demand Hizbullah=E2=80= =99s destruction and protest Trump=E2=80=99s tying of Netanyahu=E2=80=99s h= ands in Lebanon.

Iran will not let matters stand either. = Mediators have informed the Americans that Iran considers an end to the war= on Lebanon, withdrawal of Israeli forces, and a withdrawal from Hormuz, to= be binding conditions =E2=80=94 before discussing other issues.=

So, here we are. The military skirmishes =E2=80=94 effectively an a= bbreviated series of strikes by U.S. forces on Iranian shipping and Strait = infrastructure, arising from Trump=E2=80=99s desire to assert its naval blo= ckade to U.S. public opinion =E2=80=94 continue. This situation is clearly = flammable =E2=80=93 just as is the Lebanon context.

Iran= effectively is acknowledging the reality that in this new phase =E2=80=94 = with so many inherent flash points to it =E2=80=94 American military escala= tion at some point likely will become a political necessity for Trump=E2=80= =99s domestic and Jewish financers=E2=80=99 needs.

And = the negotiations? They will go nowhere so long as Israel and the=C2= =A0U.S. Jewish billionaire donors=C2=A0reject any= Iran outcome that leaves Iran both intact and stronger and =E2=80=94= =C2=A0pari passu=C2=A0in this binary thinking =E2=80=94 the =E2=80=98Israel First=E2=80=99 proje= ct within the U.S. and the region correspondingly weakened.

<= p style=3D"max-width:100%">= A deal that doesn=E2=80=99t see Iran irretrievably weakened will be cond= emned by these latter forces as a =E2=80=98treasonous dereliction=E2=80=99 = by Trump. He will be attacked mercilessly. Yet, he must see that Iran is an= yway on the cusp of throwing off the U.S. shackles.

This= phase of the Iranian conflict likely will only end when the West=C2= =A0falls off=C2=A0the approaching economic cliff =E2= =80=A6

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Subscribed Lebanon - *Killed and wounded:* At least 3,666 people have been killed, and 11,321 wounded, in Israeli attacks on Lebanon since March 2, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry. Over 29 people were killed, and 133 wounded, i= n Israeli strikes during the past 24 hours. - *Israel continues attacks on southern Lebanon despite =E2=80=9Cceasefire= =E2=80=9D and Iranian warnings:* - *Strikes and forced displacement in Tyre (Sour): *At least 13 people were killed and 45 others wounded in Israeli attacks on the southern Lebanese city of Tyre over the past 24 hours, according to the state= =E2=80=99s National News Agency. An Israeli airstrike on the al-Masaken neighbourhood Tuesday killed eight people and injured 32 others, with rescue teams continuing to search through the rubble, while a separate strike on a building in the al-Raml district wounded five more people. The Israeli military also issued a forced displacement order for residents of Tyre, including its hist= oric Christian quarter, nearby neighbourhoods and refugee camps. A separat= e Israeli strike on Tyre on Monday, near a Red Cross center, killed fiv= e people and wounded eight, including four Red Cross paramedics. - *=E2=80=9CDouble-tap=E2=80=9D attack on Civil Defense:* The Israeli m= ilitary carried out a double-tap strike on the southern Lebanese town of Sharqiyeh on Tuesday, hitting civil defense workers who had responded to evacuate an injure= d person, wounding the two rescuers, Lebanon=E2=80=99s civil defense ag= ency said. More than 100 rescuers have been killed in Israeli attacks in Lebanon since March 2. - *Strikes across the south: *A wave of Israeli attacks on towns in southern Lebanon killed at least four people on Tuesday, including an attack in front of a house in Habboush which killed one, and a drone strike on Kfar Reman which kil= led two, Lebanon=E2=80=99s National News Agency reported. - *Hezbollah and Ansarallah launch drones toward Israel: *Hezbollah and Ansarallah forces launched drones toward Israel on Monday, with Hezbollah drones crossing into northern Israel, despite Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz having war= ned earlier in the day that further attacks on northern Israel would trigger new strikes on Beirut=E2=80=99s southern suburbs. - *Hezbollah continues attacks against Israeli forces in southern Lebanon: *Hezbollah claimed at least 16 attacks against Israeli forces Monday, nine of them concentrated around Yohmor al-Shaqif in Lebanon=E2=80=99s Nabatieh Gover= norate, in what local reporting described as an effort to repel an Israeli advance toward Kfar Tibnit. - Hezbollah also reported that it struck an Israeli military bulldozer with artillery and a guided missile, targeted multiple troop concentrations, and forced an Israeli Hermes 450 drone to retreat wit= h a surface-to-air missile over the Iqlim al-Tuffah region. - *Hezbollah says Iran=E2=80=99s missile response is a =E2=80=9Cmessage of= commitment=E2=80=9D to Lebanon: *In its first statement since Iran=E2=80=99s missile response f= ollowing Israel=E2=80=99s strikes on Beirut, Hezbollah praised Iran=E2=80=99s str= ikes as =E2=80=9Ca message of moral, political and field commitment=E2=80=9D to Lebanon. The Irania= n response confirms that the priority for regional stability =E2=80=9Cis to ensure = compliance with agreements by the Israeli enemy, before anyone else,=E2=80=9D the g= roup said in a statement, noting also the support from Yemen=E2=80=99s Ansarallah = movement. Hezbollah called for Lebanese authorities to improve official ties with Tehran and =E2=80=9Cbenefit from this support to achieve national goals,= =E2=80=9D including withdrawal of Israeli forces, the return of displaced people and post-wa= r reconstruction. - *Pakistani and Lebanese army chiefs meet: *Lebanese army chief Rodolphe Haykal met with Pakistani field marshal Asim Munir in Rawalpindi on Tuesday to disc= uss defense cooperation, Pakistan=E2=80=99s military said, as Pakistan conti= nues to mediate between the United States and Iran to end their ongoing conflict= . Munir =E2=80=9Cunderscored [the] Pakistan Army=E2=80=99s commitment to e= xpanding defence collaboration with the Lebanese Armed Forces,=E2=80=9D according to a re= adout from the meeting. The latest =E2=80=9Cceasefire=E2=80=9D agreement betwe= en Israel and the Lebanese government states the United States would help guide the creati= on of =E2=80=9Cpilot zones=E2=80=9D in Lebanon, =E2=80=9Cin which the Leban= ese Armed Forces will take exclusive control=E2=80=A6to the exclusion of all non-state actors,=E2= =80=9D referring to Hezbollah. - *Lebanese turtle conservationist wounded in Israeli airstrike: *Mona Khalil, a pioneering Lebanese marine turtle conservationist who founded = the Orange House Project on Mansouri Beach in southern Lebanon, was wounded = in an Israeli airstrike on her home Thursday. Khalil underwent surgery for severe injuries, including a serious abdominal wound, before her conditi= on stabilized Friday, according to Lebanese media and the NGO Green Southerners. =E2=80=9CFor more than two decades, her efforts helped tran= sform this relatively small stretch of coastline into one of the most important sea turtle nesting sites on the eastern Mediterranean coast,=E2=80=9D the NG= O told the New Arab. Palestine - *Killed and wounded: *Over the last 24 hours, eight Palestinians were killed=E2=80=94seven in new attacks, and one due to wounds sustained in = an earlier attack=E2=80=94and 43 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza. The total = recorded death toll since October 7, 2023 has risen to 72,988 killed, with 173,20= 5 injured. Since October 11, the first full day of the so-called ceasefire= , Israel has killed at least 978 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded 3,097, while 782 bodies have been recovered from under the rubble, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. - *Israeli forces detain Gaza ambulance workers, Health Ministry says: *Israeli soldiers detained seven ambulance workers from the Palestinian Red Cresc= ent Society on Tuesday while they were carrying out their humanitarian dutie= s on Salah al-Din Street in Gaza, according to the Strip=E2=80=99s Health = Ministry. In a statement, the ministry condemned the detention and said five of th= e medics were released following questioning, while two are still being he= ld by Israeli forces. - *Nine Palestinian fishermen detained by Israel off Gaza coast: *The Israeli navy arrested nine Palestinian fishermen working off the coasts of Gaza City and Deir el-Balah on Tuesday, taking them to an unknown location, according to Wa= fa and Gaza fishermen=E2=80=99s committees. The detentions come amid ongoin= g Israeli attacks targeting Gaza=E2=80=99s fishing sector, including, shootings, d= etention and the confiscation of boats and fishing equipment. At least 238 fisher= men have been killed by Israeli forces since October 2023. - *Israel reopens Gaza crossings after two-day closure: *Israel=E2=80=99s = military coordination agency COGAT said the Kerem Shalom crossing will reopen on Tuesday for the gradual entry o= f humanitarian aid into Gaza after being shut during the recent Iran=E2=80= =93Israel escalation. It also said the Rafah crossing will resume limited two-way movement of people under the previous operating mechanism, in coordinati= on with Egypt and the World Health Organization. The announcement follows a suspension of aid deliveries and medical evacuations on Sunday, which le= ft thousands of patients unable to leave Gaza for treatment. Israel continu= es to heavily restrict the entry of essential supplies and movement through crossings, with only 36.3% of the agreed volume of aid and commercial trucks allowed into the enclave, according to Palestinian reports. - *Israel continues assault on West Bank: *Israeli forces carried out raids and arrests across multiple occupied West Bank cities and towns Tuesday, storming Bethlehem, Tulkarem, and the village of Husan with =E2=80=9Chea= vy machinery.=E2=80=9D - In another incident, Israeli bulldozers destroyed the main water pipeline east of Tammun town in the Tubas governorate, cutting off water to families, livestock, and crops, according to Wafa. - Israeli authorities also issued demolition notices for 12 homes in Masafer Yatta, settlers vandalized properties belonging to Bedouin residents near Taybeh village in Ramallah, and at least five Palestin= ians were detained across the occupied West Bank. - *Israeli parliament approves expanded deductions from Palestinian tax revenues: *The Knesset approved a law expanding deductions from Palestinian tax revenues collected on behalf of the Palestinian Authority (PA), allowing additional funds to b= e withheld to cover compensation and benefits paid to =E2=80=9CIsraeli vic= tims of Palestinian attacks,=E2=80=9D according to the Times of Israel. The legi= slation authorizes deductions for payments to injured individuals, families of those killed and property damage claims, with any surplus transferred to the Israeli treasury and the measures applied retroactively from January= 1, 2025. Rawhi Fattouh, president of the Palestinian National Council, described the law as an =E2=80=9Corganized act of piracy=E2=80=9D and a =E2=80=9Cb= latant theft=E2=80=9D of Palestinian funds, saying it was part of a systematic effort to =E2=80= =9Cbesiege the PA, dry up its financial resources and weaken its institutions.=E2= =80=9D Israel has withheld all of the PA=E2=80=99s clearance revenues over the past ye= ar, claiming the Authority allocates amounts for =E2=80=9Cterrorists and the= ir families.=E2=80=9D - *Italian prosecutors open investigation into Israeli minister Ben-Gvir: *Italian prosecutors opened an investigation Monday into Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on suspicion of torture and kidnapping of Italian citizens, who were part of the group of activists detained in Israel from the Global Sumud Flotilla, according to a report from The New Arab. The probe follo= ws mounting international backlash over Ben-Gvir=E2=80=99s posting of video= showing detained activists kneeling with their hands bound, which the Italian government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni called =E2=80=9Cunacceptable= =E2=80=9D=E2=80=94leading Italy to summon the Israeli ambassador, push the European Union to consi= der sanctions against Ben-Gvir, and France to ban him from its territory. - *Son of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya says his father=E2=80=99s life is at risk:= *The son of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza who has been held in Israeli detention since December 2024= , warned on Monday that his father=E2=80=99s life is at risk after being transfer= red to solitary confinement in Nafha Prison. Abu Safiya=E2=80=99s son said that= the doctor is being held in a two-meter cell with no food, water, medicine, or acce= ss to his lawyer. The family says his transfer is in direct retaliation for filing a legal appeal with the Israeli Supreme Court. =E2=80=9CHow can a= person be punished for asking why he is being detained?=E2=80=9D his son asked. Iran and Ceasefire - *Two Iranian air defense personnel killed in Monday=E2=80=99s Israeli st= rike: *At least two Iranian air defense personnel were killed in an Israeli attack Monday, with funeral ceremonies scheduled in Tehran for Tuesday, Iran=E2=80=99s state television reported. - *Trump talks Iran, Lebanon in New York City:* - President Donald Trump told reporters on the tarmac of an airport in New York City on Monday that= a deal between Iran and the United States was nearing, saying that =E2=80=9CWe=E2=80=99re in the final throes of what will be a very, very good deal,=E2=80=9D and= that the Strait of Hormuz would =E2=80=9Copen up immediately upon signing.=E2= =80=9D He gave a tentative timeline of =E2=80=9Ctwo or three days=E2=80=9D for the dea= l=E2=80=99s announcement, and said that no =E2=80=9Csticking points=E2=80=9D remained. - Trump also said he did not ask Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to refrain f= rom retaliating for Iran=E2=80=99s strikes on Israel this weekend (which = were retaliations for Israel=E2=80=99s strikes on Beirut) but urged him to= end the fighting in Lebanon as quickly as possible, saying he told the Prime Minister, =E2=80=9CI said do what=E2=80=99s right but I want you to s= top as quickly as you can.=E2=80=9D - *CENTCOM confirms two Apache pilots rescued from Strait of Hormuz after helicopter crash: *U.S. Central Command confirmed Tuesday that two U.S. Army AH-64 Apache helicopter pilots who crashed into the Strait of Hormuz were recovered within approximately two hours and are in stable condition. The crew was retrieved by an unmanned maritime drone, an unnamed U.S. official told ABC News. The cause of the crash is und= er investigation. World Cup 2026 - *Visa denials and border detentions shadow World Cup: *A pattern of visa denials and border incidents has emerged in the run-up to the World Cup in the United States, which it will host alongside Mexico and Canada. - Iran says around 15 members of its technical and support staff were denied U.S. visas, with several officials remaining in Mexico. The team has, as a result, relocated its training base from Arizona to Tijuana, Mexico, forcing it to maintain a cross-border commute for much of the tournament. - Iran=E2=80=99s football federation announced Tuesday that the United States revoked its allocated ticket quota for it= s World Cup group-stage matches against New Zealand, Belgium, and Egypt=E2= =80=94all scheduled to be held on U.S. soil=E2=80=94leaving the federation unable = to distribute tickets to supporters who had already begun making travel arrangements. The federation notes that this is a violation of FIFA regulations entitling participating federations to eight percent of tick= ets per match - Iraqi striker Aymen Hussein was detained for nearly seven hours at Chicago=E2=80=99s O=E2=80=99Hare Airport, and = the team=E2=80=99s photographer was denied entry outright over unspecified =E2=80=9Cvetting= concerns,=E2=80=9D according to the Chicago Sun Times. - Members of Senegal=E2=80=99s national football team appeared to undergo unusually strict security screening after arriving in the United States = for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, according to the Anadolu Agency. Footage appear= s to show players being individually searched on the airport tarmac before entering the terminal. - At least 40 Moroccan supporters were denied U.S. visas without reason, despite having purchased packages and despite their group having traveled to the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. - FIFA-appointed Somali referee Omar Artan was denied entry to the U.S. at Miami International Airport on Saturday over =E2=80=9Cvetting concerns,= =E2=80=9D U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a statement without elaborating. Artan was reportedly issued a visa to travel to the U.S. last week. He w= as held in a small room in the airport for 11 hours and interrogated by bor= der officials before being flown to Istanbul, according to The New York Times. Artan was named referee of the year in 2025 by th= e Confederation of African Football and was due to be the first referee fr= om Somalia to officiate at the World Cup after. FIFA did not condemn the mo= ve, saying that =E2=80=9CIn line with previous FIFA events, a host governmen= t ultimately determines who receives a visa and who is admitted into their country.=E2=80=9D After being denied entry, FIFA subsequently dropped Ar= tan from the official World Cup roster instead of having him officiate matches in the two other host countries, Canada or Mexico. - New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday responded to growing U.S. restrictions for fans, players, and officials at the World Cup. =E2=80= =9CThe World Cup is supposed to be a celebration of the world as a whole, and some of the decisions that we=E2=80=99ve seen been taken by the federal administ= ration, be it the denial of visas for journalists from certain countries, or the rejection of a visa for a coach of a team, as well as single-day visas f= or specific foreign national teams, this is anathema to what this tournamen= t is supposed to be about,=E2=80=9D Mamdani said during a press conference with Gov. Kathy Hochul. U.S. News *By Julian Andreone, with Ryan Grim. Have a tip on Capitol Hill? Email Andreone at Julian@dropsitenews.com .* - *Voters in four states head to polls on Tuesday: *Voters in Maine, Nevada, South Carolina, and North Dakota are casting ballots in primaries Tuesday, with the most-watched contest being Maine= =E2=80=99s Democratic Senate primary, where progressive oyster farmer *Graham Platner* is expected to win despite last-minute attacks on his campaign. If he does, he will challenge long-time Republican incumbent *Susan Collins* in the general. Also in Maine, *Troy Jackson*, a logger and state senator who secured Platner=E2=80=99s endorsement, is running agai= nst *Nirav Shah*, a physician who oversaw the state=E2=80=99s COVID response in the Democratic gubernatorial primary. - In South Carolina, Trump-endorsed *Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette* is favored in the Republican gubernatorial primary over *Rep. Nancy Mace*, though the race will likely head to a runoff, while four-term *Sen. Lindsey Graham* faces a five-person Republican primary field led by self-funding Greenville businessman Mark Lynch. - *Trump nominates Todd Blanche as attorney general: *President Donald Trump on Monday nominated acting Attorney General *Todd Blanche*=E2=80=94his former personal defen= se lawyer=E2=80=94to lead the Justice Department permanently, setting up a = contentious Senate confirmation fight amid bipartisan criticism of Blanche=E2=80=99s= role in a since-abandoned proposal to create a $1.8 billion political slush fund, = as well as his handling of the release of Jeffrey Epstein investigative fil= es (Blanche told Fox News=E2=80=99 *Laura Ingraham* earlier this year that = it is =E2=80=9Cnot a crime to party with Mr. Epstein=E2=80=9D). Blanche has ov= erseen sweeping changes at the department since becoming deputy attorney general in earl= y 2025, including the firing of more than 200 agents and prosecutors who worked on cases involving Trump or his allies, and greenlighting the indictment of former FBI Director *James Comey* over a social media post= . - *U.S. airline fuel costs surge 78%: *U.S. airlines spent nearly $6.5 billion on jet fuel in April=E2=80=94up 78 percent from $3.6= billion a year earlier despite consuming slightly less fuel, according to Bureau o= f Transportation Statistics data released Monday. The International Air Transport Association now forecasts global airline net profits will fall= to $23 billion in 2026, down from a prior estimate of $41 billion, as jet f= uel prices averaging $152 a barrel push the industry=E2=80=99s total fuel bi= ll to roughly $350 billion, costs which have prompted American Airlines, Lufthansa, Air Canada, and other major airlines to cancel routes and cut schedules. - *Progressive city council member Raman advances to November runoff against L.A. Mayor Bass: *Los Angeles City Council member *Nithya Raman* advanced to a November runoff against incumbent Mayor *Karen Bass* on Monday after overtaking Republican reality television personality *Spencer Pratt* by nearly 22,000 votes as the county continued processing mail ballots. This sets the stage for an all-Democrat matchup between Bass=E2= =80=94who received under 35 percent of the primary vote=E2=80=94and Raman, who beg= an her political career with the backing of the city=E2=80=99s DSA chapter and = who entered the race after initially endorsing Bass for reelection. Raman, who was b= orn in India and would be the city=E2=80=99s first South Asian woman mayor i= f elected, has moderated her earlier positions on policing and homeless encampments= . - *Trump DOJ killed criminal Clean Water Act investigation into Sen. Jim Justice=E2=80=99s coal empire: *The Trump administration shut down a federal criminal investigation into *Sen. Jim Justice=E2=80=99s* West = Virginia coal empire earlier this year after prosecutors said they had a strong c= ase and had already begun gathering evidence, including subpoenaing records = and approaching former employees, ProPublica reported Monday. Authorities we= re investigating potential criminal violations of the Clean Water Act by companies operated by Sen. Justice=E2=80=99s son, Jay=E2=80=94part of a = longer term effort to curtail serial pollution offenses by the family=E2=80=99s Southern Co= al company. The Office of the Deputy Attorney General under Todd Blanche ordered prosecutors to stand down before they could fight the company=E2=80=99s = legal challenge to the subpoenas, with the DOJ telling ProPublica the probe wa= s =E2=80=9Ca politically motivated prosecution=E2=80=9D inconsistent with = the administration=E2=80=99s priorities. Read ProPublica=E2=80=99s full repo= rt on the DOJ=E2=80=99s aborted investigation here . - *Trump Jr. secretly holds stake in Texas oil refinery startup that secured nine-figure investment from Ambani family: Donald Trump Jr.* secretly acquired a stake in America First Refining, a struggling Texas oil refinery start= up that subsequently received a nine-figure investment from India=E2=80=99s= Reliance Industries=E2=80=94owned by the Ambani family, whose patriarch had been = publicly targeted by the Trump administration over Russian oil purchases just mon= ths earlier=E2=80=94according to a new investigation from ProPublica. The in= vestment coincided with a series of U.S. policy wins for Reliance, including a dramatic tariff reduction on India, a license to purchase Venezuelan oil= , and a sanctions waiver to buy Russian crude. Read more about the Trump-Ambani connection here . - *California Democrat fast-tracks bill to strip telecom oversight from state utility regulator:* California Assemblywoman *Tasha Boerner*, a Democrat with significant support from the telecom industry, is advancin= g Assembly Constitutional Amendment 9, which would strip the California Public Utilities Commission of its constitutional authority to regulate telecommunications and ensure affordability. Critics say the bill, which passed the state Assembly 67-1 on May 18 and now goes to the senate, wou= ld dismantle one of the country=E2=80=99s most consumer-oriented telecom re= gulatory bodies, shifting oversight to the state legislature and a broadband offi= ce that does not yet exist. A full piece on this bill is available from The American Prospect, here . - *Justice Department moves to strip 17 naturalized citizens of citizenship: *The U.S. Justice Department filed civil actions Monday seeking to revoke the citizenship of 17 naturalized Americans who it alleges concealed serious crimes or provided false information during the naturalization process, including 12 individuals already convicted of or who pleaded guilty to offenses ranging from chil= d sexual abuse and healthcare fraud to drug trafficking and money launderi= ng, according to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. The government is invoking the Immigration and Nationality Act, which allows citizenship t= o be revoked if obtained through concealment of material facts. Other International News - *U.S.-Nigerian airstrikes on Metele village killed at least 27 civilians: *U.S. and Nigerian military airstrikes on the village of Metele in Borno state on May 16 killed at least 27 civilians including 1= 2 women and children, according to the village head=E2=80=99s casualty lis= t shared with Drop Site News, contradicting AFRICOM=E2=80=99s claim that the coor= dinated operation =E2=80=9Celiminated more than 175 ISIS terrorists=E2=80=9D wit= h no mention of civilian death. =E2=80=9CWhat remains with me most is the fear, confusio= n, and suffering that followed the explosions,=E2=80=9D one villager said. =E2= =80=9CMany people were crying and calling out the names of their loved ones. Parents were searching for their children, and family members were trying to locate relatives amid the confusion. Those sounds are among the memories that remain with me most strongly=E2=80=9D *Read Adamu Aliyu Ngulde=E2=80=99s= full report for Drop Site here .* - Separately in Nigeria, a cholera outbreak that began in early May in the northeastern Borno state has killed at least 74 people and infected more than 7,850 across 14 local government areas, with infections rising sharply and more than 500 cases recorded in a single day on June 5, M=C3=A9decins Sans Fronti=C3=A8res reported Tue= sday - Armed bandits in northwestern Nigeria=E2=80=99s Zamfara state abducte= d between 39 and 50 villagers Sunday after inviting them to a forest meeting near Magamin Diddi village under the pretense of peace negotiations to ease movement restrictions on the community, police and residents said Mon= day. The kidnappers are demanding 125 million naira ($91,880) in ransom, w= ith several abductees released to relay the demand, as security forces de= ploy to locate the remaining captives in a state at the center of a long-running crisis of mass kidnappings and village raids by armed groups. - *Congo military court sentences 54 to death over 2017 killings of UN investigators: *A military court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo sentenced 54 people to death Monday over the 2017 abduction and killing of United Nations investigators Michael Sharp, an American, and Zaida Catal=C3=A1n= , a Swedish-Chilean national, who were murdered while probing violence in th= e country=E2=80=99s Kasai region. Among those convicted was Congolese army= Col. Jean de Dieu Mambweni, whom prosecutors identified as a central figure in the killings. - *Pentagon expands blacklist of alleged Chinese military-linked firms*: The U.S. Defense Department added dozens of Chinese companies to its updated contractor restriction list including tech giants Alibaba and Ba= idu as well as electric vehicle maker BYD, saying they are connected to Chin= a=E2=80=99s military or defense industrial base. The designation does not amount to formal sanctions, but it bars the Pentagon from contracting directly wit= h listed firms later this month and from purchasing their products or services through intermediaries beginning in June 2027. - *Switzerland weighs European air defense alternative: *Switzerland=E2=80= =99s top security official Markus M=C3=A4der said Monday the country is prioritizing European interoperability as it considers alternatives to its U.S. Patriot air defense order, which was originally due in 2027 but has been delayed until 2032 or later. In his comments, he expressed interest in the French-Italian SAMP/T system. Switzerland, which remains outside both NATO and the EU, has received responses from France, Germany, Israel, and South Korea as part of its search for a second long-range air defense system. - *Venezuelan acting president Rodriguez meets Erdogan in Istanbul:* Venezuelan acting President Delcy Rodriguez made an unannounced visit to Istanbul on Monday, meeting with Turkish Preside= nt Recep Tayyip Erdogan for one-on-one and delegation-level talks focused o= n bilateral relations and regional developments, according to Turkey=E2=80= =99s presidential office. Venezuela has become one of Turkey=E2=80=99s most i= mportant trade partners in South America; bilateral trade between the countries reached $448 million in 2025, according to official Turkish statistics. - *Kenyan police fire tear gas at protesters opposing U.S. Ebola quarantine facility: *Kenyan police dispersed protesters with tear gas Tuesday in Nanyuki, where demonstrations have continued against a 50-bed U.S. quarantine facility being constructed at Laikipia airbase for Americans exposed to the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola= . The construction of the facility has continued despite Kenyan court orde= rs barring further work on the site, and U.S. military planes have continue= d ferrying staff and equipment to the base, with an official statement fro= m the U.S. State Department claiming it is =E2=80=9Cworking with the Kenya= n government to resolve any objections.=E2=80=9D Last week=E2=80=99s demon= strations resulted in two deaths. - *Russian strikes kill five overnight:* Russian missile and drone strikes killed five people across Ukraine=E2=80=99s Kharkiv and Donetsk regions overnig= ht, including a pregnant woman in the northeastern town of Chuhuiv, Ukrainia= n officials said, with 16 additional people wounded, including children. - President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described a =E2=80=9Cvery positive=E2= =80=9D call with U.S. special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner on Monday and met with British, French, and German leaders in London, where the three Europe= an governments reiterated their =E2=80=9Cunwavering=E2=80=9D support for= Ukraine and discussed coordinating further pressure on Russia=E2=80=99s war economy ahead o= f the G7, NATO, and Coalition of the Willing summits. - *Eleven killed in Pakistan-administered Kashmir: *At least 11 people were killed and dozens were wounded Sunday when police clashed with supporters of the outlawed Joint Awami Action Committee in Rawalakot, Pakistan-administered Kashmir, a day befo= re a planned JAAC rally demanding greater political rights for people livin= g in the region and the abolition of 12 legislative seats reserved for Ind= ian Kashmiri refugees living in Pakistan=E2=80=94seats a Supreme Court rulin= g upheld as constitutionally protected just before the violence erupted. 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Lebanon

  • Killed and wounded: At least 3,666 people have been kil= led, and 11,321 wounded, in Israeli attacks on Lebanon since March 2, accor= ding to the Lebanese Health Ministry. Over 29 people were killed, and 133 w= ounded, in Israeli strikes during the past 24 hours.

