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*https://asiatimes.com/2026/06/trumps-iran-deal-ends-war-but-leaves-tehran-=
stronger/
<https://asiatimes.com/2026/06/trumps-iran-deal-ends-war-but-leaves-tehran-=
stronger/>*

*Trump=E2=80=99s Iran deal ends war but leaves Tehran stronger*Agreement wi=
ll
enhance Iran=E2=80=99s regional standing and clout while raising questions =
about
what the US and Israel ultimately achieved
*by Amin Saikal <https://asiatimes.com/author/amin-saikal/> June 15, 2026*
*Image: YouTube Screengrab*

*After weeks of on-again, off-again negotiations, US President Donald Trump
finally seems to have secured an agreement from the Iranian regime to end
the war that has roiled the region =E2=80=93 and global energy markets =E2=
=80=93 since late
February.*

*Just what=E2=80=99s been agreed to, however, will likely remain contested =
until
the deal is expected to be signed on Friday.*

*Spurred on by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump launched
the war on February 28 with the goal of toppling the Iranian regime and
making Tehran capitulate =E2=80=93 much as he had done in Venezuela.*

*However, he could not achieve this goal in the face of Tehran=E2=80=99s ro=
bust
defensive response. Under enormous domestic and international pressure,
Trump ultimately decided he had to take the diplomatic resolution available
to him to end the conflict as quickly as he could.*

*The =E2=80=9Cmemorandum of understanding=E2=80=9D that Washington and Tehr=
an have just
announced is a confirmation of this reality.*

*It will leave Iran in a stronger position than before the war, the US with
far less leverage in the region, and Israel in the lurch. The deal will
also prompt the Arab states in the Persian Gulf to reassess their security
alliances with the US and come to terms with Iran as an influential
regional player.*
Few apparent points of agreement

*Iranian and US sources have provided different versions of the deal.*

*Both sides seem to have agreed to
<https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/15/trump-allies-cheer-iran-deal-anno=
uncement-as-democrats-call-for-clarity>
allow
traffic to resume in the Strait of Hormuz and lift the US naval blockade of
Iran=E2=80=99s ports. Negotiations will also continue over the next 60 days=
 on
Iran=E2=80=99s nuclear program.*

*Beyond this, the two sides appear to be far apart on other issues.*

*According to Iranian media
<https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/factbox-key-provisions-in-iran-us-dra=
ft-memorandum-of-understanding-according-to-iranian-media/3966987>,
the deal would halt the fighting on all fronts, including Israel=E2=80=99s =
bombing
of Lebanon, and reopen the Strait of Hormuz within 30 days =E2=80=9Cunder I=
ranian
arrangements.=E2=80=9D*

*It also calls for the release of US$24 billion in frozen Iranian assets
during the 60-day negotiations, and obliges the US and its allies to
deliver reconstruction plans for Iran worth at least $300 billion.*

*According to the US media outlet Axios
<https://www.axios.com/2026/06/12/iran-deal-mou-strait-open-sanctions-relie=
f>,
however, the deal calls for the strait to be reopened immediately without
tolls. A US official told Axios that after reopening the strait, Iran would
be given =E2=80=9Ctemporary sanctions waivers=E2=80=9D to allow it to sell =
oil.*

*Trump also made no reference to Lebanon
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/15/us-iran-peace-deal-terms-det=
ails-conditions-explained-what-do-we-know-hormuz-lebanon-israel-nuclear>
in
his announcement of the deal on Truth Social, though Pakistani mediators
said Lebanon was included in the deal
<https://x.com/CMShehbaz/status/2066268332832194810>.*

*Many contentious issues related to Iran=E2=80=99s nuclear program remain t=
o be
resolved, as well. These include the future of Iran=E2=80=99s stockpile of =
highly
enriched uranium and whether Iran should be allowed to enrich uranium at an
agreed level for peaceful purposes.*

An end to a meaningless war

*When Trump and Netanyahu launched the war, they aimed to topple Iran=E2=80=
=99s
government, destroy its nuclear program and missile capability, and sever
its ties with its regional affiliates =E2=80=93 the Lebanese Hezbollah, the=
 Yemeni
Houthis, the Iraqi Shia militias, and Palestinian Hamas and Islamic Jihad.*