  • Israel continues attacks on southern Lebanon despite= =E2=80=9Cceasefire=E2=80=9D and Iranian warnings:

    • Strikes and forced displaceme= nt in Tyre (Sour): At least 13 people were killed and 45 oth= ers wounded in Israeli attacks on the southern Lebanese city of Tyre over t= he past 24 hours, according to the state=E2=80=99s National News Agency. An= Israeli = airstrike on the al-Masaken neighbourhood Tuesday killed eight pe= ople and injured 32 others, with rescue teams continuing to search through = the rubble, while a separate strike on a building in the al-Raml district = wounded five more people. The Israeli military also issued a forced displa= cement order for residents of Tyre, including its historic Christian quarte= r, nearby neighbourhoods and refugee camps. A separate Israeli strike on Ty= re on Monday, near a Red Cross center, killed five people and wounded eight= , including four Red Cross paramedics.

    • = =E2=80=9CDouble-tap=E2=80=9D attack on Civil Defense: The Is= raeli military carried out a double-tap strike on the southern Lebanese to= wn of Sharqiyeh on Tuesday, hitting civil defense workers who had responded= to evacuate an injured person, wounding the two rescuers, Lebanon=E2=80=99= s civil defense agency said. More than 100 rescuers have been killed in Isr= aeli attacks in Lebanon since March 2.

    • = Strikes across the south: A wave of Israeli attacks on towns= in southern Lebanon killed at least four people on Tuesday, including an = attack in front of a house in Habboush which killed one, and a drone strike= on Kfar Reman which killed two, Lebanon=E2=80=99s National News Agency rep= orted.

  • Hezbollah and Ansaral= lah launch drones toward Israel: Hezbollah and Ansarallah fo= rces laun= ched drones toward Israel on Monday, with Hezbollah drones crossi= ng into northern Israel, despite Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz havin= g warned earlier in the day that further attacks on northern Israel would t= rigger new strikes on Beirut=E2=80=99s southern suburbs.

    • Hezbollah continues attacks against Israeli forc= es in southern Lebanon: Hezbollah claimed at least 16 attac= ks against Israeli forces Monday, nine of them concentrated around Yohmor a= l-Shaqif in Lebanon=E2=80=99s Nabatieh Governorate, in what local reporting= described as an effort to repel an Israeli advance toward Kfar Tibnit.

    • Hezbollah also rep= orted that it struck an Israeli military bulldozer with artillery and a gui= ded missile, targeted multiple troop concentrations, and forced an Israeli = Hermes 450 drone to retreat with a surface-to-air missile over the Iqlim al= -Tuffah region.

  • Hezbollah says Iran= =E2=80=99s missile response is a =E2=80=9Cmessage of commitment=E2=80=9D to= Lebanon: In its first statement since Iran=E2=80=99s missil= e response following Israel=E2=80=99s strikes on Beirut, Hezbollah praised = Iran=E2=80=99s strikes as =E2=80=9Ca message of moral, political and field = commitment=E2=80=9D to Lebanon. The Iranian response confirms that the pri= ority for regional stability =E2=80=9Cis to ensure compliance with agreemen= ts by the Israeli enemy, before anyone else,=E2=80=9D the group said in a s= tatement, noting also the support from Yemen=E2=80=99s Ansarallah movement.= Hezbollah called for Lebanese authorities to improve official ties with Te= hran and =E2=80=9Cbenefit from this support to achieve national goals,=E2= =80=9D including withdrawal of Israeli forces, the return of displaced peop= le and post-war reconstruction.

  • Pakista= ni and Lebanese army chiefs meet: Lebanese army chief Rodolp= he Haykal met with Pakistani field marshal Asim Munir in Rawalpindi on Tue= sday to discuss defense cooperation, Pakistan=E2=80=99s military said, as P= akistan continues to mediate between the United States and Iran to end thei= r ongoing conflict. Munir =E2=80=9Cunderscored [the] Pakistan Army=E2=80=99= s commitment to expanding defence collaboration with the Lebanese Armed For= ces,=E2=80=9D according to a readout from the meeting. The latest =E2=80= =9Cceasefire=E2=80=9D agreement between Israel and the Lebanese government = states the United States would help guide the creation of =E2=80=9Cpilot zo= nes=E2=80=9D in Lebanon, =E2=80=9Cin which the Lebanese Armed Forces will t= ake exclusive control=E2=80=A6to the exclusion of all non-state actors,=E2= =80=9D referring to Hezbollah.

  • Lebanese= turtle conservationist wounded in Israeli airstrike: Mona K= halil, a pioneering Lebanese marine turtle conservationist who founded the = Orange House Project on Mansouri Beach in southern Lebanon, was wounded in = an Israeli airstrike on her home Thursday. Khalil underwent surgery for sev= ere injuries, including a serious abdominal wound, before her condition sta= bilized Friday, according to Lebanese media and the NGO Green Southerners. = =E2=80=9CFor more than two decades, her efforts helped transform this relat= ively small stretch of coastline into one of the most important sea turtle = nesting sites on the eastern Mediterranean coast,=E2=80=9D the NGO <= a href=3D"https://substack.com/redirect/89087cbd-ecc4-49c5-b8c2-f01d963eb3c= c?j=3DeyJ1IjoiMWVvZ2IifQ.JilZISJaTbu7B2wLCo3fGMYZ8454lcFEiXYqlZtxvOc" style= =3D"color:#00058c;text-decoration:none" target=3D"_blank">told th= e New Arab.

Palestine

  • Killed and wounded: Over the last 24 hours, eight Palest= inians were killed=E2=80=94seven in new attacks, and one due to wounds sust= ained in an earlier attack=E2=80=94and 43 injured in Israeli attacks across= Gaza. The total recorded death toll since October 7, 2023 has risen to 72,= 988 killed, with 173,205 injured. Since October 11, the first full day of t= he so-called ceasefire, Israel has killed at least 978 Palestinians in Gaza= and wounded 3,097, while 782 bodies have been recovered from under the rub= ble, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

  • Israeli forces detain Gaza ambulance workers, Health Ministr= y says: Israeli soldiers detained seven ambulance workers fr= om the Palestinian Red Crescent Society on Tuesday while they were carrying= out their humanitarian duties on Salah al-Din Street in Gaza, according to= the Strip=E2=80=99s Health Ministry. In a statement, the ministry condemne= d the detention and said five of the medics were released following questio= ning, while two are still being held by Israeli forces.

  • Nine Palestinian fishermen detained by Israel off Gaza coa= st: The Israeli navy arrested nine Palestinian fishermen wo= rking off the coasts of Gaza City and Deir el-Balah on Tuesday, taking them= to an unknown location, according to Wafa and Gaza fishermen=E2=80=99s com= mittees. The detentions come amid ongoing Israeli attacks targeting Gaza=E2= =80=99s fishing sector, including, shootings, detention and the confiscatio= n of boats and fishing equipment. At least 238 fishermen have been killed b= y Israeli forces since October 2023.

  • Is= rael reopens Gaza crossings after two-day closure: Israel=E2= =80=99s military coordination agency COGAT said the Kerem Shalom crossing = will reopen on Tuesday for the gradual entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza = after being shut during the recent Iran=E2=80=93Israel escalation. It also = said the Rafah crossing will resume limited two-way movement of people unde= r the previous operating mechanism, in coordination with Egypt and the Worl= d Health Organization. The announcement follows a suspension of aid deliver= ies and medical evacuations on Sunday, which left thousands of patients una= ble to leave Gaza for treatment. Israel continues to heavily restrict the e= ntry of essential supplies and movement through crossings, with only 36.3% = of the agreed volume of aid and commercial trucks allowed into the enclave,= according to Palestinian reports.

  • Israel continues assault on West Bank: Israeli forces <= /span>carried ou= t raids and arrests across multiple occupied West Bank cities and= towns Tuesday, storming Bethlehem, Tulkarem, and the village of Husan with= =E2=80=9Cheavy machinery.=E2=80=9D

    • In another incident, Israeli bulldozers destroyed the = main water pipeline east of Tammun town in the Tubas governorate, cutting o= ff water to families, livestock, and crops, according to Wafa.

    • Israeli authorities also issued demolition notices for 12 homes in= Masafer Yatta, settlers vandalized properties belonging to Bedouin residen= ts near Taybeh village in Ramallah, and at least five Palestinians were det= ained across the occupied West Bank.

  • Israeli parliament approves expanded deductions from Palestinian tax reven= ues: The Knesset approved a law expanding deductions from P= alestinian tax revenues collected on behalf of the Palestinian Authority (P= A), allowing additional funds to be withheld to cover compensation and bene= fits paid to =E2=80=9CIsraeli victims of Palestinian attacks,=E2=80=9D acco= rding to the Times of Israel. The legislation authorizes deductions for pay= ments to injured individuals, families of those killed and property damage = claims, with any surplus transferred to the Israeli treasury and the measur= es applied retroactively from January 1, 2025. Rawhi Fattouh, president of = the Palestinian National Council, described the law as an =E2=80=9Corganiz= ed act of piracy=E2=80=9D and a =E2=80=9Cblatant theft=E2=80=9D of Palestin= ian funds, saying it was part of a systematic effort to =E2=80=9Cbesiege th= e PA, dry up its financial resources and weaken its institutions.=E2=80=9D = Israel has withheld all of the PA=E2=80=99s clearance revenues over the pas= t year, claiming the Authority allocates amounts for =E2=80=9Cterrorists an= d their families.=E2=80=9D

  • Italian pros= ecutors open investigation into Israeli minister Ben-Gvir: I= talian prosecutors opened an investigation Monday into Israeli National = Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on suspicion of torture and kidnapping of= Italian citizens, who were part of the group of activists detained in Isra= el from the Global Sumud Flotilla, according to a report from The New Arab.= The probe follows mounting international backlash over Ben-Gvir=E2=80=99s = posting of video showing detained activists kneeling with their hands bound= , which the Italian government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni called =E2= =80=9Cunacceptable=E2=80=9D=E2=80=94leading Italy to summon the Israeli amb= assador, push the European Union to consider sanctions against Ben-Gvir, an= d France to ban him from its territory.

  • Son of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya says his father=E2=80=99s life is at risk: The son of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of Kamal Adwan = Hospital in northern Gaza who has been held in Israeli detention since Dece= mber 2024, warned on Monday that his father=E2=80=99s life is at risk afte= r being transferred to solitary confinement in Nafha Prison. Abu Safiya=E2= =80=99s son said that the doctor is being held in a two-meter cell with no = food, water, medicine, or access to his lawyer. The family says his transfe= r is in direct retaliation for filing a legal appeal with the Israeli Supre= me Court. =E2=80=9CHow can a person be punished for asking why he is being = detained?=E2=80=9D his son asked.

Iran and Ceasefire

  • Two Iranian air defense personnel killed= in Monday=E2=80=99s Israeli strike: At least two Iranian ai= r defense personnel were killed in an Israeli attack Monday, with funeral = ceremonies scheduled in Tehran for Tuesday, Iran=E2=80=99s state television= reported.

  • Trump talks Iran, L= ebanon in New York City:

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      President Donald Trump told reporters on the tarmac of a= n airport in New York City on Monday that a deal between Iran and the Unite= d States was nearing, saying that =E2=80=9CWe=E2=80=99re in the final throe= s of what will be a very, very good deal,=E2=80=9D and that the Strait of H= ormuz would =E2=80=9Copen up immediately upon signing.=E2=80=9D He gave a t= entative timeline of =E2=80=9Ctwo or three days=E2=80=9D for the deal=E2=80= =99s announcement, and said that no =E2=80=9Csticking points=E2=80=9D remai= ned.

    • Trump also said he did not ask Isra= eli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to refrain from retaliating for Iran= =E2=80=99s strikes on Israel this weekend (which were retaliations for Isra= el=E2=80=99s strikes on Beirut) but urged him to end the fighting in Lebano= n as quickly as possible, saying he told the Prime Minister, =E2=80=9CI sai= d do what=E2=80=99s right but I want you to stop as quickly as you can.=E2= =80=9D

    • CENTCOM confirms two Apache pilo= ts rescued from Strait of Hormuz after helicopter crash: U.S= . Central Command confirmed Tuesday that two U.S. Army AH-64 Apache helico= pter pilots who crashed into the Strait of Hormuz were recovered within app= roximately two hours and are in stable condition. The crew was retrieved by= an unmanned maritime drone, an unnamed U.S. official told ABC News. The ca= use of the crash is under investigation.

World Cup 2026

  • Visa denials and border de= tentions shadow World Cup: A pattern of visa denials and bo= rder incidents has emerged in the run-up to the World Cup in the United Sta= tes, which it will host alongside Mexico and Canada.

  • Iran says around 15 members of its technical and support staff were d= enied U.S. visas, with several officials remaining in Mexico. The team has,= as a result, relocated its training base from Arizona to Tijuana, Mexico, = forcing it to maintain a cross-border commute for much of the tournament.

  • Iran=E2=80=99s football federation announced Tue= sday that the United States revoked its allocated ticket quota for its Worl= d Cup group-stage matches against New Zealand, Belgium, and Egypt=E2=80=94a= ll scheduled to be held on U.S. soil=E2=80=94leaving the federation unable = to distribute tickets to supporters who had already begun making travel arr= angements. The federation notes that this is a violation of FIFA regulation= s entitling participating federations to eight percent of tickets per match=

  • Iraqi striker Aymen Hussein was <= a href=3D"https://substack.com/redirect/6aed711c-daa8-4bc6-af27-e53210e8e34= d?j=3DeyJ1IjoiMWVvZ2IifQ.JilZISJaTbu7B2wLCo3fGMYZ8454lcFEiXYqlZtxvOc" style= =3D"color:#00058c;text-decoration:none" target=3D"_blank">detained for nearly seven hours at Chicago=E2=80=99s O=E2=80=99Hare Airport, and t= he team=E2=80=99s photographer was denied entry outright over unspecified = =E2=80=9Cvetting concerns,=E2=80=9D according to the Chicago Sun Times.

  • Members of Senegal=E2=80=99s national football tea= m appeared to undergo unusually strict security screening after arriving in= the United States for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, according to the Anadolu Ag= ency. Footage appears to show players being individually searched on the ai= rport tarmac before entering the terminal.

  • At le= ast 40 Moroccan supporters were denied U.S. visas without reason, despite = having purchased packages and despite their group having traveled to the 20= 18 and 2022 World Cups.

  • FIFA-appointed So= mali referee Omar Artan was denied entry to the U.S. at Miami International= Airport on Saturday over =E2=80=9Cvetting concerns,=E2=80=9D U.S. Customs = and Border Protection said in a statement without elaborating. Artan was re= portedly issued a visa to travel to the U.S. last week. He was held in a sm= all room in the airport for 11 hours and interrogated by border officials b= efore being flown to Istanbul, according to The New York Times. Artan was = named referee of the year in 2025 by the Confederation of African Football = and was due to be the first referee from Somalia to officiate at the World = Cup after. FIFA did not condemn the move, saying that =E2=80=9CIn line with= previous FIFA events, a host government ultimately determines who receives= a visa and who is admitted into their country.=E2=80=9D After being denied= entry, FIFA subsequently dropped Artan from the official World Cup roster = instead of having him officiate matches in the two other host countries, Ca= nada or Mexico.

  • New York City Mayor Zoh= ran Mamdani on Monday responded to growing U.S. restrictions for fans, play= ers, and officials at the World Cup. =E2=80=9CThe World Cup is supposed to = be a celebration of the world as a whole, and some of the decisions that we= =E2=80=99ve seen been taken by the federal administration, be it the denial= of visas for journalists from certain countries, or the rejection of a vis= a for a coach of a team, as well as single-day visas for specific foreign n= ational teams, this is anathema to what this tournament is supposed to be a= bout,=E2=80=9D Mamdani said during a press conference with Gov. Kathy Hoch= ul.

U= .S. News

By Julian Andreone, with Ryan Grim. Have a t= ip on Capitol Hill? Email Andreone at Julian@dropsitenews.com.=

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    Vote= rs in four states head to polls on Tuesday: Voters in Maine,= Nevada, South Carolina, and North Dakota are casting ballots in primaries= Tuesday, with the most-watched contest being Maine=E2=80=99s Democratic Se= nate primary, where progressive oyster farmer Graham Platner= is expected to win despite last-minute attacks on his campa= ign. If he does, he will challenge long-time Republican incumbent Susan Collins in the general. Also in Maine, Troy Jackson, a logger and state senator who secured P= latner=E2=80=99s endorsement, is running against Nirav Shah<= /strong>, a physician who oversaw the state=E2=80=99s COVID response = in the Democratic gubernatorial primary.

    • In South Carolina, Trump-endorsed Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette is favored in the Republican gu= bernatorial primary over Rep. Nancy Mace, tho= ugh the race will likely head to a runoff, while four-term S= en. Lindsey Graham faces a five-person Republican primary fi= eld led by self-funding Greenville businessman Mark Lynch.

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    • Trump nominates Todd Blanche as attorney gene= ral: President Donald Trump on Monday nominated acting Atto= rney General Todd Blanche=E2=80=94his former = personal defense lawyer=E2=80=94to lead the Justice Department permanently,= setting up a contentious Senate confirmation fight amid bipartisan critici= sm of Blanche=E2=80=99s role in a since-abandoned proposal to create a $1.8= billion political slush fund, as well as his handling of the release of Je= ffrey Epstein investigative files (Blanche told Fox News=E2=80=99 Laura Ingraham earlier this year that it is =E2=80=9Cn= ot a crime to party with Mr. Epstein=E2=80=9D). Blanche has overseen sweepi= ng changes at the department since becoming deputy attorney general in earl= y 2025, including the firing of more than 200 agents and prosecutors who wo= rked on cases involving Trump or his allies, and greenlighting the indictme= nt of former FBI Director James Comey over a = social media post.

    • U.S. airline fuel co= sts surge 78%: U.S. airlines spent nearly $6.5 billion on j= et fuel in April=E2=80=94up 78 percent from $3.6 billion a year earlier des= pite consuming slightly less fuel, according to Bureau of Transportation St= atistics data released Monday. The International Air Transport Association = now forecasts global airline net profits will fall to $23 billion in 2026, = down from a prior estimate of $41 billion, as jet fuel prices averaging $15= 2 a barrel push the industry=E2=80=99s total fuel bill to roughly $350 bill= ion, costs which have prompted American Airlines, Lufthansa, Air Canada, an= d other major airlines to cancel routes and cut schedules.

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      Progressive city council member Raman advances to Novem= ber runoff against L.A. Mayor Bass: Los Angeles City Council= member Nithya Raman advanced to a November = runoff against incumbent Mayor Karen Bass on = Monday after overtaking Republican reality television personality Spencer Pratt by nearly 22,000 votes as the county con= tinued processing mail ballots. This sets the stage for an all-Democrat mat= chup between Bass=E2=80=94who received under 35 percent of the primary vote= =E2=80=94and Raman, who began her political career with the backing of the = city=E2=80=99s DSA chapter and who entered the race after initially endorsi= ng Bass for reelection. Raman, who was born in India and would be the city= =E2=80=99s first South Asian woman mayor if elected, has moderated her earl= ier positions on policing and homeless encampments.

    • Trump DOJ killed criminal Clean Water Act investigation into S= en. Jim Justice=E2=80=99s coal empire: The Trump administrat= ion shut = down a federal criminal investigation into Sen. Ji= m Justice=E2=80=99s West Virginia coal empire earlier this y= ear after prosecutors said they had a strong case and had already begun gat= hering evidence, including subpoenaing records and approaching former emplo= yees, ProPublica reported Monday. Authorities were investigating potential = criminal violations of the Clean Water Act by companies operated by Sen. Ju= stice=E2=80=99s son, Jay=E2=80=94part of a longer term effort to curtail se= rial pollution offenses by the family=E2=80=99s Southern Coal company. The = Office of the Deputy Attorney General under Todd Blanche ordered prosecutor= s to stand down before they could fight the company=E2=80=99s legal challen= ge to the subpoenas, with the DOJ telling ProPublica the probe was =E2=80= =9Ca politically motivated prosecution=E2=80=9D inconsistent with the admin= istration=E2=80=99s priorities. Read ProPublica=E2=80=99s full report on th= e DOJ=E2=80=99s aborted investigation here.

    • Trump Jr. secretly holds stake in Texas oil refinery startup that sec= ured nine-figure investment from Ambani family: Donald Trump Jr. secretly acquired a stake in America First Refining, a struggling Tex= as oil refinery startup that subsequently received a nine-figure investment= from India=E2=80=99s Reliance Industries=E2=80=94owned by the Ambani famil= y, whose patriarch had been publicly targeted by the Trump administration o= ver Russian oil purchases just months earlier=E2=80=94according to a new in= vestigation from ProPublica. The investment coincided with a series of U.S.= policy wins for Reliance, including a dramatic tariff reduction on India, = a license to purchase Venezuelan oil, and a sanctions waiver to buy Russian= crude. Read more about the Trump-Ambani connection here.

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      California Democrat fast-tracks bill to strip telecom o= versight from state utility regulator: California Assemblywo= man Tasha Boerner, a Democrat with significan= t support from the telecom industry, is advancing Assembly Constitutional A= mendment 9, which would strip the California Public Utilities Commission of= its constitutional authority to regulate telecommunications and ensure aff= ordability. Critics say the bill, which passed the state Assembly 67-1 on M= ay 18 and now goes to the senate, would dismantle one of the country=E2=80= =99s most consumer-oriented telecom regulatory bodies, shifting oversight t= o the state legislature and a broadband office that does not yet exist. A f= ull piece on this bill is available from The American Prospect, here.

    • Justice Department moves to strip 17 natura= lized citizens of citizenship: The U.S. Justice Department <= /span>filed<= span> civil actions Monday seeking to revoke the citizenship of 17 naturali= zed Americans who it alleges concealed serious crimes or provided false inf= ormation during the naturalization process, including 12 individuals alread= y convicted of or who pleaded guilty to offenses ranging from child sexual = abuse and healthcare fraud to drug trafficking and money laundering, accord= ing to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. The government is invoking the= Immigration and Nationality Act, which allows citizenship to be revoked if= obtained through concealment of material facts.

    Other International News

  • U.S.-Niger= ian airstrikes on Metele village killed at least 27 civilians: U.S. and Nigerian military airstrikes on the village of Metele in Borno = state on May 16 killed at least 27 civilians including 12 women and childre= n, according to the village head=E2=80=99s casualty list shared with Drop S= ite News, contradicting AFRICOM=E2=80=99s claim that the coordinated operat= ion =E2=80=9Celiminated more than 175 ISIS terrorists=E2=80=9D with no ment= ion of civilian death. =E2=80=9CWhat remains with me most is the fear, conf= usion, and suffering that followed the explosions,=E2=80=9D one villager sa= id. =E2=80=9CMany people were crying and calling out the names of their lov= ed ones. Parents were searching for their children, and family members were= trying to locate relatives amid the confusion. Those sounds are among the = memories that remain with me most strongly=E2=80=9D Re= ad Adamu Aliyu Ngulde=E2=80=99s full report for Drop Site here.

    • Separately= in Nigeria, a cholera outbreak that began in early May in the northeastern= Borno state has killed at least 74 people and infected more than 7,850 ac= ross 14 local government areas, with infections rising sharply and more tha= n 500 cases recorded in a single day on June 5, M=C3=A9decins Sans Fronti= =C3=A8res reported Tuesday

    • Armed bandits = in northwestern Nigeria=E2=80=99s Zamfara state abducted between 39 and 50= villagers Sunday after inviting them to a forest meeting near Magamin Didd= i village under the pretense of peace negotiations to ease movement restric= tions on the community, police and residents said Monday. The kidnappers ar= e demanding 125 million naira ($91,880) in ransom, with several abductees r= eleased to relay the demand, as security forces deploy to locate the remain= ing captives in a state at the center of a long-running crisis of mass kidn= appings and village raids by armed groups.

  • Congo military court sentences 54 to death over 2017 killings= of UN investigators: A military court in the Democratic Rep= ublic of the Congo sentenced 54 people to death Monday over the 2017 abd= uction and killing of United Nations investigators Michael Sharp, an Americ= an, and Zaida Catal=C3=A1n, a Swedish-Chilean national, who were murdered w= hile probing violence in the country=E2=80=99s Kasai region. Among those co= nvicted was Congolese army Col. Jean de Dieu Mambweni, whom prosecutors ide= ntified as a central figure in the killings.

  • Pentagon expands blacklist of alleged Chinese military-linked firms: The U.S. Defense Department added dozens of Chinese companie= s to its updated contractor restriction list including tech giants Alibaba = and Baidu as well as electric vehicle maker BYD, saying they are connected = to China=E2=80=99s military or defense industrial base. The designation doe= s not amount to formal sanctions, but it bars the Pentagon from contracting= directly with listed firms later this month and from purchasing their prod= ucts or services through intermediaries beginning in June 2027.

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  • Switzerland weighs European air defense alternativ= e: Switzerland=E2=80=99s top security official Markus M=C3= =A4der sa= id Monday the country is prioritizing European interoperability a= s it considers alternatives to its U.S. Patriot air defense order, which wa= s originally due in 2027 but has been delayed until 2032 or later. In his c= omments, he expressed interest in the French-Italian SAMP/T system. Switzer= land, which remains outside both NATO and the EU, has received responses fr= om France, Germany, Israel, and South Korea as part of its search for a sec= ond long-range air defense system.

  • Vene= zuelan acting president Rodriguez meets Erdogan in Istanbul:= Venezuelan acting President Delcy Rodriguez made an unannounced visit to = Istanbul on Monday, meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for= one-on-one and delegation-level talks focused on bilateral relations and r= egional developments, according to Turkey=E2=80=99s presidential office. Ve= nezuela has become one of Turkey=E2=80=99s most important trade partners in= South America; bilateral trade between the countries reached $448 million= in 2025, according to official Turkish statistics.

  • Kenyan police fire tear gas at protesters opposing U.S. Ebola = quarantine facility: Kenyan police dispersed protesters wit= h tear gas Tuesday in Nanyuki, where demonstrations have continued against = a 50-bed U.S. quarantine facility being constructed at Laikipia airbase for= Americans exposed to the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola. The construction of t= he facility has continued despite Kenyan court orders barring further work = on the site, and U.S. military planes have continued ferrying staff and equ= ipment to the base, with an official statement from the U.S. State Departme= nt claiming it is =E2=80=9Cworking with the Kenyan government to resolve an= y objections.=E2=80=9D Last week=E2=80=99s demonstrations resulted in two d= eaths.

  • Russian strikes kill fi= ve overnight: Russian missile and drone strikes killed fiv= e people across Ukraine=E2=80=99s Kharkiv and Donetsk regions overnight, in= cluding a pregnant woman in the northeastern town of Chuhuiv, Ukrainian off= icials said, with 16 additional people wounded, including children.<= /p>

    • <= p style=3D"color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin-bottom:0;box-sizing:= border-box;padding-left:4px;font-size:16px;margin:0">President Volodymyr Ze= lenskyy described a =E2=80=9Cvery positive=E2=80=9D call with U.S. special = envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner on Monday and met with British, Fren= ch, and German leaders in London, where the three European governments reit= erated their =E2=80=9Cunwavering=E2=80=9D support for Ukraine and discussed= coordinating further pressure on Russia=E2=80=99s war economy ahead of the= G7, NATO, and Coalition of the Willing summits.

  • Eleven killed in Pakistan-administered Kashmir: At least 11 people were killed and dozens were wounded Sunday when police= clashed with supporters of the outlawed Joint Awami Action Committee in Ra= walakot, Pakistan-administered Kashmir, a day before a planned JAAC rally d= emanding greater political rights for people living in the region and the a= bolition of 12 legislative seats reserved for Indian Kashmiri refugees livi= ng in Pakistan=E2=80=94seats a Supreme Court ruling upheld as constitutiona= lly protected just before the violence erupted. Four police officers and a = bystander were killed when JAAC supporters opened fire on security forces, = who killed six protesters in response. JAAC leader Shaukat Nawaz Mir called= Sunday=E2=80=99s events =E2=80=9Ca massacre=E2=80=9D and vowed the group w= ould proceed with Tuesday=E2=80=99s rally.

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It framed the pause not as de-escalation but as a message delivered, in an attempt to preserve the appearance of strength while taking the off-ramp Washington was signaling.* *That is precisely the operation analysts had described even as the strikes were underway. Iran had put a specific threat on the table: attack the Dahiyeh, where Iran=E2=80=99s Lebanese ally is based, and Iran hits norther= n Israel. When Israel struck Beirut's suburbs, Tehran had little choice but to follow through or lose the credibility of every future threat it makes.* *"This was largely about preserving the credibility of a threat Iran had already made public," Mohammad Ghaedi, a lecturer at George Washington University, told RFE/RL=E2=80=99s Radio Farda. "The responses are limited, = and none of the parties want this to lead to an all-out war."* *Mehrdad Khansari, a London-based analyst and a former Iranian diplomat, framed it similarly.* *Tehran's calculation, he argued, rested on a specific reading of Washington's constraints -- that the United States, facing the UN General Assembly, a closed Strait of Hormuz, and a rattled global economy, would pressure Israel to keep its response limited.* *"Iran is demonstrating capability," Khansari said. "The message is: I am standing firm, I am defending my allies, and I will not allow you to exploit what you perceive as weakness."* *The Iranian statement tracks that logic.* *It is designed to look like restraint while simultaneously raising the stated ceiling for the next round -- the phrase "far more intense and crushing than before" ensuring that standing down today is not read as backing down.* *What Iran achieved, if the pause holds, is a return to the status quo ante with its deterrence posture nominally intact. It honored a public commitment, absorbed whatever Israeli response follows, and exited before the exchange could spiral into something neither side can control.* *Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a short video released by his office on June 8 that =E2=80=9Cfire is on hold=E2=80=9D against Iran= , after Tehran ended its attacks on Israel. But speaking for the first time after Iran launched missiles at Israel, he warned that should Tehran =E2=80=9Cmake the= mistake of resuming attacks against us, we will respond with full force.=E2=80=9D* *Trump's post suggested both sides were moving toward an immediate cease-fire, but Israeli officials have at times acted independently of Washington's requests throughout this conflict.* *In an interview with the Financial Times, Trump said on June 7 that Netanyahu =E2=80=9Cwon=E2=80=99t have any choice=E2=80=9D but to accept wha= tever deal the United States reaches with Iran.* *=E2=80=9CI call the shots. I call all the shots. He doesn=E2=80=99t call t= he shots,=E2=80=9D Trump said, despite Israel launching strikes on Iran early on June 8.* *By RFE/RL * --000000000000bdcd670653d3db5d Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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Why Iran Attacked Israel and Then Backed Off

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  • Iran portrayed the halt in attacks as the successful = completion of a military operation rather than a concession or formal cease= -fire.
  • Tehran&= #39;s response was largely aimed at preserving the credibility of its deter= rent threats after Israel struck Beirut's Dahiyeh district.
    • Both Iran and Israel warn= ed that any renewed attacks would trigger a stronger military response, des= pite signs of de-escalation.

Iran=E2=80=99s military central command has announced a= halt to its strikes against Israel, declaring it had delivered a "pai= nful response" to Israel over strikes on Beirut's Dahiyeh district= -- but warned that any continuation of Israeli aggression would bring &quo= t;far more intense and crushing" retaliation.

The announcement on June 8 came shor= tly after US President Donald Trump=C2=A0= posted=C2=A0on Truth Social that "both sides, Israel and Ir= an, are looking to do an immediate cease-fire," adding that final nego= tiations on a US-Iran peace deal were proceeding and that a US blockade of = Iranian ports would remain in place until a final agreement is reached.

In its statement,= the Khatam Al-Anbiya Central Headquarters didn't announce a cease-fire= per se but a completed operation -- with conditions attached. It framed th= e pause not as de-escalation but as a message delivered, in an attempt to p= reserve the appearance of strength while taking the off-ramp Washington was= signaling.

Th= at is precisely the operation analysts had described even as the strikes we= re underway. Iran had put a specific threat on the table: attack the Dahiye= h, where Iran=E2=80=99s Lebanese ally is based, and Iran hits northern Isra= el. When Israel struck Beirut's suburbs, Tehran had little choice but t= o follow through or lose the credibility of every future threat it makes.

"This was = largely about preserving the credibility of a threat Iran had already made = public," Mohammad Ghaedi, a lecturer at George Washington University, = told RFE/RL=E2=80=99s Radio Farda. "The responses are limited, and non= e of the parties want this to lead to an all-out war."

<= p style=3D"font-family:"Times New Roman";max-width:100%;color:rgb= (27,27,27)">Mehrdad Khansari, a London-ba= sed analyst and a former Iranian diplomat, framed it similarly.<= /p>

Tehran's calculation,= he argued, rested on a specific reading of Washington's constraints --= that the United States, facing the UN General Assembly, a closed Strait of= Hormuz, and a rattled global economy, would pressure Israel to keep its re= sponse limited.

<= b>"Iran is demonstrating capability," Khansari said. "The me= ssage is: I am standing firm, I am defending my allies, and I will not allo= w you to exploit what you perceive as weakness."

The Iranian statement tracks that l= ogic.

It is de= signed to look like restraint while simultaneously raising the stated ceili= ng for the next round -- the phrase "far more intense and crushing tha= n before" ensuring that standing down today is not read as backing dow= n.

What Iran a= chieved, if the pause holds, is a return to the status quo ante with its de= terrence posture nominally intact. It honored a public commitment, absorbed= whatever Israeli response follows, and exited before the exchange could sp= iral into something neither side can control.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu s= aid in a short video released by his office on June 8 that =E2=80=9Cfire is= on hold=E2=80=9D against Iran, after Tehran ended its attacks on Israel. B= ut speaking for the first time after Iran launched missiles at Israel, he w= arned that should Tehran =E2=80=9Cmake the mistake of resuming attacks agai= nst us, we will respond with full force.=E2=80=9D

Trump's post suggested both sides w= ere moving toward an immediate cease-fire, but Israeli officials have at ti= mes acted independently of Washington's requests throughout this confli= ct.

In an inte= rview with the Financial Times, Trump said on June 7 that Netanyahu =E2=80= =9Cwon=E2=80=99t have any choice=E2=80=9D but to accept whatever deal the U= nited States reaches with Iran.

=E2=80=9CI call the shots. I call all the shots. He doesn= =E2=80=99t call the shots,=E2=80=9D Trump said, despite Israel launching st= rikes on Iran early on June 8.

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Tue, 9 Jun 2026 15:44:05 +0000 Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 15:44:05 +0000 (UTC) From: Elizabeth Murray To: "salon@listserve.com" , Kelley Vlahos Message-ID: <2107909828.162540.1781019845126@mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_162539_1857644884.1781019845125" X-Mailer: WebService/1.1.25942 AolMailNorrin Subject: Re: [Salon] 11A Gareth Porter Live on Israel-driven Iran nuke scare and US Policy X-BeenThere: salon@listserve.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion List for the Committee For The Republic List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:44:06 -0000 ------=_Part_162539_1857644884.1781019845125 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Excellent show!=C2=A0 Thank you for bringing Gareth out of the shadows (wh= ere's he been hiding?) and back out into the open.=C2=A0 His sharp analysis= and astute insights are so very welcomed and needed in these times. Elizabeth Murray On Tuesday, June 9, 2026 at 10:20:29 AM EDT, Kelley Vlahos via Salon wrote: =20 Hi all! I don't usually promote my show Trip the Beltway Fantastic podcast= here but I am bringing Gareth Porter out of social media retirement today = for a special episode. Please join us live on You Tube at 11AM and you can = use the same link if you miss it!=C2=A0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DdvoYt2hjl40 We'll be talking about his breakthrough 2014 book Manufactured Crisis: The = Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare and how the scare culminated with th= e war US-Isreal always wanted. Please join us !! Kelley --=20 Kelley Beaucar VlahosEditor-in-Chief, Responsible StatecraftSenior Advisor,= Quincy InstituteWashington, D.C703-470-3759https://responsiblestatecraft.o= rg/ --=20 Salon mailing list Salon@listserve.com https://mlm2.listserve.net/mailman/listinfo/salon =20 ------=_Part_162539_1857644884.1781019845125 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Excellent show!  Thank = you for bringing Gareth out of the shadows (where's he been hiding?) and ba= ck out into the open.  His sharp analysis and astute insights are so v= ery welcomed and needed in these times.

Elizabeth Murra= y

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Hi all! I don't usually promote my show Trip the Beltway Fantastic pod= cast here but I am bringing Gareth Porter out of social media retirement to= day for a special episode. Please join us live on You Tube at 11AM a= nd you can use the same link if you miss it! 


We'll be talking about his breakthrough 2014 book= Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare and= how the scare culminated with the war US-Isreal always wanted. Please join= us !!

Kelley

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Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:50:17 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <2107909828.162540.1781019845126@mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <2107909828.162540.1781019845126@mail.yahoo.com> From: Kelley Vlahos Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 11:49:51 -0400 X-Gm-Features: AVVi8Cftf6KDI9yYClCvEeF88oiG6bsN9Th6vY4x7mr-wvO64tdOcPsKKo3O_CE Message-ID: To: Elizabeth Murray Cc: "salon@listserve.com" Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0000000000006411e30653d41593" Subject: Re: [Salon] 11A Gareth Porter Live on Israel-driven Iran nuke scare and US Policy X-BeenThere: salon@listserve.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion List for the Committee For The Republic List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:50:19 -0000 --0000000000006411e30653d41593 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable so glad you liked it!! On Tue, Jun 9, 2026 at 11:44=E2=80=AFAM Elizabeth Murray wrote: > IRONSCALES couldn't recognize this email as this is the first time you > received an email from this sender emurray404 @ aol.com > > Excellent show! Thank you for bringing Gareth out of the shadows (where'= s > he been hiding?) and back out into the open. His sharp analysis and astu= te > insights are so very welcomed and needed in these times. > > Elizabeth Murray > > On Tuesday, June 9, 2026 at 10:20:29 AM EDT, Kelley Vlahos via Salon < > salon@listserve.com> wrote: > > > Hi all! I don't usually promote my show Trip the Beltway Fantastic podcas= t > here but I am bringing Gareth Porter out of social media retirement today > for a special episode. *Please join us live on You Tube at 11AM* and you > can use the same link if you miss it! > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DdvoYt2hjl40 > > We'll be talking about his breakthrough 2014 book *Manufactured Crisis: > The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare* and how the scare culminated > with the war US-Isreal always wanted. Please join us !! > > Kelley > > -- > > > > *Kelley Beaucar Vlahos* > *Editor-in-Chief, Responsible Statecraft* > *Senior Advisor, Quincy Institute* > Washington, D.C > 703-470-3759 > https://responsiblestatecraft.org/ > > > -- > Salon mailing list > Salon@listserve.com > https://mlm2.listserve.net/mailman/listinfo/salon > --=20 *Kelley Beaucar Vlahos* *Editor-in-Chief, Responsible Statecraft* *Senior Advisor, Quincy Institute* Washington, D.C 703-470-3759 https://responsiblestatecraft.org/ --0000000000006411e30653d41593 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
so glad you liked it!!

On Tue, Jun 9,= 2026 at 11:44=E2=80=AFAM Elizabeth Murray <emurray404@aol.com> wrote:
IRONSCALES couldn't recognize this email as this is the= first time you received an email from this sender emurray404 @ aol.com

Excellent show!=C2=A0 Thank you for bringing Garet= h out of the shadows (where's he been hiding?) and back out into the op= en.=C2=A0 His sharp analysis and astute insights are so very welcomed and n= eeded in these times.

Elizabeth Murray

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On Tuesday, June 9, 2026 at 10:20:29 AM EDT, Kelley= Vlahos via Salon <salon@listserve.com> wrote:


Hi all! I don't usually promote my show Trip the Beltway Fantastic= podcast here but I am bringing Gareth Porter out of social media retiremen= t today for a special episode. Please join us live on You Tube at 11AM and you can use the same link if you miss it!=C2=A0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DdvoYt2hjl40

We'll be talking about his breakthrough 2014 book Manufactured = Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare and how the scare cu= lminated with the war US-Isreal always wanted. Please join us !!

Kelley

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News 2. Politics EU warns Albania over Kushner-linked project Brussels is keeping a watchful eye on the political unrest in Albania, cautioning Tirana that its handling of the situation could be costly in its application to join the EU. Listen - Copy Link - - - - [image: Albanians Protest At Development Of The Pish=C3=8E Poro-Narta Reser= ve] Protesters gather on part of the land intended for the disputed project of Jared Kushner's investment firm, on June 6, 2026. | Armando Babani/Getty Images June 7, 2026 3:57 pm CET By Jakob Weizman TIRANA =E2=80=94 The European Commission has cautioned Albania against acti= ons that may impact its EU accession path, amid ongoing national protests over a Jared Kushner-linked development project on the country=E2=80=99s southern = coast. National protests entered their seventh consecutive day on Sunday as Albanians demanded the cancellation of a luxury resort linked to U.S. President Donald Trump=E2=80=99s son-in-law, arguing that the proje= ct threatens a protected wildlife area home to flamingos, seals, and turtle nesting sites. The Commission is warning that the project could put Albania on a collision course with the EU=E2=80=99s environmental rules, jeopardizing its ability = to close the green Chapter 27 in its accession talks. =E2=80=9CAlbania should refrain from actions that could undermine the fulfi= llment of the closing benchmarks and [we] expect the Albanian authorities to act without delay,=E2=80=9D a European Commission spokesperson told POLITICO in response to a question about the controversial proposed development. =E2=80=9CIn the EU accession process, as part of the closing benchmarks for negotiating Chapter 27 on environment and climate change, Albania is expected to align fully with EU legislation in this area, including the Birds and the Habitats Directives,=E2=80=9D said the spokesperson, urging t= hat Albania repeal the changes to the Law on Protected Areas and =E2=80=9Ctermi= nate=E2=80=9D the law on strategic investments. As part of the process of joining the EU, Albania is expected to align with the EU=E2=80=99s environmental rules. The spokesperson also told POLITICO that Albania=E2=80=99s environment mini= ster, Sofjan Jaupaj, had informed the Commission in Brussels that construction on the project has been suspended and an environmental impact assessment will be carried out with civil society. =E2=80=9CWe have already expressed our concerns to the minister of the envi= ronment about the potential shortcomings of this project,=E2=80=9D the spokesperson= said. However, an official spokesperson for Jaupaj told POLITICO that the minister had =E2=80=9Cinformed the Commission that no final project proposa= l has been submitted and construction activities have not commenced as no construction permit has been approved,=E2=80=9D while reiterating that the = project will undergo =E2=80=9Ca comprehensive and responsible Environmental Impact Assessment, conducted in full transparency and with public consultation.=E2= =80=9D Dubbed the =E2=80=9CFlamingo Revolution =E2=80=9D after the flamingos that reside in the protected area, the protests intensified over the weekend, with calls growing for Prime Minister Edi Rama to resign. Albania=E2=80=99s anti-corruption prosecutor, SPAK, has als= o opened an investigation into controversial changes in the area=E2=80=99s protected status and land owner= ship in 2024. =E2=80=9CWe note that the project is also subject to ongoing SPAK investiga= tions that reportedly extend beyond environmental concerns,=E2=80=9D said the spokesperson. Rama recently told POLITICO that there is not much interest from EU leaders in the political unrest in Albania at the moment. In an interview on the sidelines of the EU-Western Balkans Summit in Montenegro on June 5, Rama also maintained that =E2=80=9C= if it wasn=E2=80=99t Jared, they wouldn=E2=80=99t give a shit=E2=80=9D about the = project. Albanians in New York, London, Brussels, Milan and Berlin, as well as other cities in Albania, have joined the calls for the project to be scrapped and for Albania=E2=80=99s nature not to fall vic= tim to unchecked tourism. Albania is a frontrunner to join the EU alongside Montenegro, and Rama has set a target of joining the bloc by 2030, with technical negotiations to close at the end of 2027. The scrutiny comes because of Albania=E2=80=99s 2024 changes to its Protect= ed Areas law, which critics say opened the door to large-scale development in sensitive wildlife areas. That includes the Vjosa-Narta protected area, where the Kushner-linked project is located and lacks an environmental impact assessment. Brussels has also long pressed Tirana to scrap its 2015 Strategic Investments law, as it gives favored projects fast-track treatment that risks bypassing EU environmental safeguards. During an online meeting on May 26th with representatives of the European Commission, Jaupaj said Albania is committed to ensuring that any potential development project undergoes a comprehensive and responsible Environmental Impact Assessment, conducted in full transparency and with public consultation. Jaupaj told the Commission that no final project proposal has been submitted and construction activities have not commenced as no construction permit has been approved. Albania said it remains fully committed to the European Union accession process. As part of the closing benchmarks for Chapter 27 on Environment and Climate Change, Albania is required to achieve full alignment with EU environmental legislation. It said it remains determined to uphold these obligations. *This article has been updated.* --0000000000001a41c70653d54f8e Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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EU warns Albania over Kushner-linked project

Brussels is = keeping a watchful eye on the political unrest in Albania, cautioning Tiran= a that its handling of the situation could be costly in its application to = join the EU.

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Protesters gather o= n part of the land intended for the disputed project of Jared Kushner's= investment firm, on June 6, 2026. | Armando Babani/Getty Images
June 7, 2026= =C2=A03:57 pm CET
By= =C2=A0J= akob Weizman

TIRANA =E2=80=94 The European Comm= ission has cautioned Albania against actions that may impact its EU accessi= on path, amid ongoing national protests over a Jared Kushner-linked develop= ment project on the country=E2=80=99s southern coast.

National protests ent= ered their seventh consecutive day on Sunday as Albanians=C2=A0demanded the cancellation of a luxury resort=C2=A0linked = to U.S. President Donald Trump=E2=80=99s son-in-law, arguing that the proje= ct threatens a protected wildlife area home to flamingos, seals, and turtle= nesting sites.

The Commission is warning that the project could put Albani= a on a collision course with the EU=E2=80=99s environmental rules, jeopardi= zing its ability to close the green Chapter 27 in its accession talks.

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=E2=80=9CIn the EU accession process, as part of the closing benchmarks = for negotiating Chapter 27 on environment and climate change, Albania is ex= pected to align fully with EU legislation in this area, including the Birds= and the Habitats Directives,=E2=80=9D said the spokesperson, urging that A= lbania repeal the changes to the Law on Protected Areas and =E2=80=9Ctermin= ate=E2=80=9D the law on strategic investments. As part of the process of jo= ining the EU, Albania is expected to align with the EU=E2=80=99s environmen= tal rules.

The spokesperson also told POLITICO that Albania=E2=80=99s envir= onment minister, Sofjan Jaupaj, had informed the Commission in Brussels tha= t construction on the project has been suspended and an environmental impac= t assessment will be carried out with civil society.

=E2=80=9CWe have alrea= dy expressed our concerns to the minister of the environment about the pote= ntial shortcomings of this project,=E2=80=9D the spokesperson said.