*The overall goal was to alter the regional order to the advantage of the
US and Israel. This would allow Netanyahu to achieve his long-cherished
objective of turning Iran into a feeble entity and pursue his vision of a
=E2=80=9CGreater Israel
<https://theconversation.com/is-benjamin-netanyahu-on-a-mission-to-realise-=
a-greater-israel-265662>=E2=80=9D
in the strategically vital and oil-rich Middle East.*

*However, despite its authoritarian nature and all the domestic and foreign
policy challenges confronting it, the Iranian Islamic system has shown it
is built to survive. It has endured the decapitation of its leadership, the
massive US-Israel military bombardment and subsequent US blockade of
Iranian ports.*

*Iran has certainly sustained heavy damage to its infrastructure and
economy =E2=80=93 as well as civilian casualties. But the regime was able t=
o
respond in ways that has proved very costly for the US, its regional Gulf
Arab allies, and Israel.*

*Its control over the Strait of Hormuz, which Tehran never had before the
war, has triggered a global energy and fertiliser crisis and provided
Tehran with massive leverage.*

*Trump, meanwhile, was dealing with increasing domestic opposition to the
war, combined with diminishing air defense interceptors
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/02/patriot-missile-shortage-win=
dow-vulnerability-russia-exploiting-ukraine>
and
a lack of support among traditional US allies. Given all this, Trump has
had good reasons not to allow the conflict to go on for too long,
especially in an election year.*

*The deal must be very disheartening for Netanyahu, whose determination to
fundamentally weaken Iran is potentially unravelling.*

*He may still try to undermine the peace deal by continuing strikes on
Lebanon and perhaps formally annexing Gaza and the West Bank. But given
Netanyahu=E2=80=99s dependence on the US for his military operations and po=
litical
survival, Trump has plenty of leverage to force him and the far-right
ministers in his cabinet into line.*

*If and when a final peace deal is signed, it carries the potential to open
the way for some kind of rapprochement between Iran and the US as a
prerequisite for a more stable and peaceful Middle East. But it is not time
yet for excessive jubilation.*

*Both sides have been here before. They had been negotiating a deal on
Iran=E2=80=99s nuclear program for months before the US and Israel attacked=
 Iran.
According to Omani mediators, a deal was =E2=80=9Cwithin reach
<https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/28/peace-within-reach-as-iran-agrees=
-no-nuclear-material-stockpile-oman-fm>=E2=80=9D
when the bombs started falling.*

*This means any ceasefire reached now could be very fragile. It also raises
the question of what this war =E2=80=93 waged with no concern for internati=
onal law
or US Congressional approval =E2=80=93 was all about in the first place.*

*Amin Saikal <https://theconversation.com/profiles/amin-saikal-1413547> is
emeritus professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Australian National
University
<https://theconversation.com/institutions/australian-national-university-87=
7>;
The
University of Western Australia
<https://theconversation.com/institutions/the-university-of-western-austral=
ia-1067>;
Victoria
University
<https://theconversation.com/institutions/victoria-university-1175>*

*This article is republished from The Conversation
<https://theconversation.com/> under a Creative Commons license. Read
the original article
<https://theconversation.com/a-peace-deal-may-bring-an-end-to-the-iran-war-=
but-what-did-the-us-and-israel-truly-achieve-285241>.*