However= , an official spokesperson for Jaupaj told POLITICO that the minister had = =E2=80=9Cinformed the Commission that no final project proposal has been su= bmitted and construction activities have not commenced as no construction p= ermit has been approved,=E2=80=9D while reiterating that the project will u= ndergo =E2=80=9Ca comprehensive and responsible Environmental Impact Assess= ment, conducted in full transparency and with public consultation.=E2=80=9D=

Dubbed the =E2=80=9CFlamingo Revolution=E2=80=9D after the fla= mingos that reside in the protected area, the protests intensified over the= weekend, with calls growing for Prime Minister Edi Rama to resign. Albania= =E2=80=99s anti-corruption prosecutor, SPAK, has also=C2=A0opened an investigation=C2=A0into controvers= ial changes in the area=E2=80=99s protected status and land ownership in 20= 24.

=E2=80=9CWe note that the project is also subject to ongoing SPAK= investigations that reportedly extend beyond environmental concerns,=E2=80= =9D said the spokesperson.

Rama=C2=A0recently told POLITICO=C2=A0that th= ere is not much interest from EU leaders in the political unrest in Albania= at the moment. In an interview on the sidelines of the EU-Western Balkans = Summit in Montenegro on June 5, Rama also maintained that =E2=80=9Cif it wa= sn=E2=80=99t Jared, they wouldn=E2=80=99t give a shit=E2=80=9D about the pr= oject.

Albanians in New York, London, Brussels, Milan and Berlin, as well a= s other cities in Albania, have=C2=A0joined the calls=C2=A0for the project to be scrapped and for Alb= ania=E2=80=99s nature not to fall victim to unchecked tourism.

Albania is = a frontrunner to join the EU alongside Montenegro, and Rama has set a targe= t of joining the bloc by 2030, with technical negotiations to close at the = end of 2027.

The scrutiny comes because of Albania=E2=80=99s 2024 changes t= o its Protected Areas law, which critics say opened the door to large-scale= development in sensitive wildlife areas. That includes the Vjosa-Narta pro= tected area, where the Kushner-linked project is located and lacks an envir= onmental impact assessment.

Brussels has also long pressed Tirana to scrap = its 2015 Strategic Investments law, as it gives favored projects fast-track= treatment that risks bypassing EU environmental safeguards.

=

During a= n online meeting on May 26th with representatives of the European Commissio= n, Jaupaj said Albania is committed to ensuring that any potential developm= ent project undergoes a comprehensive and responsible Environmental Impact = Assessment, conducted in full transparency and with public consultation.

Ja= upaj told the Commission that no final project proposal has been submitted = and construction activities have not commenced as no construction permit ha= s been approved.

Albania said it remains fully committed to the European Un= ion accession process. As part of the closing benchmarks for Chapter 27 on = Environment and Climate Change, Albania is required to achieve full alignme= nt with EU environmental legislation. It said it remains determined to upho= ld these obligations.

This article has been updated.

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Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:35:12 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: From: Chas Freeman Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 13:34:55 -0400 X-Gm-Features: AVVi8CfswkkNmth00XtW-fIhdJshai5-Gho48eLtKqNGgfptn--ulCUvNrltCrg Message-ID: To: "salon@listserve.com" Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="00000000000095b97e0653d58c5b" Subject: [Salon] Iran Establishes Escalati on Dominance with First-Ever Non-Retaliatory Strike on Israel X-BeenThere: salon@listserve.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion List for the Committee For The Republic List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:35:15 -0000 --00000000000095b97e0653d58c5b Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable *https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/iran-establishes-escalation-dominance?= utm_source=3Dpost-email-title&publication_id=3D1351274&post_id=3D201029580&= utm_campaign=3Demail-post-title&isFreemail=3Dfalse&r=3D210kv&triedRedirect= =3Dtrue&utm_medium=3Demail * *Iran Establishes Escalation Dominance with First-Ever Non-Retaliatory Strike on *Israel *Simplicius* 6/8/26 *Yesterday Iran struck Israel with ballistic missiles after Israel=E2=80=99= s bombing of a Beirut neighborhood which had been a red line for Iran. * *The attack was in some ways unprecedented, as it represented Iran preemptively striking Israel for the first time without Israel having struck Iran first. * *For the first time on the back foot, it was Israel and the US that were forced to =E2=80=9Cdefensively=E2=80=9D retaliate in kind: * *Iran has shifted the entire calculus and achieved something long thought impossible. For years it was considered unthinkable that Iran would ever strike Israel directly, even after Iran was hit first. Then Iran began responding to Israeli attacks, first with =E2=80=98demonstrative=E2=80=99 s= trikes, then increasingly crippling ones. * *Now Iran has established total strategic dominance of the escalation ladder to the point where it can treat Israel as Israel has treated other regional countries since its founding, punitively hitting it at will for violations that no longer necessarily include direct attacks on Iran=E2=80= =99s home territory. * *And the most shocking kicker of it all is that the US cannot do anything about it=E2=80=94and has even told Israel to ignore the attacks and stand down. * *Trump was relegated to begging Iran to stop on social media, as well as pitifully excusing Iran for its attacks, stating, in effect: =E2=80=9CAll r= ight, you=E2=80=99ve blown off your missiles, now quit it.=E2=80=9D * *Iran has essentially called the US and Israel=E2=80=99s bluff in the ultim= ate way, exposing the =E2=80=98Epstein Alliance=E2=80=99 as helpless in the face of = Iran=E2=80=99s escalation. * *Related=E2=80=94an Iranian missile being prepped for launch in the latest = round:* *One astute commentary on events of the past week:* *During the 2024 ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel, absolute violations were being committed by Israel through continuous bombings and assassinations. However, Hezbollah never responded to these violations due to strategic reasons, including the closure of its logistical supply routes from Syria following the fall of the Assad regime.By now, Hezbollah has fully learned its lesson from these types of ceasefires and will not tolerate any violations under any circumstances. What is striking, however, is that the United States wanted to impose this exact same ceasefire model on Iran. They believed Iran would not retaliate, much like Hezbollah.Yet, what Iran actually did shocked Washington. An attack on a radio tower on Qeshm Island prompted Iran to completely devastate a terminal at Kuwait Airport. At the same time, it launched an attack on Bahrain. Through this, Iran is telling the United States: =E2=80=9CFor every single bullet, we wil= l respond with many.=E2=80=9C This once again confirms America=E2=80=99s fail= ure to establish a long-term ceasefire model similar to the 2024 Hezbollah-Israel ceasefire, through which it intended to gradually weaken Iran=E2=80=99s defenses in th= e south of the country.* *The linchpin behind the new flare-up has been Israel=E2=80=99s failed Leba= nese campaign, wherein the struggling Israeli army has slowly slogged past the Lebanese border in an attempt to control everything south of the Litani river. Frustrated with setbacks, Israel had begun bombing Beirut, after Hezbollah=E2=80=99s newly-found mastery of FPV drones unleashed havoc on un= prepared IDF troops. * *In an article for Haaretz, former Israeli PM Ehud Barak stated that there is no sign of Hezbollah=E2=80=99s collapse and that the conflict can only be resolved diplomatically, given the rising pressures of Israeli society back home, particularly those living along the border regions: * *Under the leadership of Naim Qassem, who was marketed to the public as a faceless personality, Hezbollah is alive and kicking, striking out at the army and the northern residents, disrupting civilian life, and showing no sign of collapse or willingness to disarm. One word sums up the situation in Lebanon from the perspective of the prime minister: failure. And in two words: total failure.* *To eradicate Hezbollah, we would need to occupy all of Lebanon, which is simply unrealistic. The only way to disarm the organization is through a diplomatic process in coordination with the governments of Lebanon, the U.S. and others of the region.* *Barak also happened to be a former Israeli general and Minister of Defense, so he knows a bit more of what he=E2=80=99s talking about when it = comes to military matters than the average Israeli politician. * *In fact, just yesterday, war mappers noted the first Israeli withdrawal of the northern Lebanese war , after the IDF suffered humiliating setbacks: * *=E2=97=89 Dibbine =E2=80=94 First Israeli Withdrawal of the War:=E2=9E=A1= =EF=B8=8F Israeli forces pulled out of Dibbine on June 4 following intense clashes with Hezbollah fighters the first Israeli withdrawal from any position since the current Lebanon war began in March 2026.=E2=9E=A1=EF=B8=8FLebanese army soldiers and Spanis= h UNIFIL peacekeepers moved in the following day, deploying at the village entrance and beginning rubble clearance. =E2=9E=A1=EF=B8=8FThe Lebanese army has bar= red residents from returning for now. This wasn=E2=80=99t a strategic retreat it was a co= ntested position Hezbollah made too costly to hold, and the Lebanese army=E2=80=99s immediate deployment is Israel=E2=80=99s attempt to prevent Hezbollah from = walking straight back in Whether that buffer holds is the real question?* *The map can be seen here. * *War mapper MaxOsint Intel also wrote that Hezbollah re-took Arnoun, just southwest of Dibbine:* *Hezbollah has retaken Arnoun, pushing Israeli forces back down toward Yohmor and breaking the IDF=E2=80=99s hold on the Beaufort ridge less than = a week after it was established.* *Granted, the IDF is still attempting to push north in other sections of this front, but it is coming at increasingly greater costs as Hezbollah masters drone technology and reportedly receives more and more smuggled FPVs, which include the latest fiber-optic variety. * *There=E2=80=99s been dozens of such videos lately, but here=E2=80=99s the = most recent from today as example: * *The Lebanese =E2=80=9CHezbollah=E2=80=9D has published a video showing an = attack by an FPV drone on an =E2=80=9CMerkava=E2=80=9D tank of the Israeli regime=E2=80=99s = army near Beaufort Castle in southern Lebanon.* *Israel=E2=80=99s attacks on Lebanon to destroy Trump=E2=80=99s fragile cea= sefire had one major purpose: to ensure that Israel never loses its right to attack any country at will. To allow itself to be held to a norm or =E2=80=98standard= =E2=80=99 of any kind in refraining from hitting Lebanon would be to set a dangerous precedent for Israel, which has historically operated with no checks on its wanton aggression. Such a precedent would be a sign of massive weakness and failure that would be a crack in the system of colonization Israel has worked so fiercely to impose on the region. * *For his part, Trump appears to be finally growing exasperated with Netanyahu=E2=80=99s defiance, admitting to an interviewer that he yelled an= d cursed Bibi out in a phone call last week, telling him =E2=80=9CYou=E2=80=99re fu*= king crazy!=E2=80=9D* *The alleged transcript, according to Axios: * *=E2=80=9CYou=E2=80=99re fucking crazy. You=E2=80=99d be in prison if it we= ren=E2=80=99t for me. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this.=E2=80=9D* *It seems Trump is more disturbed by the fact that precious Israel is finally receiving its much-due blowback.* *Now Trump has allegedly gone even farther, telling Bibi that he may soon be on his own against Iran:* *Not that anyone with a working mind could possibly believe that Trump would ever abandon his bosom-mate in any way, but one supposes it=E2=80=99s= at least a sign of growing fractures between the US and its rabid colony (or vice versa). * *As a counter to these claimed =E2=80=98fractures, there are now reports th= at US has deployed various special force groups and paratroopers to Israel: * * * *Ken Klippenstein@kenklippenstein* *The US has quietly deployed 82nd Airborne paratroopers to Israel, per deployment order leaked to me. The deployment is tied to new US-Israel joint contingency plans for seizing Kharg Island and carving out coastal territory inside Iran. kenklippenstein.c= om/publish/post/2=E2=80=A6 * *4:53 PM =C2=B7 Jun 8, 2026 =C2=B7 170K Views* ------------------------------ *141 Replies =C2=B7 1.04K Reposts =C2=B7 2.67K Likes* *In an attempt to salvage some semblance of dignity from his humiliating episode vis-a-vis Netanyahu=E2=80=99s defiance, Trump told FT that Netanyah= u will have =E2=80=9Cno choice=E2=80=9D but to do as told : * *Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will have no choice but to accept any deal the US negotiates with Iran, Donald Trump said, because the US president =E2=80=9Ccalls the shots=E2=80=9D.* *=E2=80=9CHe won=E2=80=99t have any choice,=E2=80=9D Trump told the FT in a= telephone interview. =E2=80=9CI call the shots. I call all the shots. He [Netanyahu] doesn=E2=80=99t call t= he shots.=E2=80=9D* *Who believes that one?* *There were reports that the Houthis have decided to finally block the Bab al-Mandab in response to Israel=E2=80=99s transgressions, but as of this wr= iting there hasn=E2=80=99t been any real confirmation if this was nothing more th= an empty threat-making: * *A Middle East expert gave this astute analysis of Israel=E2=80=99s unenvia= ble dilemma : * *The events of the past hour underscore just how resounding a strategic failure the latest campaign against Iran has been. Israel now faces a tough dilemma: to respond and risk a frontal clash with the President of the United States, or to refrain from responding and allow Iran to entrench a new equation that will significantly curtail Israel's freedom of action against Hezbollah in the future.More importantly, the recent developments illustrate that despite two military campaigns against Tehran, Iran is far from deterred. On the contrary. The Iranian leadership is projecting high confidence in its capabilities, and is particularly convinced that there is currently no credible threat=E2=80=94neither from Israel nor from the Unite= d States=E2=80=94that could compel it to make a substantive change in its policy.Meanwhile, President Trump faces a particularly problematic strategic reality. The options available to him are not good, and he appears to be someone who prefers to reach an agreement with Iran at almost any cost rather than allowing a slide into a broader regional confrontation.In the end, this is the price of a campaign that yielded impressive tactical achievements but failed to attain its central strategic goal: the toppling of the regime. Instead, Israel finds itself with less freedom of action, Iran with greater self-confidence, and the United States with a growing desire to end the crisis through a political settlement.* *The fact that Trump was so permissive with Iran=E2=80=99s latest strikes, = trying his hardest to dismiss them as not-deal-breaking, is a major token of the US=E2=80=99s increasingly weak position and lack of playable =E2=80=98cards= =E2=80=99. * *At this point, Trump is essentially trapped in his own myth-making bluff: all he can do is sit and roost on his =E2=80=9Cblockade=E2=80=9D gambit bec= ause to back out now would reveal the blockade as having been a total non-event and strategic failure. By continuing the charade, Trump is able to spin a narrative about how the US is still =E2=80=9Cmaintaining control=E2=80=9D o= f the situation and Iran is somehow suffering great costs from this. It=E2=80=99s a somewha= t cleverly crafted bit of jugglery, but the facade is quickly wearing thin, particularly as the US continues to fail in its covert side-attempts to improve its position. * *For instance, just this past week news broke that the US Navy had been secretly =E2=80=9Ccoordinating=E2=80=9D a few tan= kers each night to transit Hormuz , by providing them with communications, helicopter support, real-time intelligence, etc. It seems while Trump boasts about being able to prolong his blockade indefinitely, the effects of Iran=E2=80=99s own blockade are wearing a heavy toll and for= cing the US to try and desperately eke through a few ships here and there just to get some economic lifeblood flowing.* *Besides the US=E2=80=99s failings, Iran is arguably close to checkmating I= srael in a major, generational way. Israel has no good options as Iran has put it between rock and hard place in regard to Lebanon, as Gideon Rachman points out in FT: * *https://archive.ph/pYfZw* *Israel is now trapped in a quagmire in both Gaza and Lebanon with its hands being increasingly tied by pressure from Trump, who himself is being swallowed by the pressures wrought of his failed Hormuz gambit. That means Israel may soon be trapped in an untenable position with all the hornet=E2= =80=99s nests of its surrounding enemies having been stirred up, while its economy sinks and military stocks deplete. Iran holds the high ground in virtually every way, and each passing moment brings Iran more strength in reconstituting its losses. * *What began with widespread opinions that Israel would emerge as the big winner of all this chaos has slowly transitioned to Israel looking increasingly vulnerable and impotent. Iran has cleansed itself of Mossad networks and Israel has already blown its shot at big =E2=80=9Csurprise=E2= =80=9D intel ops that take years to plan and organize, with nothing left in the tank that can move the needle. Iran now gets politically stronger and more unified each day having weathered the dangerous opening =E2=80=98shock=E2=80=99 pha= se of US-Israel=E2=80=99s operations to take down the country.* *Time is now on Iran=E2=80=99s side.* --00000000000095b97e0653d58c5b Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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Iran Establishes Escalation Dominance with First-Ever Non-R= etaliatory Strike on Is= rael

Yesterday Iran struck Israel with ballist= ic missiles after Israel=E2=80=99s bombing of a Beirut neighborhood which h= ad been a red line for Iran.=C2=A0

The attack was in some ways unprecedented, as it re= presented Iran preemptively striking Israel for the first time without Isra= el having struck=C2=A0Ir= an=C2=A0first.=C2= =A0

For th= e first time on the back foot, it was Israel and the US that were forced to= =E2=80=9Cdefensively=E2=80=9D=C2=A0retaliate=C2=A0in kind:=C2=A0

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Iran has shifted the entire calculu= s and achieved something long thought impossible. For years it was consider= ed unthinkable that Iran would ever strike Israel directly, even=C2= =A0after=C2=A0Iran was hit first. Then Iran began resp= onding to Israeli attacks, first with =E2=80=98demonstrative=E2=80=99 strik= es, then increasingly crippling ones.=C2=A0<= /p>

Now Iran has established total strategic dominance of the escalati= on ladder to the point where it can treat Israel as Israel has treated othe= r regional countries since its founding, punitively hitting it at will for = violations that no longer necessarily include direct attacks on Iran=E2=80= =99s home territory.=C2=A0

And the most shocking kicker of it all is that the US canno= t do=C2=A0anything=C2=A0about it=E2=80=94and has= even told Israel to ignore the attacks and=C2=A0stand down.<= span>=C2=A0

Trump was relegated to beggin= g Iran to stop on social media, as well as pitifully excusing Iran for its = attacks, stating, in effect: =E2=80=9CAll right, you=E2=80=99ve blown off y= our missiles, now quit it.=E2=80=9D=C2=A0

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Iran has essentially called the = US and Israel=E2=80=99s bluff in the ultimate way, exposing the =E2=80=98Ep= stein Alliance=E2=80=99 as helpless in the face of Iran=E2=80=99s escalatio= n.=C2=A0

Related=E2=80=94an Iranian missil= e being prepped for launch in the latest round:

One ast= ute commentary on events of the past week:

Dur= ing the 2024 ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel, absolute violations we= re being committed by Israel through continuous bombings and assassinations= . However, Hezbollah never responded to these violations due to strategic r= easons, including the closure of its logistical supply routes from Syria fo= llowing the fall of the Assad regime.
By now, Hezbollah has fully learned its le= sson from these types of ceasefires and will not tolerate any violations un= der any circumstances. What is striking, however, is that the United States= wanted to impose this exact same ceasefire model on Iran. They believed Ir= an would not retaliate, much like Hezbollah.

Yet, what Iran actually did shocked= Washington. An attack on a radio tower on Qeshm Island prompted Iran to co= mpletely devastate a terminal at Kuwait Airport. At the same time, it launc= hed an attack on Bahrain. Through this, Iran is telling the United States: = =E2=80=9CFor every single bullet, we will respond with many.=E2=80=9C This = once again confirms America=E2=80=99s failure to establish a long-term ceas= efire model similar to the 2024 Hezbollah-Israel ceasefire, through which i= t intended to gradually weaken Iran=E2=80=99s defenses in the south of the = country.

The linchpin behind= the new flare-up has been Israel=E2=80=99s failed Lebanese campaign, where= in the struggling Israeli army has slowly slogged past the Lebanese border = in an attempt to control everything south of the Litani river. Frustrated w= ith setbacks, Israel had begun bombing Beirut, after Hezbollah=E2=80=99s ne= wly-found mastery of FPV drones unleashed havoc on unprepared IDF troops.=C2=A0

In an article for Haaretz, former= Israeli PM Ehud Barak stated that there is no sign of Hezbollah=E2=80=99s = collapse= =C2=A0and that the conflict can o= nly be resolved diplomatically, given the rising pressures of Israeli socie= ty back home, particularly those living along the border regions:=C2= =A0

Under the leadership of Naim Qassem, who was marketed to the= public as a faceless personality, Hezbollah is alive and kicking, striking= out at the army and the northern residents, disrupting civilian life, and = showing no sign of collapse or willingness to disarm. One word sums up the = situation in Lebanon from the perspective of the prime minister: failure. A= nd in two words: total failure.

To er= adicate Hezbollah, we would need to occupy all of Lebanon, which is simply = unrealistic. The only way to disarm the organization is through a diplomati= c process in coordination with the governments of Lebanon, the U.S. and oth= ers of the region.

Barak also happe= ned to be a former Israeli general and Minister of Defense, so he knows a b= it more of what he=E2=80=99s talking about when it comes to military matter= s than the average Israeli politician.=C2=A0

In fact, just yesterday,=C2=A0war mappers noted the first Israeli withdrawal of the n= orthern Lebanese war, after the I= DF suffered humiliating setbacks:=C2=A0

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=E2=97=89 Dibbine =E2=80=94=C2=A0First Israeli Withdrawal of the War:


=E2=9E=A1=EF=B8=8F=C2=A0Israeli forces pulled out of Dibbine on June 4 following intense c= lashes with Hezbollah fighters the first Israeli withdrawal from any positi= on since the current Lebanon war began in March 2026.

=E2=9E=A1=EF=B8=8FLebanese= army soldiers and Spanish UNIFIL peacekeepers moved in the following day, = deploying at the village entrance and beginning rubble clearance.=C2= =A0


=E2=9E=A1=EF=B8=8FThe Leban= ese army has barred residents from returning for now. This wasn=E2=80=99t a= strategic retreat it was a contested position Hezbollah made too costly to= hold, and the Lebanese army=E2=80=99s immediate deployment is Israel=E2=80= =99s attempt to prevent Hezbollah from walking straight back in Whether tha= t buffer holds is the real question?

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The map can be seen here.

War mapper MaxOsint Intel also wrote that Hezbollah re-took= Arnoun, just southwest of Dibbine:

= Hezbollah ha= s retaken Arnoun, pushing Israeli forces back down toward Yohmor and breaki= ng the IDF=E2=80=99s hold on the Beaufort ridge less than a week after it w= as established.

Granted, the I= DF is still attempting to push north in other sections of this front, but i= t is coming at increasingly greater costs as Hezbollah masters drone techno= logy and reportedly receives more and more smuggled FPVs, which include the= latest fiber-optic variety.=C2=A0

There= =E2=80=99s been dozens of such videos lately, but here=E2=80=99s the most r= ecent from today as example:=C2=A0

= The Lebanese =E2=80=9CHezbollah=E2=80=9D has published a video showing an a= ttack by an FPV drone on an =E2=80=9CMerkava=E2=80=9D tank of the Israeli r= egime=E2=80=99s army near Beaufort Castle in southern Lebanon.

= Israel=E2=80=99s attacks on Lebanon to des= troy Trump=E2=80=99s fragile ceasefire had one major purpose: to ensure tha= t Israel never loses its right to attack any country at will. To allow itse= lf to be held to a norm or =E2=80=98standard=E2=80=99 of any kind in refrai= ning from hitting Lebanon would be to set a dangerous precedent for Israel,= which has historically operated with no checks on its wanton aggression. S= uch a precedent would be a sign of massive weakness and failure that would = be a crack in the system of colonization Israel has worked so fiercely to i= mpose on the region.=C2=A0

For his part, Trump appears to be finally growing exasperat= ed with Netanyahu=E2=80=99s defiance, admitting to an interviewer that he y= elled and cursed Bibi out in a phone call last week, telling him=C2= =A0=E2=80=9CYou=E2=80=99re fu*king crazy!=E2=80=9D

The alleged transcript, ac= cording to Axios:=C2=A0

=E2=80=9CYo= u=E2=80=99re fucking crazy. You=E2=80=99d be in prison if it weren=E2=80=99= t for me. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this.= =E2=80=9D

It seems Trump is mo= re disturbed by the fact that precious Israel is finally receiving its much= -due blowback.

Now Trump has allegedly gone even farthe= r, telling Bibi that he may soon be on his own against Iran:

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Not tha= t anyone with a working mind could possibly believe that Trump would ever a= bandon his bosom-mate in any way, but one supposes it=E2=80=99s at least a = sign of growing fractures between the US and its rabid colony (or vice vers= a).=C2=A0

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As a counter to these claimed =E2=80=98fractures= , there are now reports that US has deployed various special force groups a= nd paratroopers to Israel:=C2=A0

The US has quietly deployed 82nd Airborne paratroopers to= Israel, per deployment order leaked to me. The deployment is tied to new U= S-Israel joint contingency plans for seizing Kharg Island and carving out c= oastal territory inside Iran.kenklippenstein.com/publish/post/2=E2= =80=A6

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In an attempt to salvage some semblance of dig= nity from his humiliating episode vis-a-vis Netanyahu=E2=80=99s defiance,=C2=A0Trump told FT that Netanyahu will have =E2=80= =9Cno choice=E2=80=9D but to do as told:=C2=A0

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wi= ll have no choice but to accept any deal the US negotiates with Iran, Donal= d Trump said, because the US president =E2=80=9Ccalls the shots=E2=80=9D.