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div class=3D"gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir=
=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif"><a href=3D"h=
ttps://asiatimes.com/2026/06/trumps-iran-deal-ends-war-but-leaves-tehran-st=
ronger/" target=3D"_blank">https://asiatimes.com/2026/06/trumps-iran-deal-e=
nds-war-but-leaves-tehran-stronger/</a></font></b></div><div dir=3D"ltr"><d=
iv dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif"><br><=
/font></b></div><div><h1 style=3D"line-height:1.2141em;margin-top:0px;margi=
n-bottom:0.5em;max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><font face=3D"georgia, s=
erif" size=3D"4"><i>Trump=E2=80=99s Iran deal ends war but leaves Tehran st=
ronger</i></font></h1><h2 style=3D"line-height:1.27275em;max-width:100%"><f=
ont size=3D"2" color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif">Agreement will enh=
ance Iran=E2=80=99s regional standing and clout while raising questions abo=
ut what the US and Israel ultimately achieved</font></h2><div style=3D"marg=
in-bottom:1.45em;max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><div style=3D"margin:0=
px;max-width:100%;display:inline"><div style=3D"margin:0px;max-width:100%;d=
isplay:inline"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif"><span style=3D"margin:0px;m=
ax-width:100%"></span><span style=3D"margin:0px;max-width:100%"><span style=
=3D"margin:0px;max-width:100%">by</span><span>=C2=A0</span><span style=3D"m=
argin:0px;max-width:100%"><a href=3D"https://asiatimes.com/author/amin-saik=
al/" style=3D"text-decoration:none;margin:0px;color:rgb(27,27,27);max-width=
:100%;display:inline" target=3D"_blank">Amin Saikal</a></span><span>=C2=A0<=
/span></span><span style=3D"margin:0px;max-width:100%">June 15, 2026</span>=
</font></b></div></div></div><img width=3D"412" height=3D"275" src=3D"https=
://i0.wp.com/asiatimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Iran-Iran-War-Iran-Fl=
ag.jpg?fit=3D780%2C520&amp;ssl=3D1" alt=3D"" style=3D"margin:0.5em 0px 0.5e=
m auto;display:block"><span style=3D"max-width:100%;margin-top:0.25em;margi=
n-bottom:0.25em"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">Image: YouTube Screengrab=
</font></b></span><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font =
face=3D"georgia, serif">After weeks of on-again, off-again negotiations, US=
 President Donald Trump finally seems to have secured an agreement from the=
 Iranian regime to end the war that has roiled the region =E2=80=93 and glo=
bal energy markets =E2=80=93 since late February.</font></b></p><p style=3D=
"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">Just =
what=E2=80=99s been agreed to, however, will likely remain contested until =
the deal is expected to be signed on Friday.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-=
width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">Spurred on=
 by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump launched the war on Fe=
bruary 28 with the goal of toppling the Iranian regime and making Tehran ca=
pitulate =E2=80=93 much as he had done in Venezuela.</font></b></p><p style=
=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">Ho=
wever, he could not achieve this goal in the face of Tehran=E2=80=99s robus=
t defensive response. Under enormous domestic and international pressure, T=
rump ultimately decided he had to take the diplomatic resolution available =
to him to end the conflict as quickly as he could.</font></b></p><p style=
=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">Th=
e =E2=80=9Cmemorandum of understanding=E2=80=9D that Washington and Tehran =
have just announced is a confirmation of this reality.</font></b></p><p sty=
le=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">=
It will leave Iran in a stronger position than before the war, the US with =
far less leverage in the region, and Israel in the lurch. The deal will als=
o prompt the Arab states in the Persian Gulf to reassess their security all=
iances with the US and come to terms with Iran as an influential regional p=
layer.</font></b></p><h4 style=3D"margin:1em 0px;max-width:100%;color:rgb(2=
7,27,27)"><font face=3D"georgia, serif">Few apparent points of agreement</f=
ont></h4><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"g=
eorgia, serif">Iranian and US sources have provided different versions of t=
he deal.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><=
font face=3D"georgia, serif">Both sides seem to have<span>=C2=A0</span><a h=
ref=3D"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/15/trump-allies-cheer-iran-dea=
l-announcement-as-democrats-call-for-clarity" style=3D"text-decoration:none=
;color:rgb(65,110,210);max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank">agreed to</a><span=
>=C2=A0</span>allow traffic to resume in the Strait of Hormuz and lift the =
US naval blockade of Iran=E2=80=99s ports. Negotiations will also continue =
over the next 60 days on Iran=E2=80=99s nuclear program.</font></b></p><p s=
tyle=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif=
">Beyond this, the two sides appear to be far apart on other issues.</font>=
</b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"ge=
orgia, serif">According to<span>=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://www.aa.com.=
tr/en/middle-east/factbox-key-provisions-in-iran-us-draft-memorandum-of-und=