=E2=80= =9CHe won=E2=80=99t have any choice,=E2=80=9D Trump told the FT in a teleph= one interview. =E2=80=9CI call the shots. I call all the shots. He [Netanya= hu] doesn=E2=80=99t call the shots.=E2=80=9D

Who believes that one?

There were report= s that the Houthis have decided to finally block the Bab al-Mandab in respo= nse to Israel=E2=80=99s transgressions, but as of this writing there hasn= =E2=80=99t been any real confirmation if this was nothing more than empty t= hreat-making:=C2=A0

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A Midd= le East expert gave this astute analysis of Israel=E2=80=99s unenviable dil= emma:=C2=A0

The events of the past hour underscore just how = resounding a strategic failure the latest campaign against Iran has been. I= srael now faces a tough dilemma: to respond and risk a frontal clash with t= he President of the United States, or to refrain from responding and allow = Iran to entrench a new equation that will significantly curtail Israel'= s freedom of action against Hezbollah in the future.

More importantly, the recen= t developments illustrate that despite two military campaigns against Tehra= n, Iran is far from deterred. On the contrary. The Iranian leadership is pr= ojecting high confidence in its capabilities, and is particularly convinced= that there is currently no credible threat=E2=80=94neither from Israel nor= from the United States=E2=80=94that could compel it to make a substantive = change in its policy.

Meanwhile, President Trump faces a particularly problemati= c strategic reality. The options available to him are not good, and he appe= ars to be someone who prefers to reach an agreement with Iran at almost any= cost rather than allowing a slide into a broader regional confrontation.


In the end, this is the price of a campaign that yie= lded impressive tactical achievements but failed to attain its central stra= tegic goal: the toppling of the regime.=C2=A0Instead, Israel finds itself with less freedom of acti= on, Iran with greater self-confidence, and the United States with a growing= desire to end the crisis through a political settlement.=

= The fact that Trump was so permissive with Ir= an=E2=80=99s latest strikes, trying his hardest to dismiss them as not-deal= -breaking, is a major token of the US=E2=80=99s increasingly weak position = and lack of playable =E2=80=98cards=E2=80=99.=C2=A0=

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At this= point, Trump is essentially trapped in his own myth-making bluff: all he c= an do is sit and roost on his =E2=80=9Cblockade=E2=80=9D gambit because to = back out now would reveal the blockade as having been a total non-event and= strategic failure. By continuing the charade, Trump is able to spin a narr= ative about how the US is still =E2=80=9Cmaintaining control=E2=80=9D of th= e situation and Iran is somehow suffering great costs from this. It=E2=80= =99s a somewhat cleverly crafted bit of jugglery, but the facade is quickly= wearing thin, particularly as the US continues to fail in its covert side-= attempts to improve its position.=C2=A0

For instance,=C2=A0just this past week news b= roke that the US Navy had been secretly =E2=80=9Ccoordinating=E2=80=9D a fe= w tankers each night to transit Hormuz, by providing them with communications, helicopter support, real-time= intelligence, etc. It seems while Trump boasts about being able to prolong= his blockade indefinitely, the effects of Iran=E2=80=99s own blockade are = wearing a heavy toll and forcing the US to try and desperately eke through = a few ships here and there just to get some economic lifeblood flowing.

Besides the US=E2=80=99s failings, Iran is arguably= close to checkmating Israel in a major, generational way. Israel has no go= od options as Iran has put it between rock and hard place in regard to Leba= non, as Gideon Rachman points out in FT:=C2=A0

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I= srael is now trapped in a quagmire in both Gaza and Lebanon with its hands = being increasingly tied by pressure from Trump, who himself is being swallo= wed by the pressures wrought of his failed Hormuz gambit. That means Israel= may soon be trapped in an untenable position with all the hornet=E2=80=99s= nests of its surrounding enemies having been stirred up, while its economy= sinks and military stocks deplete. Iran holds the high ground in virtually= every way, and each passing moment brings Iran more strength in reconstitu= ting its losses.=C2=A0

What began with wid= espread opinions that Israel would emerge as the big winner of all this cha= os has slowly transitioned to Israel looking increasingly vulnerable and im= potent. Iran has cleansed itself of Mossad networks and Israel has already = blown its shot at big =E2=80=9Csurprise=E2=80=9D intel ops that take years = to plan and organize, with nothing left in the tank that can move the needl= e. Iran now gets politically stronger and more unified each day having weat= hered the dangerous opening =E2=80=98shock=E2=80=99 phase of US-Israel=E2= =80=99s operations to take down the country.

Time is no= w on Iran=E2=80=99s side.


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The grou= p partnered with Impact Research to survey registered voters and conduct focus groups, and found that the American electorate is =E2=80=9Cuneasy wit= h both parties=E2=80=99 approach to foreign policy,=E2=80=9D according to findings= shared first with Semafor. Democrats are viewed as weak on defense and lack any edge over Republicans on foreign policy, despite making gains on economic issues; Republicans still hold slim advantages on their handling of US-China relations, US-Israel relations, and national security. Democrats =E2=80=9Cshouldn=E2=80=99t assume that voters=E2=80=99 unhappiness with wha= t Trump is doing now and what Republicans are doing now are going to translate into support for Democrats,=E2=80=9D Third Way=E2=80=99s Sumona Guha told Semafor. =E2=80=94 *Morgan Chalfant* --00000000000075ec8d0653d59d95 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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Democrats need to=C2=A0revamp their message=C2=A0on foreign po= licy if they want to capitalize on voter angst over Trump=E2=80=99s war in = Iran, the centrist Democratic think tank Third Way=C2=A0writes in a new memo. The group= partnered with Impact Research to survey registered voters and conduct foc= us groups, and found that the American electorate is =E2=80=9Cuneasy with b= oth parties=E2=80=99 approach to foreign policy,=E2=80=9D according to find= ings shared first with Semafor. Democrats are viewed as weak on defense and= lack any edge over Republicans on foreign policy, despite making gains on = economic issues; Republicans still hold slim advantages on their handling o= f US-China relations, US-Israel relations, and national security. Democrats= =E2=80=9Cshouldn=E2=80=99t assume that voters=E2=80=99 unhappiness with wh= at Trump is doing now and what Republicans are doing now are going to trans= late into support for Democrats,=E2=80=9D Third Way=E2=80=99s Sumona Guha t= old Semafor.

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His office also said Israel carried out 407 controlled demolitions and 6 "razing" operations, which the Prime Minister's office said have entirely flattened several villages in southern Lebanon. When explicitly asked by Sky News whether the United States would back Israel if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reopens the war with Iran, Trump stated, "I don't think it'll happen. It's all working out very well. Iran is doing what they have to do; I don't think that's going to happen, ok?" When the Sky News reporter pressed further, asking what exactly he would do if Netanyahu went against his explicit wishes and attacked anyway, Trump reportedly hung up the phone. Sent from my iPhone --0000000000002806930653d5b9b5 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam announced= that Israel carried out 3,491 airstrikes on Lebanon during the nominal, U.= S.-brokered ceasefire from April 17 to June 7.

His office also said Israel carried out 407 controlled demolitions and 6 &q= uot;razing" operations, which the Prime Minister's office said hav= e entirely flattened several villages in southern Lebanon.

When explicitly asked by Sky News whether the United States would back Isra= el if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reopens the war with Iran, Trump st= ated, "I don't think it'll happen. It's all working out ve= ry well. Iran is doing what they have to do; I don't think that's g= oing to happen, ok?"

When the Sky News reporter pressed further, asking what exactly he would do= if Netanyahu went against his explicit wishes and attacked anyway, Trump r= eportedly hung up the phone.


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--0000000000002806930653d5b9b5-- From wmerry@earthlink.net Tue Jun 9 11:27:04 2026 Return-Path: X-Original-To: salon@mlm2.listserve.net Delivered-To: salon@mlm2.listserve.net Received: from mlm0.listserve.net (mlm0.listserve.net [161.35.233.68]) by mlm2.listserve.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1456AB0851 for ; Tue, 9 Jun 2026 11:27:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 mlm2.listserve.net 1456AB0851 Authentication-Results: mlm2.listserve.net; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=earthlink.net header.i=@earthlink.net header.b="SVKdszML" Received: by mlm0.listserve.net (Postfix) id 03E76BD06C; Tue, 9 Jun 2026 11:27:04 -0700 (PDT) Delivered-To: salon@listserve.com Received: from mta-102a.earthlink-vadesecure.net (mta-102b.earthlink-vadesecure.net [51.81.61.67]) by mlm0.listserve.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C52BDBD068 for ; Tue, 9 Jun 2026 11:27:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; bh=Kpfl6+8zSB77VotvX44/jryePeapdqVxL8oGtJ SQ9Hw=; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=earthlink.net; h=from:reply-to:subject: date:to:cc:resent-date:resent-from:resent-to:resent-cc:in-reply-to: references:list-id:list-help:list-unsubscribe:list-unsubscribe-post: list-subscribe:list-post:list-owner:list-archive; q=dns/txt; s=dk12062016; t=1781029623; x=1781634423; b=SVKdszMLITXAnyZfAzBCcXyplnx 5wDfkbI6Tv6B6YqR+kUhnLUMqCkWkfOkUkNz3rNasYwTP0rGOwT3T5TYOUoxNk/ajKFAuqm nj+W0EPuCyF5hVs7DO5YlvNVPepMYF9Yey2xYMu8+TsjdW62Nf8bWiLaI6r4lqBq4u5Stmy Iz7dpzJpYgj2SgzovsMC1EVaSkOwuthJuQqouR48k+g1vFIXLwWa603AVHCJTV5rblVOsrG cfsGlPLc772ujdgJPFoOfn0tsSh4fbwWq/QW/9KDzVqkxxQNQGjSQeda2Bdw39FnG6t+Pjw WVV6rsScfnWmfmzftLDuEWvO1qwl39A== Received: from smtpclient.apple ([174.219.233.48]) by vsel1nmtao02p.internal.vadesecure.com with ngmta id dd4d6403-18b77d012add5bc8; Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:27:02 +0000 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-471282A3-EA94-45D8-9573-58C34A10200A Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) From: Wayne Merry In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 14:26:50 -0400 Cc: salon@listserve.com Message-Id: <878AF55A-E49A-46C3-920A-A6ADFFB84B9A@earthlink.net> References: To: Chas Freeman X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (23F77) Subject: Re: [Salon] Did CNN just out Azerbaijan as Israel's secret military partner? X-BeenThere: salon@listserve.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion List for the Committee For The Republic List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:27:04 -0000 --Apple-Mail-471282A3-EA94-45D8-9573-58C34A10200A Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable No secret ever.    WM

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On Jun 9, 2026, at 9:56=E2=80=AFAM, Chas Freeman via S= alon <salon@listserve.com> wrote:

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Did CNN just out Azerbaijan as Israel's secret military partner?<= /h1>

A new r= eport suggests someone wants to burn Baku's plausible deniability, which put= s it in hot water with its Iranian neighbor

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              &n= bsp;   https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-azerbaijan/
Years a= go, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev described Baku=E2=80=99s relationship with Israel as an i= ceberg, with 90% hidden below the surface. Last week, CNN attempted to pull the hidden portion into full vi= ew.

Notably, the report relied on four anonymous sources with apparent kn= owledge of highly sensitive Israeli military and intelligence activities in t= he greater Middle East. While CNN did not identify them, the nature o= f the information disclosed strongly suggests that the sources were either A= merican, Israeli, or closely connected to the security establishments of one= or both countries.

According to these sources Israel secretly deployed eli= te military and intelligence units =E2=80=94 including special operations fo= rces, Mossad personnel, and heliborne rescue teams =E2=80=94 to multiple loc= ations in southern Azerbaijan during the recent war with Iran.

=46rom position= s just 60 miles from Tabriz, a major Iranian city in the north, Israeli comm= andos allegedly conducted drone operations, installed listening devices, and= even helped prepare the ground for the assassination of an IRGC intelligenc= e chief. CNN put this all in the context of other covert sites used by Israe= l in = Iraq, the UAE, and Somaliland during the war, pointing to a r= ing of forward positions around Iran.

P= redictably, Baku reacted to the CNN report with fury. The Azerbaijani foreig= n ministry called the report =E2=80=9Centirely baseless=E2=80= =9D and a violation of journalistic ethics, insisting that =E2=80=9CAzerbaij= an has never allowed, and will never allow, its territory to be used for suc= h purposes.=E2=80=9D Baku demanded that CNN retract what it called =E2=80=9C= unfounded allegations.=E2=80=9D

Whether or not CNN=E2=80=99s reporting prov= es fully accurate, the allegations fit a strategic relationship that has lon= g been the subject of regional scrutiny. Israel provides Azerbaijan with adv= anced weapons (according to the Stockholm-based SIPRI, up to 70% of its arms im= ports) and buys its oil (around 40% of Israel=E2=80=99s consumption). Israel gets a foo= thold on Iran=E2=80=99s borders, and Azerbaijan gets the support of the = ;powerful pro-Israel lobby&n= bsp;in Washington. The late Quincy Institute fellow Mark Perry reported in a=  detailed essay in Foreign Policy as earl= y as 2012 that Azerbaijan was =E2=80=9CIsrael=E2=80=99s secret staging groun= d=E2=80=9D against Iran.

But why are the details being leaked now? While no= official claims have been made, one possibility could be that the U.S. and I= srael want to ensure Azerbaijan won=E2=80=99t rescind its cooperation. If so= , by publicizing the alleged bases, Washington and Tel Aviv are burning Baku= =E2=80=99s plausible deniability with Tehran.

This dovetails with a pattern= . After the active phase of the war, reports emerged of a secret vis= it by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the UAE. Emirati official= s vehemently denied them, while their Israeli counterp= arts openly boasted about the trip. The leak may have been at l= east partially linked to Israeli domestic political considera= tions =E2=80=94 Netanyahu needs to burnish his credentials as a statesman to= see off a tough challenge from his main rival Naftali Bennett in elections l= ater this year. But its effect was to further tie Abu Dhabi to Israel=E2=80=99= s regional posture toward Iran. The same logic may apply here: tie Azerbaija= n=E2=80=99s hands. If Iran lashes out at either UAE or Azerbaijan, or both, t= he logic presumably goes, they=E2=80=99d have to turn to Israel for protecti= on, thus solidifying their security dependence on Tel Aviv.

So far, Tehran has shown restraint. The Iranian drone a= ttack on Nakhchivan in March =E2=80=94 which Aliyev called =E2=80=9Can act of terror=E2=80=9D =E2=80=94 has be= en interpreted by Iranian sources as a warning shot, not an opening salvo fo= r greater hostilities. Iran has avoided a northern front throughout the war,= concentrating instead on the Persian Gulf and its missile exchanges with Is= rael. If that was indeed Tehran=E2=80=99s message, then it succeeded: despit= e his vows of retaliation, Aliyev h= as to date done noth= ing =E2=80=94 and in fact, shipped humanitarian cargoes to Iran= soon thereafter.

Neither Baku nor Tehran wanted an open confrontation at t= hat stage, but the more recent revelations can provide fuel for Tehran to ac= t against Baku next time =E2=80=94 if the war resumes.

That is the real dan= ger. If hostilities restart, Iran could treat Azerbaijan as a legitimate mil= itary target. Baku would then be forced to choose between full alignment wit= h Israel =E2=80=94 and devastating retaliation =E2=80=94 or a break with its= most important defense partner, alongside Turkey.

However, there is a cruc= ial caveat. Baku's direct, operational involvement in specific hostile actio= ns against Iran =E2=80=94 such as enabling Israeli air sorties from Azerbaij= an as opposed to logistical roles, such as hosting Israeli commando units th= at helped kill an IRGC general on Iranian soil =E2=80=94 is a distinction th= at matters enormously. This could be considered a potential casus belli= .

Tehran=E2=80=99s muted reaction so far suggests that it will first r= eview the CNN claims carefully and reach its own conclusions. Iranian action= s so far have indicated caution. Tehran is calculating: is this disclosure u= seful? Does it provide leverage? Or does it force Tehran=E2=80=99s hand befo= re it is ready?

There is also the Turkish factor. Despite recent friction, Ankara remains Baku=E2=80=99s steadfast ally. I= ran sees Turkey as a military peer, and would not precipitate any action tha= t would put it on a collision course with Ankara. And, as Amwaj Media=E2=80=99= s Mohammad Ali Shabani = points out, Ankara played a helpful role in restraining Kurdish grou= ps from mounting a campaign against Iran in the opening days of the U.S.-Isr= aeli war that was launched February 29 =E2=80=94 a service Tehran won=E2=80=99= t forget.

All of this plays into the next steps for Tehran.

Tangentially, t= he CNN story is also a blow to the Trump Route for International Peace and P= rosperity (TRIPP) =E2=80=94 the so-called "Caucasus Corridor" announced by the U.= S. president as part of a peace deal between Azerbaijan and Armenia. TRIPP h= as been touted as a strategic wedg= e against Russian and Iranian influence in the South Caucasus. I= t is designed to link Azerbaijan overland through Armenia to its Nakhchevan e= xclave and Turkey, bypassing Iran.

But TRIPP requires stability. The invest= ors need to be assured that the region is a safe, neutral transit hub, not a= forward operating base for Israeli commandos. A fresh crisis on its Azeri l= eg could scare off potential investors, already shaken by the Iran war.

Despite TRIPP=E2=80=99s status as o= ne of Trump=E2=80=99s signature peace projects that, in his view, should ear= n him the Nobel Peace Prize, Israel is unlikely to let Azerbaijan off very e= asily =E2=80=94 Baku has become their strategic depth now.

That may be the w= hole point of the CNN leak =E2=80=94 whether intended or not: to make any fu= ture Azerbaijani reconciliation with Iran politically impossible. The iceber= g has been mapped. Now Baku, Tehran and everyone else has to sail around it.= Or try to blow it up.

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Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:25:37 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Chas Freeman Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 15:25:17 -0400 X-Gm-Features: AVVi8CfZZv3cZoJQnNGD8qZeFZhtLMpC8BZ0sVV8BSYfQ6p_RSMyMHgbmR6jTcc Message-ID: To: "salon@listserve.com" Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0000000000007ca6470653d7176d" Subject: [Salon] Netanyahu says Israel may have to confront Iran without U.S. backing X-BeenThere: salon@listserve.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion List for the Committee For The Republic List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:25:40 -0000 --0000000000007ca6470653d7176d Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Rajan Menon 6m @rajanmenon468622 >From Amiel Yarchi, the Knesset correspondent of i24News, an Israeli television network: =E2=80=9CNetanyahu's Warning in the Cabinet: We May Have to Confront the Ir= anians Alone At last night's cabinet meeting, the Prime Minister said: "It could be that we'll reach a situation where we have to confront the Iranians alone, without backing from the U.S., with all the costs involved=E2=80=94armament= s and global isolation. We don't want to get there, but we know we can get there.= " The Chief of Staff Zamir warned about the emerging agreement: "As we see it right now=E2=80=94almost any agreement is a bad agreement." --0000000000007ca6470653d7176d Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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From Amiel Yarchi, the Knesset correspondent= of i24News, an Israeli television network:

=E2=80=9CNetanyahu's Warning in the Cabinet: We May Have to Confront= the Iranians Alone

At last night's c= abinet meeting, the Prime Minister said: "It could be that we'll r= each a situation where we have to confront the Iranians alone, without back= ing from the U.S., with all the costs involved=E2=80=94armaments and global= isolation. We don't want to get there, but we know we can get there.&q= uot;

The Chief of Staff Zamir warned = about the emerging agreement: "As we see it right now=E2=80=94almost a= ny agreement is a bad agreement."

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Named by FIFA to officiate during the World Cup, the Somali referee =F0=9F= =87=B8=F0=9F=87=B4 Omar Artan was denied entry to U.S. territory

Due to his difficulties in obtaining a visa, he had benefited from the supp= ort of the Somali embassy in Nairobi, which notably enabled him to obtain a= diplomatic passport

Insufficient for the American authorities, who immediately sent him back...=

As a reminder, Artan officiated the return leg of last year's Champions= League final between Pyramids FC and Mamelodi Sundowns while being elected= best African referee for 2025 by the CAF
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Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:53:30 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Chas Freeman Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 15:53:13 -0400 X-Gm-Features: AVVi8CejI9vTsvjVVJM0wkmTKuj5SBcEMsVRYX0MjV8VIMi0q_GGEZ5whM38Fi8 Message-ID: To: "salon@listserve.com" Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="00000000000038eb9d0653d77b50" Subject: [Salon] A politically marred world cup X-BeenThere: salon@listserve.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion List for the Committee For The Republic List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:53:33 -0000 --00000000000038eb9d0653d77b50 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, U.S. President Donald Trump and FIFA President Gianni Infantino at the 2026 World Cup draw at the Kennedy Center in Washington, Dec. 5, 2025 (AP photo by Jacquelyn Martin) *With the FIFA World Cup set to open Thursday* across the U.S., Mexico and Canada, President Donald Trump=E2=80=99s administration has refused an entr= y visa to Omar Artan , a soccer referee from Somalia who was scheduled to officiate matches in the tournament. U.S. immigration officials blamed the refusal on =E2=80=9Cvetting concerns.= =E2=80=9D But it=E2=80=99s hard to escape the suspicion that Artan=E2=80=99s nationality = played a role, given how often President Donald Trump and other administration officials have publicly expressed racist views of Somali immigrants in Minnesota as well as of the country and its inhabitants. Artan himself shares that suspicion. He told The New York Times that border officials at the Miami airport interviewed him for 11 hours before turning him away. =E2=80=9CI had the right papers and everything. I had the= right visa,=E2=80=9D he said. =E2=80=9CI think that they have a problem with my c= ountry.=E2=80=9D The move comes days after the U.S. belatedly issued visas to Iran=E2=80=99s national team, but under strict conditions that would requir= e the team to travel to its U.S.-based matches and return to its training camp in Mexico on the day of each match. The U.S. also refused entry to multiple members of the Iranian team=E2=80=99s technical staff. Over the past week, most of the other teams that qualified for the tournament had already arrived at their allotted training facilities in the three co-host countries, and they have now all finished up their last preparation matches. But the visa controversies have highlighted the degree to which this year=E2=80=99s World Cup is inseparable from the global politics of the Trump era, casting a pall over the opening week. Indeed, with just two days to go before the much-anticipated four-yearly tournament begins, one thing seems to be lacking: fan enthusiasm. In numerous conversations I=E2=80=99ve had here in the U.K. and on social medi= a, people have expressed surprise at how little excitement seems to have built up compared to past editions of the World Cup. Though admittedly anecdotal, the sense of lowered public interest is backed up by disappointing ticket sales, with about 15,000 tickets still available for direct purchase from FIFA and 176,000 seats available on resale platforms for the group stages=E2=80=94and prices plummeting. Hotel bookings=E2=80=94particularly for U.S. host cities=E2=80=94are also underpe= rforming . A number of reasons can explain the underwhelming turnout. FIFA, world soccer=E2=80=99s governing body, has been roundly criticized for exorbitant= ticket prices . In addition, its decision to expand the tournament to 48 teams, up from 32 for the past seven editions, has perhaps increased representation, but at the cost of quality, further reflecting the organization=E2=80=99s penchant= for putting the bottom line at the top of its agenda. Finally, there=E2=80=99s a case to be made that there is simply too much so= ccer these days. Between league play, club and regional championships and the Olympics, there is no longer any real off-season. The resulting fatigue is showing up not only among fans in the run-up to this year=E2=80=99s World C= up, but also in the bodies of the world=E2=80=99s elite players, in the form of inj= uries. But while all of these elements are contributing to the pre-World Cup malaise, it=E2=80=99s hard not to attribute at least part of it to a global backlash in public perceptions of the U.S. under Trump. While Trump=E2=80=99s trade wars and disruptive use o= f U.S. military power are significant drivers of that backlash, so too is his administration=E2=80=99s draconian anti-immigration campaign. In fact, soon= after that campaign was launched and accounts of abuses of even legal residents and visa-holders became commonplace, many global observers expressed concerns over America=E2=80=99s ability to host an event that draws visitor= s from around the world=E2=80=94including fans and players from countries routinel= y targeted by U.S. immigration officers for profiling. In the intervening months, Trump administration officials have shown their willingness to hijack collective events and commemorations to advance the White House=E2=80=99s policy agenda and promote its revisionist histories. = Just last weekend, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used his remarks at the D-Day commemoration to portray immigration as an enemy invasion, implicitly=E2=80= =94and confusingly=E2=80=94comparing migrant boats that arrive on European shores = to the Allied forces that landed on the beaches of Normandy in 1944. Fears that Trump would weaponize the World Cup gathered momentum in February after the U.S., along with Israel, attacked Iran, whose national team was already set to play its matches in America. Mexico helpfully volunteered to host the team=E2=80=99s training camp, seemingly smoothing t= hat potential wrinkle. But those fears have nevertheless now materialized, and the entry ban on Artan, who just last year was named referee of the year by the governing body of African football, adds to the perception of pettiness. It=E2=80=99s possible and even likely that once the matches begin, fan excitement will pick up and anticipation will build ahead of the final, scheduled for July 19 in New Jersey. But if so, it will be despite the Trump administration=E2= =80=99s efforts, not because of them. --00000000000038eb9d0653d77b50 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable


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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, Mexican President Claudia = Sheinbaum, U.S. President Donald Trump and FIFA President Gianni Infantino = at the 2026 World Cup draw at the Kennedy Center in Washington, Dec. 5, 202= 5 (AP photo by Jacquelyn Martin)

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Indeed, with just two days to go before the much-anticipated four-= yearly tournament begins, one thing seems to be lacking: fan enthusiasm. In= numerous conversations I=E2=80=99ve had here in the U.K. and on social med= ia, people have expressed surprise at how little excitement seems to have b= uilt up compared to past editions of the World Cup. Though admittedly anecd= otal, the sense of lowered public interest is backed up by disappointing ti= cket sales, with about 15,000 tickets still available for direct purchase f= rom FIFA and 176,000 seats=C2=A0available=C2=A0on resale platforms for the group stages=E2=80= =94and prices plummeting. Hotel bookings=E2=80=94particularly for U.S. host= cities=E2=80=94are=C2=A0also underperfo= rming.

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With the FI= FA World Cup set to open Thursday=C2=A0across the U.S., Mexico and Cana= da, President Donald Trump=E2=80=99s administration has refused an entry vi= sa to=C2=A0Omar Artan, a soccer referee from Somal= ia who was scheduled to officiate matches in the tournament.

U.S. immigration officials blamed the refusal on =E2=80=9Cvett= ing concerns.=E2=80=9D But it=E2=80=99s hard to escape the suspicion that A= rtan=E2=80=99s nationality played a role, given how often President Donald = Trump and other administration officials have publicly expressed racist vie= ws of Somali immigrants in Minnesota as well as of the country and its inha= bitants.

Artan himself shares that suspicion. He= told The New York Times that border officials at the Miami airport intervi= ewed him for=C2=A011 hours=C2= =A0before turning him away. =E2=80=9CI had the right papers and everything.= I had the right visa,=E2=80=9D he said. =E2=80=9CI think that they have a = problem with my country.=E2=80=9D

The move comes= days after the U.S. belatedly issued=C2=A0visas=C2=A0to Iran=E2=80=99s national team, but under strict = conditions that would require the team to travel to its U.S.-based matches = and return to its training camp in Mexico on the day of each match. The U.S= . also=C2=A0refused entry=C2=A0to multiple members of the Iranian team= =E2=80=99s technical staff.=C2=A0

Over the past = week, most of the other teams that qualified for the tournament had already= arrived at their allotted training facilities in the three co-host countri= es, and they have now all finished up their last preparation matches. But t= he visa controversies have highlighted the degree to which this year=E2=80= =99s World Cup is=C2=A0inseparable=C2=A0from the global politics of the= Trump era, casting a pall over the opening week.=C2=A0

A number of reasons can explai= n the underwhelming turnout. FIFA, world soccer=E2=80=99s governing body, h= as been roundly criticized for=C2=A0exorbitant ticket prices. In addition, its decision to e= xpand the tournament to 48 teams, up from 32 for the past seven editions, h= as perhaps increased representation, but at the cost of quality, further re= flecting the organization=E2=80=99s penchant for putting the bottom line at= the top of its agenda.

Finally, there=E2=80=99s= a case to be made that there is simply too much soccer these days. Between= league play, club and regional championships and the Olympics, there is no= longer any real off-season. The resulting fatigue is showing up not only a= mong fans in the run-up to this year=E2=80=99s World Cup, but also in the b= odies of the world=E2=80=99s elite players, in the form of injuries.

But while all of these elements are contributing to th= e pre-World Cup malaise, it=E2=80=99s hard not to attribute at least part o= f it to a global backlash in=C2=A0publi= c perceptions=C2=A0of the U.S. under Trump. While Trump=E2=80=99= s trade wars and disruptive use of U.S. military power are significant driv= ers of that backlash, so too is his administration=E2=80=99s draconian anti= -immigration campaign. In fact, soon after that campaign was launched and a= ccounts of abuses of even legal residents and visa-holders became commonpla= ce, many global observers expressed concerns over America=E2=80=99s ability= to host an event that draws visitors from around the world=E2=80=94includi= ng fans and players from countries routinely targeted by U.S. immigration o= fficers for profiling.=C2=A0

In the intervening = months, Trump administration officials have shown their willingness to hija= ck collective events and commemorations to advance the White House=E2=80=99= s policy agenda and promote its revisionist histories. Just last weekend, D= efense Secretary Pete Hegseth used his remarks at the D-Day commemoration t= o portray immigration as an enemy invasion, implicitly=E2=80=94and confusin= gly=E2=80=94comparing migrant boats that arrive on European shores to the A= llied forces that landed on the beaches of Normandy in 1944.

Fears that Trump would weaponize the World Cup gathered moment= um in February after the U.S., along with Israel, attacked Iran, whose nati= onal team was already set to play its matches in America. Mexico helpfully = volunteered to host the team=E2=80=99s training camp, seemingly smoothing t= hat potential wrinkle.

But those fears have neve= rtheless now materialized, and the entry ban on Artan, who just last year w= as named referee of the year by the governing body of African football, add= s to the perception of pettiness. It=E2=80=99s possible and even likely tha= t once the matches begin, fan excitement will pick up and anticipation will= build ahead of the final, scheduled for July 19 in New Jersey. But if so, = it will be despite the Trump administration=E2=80=99s efforts, not because = of them.

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US officials have drawn up a proposal to bypass Britain and make its own deal to take control of Diego Garcia, the strategically important UK-US military base amid uncertainty about its future, The Telegraph understands. It is among several options drafted by Donald Trump=E2=80=99s administratio= n in a paper aimed at providing alternatives to the Prime Minister=E2=80=99s plan,= which would hand control of the islands to Mauritius , an ally of China and Iran. The White House has been in regular discussions with Downing Street about securing the future of Diego Garcia, one US official with knowledge of the discussions told The Telegraph. While purchasing the islands is not the leading solution for the White House, the idea has been raised directly with Scott Bessent, the US Treasury secretary, who has brought the matter to the president=E2=80=99s attention, sources said. The war in Iran and China=E2=80=99s rising naval might have reignited calls= to maintain a global chain of strategic military bases . Diego Garcia=E2=80=99s strategic position puts Iran within striking distance and allows for round-the-clock, long-range bomber missions, such as the strike on Tehran using B-2 Spirit stealth bombers. Accordingly, senior members of Mr Trump=E2=80=99s administration fear that = handing control of the water to China-allied Mauritius would open the door to espionage by sea. Officials have in recent months highlighted the Chagos Islands=E2=80=99 imp= ortance, stressing top-secret capabilities. Ben Judah, David Lammy=E2=80=99s former special advisor when he was foreign secretary, told The Telegraph this year: =E2=80=9CThis airbase=E2=80=A6has = super secret, super sensitive facilities there which are so important to what Britain is able to do in the world. =E2=80=9CThe moment you understand what it is, you come into the British de= ep state=E2=80=99s logic, which is that we must retain access to this thing at= all costs. We would never be able to replicate if we had to do it all by ourselves.=E2=80=9D A price for the Chagos Islands has not yet been discussed. Britain initially planned to give the islands to Mauritius and then pay around =C2=A335bn ($46.7bn) for 99 years to lease back the military base. To take control of the islands, Washington would first have to allow Sir Keir=E2=80=99s deal to go through, then negotiate with the Mauritians once sovereignty had been transferred. The president initially supported Sir Keir=E2=80=99s deal to give the islan= ds away, but then chose to scuttle it after Sir Keir refused to allow the US to use Diego Garcia to carry out strikes on Iran in the opening hours of the war. Labour had hoped to pass a bill to give the islands to Mauritius in 2025, but it cannot ratify the deal and hand the islands over to Mauritius without US consent. In several public outbursts earlier this year, the president denounced the deal as an act of weakness and =E2=80=9Cgreat stupidity=E2=80=9D and argued= that Sir Keir is =E2=80=9Closing control of this important island=E2=80=9D, referring to = Diego Garcia. In an interview with The Telegraph on March 2, he said he was =E2=80=9Cvery disappointed=E2=80=9D in the Prime Minister for blocking him from using the= island to strike Iran. Since then, he has launched repeated attacks against Sir Keir, saying he was =E2=80=9Cno Winston Churchill=E2=80=9D and that he was responsible for the decline of the special relationship . Britain is also reliant on the US to amend an exchange of letters sent in the 1960s and 1970s that form the legal basis for the agreement to share the base. Mauritius has repeatedly challenged Britain=E2=80=99s ownership of the Chag= os Islands in the international courts, and ministers expected that the International Court of Justice would soon issue a binding ruling to transfer ownership of them. Hamish Falconer, minister for the Middle East and North Africa, said in May that there was no scenario in which Washington could purchase the islands, insisting that the Government was =E2=80=9Ccommitted to the deal that we ha= ve struck=E2=80=9D. A US official told The Telegraph: =E2=80=9CWe remain in regular discussions= with our British allies as we work together to preserve the viability of Diego Garcia as a regional security platform.=E2=80=9D Downing Street did not respond to requests for comment. --00000000000047197f0653d7e20a Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026/= 06/07/white-house-plan-chagos-islands/

Trump considers buying= Chagos Islands

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US = officials draw up proposal to bypass Britain and make its own deal to take = control of Diego Garcia

The W= hite House is considering a plan to buy the Chagos Islands, potentially sin= king Sir Keir Starmer=E2=80=99s plan to cede the territory=E2=80=99s sovere= ignty to Mauritius.

US officials have drawn = up a proposal to bypass Britain and make its own deal to take control of Di= ego Garcia, the=C2=A0strategically important UK-US military base=C2= =A0amid uncertainty about its future, The Telegraph understands.

=

It is among several options drafted by Donald T= rump=E2=80=99s administration in a paper aimed at providing alternatives to= the Prime Minister=E2=80=99s plan, which=C2=A0would hand control of the islan= ds to Mauritius, an ally of China and Iran.

The White House has been in regular discussions with Downing Street abo= ut securing the future of Diego Garcia, one US official with knowledge of t= he discussions told The Telegraph.

While pur= chasing the islands is not the leading solution for the White House, the id= ea has been raised directly with Scott Bessent, the US Treasury secretary, = who has brought the matter to the president=E2=80=99s attention, sources sa= id.

The war in Iran and China=E2=80=99s risi= ng naval might have reignited calls to maintain a global chain of=C2= =A0strategic= military bases.

Diego Garcia=E2=80=99s strategic position=C2=A0puts Iran within striking distance and allows for round-the= -clock, long-range bomber missions, such as the strike on Tehran using B-2 = Spirit stealth bombers.

Accordingly, senior members of M= r Trump=E2=80=99s administration fear that handing control of the water to = China-allied Mauritius would open the door to espionage by sea.

Officials have in recent months highlighted the Chagos = Islands=E2=80=99 importance, stressing top-secret capabilities.

Ben Judah, David Lammy=E2=80=99s former special advisor= when he was foreign secretary, told The Telegraph this year: =E2=80=9CThis= airbase=E2=80=A6has super secret, super sensitive facilities there which a= re so important to what Britain is able to do in the world.

=E2=80=9CThe moment you understand what it is, you come int= o the British deep state=E2=80=99s logic, which is that we must retain acce= ss to this thing at all costs. We would never be able to replicate if we ha= d to do it all by ourselves.=E2=80=9D

A pric= e for the Chagos Islands has not yet been discussed.=C2=A0Britain initially planned to = give the islands to Mauritius=C2=A0and then pay around =C2= =A335bn ($46.7bn) for 99 years to lease back the military base.

To take control of the islands, Washington would first = have to allow Sir Keir=E2=80=99s deal to go through, then negotiate with th= e Mauritians once sovereignty had been transferred.

The president initially supported Sir Keir=E2=80=99s deal to give t= he islands away, but then chose to scuttle it after Sir Keir refused to all= ow the US to use Diego Garcia to carry out strikes on Iran in the opening h= ours of the war.

Labour had hoped to pass a = bill to give the islands to Mauritius in 2025, but it cannot ratify the dea= l and hand the islands over to Mauritius without US consent.

In several public outbursts earlier this year, the preside= nt denounced the deal as an act of weakness and =E2=80=9Cgreat stupidity=E2= =80=9D and argued that Sir Keir is =E2=80=9Closing control of this importan= t island=E2=80=9D, referring to Diego Garcia.

In an inte= rview with The Telegraph on March 2, he said he was =E2=80=9Cvery disappoin= ted=E2=80=9D in the Prime Minister for blocking him from using the island t= o strike Iran.

Since then, he has launched r= epeated attacks against Sir Keir,=C2=A0saying he was =E2=80=9Cno Winston Churchill=E2=80=9D=C2=A0= and that he was responsible for=C2=A0the decline of the special relationship.

Britain is also reliant on the US to amend an exchange = of letters sent in the 1960s and 1970s that form the legal basis for the ag= reement to share the base.

Mauritius has rep= eatedly challenged Britain=E2=80=99s ownership of the Chagos Islands in the= international courts, and ministers expected that the International Court = of Justice would soon issue a binding ruling to transfer ownership of them.=

Hamish Falconer, minister for the Middle Ea= st and North Africa, said in May that there was no scenario in which Washin= gton could purchase the islands, insisting that the Government was =E2=80= =9Ccommitted to the deal that we have struck=E2=80=9D.

A US official told The Telegraph: =E2=80=9CWe remain in regular = discussions with our British allies as we work together to preserve the via= bility of Diego Garcia as a regional security platform.=E2=80=9D

Downing Street did not respond to requests for comment= .

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(6/8/26) X-BeenThere: salon@listserve.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion List for the Committee For The Republic List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:28:56 -0000 --000000000000cc1eac0653d7f92f Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable *https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10429 * *The Interim Assessment of the War of Iran (II)*The Iran war escalates again with an Iranian attack on Israel. Tehran has so far successfully asserted itself and can also rally the population behind it again. The EU is pushing ahead with plans for Hormuz naval operations. *08 JUNE 2026* Pragmatic Nationalists *As stated in the analysis in Foreign Affairs, the beheading strikes that Israel led, especially at the beginning of the war, against Iran's then head of state, not only missed the goal of bringing about the overthrow of the government in Tehran. Rather, they have helped to force a generational change in the upper ranks of the Iranian state. Now there are no longer people in power whose worldview was shaped in the fight against the Shah regime and in the planning of the overthrow, but a generation that had to defend their country in the 1980s in the war against Iraq and developed considerable creativity because of its overrought situation. In addition, the next generation, which grew up after the war against Iraq, pushes upwards on the following levels of the hierarchies; for them, the focus is no longer on the "revolutionary ideology" but on "national defense", judge the author and the author of the Foreign Affairs contribution, who both teach at the renowned School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. 1] They are no longer religious hardliners, but very "pragmatic, hard-hard nationalists" who have "a clear picture of Iran's abilities and weaknesses": "They do not defend a revolution. They manage a state.=E2=80=9D* Decentralized structures *The new generation at the head of the Iranian state has already succeeded after the Twelve-Day War in June 2025 - then still under the supreme religious leader Ali Khamenei - in preparing the country for a new attack by the USA and Israel. For example, decision-making powers in terms of trade, agriculture and social systems were shifted from state capitals to provincial capitals, i.e. decentralized. 2] Foreign Affairs says that the armed forces have been systematically "converted into a network of operations commandos" that "strongly resembles a guerrilla army" "than a conventional force". Ultimately, the state apparatus - the military included - was transformed "into a coherent decision-making structure" "that could survive the loss of every single leader". This made it possible to survive Israel's brutal decapitation blows without losing one's ability to act. For its future, Iran is no longer counting on achieving the lifting of US sanctions; since Washington can re-enforce them at any time, reintegration into the Western financial system is not relying on, summarizes Iran's contribution to Foreign Affairs's new stance. Rather, one had to take advantage of the actual control of the Strait of Hormuz (german-foreign-policy.com reported [3]).* "A new identity" *It is central to the new leadership of the state to get the economy going: a conclusion from previous protests by the Iranian population, which in many cases were triggered by economic hardship. So far, Tehran has succeeded in preventing extensive deficiencies in the supply of the population, despite all the difficulties. At the time of the US-American-Israeli attacks, Iran's leadership was able to not only prevent open protests, such as those in January of this year, but even to rally the population to a certain extent behind them. Although the criticism of the government persists in principle, according to Foreign Affairs. But Iran's population had allowed themselves to be mobilized more and more against the bombings, formed human chains around power plants and gathered on bridges that US President Donald Trump threatened to destroy. At the same time, the government had, for example, de facto relaxed the headscarf obligation and thus granted new freedoms. The war and the new policy of the government would give rise to a "new identity" in the population, a university professor from Iran is quoted as saying. 4] If Tehran succeeds in getting the economy in motion as efficiently as it has organized the survival in the war, then the government could possibly even emerge stronger from the arms movement.* Force the decision *With a view to its strengthened position and the previous material losses of the USA in the war in Iran or its decimated missile stocks (german-foreign-policy.com reported [5]), the government in Tehran has in recent days not only responded to selective US attacks with counterattacks =E2=80=93 most recently they were = directed against two US air bases in Kuwait and against the US naval base in Bahrain =E2=80=93 but also responded to renewed attacks by Israel on Beirut yesterd= ay, which break the agreements between Iran and the United States, with the shelling of targets in northern Israel, this for the first time since the beginning of the ceasefire. The shelling comes at a time when tensions between Israel and the United States have increased significantly. Last week it became known that US President Donald Trump had insulted Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a telephone call because Israel was torpedoing the agreement Trump was seeking with Iran with its attacks on Lebanon.[ 6] With the current attack on northern Israel, which will probably be followed by a new attack by Israel on Iran, Tehran seeks to increase the pressure: If Washington actually wants to bring the war to an end, it must induce its Middle East allies to stop its bombings.* So far without influence *While the war threatens to escalate again, Germany and other European states continue to prepare a naval operation in the Strait of Hormuz, which, however, is less and less clear whether it will take place. As it became known last week, the EU Foreign Service proposed at the end of May to legitimize the operation, in which the German Navy wants to participate with the mine-sweeper Fulda and the Tender Mosel [7], using the EU Aspides operation. This mission has so far served to guide merchant ships through the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden to protect them from possible shelling by the Yemeni Houthis. 8] The mandate of the operation in principle also includes the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf and could therefore be used as a basis for the planned new naval operation.[ 9] As the EU Foreign Service writes, Aspides can now demonstrate "EU-wide personal responsibility": in its response "to a situation that affects all Member States". 10] However, the deployment depends firstly on a permanent ceasefire in the Iran war, and secondly on Iran's willingness to cooperate. Both are currently completely uncertain. The Federal Republic and the EU have no influence on this.* *[1], [2] Narges Bajoghli, Vali Nasr: Iran's New Grand Strategy. How a Remade Islamic Republic Will Reshape the Middle East. foreignaffairs.com 03.06.2026.* *[3] S. The opening of the Strait of Hormuz (II). * *Narges Bajoghli, Vali Nasr: Iran's New Grand Strategy. How a Remade Islamic Republic Will Reshape the Middle East. foreignaffairs.com 03.06.2026.* *[5] S. The interim balance of the Iran war .* *[6] A dispute between close allies. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 03.06.2026.* *[7] S. the opening of the Strait of Hormuz .* *[8] S. to gain war experience .* *[9] About the Operation EUNAVFOR ASPIDES. eeas.europa.eu 20.02.2024.* *[10] Lily Bayer: EU diplomatic arm proposes naval mission take 'primary role' in clearing Strait of Hormuz mines.* --000000000000cc1eac0653d7f92f Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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The Interim Assessment of the War of Ir= an (II)

<= font size=3D"2" face=3D"georgia, serif" color=3D"#000000">The Iran war esca= lates again with an Iranian attack on Israel. Tehran has so far successfull= y asserted itself and can also rally the population behind it again. The EU= is pushing ahead with plans for Hormuz naval operations.

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2026

Pragmatic Nationalists

As stated= in the analysis in Foreign Affairs, the beheading strikes that Israel led,= especially at the beginning of the war, against Iran's then head of st= ate, not only missed the goal of bringing about the overthrow of the govern= ment in Tehran. Rather, they have helped to force a generational change in = the upper ranks of the Iranian state. Now there are no longer people in pow= er whose worldview was shaped in the fight against the Shah regime and in t= he planning of the overthrow, but a generation that had to defend their cou= ntry in the 1980s in the war against Iraq and developed considerable creati= vity because of its overrought situation. In addition, the next generation,= which grew up after the war against Iraq, pushes upwards on the following = levels of the hierarchies; for them, the focus is no longer on the "re= volutionary ideology" but on "national defense", judge the a= uthor and the author of the Foreign Affairs contribution, who both teach at= the renowned School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins Uni= versity. 1] They are no longer religious hardliners, but very "pragmat= ic, hard-hard nationalists" who have "a clear picture of Iran'= ;s abilities and weaknesses": "They do not defend a revolution. T= hey manage a state.=E2=80=9D

Decentralized str= uctures

The new generation at the head of the Iranian stat= e has already succeeded after the Twelve-Day War in June 2025 - then still = under the supreme religious leader Ali Khamenei - in preparing the country = for a new attack by the USA and Israel. For example, decision-making powers= in terms of trade, agriculture and social systems were shifted from state = capitals to provincial capitals, i.e. decentralized. 2] Foreign Affairs say= s that the armed forces have been systematically "converted into a net= work of operations commandos" that "strongly resembles a guerrill= a army" "than a conventional force". Ultimately, the state a= pparatus - the military included - was transformed "into a coherent de= cision-making structure" "that could survive the loss of every si= ngle leader". This made it possible to survive Israel's brutal dec= apitation blows without losing one's ability to act. For its future, Ir= an is no longer counting on achieving the lifting of US sanctions; since Wa= shington can re-enforce them at any time, reintegration into the Western fi= nancial system is not relying on, summarizes Iran's contribution to For= eign Affairs's new stance. Rather, one had to take advantage of the act= ual control of the Strait of Hormuz (german-foreign-policy.com reported [3]).

"A new identity"

It is c= entral to the new leadership of the state to get the economy going: a concl= usion from previous protests by the Iranian population, which in many cases= were triggered by economic hardship. So far, Tehran has succeeded in preve= nting extensive deficiencies in the supply of the population, despite all t= he difficulties. At the time of the US-American-Israeli attacks, Iran's= leadership was able to not only prevent open protests, such as those in Ja= nuary of this year, but even to rally the population to a certain extent be= hind them. Although the criticism of the government persists in principle, = according to Foreign Affairs. But Iran's population had allowed themsel= ves to be mobilized more and more against the bombings, formed human chains= around power plants and gathered on bridges that US President Donald Trump= threatened to destroy. At the same time, the government had, for example, = de facto relaxed the headscarf obligation and thus granted new freedoms. Th= e war and the new policy of the government would give rise to a "new i= dentity" in the population, a university professor from Iran is quoted= as saying. 4] If Tehran succeeds in getting the economy in motion as effic= iently as it has organized the survival in the war, then the government cou= ld possibly even emerge stronger from the arms movement.

Force the decision

With a view to its strengthe= ned position and the previous material losses of the USA in the war in Iran= or its decimated missile stocks (german-foreign-policy.com reported [5]), the gove= rnment in Tehran has in recent days not only responded to selective US atta= cks with counterattacks =E2=80=93 most recently they were directed against = two US air bases in Kuwait and against the US naval base in Bahrain =E2=80= =93 but also responded to renewed attacks by Israel on Beirut yesterday, wh= ich break the agreements between Iran and the United States, with the shell= ing of targets in northern Israel, this for the first time since the beginn= ing of the ceasefire. The shelling comes at a time when tensions between Is= rael and the United States have increased significantly. Last week it becam= e known that US President Donald Trump had insulted Israel's Prime Mini= ster Benjamin Netanyahu during a telephone call because Israel was torpedoi= ng the agreement Trump was seeking with Iran with its attacks on Lebanon.[ = 6] With the current attack on northern Israel, which will probably be follo= wed by a new attack by Israel on Iran, Tehran seeks to increase the pressur= e: If Washington actually wants to bring the war to an end, it must induce = its Middle East allies to stop its bombings.

S= o far without influence

While the war threatens to escalat= e again, Germany and other European states continue to prepare a naval oper= ation in the Strait of Hormuz, which, however, is less and less clear wheth= er it will take place. As it became known last week, the EU Foreign Service= proposed at the end of May to legitimize the operation, in which the Germa= n Navy wants to participate with the mine-sweeper Fulda and the Tender Mose= l [7], using the EU Aspides operation. This mission has so far served to gu= ide merchant ships through the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden to protect them= from possible shelling by the Yemeni Houthis. 8] The mandate of the operat= ion in principle also includes the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf an= d could therefore be used as a basis for the planned new naval operation.[ = 9] As the EU Foreign Service writes, Aspides can now demonstrate "EU-w= ide personal responsibility": in its response "to a situation tha= t affects all Member States". 10] However, the deployment depends firs= tly on a permanent ceasefire in the Iran war, and secondly on Iran's wi= llingness to cooperate. Both are currently completely uncertain. The Federa= l Republic and the EU have no influence on this.

[1], [= 2] Narges Bajoghli, Vali Nasr: Iran's New Grand Strategy. How a Remade = Islamic Republic Will Reshape the Middle East. foreignaffairs.com 03.06.2026.

[3] S.=C2=A0The opening of the Strait of Hormuz (I= I).

Narges Bajoghli, Vali Nasr: Iran's New Gran= d Strategy. How a Remade Islamic Republic Will Reshape the Middle East. foreignaffairs.com= 03.06.2026.

= [5] S.=C2=A0The interim b= alance of the Iran war.

[6] A dispute between close= allies. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 03.06.2026.

[7= ] S. the=C2=A0opening of the Strait of Hormuz.<= /b>

[8] S. to=C2=A0gain war experience.=

[9] About the Operation EUNAVFOR ASPIDES. eeas.europa.eu 20.02.2024.<= /p>

[10] Lily Bayer: EU diplomatic arm proposes naval mission take = 9;primary role' in clearing Strait of Hormuz mines.

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[Celal G=C3=BCne=C5=9F - Anadolu= Agency]] *Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met a delegation of senior legal advisers from the US administration on Sunday to discuss international legal challenges facing Israel, according to a statement from his office.* *The statement said the talks focused on what Netanyahu described as a =E2=80=9Clegal war=E2=80=9D being waged against Israel, the United States a= nd other countries engaged in counterterrorism operations.* *No further details were provided regarding the participants in the meeting or the specific legal issues discussed.* *The meeting comes as international legal scrutiny of Israel=E2=80=99s geno= cide in Gaza continues to intensify, including ongoing proceedings and investigations before the International Criminal Court (ICC).* *READ: Israeli flight diverts to Croatia after Slovenia denies landing * *Last month, a group of lawyers and international law experts submitted a request to the ICC prosecutor seeking the inclusion 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Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion List for the Committee For The Republic List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:39:55 -0000 --00000000000034dce10653d9cefb Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/09/lebanon-hezbollah-israel-war-trump-mid= dle-east/?tpcc=3Deditors_picks Lebanon Is No Longer About Lebanon Iran would rather fight than let Israel decide Lebanon=E2=80=99s fate. June 9, 2026, By Ali Hashem , a journalist and researcher covering wars, diplomacy, and political transformations across the Middle East. [image: First responders inspect damage at the site of an Israeli airstrike targeting apartments in a residential building in Beirut=E2=80=99s southern suburbs.]First responders inspect damage at the site of an Israeli airstrike targeting apartments in a residential building in Beirut=E2=80=99= s southern suburbs.First responders inspect damage at the site of an Israeli airstrike targeting apartments in a residential building in Beirut=E2=80=99= s southern suburbs on June 7. Fadel Itani/AFP via Getty Images - BEIRUT=E2=80=94The building in Beirut=E2=80=99s southern suburb had already= learned the language of war. When I went to see it on Sunday, after the latest Israeli strike, it was not the image of sudden destruction that stayed with me, but the sense of repetition. Two floors had been hit. Two people were killed. The concrete carried older wounds from previous attacks in recent weeks, as if the target had not been newly identified but revisited. There are strikes meant to erase, and there are strikes meant to mark. This one felt like the second kind. A building left standing enough to speak, damaged enough to carry a message. The Israeli account said the strike came after two Hezbollah rockets were launched toward northern Israel. The logic was familiar, and in the language of this war, almost routine: retaliation calibrated not only to punish but to signal. Yet what Israel appeared to be signaling went beyond Hezbollah. It was saying that the Lebanese front would be contained inside Lebanese geography, that any attack on Lebanon would not automatically open the Iranian file. Strike Lebanon, absorb the answer in Lebanon. That was the equation Israel wanted to impose, and the building in Dahiyeh was asked to carry it. But war has a way of humiliating equations. Iran responded directly to the strike on Dahiyeh. Not to an attack on Iranian soil. Not to the killing of Iranian officers. Not to a strike on an Iranian facility. It responded to an Israeli attack in Lebanon. That detail matters, because it shifted the grammar of the confrontation. Tehran was no longer merely preserving deterrence after blows against itself; it was moving toward something closer to the active defense of its Lebanese flank. The strike Israel launched to deny the unity of fronts became the episode Iran used to demonstrate that unity. The message backfired into the very argument it was designed to refute. [image: A low-angle shot of a rocket soaring diagonally across a clear, solid blue sky. It leaves a long, thick, puffy white smoke trail stretching from the bottom left corner toward the upper right.]A low-angle shot of a rocket soaring diagonally across a clear, solid blue sky. It leaves a long, thick, puffy white smoke trail stretching from the bottom left corner toward the upper right. An Israeli Iron Dome missile streaks across the sky to intercept incoming projectiles on June 8. Jalaa Marey /AFP via Getty Images This is how a new equation often appears in the Middle East: not as a doctrine read from a podium, but as an action whose meaning becomes clear only after the smoke rises. The assumption that the war on Iran had pushed Tehran into caution did not survive the weekend. The Iran that emerged from that war has not behaved like a power weakened into restraint. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz continues. The diplomatic confrontation with Washington continues. And now Tehran has added another layer: Lebanese flash points can trigger Iranian action, even when Iranian territory itself is not struck. Washington understood the danger quickly. U.S. President Donald Trump moved to urge Israel to limit or halt its retaliation, a sign that the U.S. calculation, at least for now, does not favor a wider escalation. Whether that restraint survives another round is a different question. But the request itself confirmed what the exchange had already made visible: The old frameworks through which Washington, Tehran, Beirut, and Tel Aviv once managed the Iran-Lebanon-Israel triangle have been overtaken by the war they were supposed to contain. ------------------------------ [image: A wide shot of a young boy in black clothing playing with a green and red soccer ball on a paved plaza. In the background stands a large monument with a white concrete base and dark bronze figures, set against an overcast sky and city buildings.]A wide shot of a young boy in black clothing playing with a green and red soccer ball on a paved plaza. In the background stands a large monument with a white concrete base and dark bronze figures, set against an overcast sky and city buildings. A child plays in front of a monument at Martyrs=E2=80=99 Square in Beirut o= n April 14. Elif Ozturk/Anadolu via Getty Images Hezbollah parliamentarian Hussein Hajj Hassan received me in his office with the calm of a man who had already made peace with his conclusion. The Lebanese government, he said, was moving toward a deal with Israel worse than anything Lebanon had previously accepted. His movement would reject it. It would fail. He said this without heat, and that absence of heat was what stayed with me. It was not the performance of defiance. It was the composure of someone who believed the confrontation had already moved beyond persuasion. Outside, Beirut=E2=80=99s Parliament Square looked like another country. A = bride in a white gown posed for photographs near the entrance. A few meters away, a graduate stood with her parents, her cap slightly crooked, all three smiling into a camera as if history had granted them a brief exemption. Near the old clock, a band was rehearsing for a concert, with around a hundred empty chairs waiting for an audience that had not yet arrived. People drifted across the square unhurriedly, each absorbed in their own small life. Above them, an Israeli drone circled. Nobody looked up. A few kilometers from that square, tens of thousands of Lebanese displaced by the war are living in tents. Close to 10 percent of the country=E2=80=99= s territory is under Israeli occupation. The fragile internal fabric that held Lebanon together, never comfortably and never completely, is tearing in ways many here have not seen since the years before 1975. Some say this moment feels worse. The conditions are different, they argue, but the direction is familiar. What is striking is that none of this was visible in the square. That invisibility was not denial exactly. It was something more Lebanese than denial: a country conducting two realities at once, one on the surface, one underneath, with the distance between them narrowing by the day. In April, writing from Tehran on the day Iran=E2=80=99s cease-fire was anno= unced, I argued that the deal had divided the war rather than ended it. There was a diplomatic track with Iran, and a military track in Lebanon. They were connected but moving at different speeds. From Beirut, I am now watching those tracks converge. To understand why, one has to go back beyond Oct. 7, 2023, to what that day unleashed. Hezbollah entered the conflict under the banner of a support front for Gaza. That calibrated opening became the Lebanon war of 2024. Then came the pager attacks, which tore through the group=E2=80=99s communi= cations in an afternoon. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed. Senior commanders followed. The operational architecture built over decades was, in Israel=E2=80=99s assessment, broken. The cease-fire that followed was never really a cease-fire in the Lebanese sense of the word. It was a new operating environment. For 15 months, Israel maintained almost total freedom of movement over Lebanon. Strikes continued. Surveillance continued. The objective was not hidden: prevent Hezbollah from rebuilding what had been damaged, keep the organization under pressure, deny it the time and space to restore depth. Then came Feb. 28. The U.S. and Israeli war on Iran rested on a specific assumption: that years of attrition had left Tehran=E2=80=99s regional netw= ork too degraded to respond meaningfully. But events moved differently. Hezbollah reentered the conflict with a level of coordination that surprised many observers. Command and control had survived or been restored faster than expected. The organization bent, but it did not break. Israel then drew the conclusion that now drives much of what is happening in Lebanon: The job was unfinished. The current war grows out of the previous one, but it is no longer confined to it. Israeli operations have pushed north of the Litani River. The Beaufort Castle area has seen sustained military activity. Tyre and Nabatieh have been struck with a consistency that points to purpose rather than impulse. These cities carry symbolic weight, but symbolism alone does not explain the pattern. They are also functional spaces: command depth, supply routes, logistical corridors, and the connective tissue that allows Hezbollah to fight as a unified actor in a prolonged war. Strip those away, and Hezbollah may remain present, armed, and politically rooted, but in a diminished form. A Hezbollah capable of coordinating strikes deep into Israel is one of Iran=E2=80=99s most consequential deterr= ent assets. A Hezbollah confined to its immediate geography becomes something else: still dangerous, still relevant, but less able to impose strategic costs in a future confrontation centered on Iran. This is why the Israeli objective appears less like elimination and more like fragmentation. Break the organization into pieces. Reduce its operational depth. Turn a regional asset into a Lebanese problem. That is why Lebanon now reads less like a separate theater and more like the battlefield where the conditions of the next Iran war are being prepared. ------------------------------ [image: Extensive rubble and concrete debris in an urban area, with damaged multistory residential buildings standing in the background. Propped up amid the destroyed concrete in the center foreground is a large rectangular portrait of a bearded man wearing a black turban and glasses.]Extensive rubble and concrete debris in an urban area, with damaged multistory residential buildings standing in the background. Propped up amid the destroyed concrete in the center foreground is a large rectangular portrait of a bearded man wearing a black turban and glasses. A photo taken during a media tour organized by Hezbollah shows a banner with a picture of late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei placed amid the rubble of a destroyed building in Beirut=E2=80=99s southern suburb= s on May 6. Anwar Amro/AFP via Getty Images Trump has said he wanted to separate the Lebanon front from Iran. Then he said the two were too interconnected to separate cleanly. He was right both times. That was not really a contradiction. It was the diagnosis of a war whose geography no longer matches its politics. The debate over sovereignty is real. It should not be dismissed as theatre or reduced to slogans. Lebanon is being bombed, occupied, displaced, and negotiated over. Its state institutions are weak, its army is under pressure, its society is exhausted, and its people are paying the price of decisions made both inside and outside its borders. But sovereignty is also the visible crust over a deeper contest. The cease-fire framework announced last week between Israel and Lebanon includes what negotiators describe as =E2=80=9Cpilot=E2=80=9D security zone= s inside Lebanese territory, areas from which Hezbollah operatives would be barred and from which the group would be required to halt attacks on Israel. The same connective tissue targeted militarily for months is now being excised through negotiation. But what is really being decided in Lebanon now=E2=80=94beneath the cease-fire texts, the pilot zones, and the accusati= ons exchanged between Beirut and Tehran=E2=80=94is where Lebanon stands when th= e war ends: inside the resistance axis, undeclared but organic, or on a path that eventually makes an Abraham Accords-style future imaginable. That is the real fight. Everything else is surface. The talks with Israel may produce a deal, or they may collapse. But their primary function is already visible. The act of negotiating directly, visibly, officially, with the Lebanese government=E2=80=99s name attached, changes the political atmo= sphere. Every meeting normalizes something that was once unspeakable. Direct negotiation with Israel has governed Lebanese political life as a taboo for decades, embedded so deeply in the collective consciousness that it often required no enforcement. To cross it openly, even incrementally, even under the cover of war, changes the category of the possible. What was once politically impossible becomes merely politically difficult. That is a major shift. This is what Hajj Hassan understands. Hezbollah is fighting to preserve more than its military infrastructure. It is fighting to preserve the political and psychological architecture that makes its existence legitimate inside Lebanon: the idea that resistance is not merely one political option among others, but the foundational posture of the state toward Israel. Once that architecture weakens, the pilot zones become only the beginning. The question then moves from where Hezbollah can deploy to whether Lebanon=E2=80=99s future can be imagined without Hezbollah=E2=80=99= s worldview at its center. Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem called the negotiations futile and humiliating for Lebanon. When a movement that has fought Israel for four decades reaches for the word humiliation, it is not describing a tactical setback. It is naming an existential threat. For Hezbollah, the danger is not only the loss of territory or operational space. It is the possibility that Lebanon=E2=80=99s political center of gravity may be moved, under pressure,= from resistance to accommodation. [image: An indoor shot looking into a brightly lit subterranean hospital ward or shelter with white walls and exposed ceiling pipes. Several patients are lying in hospital beds lined up in rows. In the blurry foreground, a man wearing a traditional black hat, long coat, and glasses stands near a doorway holding a phone.]An indoor shot looking into a brightly lit subterranean hospital ward or shelter with white walls and exposed ceiling pipes. Several patients are lying in hospital beds lined up in rows. In the blurry foreground, a man wearing a traditional black hat, long coat, and glasses stands near a doorway holding a phone. Patients are relocated to an underground parking lot for safety at a hospital in Tel Aviv, Israel, on June 8, after renewed Iranian strikes on Israel, apparently in response to Israel=E2=80=99s attacks on Beirut=E2=80= =99s southern suburbs. Erik Marmor/Getty Images The reason separation keeps failing=E2=80=94Trump=E2=80=99s attempted separ= ation of fronts, the Lebanese government=E2=80=99s attempted separation from Hezbollah=E2=80= =99s logic, and Israel=E2=80=99s attempted separation of Lebanon from Iran=E2=80=94is partl= y ideological and partly theological. Hezbollah is not simply an Iranian instrument in a transactional sense. It does not serve Tehran the way a client serves a patron. It is organically extended from the doctrine of *velayat-e faqih*, the architecture built by Iran=E2=80=99s first supreme leader, Ruhollah Kho= meini, and inherited by his successor, Ali Khamenei. Its connection to Iran is ideological before it is logistical, theological before it is political, and strategic because it is all of these at once. The years of Lebanonization were real. Hezbollah sits in parliament. It has constituents, municipalities, welfare networks, social institutions, and local interests built over decades. Its leaders speak the language of Lebanese politics because they are part of it. But its frame of reference has always exceeded Lebanon=E2=80=99s borders. It is rooted in a transnatio= nal Shiitism that sees the region as one contested space, with Lebanon as a front, not an island. This is why the war looks different from inside Hezbollah=E2=80=99s world. = What the movement believes it is fighting is not simply Iran=E2=80=99s war conducted= on Lebanese soil. It sees the confrontation as necessary for its own people, existential for the Shiite of Lebanon, and tied to the broader Shiite geography of the region. That reading may be rejected by many Lebanese, including many who are suffering because of it. But rejecting it does not make it disappear. Security zones can be drawn on a map. Operatives can be banned from named areas. A document can be signed by Israel and the Lebanese government. But an organization whose identity is constitutionally transnational cannot be dissolved by diplomatic decree. The pilot zones may address military infrastructure. They leave the idea intact. Hajj Hassan told me the deal would fail. He said it without emotion, as a simple matter of fact. ------------------------------ [image: A young girl in a pink top and red pants doing a backbend on an asphalt surface. She is framed between two rows of large, bright blue tents set up outdoors under a clear blue sky.]A young girl in a pink top and red pants doing a backbend on an asphalt surface. She is framed between two rows of large, bright blue tents set up outdoors under a clear blue sky. A displaced girl plays between blue tents set up by the government for people who fled their homes and villages in Beirut=E2=80=99s southern subur= bs on May 22. Anwar Amro/AFP via Getty Image Back in Parliament Square, the bride had finished her photographs and left. The graduate and her parents were gone. The children had drifted home. The coffee shop was stacking its chairs. The drone was still there. A few kilometers away, tens of thousands were in tents. Nearly a tenth of the country was under occupation. The internal fabric was pulling apart along lines that predate this war and will outlast it. None of it was visible from the square. All of it was present. The Lebanese president calls Iran=E2=80=99s role exploitation. Iranian Fore= ign Minister Abbas Araghchi calls that slander. Trump seeks separation, then admits interconnection, then urges restraint when interconnection produces fire. Israel writes fragmentation into a cease-fire text. Iran writes interdependence into a strike. Hezbollah says the text will fail. The government negotiates directly with Israel and calls it necessity. A large part of the country calls it betrayal. They are all describing the same thing: a country being asked to decide what it is, under fire, with few good options and almost no time. The proposed pilot zones will be in Lebanon. The humiliation is being absorbed in Lebanon. The villages, roads, supply routes, and operational depth being targeted are Lebanese. The dead are Lebanese. The displaced are Lebanese. But the confrontation that gives all of this its meaning extends far beyond Lebanon. That building in Dahiyeh, struck again on Sunday, two floors gone and two people dead, was not only another target in another round. It became the place where a larger war showed its price. Israel struck Lebanon to contain the equation. Iran answered from beyond it. Washington moved to restrain the next step. Hezbollah read the moment as proof that the fronts are one. The Lebanese state read it as proof that Lebanon is being consumed by wars larger than itself. Lebanon has become the ground zero through which a regional war is being priced. Ali Hashem is a journalist and researcher covering wars, diplomacy, and political transformations across the Middle East. 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Iran would rather fight than let Israel decide Lebanon=E2=80=99s fate.
Jun= e 9, 2026,

By=C2=A0Ali Hashem, a journalist and researcher coveri= ng wars, diplomacy, and political transformations across the Middle East.
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BEIRUT=E2=80=94T= he building in Beirut=E2=80=99s southern suburb had already learned the lan= guage of war. When I went to see it on Sunday, after the latest Israeli str= ike, it was not the image of sudden destruction that stayed with me, but th= e sense of repetition. Two floors had been hit. Two people were killed. The= concrete carried older wounds from previous attacks in recent weeks, as if= the target had not been newly identified but revisited. There are strikes = meant to erase, and there are strikes meant to mark. This one felt like the= second kind. A building left standing enough to speak, damaged enough to c= arry a message.

The Israeli account said the strike came after two Hezbollah rockets w= ere launched toward northern Israel. The logic was familiar, and in the lan= guage of this war, almost routine: retaliation calibrated not only to punis= h but to signal. Yet what Israel appeared to be signaling went beyond Hezbo= llah. It was saying that the Lebanese front would be contained inside Leban= ese geography, that any attack on Lebanon would not automatically open the = Iranian file. Strike Lebanon, absorb the answer in Lebanon. That was the eq= uation Israel wanted to impose, and the building in Dahiyeh was asked to ca= rry it.

But war has a way of humiliating equations= . Iran responded directly to the strike on Dahiyeh. Not to an attack on Ira= nian soil. Not to the killing of Iranian officers. Not to a strike on an Ir= anian facility. It responded to an Israeli attack in Lebanon. That detail m= atters, because it shifted the grammar of the confrontation. Tehran was no = longer merely preserving deterrence after blows against itself; it was movi= ng toward something closer to the active defense of its Lebanese flank. The= strike Israel launched to deny the unity of fronts became the episode Iran= used to demonstrate that unity. The message backfired into the very argume= nt it was designed to refute.

3D"AA low-= angle shot of a rocket soaring diagonally across a clear, solid blue sky. I= t leaves a long, thick, puffy white smoke trail stretching from the bottom = left corner toward the upper right.

= An Israeli Iron Dome missile streaks across the sky to intercept incoming p= rojectiles on June 8.=C2=A0Jalaa Marey /AFP via Getty Images

Th= is is how a new equation often appears in the Middle East: not as a doctrin= e read from a podium, but as an action whose meaning becomes clear only aft= er the smoke rises. The assumption that the war on Iran had pushed Tehran i= nto caution did not survive the weekend. The Iran that emerged from that wa= r has not behaved like a power weakened into restraint. The closure of the = Strait of Hormuz continues. The diplomatic confrontation with Washington co= ntinues. And now Tehran has added another layer: Lebanese flash points can = trigger Iranian action, even when Iranian territory itself is not struck.

Washington understood the danger quickly. U.S. Pres= ident Donald Trump moved to urge Israel to limit or halt its retaliation, a= sign that the U.S. calculation, at least for now, does not favor a wider e= scalation. Whether that restraint survives another round is a different que= stion. But the request itself confirmed what the exchange had already made = visible: The old frameworks through which Washington, Tehran, Beirut, and T= el Aviv once managed the Iran-Lebanon-Israel triangle have been overtaken b= y the war they were supposed to contain.

3D"AA wide shot= of a young boy in black clothing playing with a green and red soccer ball = on a paved plaza. In the background stands a large monument with a white co= ncrete base and dark bronze figures, set against an overcast sky and city b= uildings.

A child plays in front of = a monument at Martyrs=E2=80=99 Square in Beirut on April 14.=C2=A0Elif Ozturk/Anadolu via Getty Image= s

Hezbollah parliamentarian Hu= ssein Hajj Hassan received me in his office with the calm of a man who had = already made peace with his conclusion. The Lebanese government, he said, w= as moving toward a deal with Israel worse than anything Lebanon had previou= sly accepted. His movement would reject it. It would fail. He said this wit= hout heat, and that absence of heat was what stayed with me. It was not the= performance of defiance. It was the composure of someone who believed the = confrontation had already moved beyond persuasion.

Outside, Beirut=E2=80=99s Parliament Square looked like another cou= ntry. A bride in a white gown posed for photographs near the entrance. A fe= w meters away, a graduate stood with her parents, her cap slightly crooked,= all three smiling into a camera as if history had granted them a brief exe= mption. Near the old clock, a band was rehearsing for a concert, with aroun= d a hundred empty chairs waiting for an audience that had not yet arrived. = People drifted across the square unhurriedly, each absorbed in their own sm= all life. Above them, an Israeli drone circled. Nobody looked up.

A few kilometers from that square, tens of thousands of Leb= anese displaced by the war are living in tents. Close to 10 percent of the = country=E2=80=99s territory is under Israeli occupation. The fragile intern= al fabric that held Lebanon together, never comfortably and never completel= y, is tearing in ways many here have not seen since the years before 1975. = Some say this moment feels worse. The conditions are different, they argue,= but the direction is familiar. What is striking is that none of this was v= isible in the square. That invisibility was not denial exactly. It was some= thing more Lebanese than denial: a country conducting two realities at once= , one on the surface, one underneath, with the distance between them narrow= ing by the day.

In April, writing from Tehran on t= he day Iran=E2=80=99s cease-fire was announced, I argued that the deal had = divided the war rather than ended it. There was a diplomatic track with Ira= n, and a military track in Lebanon. They were connected but moving at diffe= rent speeds. From Beirut, I am now watching those tracks converge.

To understand why, one has to go back beyond Oct. 7= , 2023, to what that day unleashed. Hezbollah entered the conflict under th= e banner of a support front for Gaza. That calibrated opening became the Le= banon war of 2024. Then came the pager attacks, which tore through the grou= p=E2=80=99s communications in an afternoon. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrall= ah was killed. Senior commanders followed. The operational architecture bui= lt over decades was, in Israel=E2=80=99s assessment, broken.

The cease-fire that followed was never really a cease-fire in th= e Lebanese sense of the word. It was a new operating environment. For 15 mo= nths, Israel maintained almost total freedom of movement over Lebanon. Stri= kes continued. Surveillance continued. The objective was not hidden: preven= t Hezbollah from rebuilding what had been damaged, keep the organization un= der pressure, deny it the time and space to restore depth.

Then came Feb. 28. The U.S. and Israeli war on Iran rested on a sp= ecific assumption: that years of attrition had left Tehran=E2=80=99s region= al network too degraded to respond meaningfully. But events moved different= ly. Hezbollah reentered the conflict with a level of coordination that surp= rised many observers. Command and control had survived or been restored fas= ter than expected. The organization bent, but it did not break. Israel then= drew the conclusion that now drives much of what is happening in Lebanon: = The job was unfinished.

The current war grows out = of the previous one, but it is no longer confined to it. Israeli operations= have=C2=A0pushed north=C2=A0of the Litani River. The Beaufort Castle area has seen sustained mi= litary activity. Tyre and Nabatieh have been struck with a consistency that= points to purpose rather than impulse. These cities carry symbolic weight,= but symbolism alone does not explain the pattern. They are also functional= spaces: command depth, supply routes, logistical corridors, and the connec= tive tissue that allows Hezbollah to fight as a unified actor in a prolonge= d war.

Strip those away, and Hezbollah may remain = present, armed, and politically rooted, but in a diminished form. A Hezboll= ah capable of coordinating strikes deep into Israel is one of Iran=E2=80=99= s most consequential deterrent assets. A Hezbollah confined to its immediat= e geography becomes something else: still dangerous, still relevant, but le= ss able to impose strategic costs in a future confrontation centered on Ira= n. This is why the Israeli objective appears less like elimination and more= like fragmentation. Break the organization into pieces. Reduce its operati= onal depth. Turn a regional asset into a Lebanese problem.

That is why Lebanon now reads less like a separate theater and more li= ke the battlefield where the conditions of the next Iran war are being prep= ared.

Trump has said he wanted to separate the Lebanon front from Iran. Th= en he said the two were too interconnected to separate cleanly. He was righ= t both times. That was not really a contradiction. It was the diagnosis of = a war whose geography no longer matches its politics.

The debate over sovereignty is real. It should not be dismissed a= s theatre or reduced to slogans. Lebanon is being bombed, occupied, displac= ed, and negotiated over. Its state institutions are weak, its army is under= pressure, its society is exhausted, and its people are paying the price of= decisions made both inside and outside its borders. But sovereignty is als= o the visible crust over a deeper contest.

The cea= se-fire framework=C2=A0announced last week=C2=A0between Israel and Lebanon includes = what negotiators describe as =E2=80=9Cpilot=E2=80=9D security zones inside = Lebanese territory, areas from which Hezbollah operatives would be barred a= nd from which the group would be required to halt attacks on Israel. The sa= me connective tissue targeted militarily for months is now being excised th= rough negotiation. But what is really being decided in Lebanon now=E2=80=94= beneath the cease-fire texts, the pilot zones, and the accusations exchange= d between Beirut and Tehran=E2=80=94is where Lebanon stands when the war en= ds: inside the resistance axis, undeclared but organic, or on a path that e= ventually makes an Abraham Accords-style future imaginable.

That is the real fight. Everything else is surface. The talks wit= h Israel may produce a deal, or they may collapse. But their primary functi= on is already visible. The act of negotiating directly, visibly, officially= , with the Lebanese government=E2=80=99s name attached, changes the politic= al atmosphere. Every meeting normalizes something that was once unspeakable= . Direct negotiation with Israel has governed Lebanese political life as a = taboo for decades, embedded so deeply in the collective consciousness that = it often required no enforcement. To cross it openly, even incrementally, e= ven under the cover of war, changes the category of the possible. What was = once politically impossible becomes merely politically difficult. That is a= major shift.

This is what Hajj Hassan understands= . Hezbollah is fighting to preserve more than its military infrastructure. = It is fighting to preserve the political and psychological architecture tha= t makes its existence legitimate inside Lebanon: the idea that resistance i= s not merely one political option among others, but the foundational postur= e of the state toward Israel. Once that architecture weakens, the pilot zon= es become only the beginning. The question then moves from where Hezbollah = can deploy to whether Lebanon=E2=80=99s future can be imagined without Hezb= ollah=E2=80=99s worldview at its center.

Hezbollah= leader Naim Qassem called the negotiations futile and humiliating for Leba= non. When a movement that has fought Israel for four decades reaches for th= e word humiliation, it is not describing a tactical setback. It is naming a= n existential threat. For Hezbollah, the danger is not only the loss of ter= ritory or operational space. It is the possibility that Lebanon=E2=80=99s p= olitical center of gravity may be moved, under pressure, from resistance to= accommodation.

3D"AnAn indoor shot looking into a brightly lit subte= rranean hospital ward or shelter with white walls and exposed ceiling pipes= . Several patients are lying in hospital beds lined up in rows. In the blur= ry foreground, a man wearing a traditional black hat, long coat, and glasse= s stands near a doorway holding a phone.

Patients are relocated to an underground parking lot for safety at a h= ospital in Tel Aviv, Israel, on June 8, after renewed Iranian strikes on Is= rael, apparently in response to Israel=E2=80=99s attacks on Beirut=E2=80=99= s southern suburbs.=C2=A0E= rik Marmor/Getty Images

The reason se= paration keeps failing=E2=80=94Trump=E2=80=99s attempted separation of fron= ts, the Lebanese government=E2=80=99s attempted separation from Hezbollah= =E2=80=99s logic, and Israel=E2=80=99s attempted separation of Lebanon from= Iran=E2=80=94is partly ideological and partly theological. Hezbollah is no= t simply an Iranian instrument in a transactional sense. It does not serve = Tehran the way a client serves a patron. It is organically extended from th= e doctrine of=C2=A0velayat-e faqih, t= he architecture built by Iran=E2=80=99s first supreme leader, Ruhollah Khom= eini, and inherited by his successor, Ali Khamenei. Its connection to Iran = is ideological before it is logistical, theological before it is political,= and strategic because it is all of these at once.

The years of Lebanonization were real. Hezbollah sits in parliament. It ha= s constituents, municipalities, welfare networks, social institutions, and = local interests built over decades. Its leaders speak the language of Leban= ese politics because they are part of it. But its frame of reference has al= ways exceeded Lebanon=E2=80=99s borders. It is rooted in a transnational Sh= iitism that sees the region as one contested space, with Lebanon as a front= , not an island.

This is why the war looks different f= rom inside Hezbollah=E2=80=99s world. What the movement believes it is figh= ting is not simply Iran=E2=80=99s war conducted on Lebanese soil. It sees t= he confrontation as necessary for its own people, existential for the Shiit= e of Lebanon, and tied to the broader Shiite geography of the region. That = reading may be rejected by many Lebanese, including many who are suffering = because of it. But rejecting it does not make it disappear.

Security zones can be drawn on a map. Operatives can be banned fr= om named areas. A document can be signed by Israel and the Lebanese governm= ent. But an organization whose identity is constitutionally transnational c= annot be dissolved by diplomatic decree. The pilot zones may address milita= ry infrastructure. They leave the idea intact.

Haj= j Hassan told me the deal would fail. He said it without emotion, as a simp= le matter of fact.

3D"AA young girl in a = pink top and red pants doing a backbend on an asphalt surface. She is frame= d between two rows of large, bright blue tents set up outdoors under a clea= r blue sky.

A displaced girl plays b= etween blue tents set up by the government for people who fled their homes = and villages in Beirut=E2=80=99s southern suburbs on May 22.=C2=A0Anwar Amro/AFP via Getty Image

Back in Parliament Square, the bri= de had finished her photographs and left. The graduate and her parents were= gone. The children had drifted home. The coffee shop was stacking its chai= rs. The drone was still there.

A few kilomet= ers away, tens of thousands were in tents. Nearly a tenth of the country wa= s under occupation. The internal fabric was pulling apart along lines that = predate this war and will outlast it. None of it was visible from the squar= e. All of it was present.

The Lebanese president c= alls Iran=E2=80=99s role exploitation. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragh= chi calls that slander. Trump seeks separation, then admits interconnection= , then urges restraint when interconnection produces fire. Israel writes fr= agmentation into a cease-fire text. Iran writes interdependence into a stri= ke. Hezbollah says the text will fail. The government negotiates directly w= ith Israel and calls it necessity. A large part of the country calls it bet= rayal.

They are all describing the same thing: a c= ountry being asked to decide what it is, under fire, with few good options = and almost no time.

The proposed pilot zones will = be in Lebanon. The humiliation is being absorbed in Lebanon. The villages, = roads, supply routes, and operational depth being targeted are Lebanese. Th= e dead are Lebanese. The displaced are Lebanese. But the confrontation that= gives all of this its meaning extends far beyond Lebanon.

That building in Dahiyeh, struck again on Sunday, two floors gone = and two people dead, was not only another target in another round. It becam= e the place where a larger war showed its price. Israel struck Lebanon to c= ontain the equation. Iran answered from beyond it. Washington moved to rest= rain the next step. Hezbollah read the moment as proof that the fronts are = one. The Lebanese state read it as proof that Lebanon is being consumed by = wars larger than itself.

Lebanon has become the ground= zero through which a regional war is being priced.

Ali Hashem=C2=A0= is a journalist and researcher covering wars, diplomacy, and political tran= sformations across the Middle East. He is a correspondent with=C2=A0Al Jazeera=C2=A0and a research fellow at the= Centre of Islamic and West Asian Studies, Royal Holloway, University of Lo= ndon. X:=C2=A0@alihashem

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And if we rely solely on military operations and war, we cannot fully defend our rights,=E2=80=9D he= added. * *The parliament speaker also slammed Washington=E2=80=99s illegal blockade = of Iranian ports and its continuous violations of the so-called ceasefire announced in April.* *Additionally, he condemned the brutal US-backed Israeli campaign against Lebanon. * *=E2=80=9CIt was natural for us to give a decisive response in defense of t= he rights of the Iranian nation,=E2=80=9D he went on to say, while hailing Ira= n=E2=80=99s forces for acting =E2=80=9Cwith authority.=E2=80=9D* *He added that =E2=80=9Cdiplomacy does not hinder military operations, nor = do military operations hinder diplomacy.=E2=80=9D* *Ghalibaf stressed that Tehran=E2=80=99s ultimate goal is an end to the war= and long-term security, but not complete =E2=80=9Cnormalization=E2=80=9D with W= ashington, in which Iran has =E2=80=9Cno trust.=E2=80=9D* *Iran has continued to double down on its terms since the announcement of the April truce =E2=80=93 which Washington has repeatedly violated through airstrikes and siege. * *The Strait of Hormuz remains closed to Washington and Tel Aviv, and Iran is working with Oman to establish a post-war mechanism to manage the strategic waterway =E2=80=93 while disregarding US threats on the matter.* *This week, the Ansarallah-led Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) announced the closure of the Bab al-Mandab Strait to Israeli shipping.* *Tehran also wants full sanctions removal, unfreezing of blocked assets, and a scale-back of the US military presence in the region =E2=80=93 partic= ularly in the Gulf countries neighboring it.* *Another main Iranian term is a full ceasefire in Lebanon , where Hezbollah is resisting an invasion, occupation, and a campaign of brutal airstrikes. * *Tehran has repeatedly warned Israel in recent days that strikes on the Lebanese capital, Beirut, will be met with retaliation. 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<= b>Iranian Parliament Speake= r and top negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf=C2=A0said=C2=A0in commen= ts released on 9 June that Tehran will =E2=80=9Csimultaneously pursue war a= nd diplomacy=E2=80=9D as a strategy to defend itself.=C2=A0

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The= comments were made in an audio message to the people of Iran and released = by Iranian media.=C2=A0

=E2=80=9CIran=E2=80=99s strategy = is to simultaneously pursue war and diplomacy to defend the rights of the I= ranian nation,=E2=80=9D Ghalibaf was quoted as saying.=C2=A0

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=E2=80=9CIf we view diplomacy merely as closed-door negotiations and di= plomatic smiles, we are doomed to fail from the very start. And if we rely = solely on military operations and war, we cannot fully defend our rights,= =E2=80=9D he added.=C2=A0

The parliament speaker also sla= mmed Washington=E2=80=99s illegal blockade of Iranian ports and its continu= ous violations of the so-called ceasefire announced in April.

Additionally, he condemned the brutal US-backed Israeli campaign again= st Lebanon.=C2=A0

=E2=80=9CIt was natural for us to give= a decisive response in defense of the rights of the Iranian nation,=E2=80= =9D he went on to say, while hailing Iran=E2=80=99s forces for acting =E2= =80=9Cwith authority.=E2=80=9D

He added that =E2=80=9Cdip= lomacy does not hinder military operations, nor do military operations hind= er diplomacy.=E2=80=9D

Ghalibaf stressed that Tehran=E2= =80=99s ultimate goal is an end to the war and long-term security, but not = complete =E2=80=9Cnormalization=E2=80=9D with Washington, in which Iran has= =E2=80=9Cno trust.=E2=80=9D

<= font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif">Iran has continued to double= down on its terms since the announcement of the April truce =E2=80=93 whic= h Washington has repeatedly violated through airstrikes and siege.=C2=A0

The Strait of Hormuz remains closed to Washington and Tel A= viv, and Iran is working with Oman to establish a post-war mechanism to man= age the strategic waterway =E2=80=93 while disregarding US threats on the m= atter.

This week, the Ansarallah-led Yemeni Armed Forces = (YAF) announced the closure of the Bab al-Mandab Strait to Israeli shipping= .

Tehran also wants full sanctions removal, unfreezing of= blocked assets, and a scale-back of the US military presence in the region= =E2=80=93 particularly in the Gulf countries neighboring it.

Another main Iranian term is a full ceasefire in=C2=A0Lebanon, where Hezbollah is resist= ing an invasion, occupation, and a campaign of brutal airstrikes.=C2=A0

Tehran has repeatedly warned Israel in recent days that stri= kes on the Lebanese capital, Beirut, will be met with retaliation. The Isra= eli army bombed Beirut=E2=80=99s southern suburb on Sunday, targeting two a= partments in the Mreijeh area.

In response, Iranian force= s=C2=A0fired=C2=A0over a= dozen missiles at Israel, prompting it to launch heavy attacks on the Isla= mic Republic on Monday morning.

Iran responded with more missil= e attacks targeting Israeli military sites.

The Iranian m= ilitary said on Monday afternoon that it has stopped operations, but= =C2=A0warned=C2=A0that further violations, including in south = Lebanon, will be met with =E2=80=9Cmuch more severe and crushing measures.<= /font>

New satellite imagery released by Hebrew outlet= =C2=A0Ynet=C2=A0showed = a precise hit on a hangar inside the Ramat David Air Base by an Iranian mis= sile two days ago, after Iran=E2=80=99s latest strikes.=C2=A0

The air base is among those used to attack Lebanon.=C2=A0

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Tue, 9 Jun 2026 23:26:03 +0000 Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 23:26:01 +0000 (UTC) From: Mayraj Fahim To: salon@listserve.com, Chas Freeman Message-ID: <782358765.428456.1781047561989@mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_428455_998066047.1781047561987" X-Mailer: WebService/1.1.25942 YMailNodin Subject: Re: [Salon] Iran to pursue 'war and diplomacy' simultaneously: Ghalibaf X-BeenThere: salon@listserve.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion List for the Committee For The Republic List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:26:04 -0000 ------=_Part_428455_998066047.1781047561987 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Do6b4KXMS1aw Larry Johnson & Col. Wilkerson: Iran FIRES MISSILES at US Destroyers =E2= =80=93 US Ships FLEE to Indian Ocean On Wednesday, June 10, 2026 at 04:24:40 AM GMT+5, Chas Freeman via Sal= on wrote: =20 =20 https://thecradle.co/articles/iran-to-pursue-war-and-diplomacy-simultaneou= sly-ghalibaf Iran to pursue 'war and diplomacy' simultaneously: Ghalibaf Satellite imagery has revealed that Iran=E2=80=99s latest strike on Israel,= carried out in defense of Lebanon, damaged a key Israeli air base News Desk=C2=A0 6/9/26 Iranian Parliament Speaker and top negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf=C2= =A0said=C2=A0in comments released on 9 June that Tehran will =E2=80=9Csimul= taneously pursue war and diplomacy=E2=80=9D as a strategy to defend itself.= =C2=A0 The comments were made in an audio message to the people of Iran and releas= ed by Iranian media.=C2=A0 =E2=80=9CIran=E2=80=99s strategy is to simultaneously pursue war and diplom= acy to defend the rights of the Iranian nation,=E2=80=9D Ghalibaf was quote= d as saying.=C2=A0 =E2=80=9CIf we view diplomacy merely as closed-door negotiations and diplom= atic smiles, we are doomed to fail from the very start. And if we rely sole= ly on military operations and war, we cannot fully defend our rights,=E2=80= =9D he added.=C2=A0 The parliament speaker also slammed Washington=E2=80=99s illegal blockade o= f Iranian ports and its continuous violations of the so-called ceasefire an= nounced in April. Additionally, he condemned the brutal US-backed Israeli campaign against Le= banon.=C2=A0 =E2=80=9CIt was natural for us to give a decisive response in defense of th= e rights of the Iranian nation,=E2=80=9D he went on to say, while hailing I= ran=E2=80=99s forces for acting =E2=80=9Cwith authority.=E2=80=9D He added that =E2=80=9Cdiplomacy does not hinder military operations, nor d= o military operations hinder diplomacy.=E2=80=9D Ghalibaf stressed that Tehran=E2=80=99s ultimate goal is an end to the war = and long-term security, but not complete =E2=80=9Cnormalization=E2=80=9D wi= th Washington, in which Iran has =E2=80=9Cno trust.=E2=80=9D Iran has continued to double down on its terms since the announcement of th= e April truce =E2=80=93 which Washington has repeatedly violated through ai= rstrikes and siege.=C2=A0 The Strait of Hormuz remains closed to Washington and Tel Aviv, and Iran is= working with Oman to establish a post-war mechanism to manage the strategi= c waterway =E2=80=93 while disregarding US threats on the matter. This week, the Ansarallah-led Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) announced the closu= re of the Bab al-Mandab Strait to Israeli shipping. Tehran also wants full sanctions removal, unfreezing of blocked assets, and= a scale-back of the US military presence in the region =E2=80=93 particula= rly in the Gulf countries neighboring it. Another main Iranian term is a full ceasefire in=C2=A0Lebanon, where Hezbol= lah is resisting an invasion, occupation, and a campaign of brutal airstrik= es.=C2=A0 Tehran has repeatedly warned Israel in recent days that strikes on the Leba= nese capital, Beirut, will be met with retaliation. The Israeli army bombed= Beirut=E2=80=99s southern suburb on Sunday, targeting two apartments in th= e Mreijeh area. In response, Iranian forces=C2=A0fired=C2=A0over a dozen missiles at Israel= , prompting it to launch heavy attacks on the Islamic Republic on Monday mo= rning. Iran responded with more missile attacks targeting Israeli military sites. The Iranian military said on Monday afternoon that it has stopped operation= s, but=C2=A0warned=C2=A0that further violations, including in south Lebanon= , will be met with =E2=80=9Cmuch more severe and crushing measures. New satellite imagery released by Hebrew outlet=C2=A0Ynet=C2=A0showed a pre= cise hit on a hangar inside the Ramat David Air Base by an Iranian missile = two days ago, after Iran=E2=80=99s latest strikes.=C2=A0 The air base is among those used to attack Lebanon.=C2=A0 --=20 Salon mailing list Salon@listserve.com https://mlm2.listserve.net/mailman/listinfo/salon =20 ------=_Part_428455_998066047.1781047561987 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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Lar= ry Johnson & Col. Wilkerson: Iran FIRES MISSILES at US Destroyers =E2= =80=93 US Ships FLEE to Indian Ocean
On Wedn= esday, June 10, 2026 at 04:24:40 AM GMT+5, Chas Freeman via Salon <salon= @listserve.com> wrote:


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https://thecradle.co/articles/iran-to-pursue-war-and-diploma= cy-simultaneously-ghalibaf

Iran to pursue 'war and diplomacy' simultaneously: Ghalibaf<= /font>

Satellite imagery has reve= aled that Iran=E2=80=99s latest strike on Israel, carried out in defense of= Lebanon, damaged a key Israeli air base

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Iranian Parl= iament Speaker and top negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said in comments released on 9 June that Tehran= will =E2=80=9Csimultaneously pursue war and diplomacy=E2=80=9D as a strate= gy to defend itself. 

The comments were made in an audio= message to the people of Iran and released by Iranian media. <= /b>

=E2=80=9CIran=E2=80=99s strategy is to simultaneously pursue wa= r and diplomacy to defend the rights of the Iranian nation,=E2=80=9D Ghalib= af was quoted as saying. 

<= b>=E2=80=9CIf we view diplo= macy merely as closed-door negotiations and diplomatic smiles, we are doome= d to fail from the very start. And if we rely solely on military operations= and war, we cannot fully defend our rights,=E2=80=9D he added. 

The parliament speaker also slammed Washington=E2=80=99s ille= gal blockade of Iranian ports and its continuous violations of the so-calle= d ceasefire announced in April.

= Additionally, he condemn= ed the brutal US-backed Israeli campaign against Lebanon. <= /p>

=E2=80=9CIt was natural for us to give a decisive response in defen= se of the rights of the Iranian nation,=E2=80=9D he went on to say, while h= ailing Iran=E2=80=99s forces for acting =E2=80=9Cwith authority.=E2=80=9D

He added that =E2=80=9Cdiplomacy does not hinder milita= ry operations, nor do military operations hinder diplomacy.=E2=80=9D=

Ghalibaf stressed that Tehran=E2=80=99s ultimate goal is an en= d to the war and long-term security, but not complete =E2=80=9Cnormalizatio= n=E2=80=9D with Washington, in which Iran has =E2=80=9Cno trust.=E2=80=9D

Iran has continued to double down on its terms since th= e announcement of the April truce =E2=80=93 which Washington has repeatedly= violated through airstrikes and siege. 

The Strait= of Hormuz remains closed to Washington and Tel Aviv, and Iran is working w= ith Oman to establish a post-war mechanism to manage the strategic waterway= =E2=80=93 while disregarding US threats on the matter.

= This week, the Ansarallah-led Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) announced the closu= re of the Bab al-Mandab Strait to Israeli shipping.

Teh= ran also wants full sanctions removal, unfreezing of blocked assets, and a = scale-back of the US military presence in the region =E2=80=93 particularly= in the Gulf countries neighboring it.

Another main Iran= ian term is a full ceasefire in Lebanon, where Hezbollah is= resisting an invasion, occupation, and a campaign of brutal airstrikes.&nb= sp;

Tehran has repeatedly warned Israel in recent days t= hat strikes on the Lebanese capital, Beirut, will be met with retaliation. = The Israeli army bombed Beirut=E2=80=99s southern suburb on Sunday, targeti= ng two apartments in the Mreijeh area.

In response, Iran= ian forces fired over a dozen missiles at Israel, prompting = it to launch heavy attacks on the Islamic Republic on Monday morning.

=

Iran responded with more missile attacks targeting Israeli militar= y sites.

The Iranian military said on Monday afternoon t= hat it has stopped operations, but warn= ed that further violations, including in south Lebano= n, will be met with =E2=80=9Cmuch more severe and crushing measures.=

New satellite imagery released by Hebrew outlet Ynet showed a precis= e hit on a hangar inside the Ramat David Air Base by an Iranian missile two= days ago, after Iran=E2=80=99s latest strikes. 

Th= e air base is among those used to attack Lebanon. 

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He gave three responses. X-BeenThere: salon@listserve.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion List for the Committee For The Republic List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:19:10 -0000 --00000000000026b6e20653db3189 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable https://x.com/Scaramucci/status/2064392217570291725 Trump said something outside a press gaggle that I don=E2=80=99t think enou= gh people caught. A reporter called him out on the corruption. He gave three responses. 1. I have the right to do it. 2. He=E2=80=99s not stealing that much. A billion or two billion dollars. N= ot that much money. Classic Trump. 3. People don=E2=80=99t care. That=E2=80=99s the permission structure. Our collective apathy is what they= =E2=80=99re using to justify everything happening in Washington right now. 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https://x.com/Scara= mucci/status/2064392217570291725
Trump said something outside a press gaggle that I don=E2=80=99t think enou= gh people caught.

A reporter called him out on the corruption. He gave three responses.

1. I have the right to do it.
2. He=E2=80=99s not stealing that much. A billion or two billion dollars. N= ot that much money. Classic Trump.
3. People don=E2=80=99t care.

That=E2=80=99s the permission structure. Our collective apathy is what they= =E2=80=99re using to justify everything happening in Washington right now.<= br>
Please stand up and prove him wrong.
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https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260608-netanyahu-meets-us-l= egal-delegation-amid-growing-international-scrutiny-of-israel/

6/8/26

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Netanyahu meets US legal delegation amid growing international scru= tiny of Israel

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Israeli = Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met a delegation of senior legal advisers= from the US administration on Sunday to discuss international legal challe= nges facing Israel, according to a statement from his office.

The statement said the talks foc= used on what Netanyahu described as a =E2=80=9Clegal war=E2=80=9D being wag= ed against Israel, the United States and other countries engaged in counter= terrorism operations.

No further details were provided regarding the participants in the meeti= ng or the specific legal issues discussed.

The meeting comes as international legal scrutiny o= f Israel=E2=80=99s genocide in Gaza continues to intensify, including ongoi= ng proceedings and investigations before the International Criminal Court (= ICC).

READ:=C2=A0Israeli flight diverts to Croatia after Slov= enia denies landing

Last month, a group of lawyers and international law experts submitted a= request to the ICC prosecutor seeking the inclusion of incidents involving= activists from the =E2=80=9CSumud Flotilla=E2=80=9D in the court=E2=80=99s= ongoing investigations.

<= b>The request relates to Israel=E2=80=99s interception of a flotilla of= approximately 50 vessels in international waters on 18th=C2=A0May and the detention of 428 activists from 44 countries who were attem= pting to reach the Gaza Strip carrying humanitarian aid.<= /p>

According to the submission, investig= ators should examine allegations of unlawful detention, mistreatment and vi= olence against activists detained during the operation.

The filing also calls for an investiga= tion into the potential responsibility of Israeli officials, including Nati= onal Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, in connection with the incidents.


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