erstanding-according-to-iranian-media/3966987" style=3D"text-decoration:non=
e;color:rgb(65,110,210);max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank">Iranian media</a>=
, the deal would halt the fighting on all fronts, including Israel=E2=80=99=
s bombing of Lebanon, and reopen the Strait of Hormuz within 30 days =E2=80=
=9Cunder Iranian arrangements.=E2=80=9D</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width=
:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">It also calls f=
or the release of US$24 billion in frozen Iranian assets during the 60-day =
negotiations, and obliges the US and its allies to deliver reconstruction p=
lans for Iran worth at least $300 billion.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-wi=
dth:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">According to=
 the<span>=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://www.axios.com/2026/06/12/iran-dea=
l-mou-strait-open-sanctions-relief" style=3D"text-decoration:none;color:rgb=
(65,110,210);max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank">US media outlet Axios</a>, h=
owever, the deal calls for the strait to be reopened immediately without to=
lls. A US official told Axios that after reopening the strait, Iran would b=
e given =E2=80=9Ctemporary sanctions waivers=E2=80=9D to allow it to sell o=
il.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font =
face=3D"georgia, serif">Trump also made<span>=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https:=
//www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/15/us-iran-peace-deal-terms-details-co=
nditions-explained-what-do-we-know-hormuz-lebanon-israel-nuclear" style=3D"=
text-decoration:none;color:rgb(65,110,210);max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank=
">no reference to Lebanon</a><span>=C2=A0</span>in his announcement of the =
deal on Truth Social, though Pakistani mediators said<span>=C2=A0</span><a =
href=3D"https://x.com/CMShehbaz/status/2066268332832194810" style=3D"text-d=
ecoration:none;color:rgb(65,110,210);max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank">Leba=
non was included in the deal</a>.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;=
color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">Many contentious issu=
es related to Iran=E2=80=99s nuclear program remain to be resolved, as well=
. These include the future of Iran=E2=80=99s stockpile of highly enriched u=
ranium and whether Iran should be allowed to enrich uranium at an agreed le=
vel for peaceful purposes.</font></b></p><div style=3D"max-width:100%"><div=
 style=3D"max-width:100%"><p style=3D"max-width:100%;margin-top:0.4em;margi=
n-bottom:0.4em"></p></div></div><h4 style=3D"margin:1em 0px;max-width:100%;=
color:rgb(27,27,27)"><font face=3D"georgia, serif">An end to a meaningless =
war</font></h4><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font fac=
e=3D"georgia, serif">When Trump and Netanyahu launched the war, they aimed =
to topple Iran=E2=80=99s government, destroy its nuclear program and missil=
e capability, and sever its ties with its regional affiliates =E2=80=93 the=
 Lebanese Hezbollah, the Yemeni Houthis, the Iraqi Shia militias, and Pales=
tinian Hamas and Islamic Jihad.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;co=
lor:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">The overall goal was to=
 alter the regional order to the advantage of the US and Israel. This would=
 allow Netanyahu to achieve his long-cherished objective of turning Iran in=
to a feeble entity and pursue his vision of a =E2=80=9C<a href=3D"https://t=
heconversation.com/is-benjamin-netanyahu-on-a-mission-to-realise-a-greater-=
israel-265662" style=3D"text-decoration:none;color:rgb(65,110,210);max-widt=
h:100%" target=3D"_blank">Greater Israel</a>=E2=80=9D in the strategically =
vital and oil-rich Middle East.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;co=
lor:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">However, despite its au=
thoritarian nature and all the domestic and foreign policy challenges confr=
onting it, the Iranian Islamic system has shown it is built to survive. It =
has endured the decapitation of its leadership, the massive US-Israel milit=
ary bombardment and subsequent US blockade of Iranian ports.</font></b></p>=
<p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, s=
erif">Iran has certainly sustained heavy damage to its infrastructure and e=
conomy =E2=80=93 as well as civilian casualties. But the regime was able to=
 respond in ways that has proved very costly for the US, its regional Gulf =
Arab allies, and Israel.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb=
(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">Its control over the Strait of=
 Hormuz, which Tehran never had before the war, has triggered a global ener=
gy and fertiliser crisis and provided Tehran with massive leverage.</font><=
/b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"geo=
rgia, serif">Trump, meanwhile, was dealing with increasing domestic opposit=
ion to the war, combined with diminishing<span>=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"http=
s://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/02/patriot-missile-shortage-window-v=
ulnerability-russia-exploiting-ukraine" style=3D"text-decoration:none;color=
:rgb(65,110,210);max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank">air defense interceptors=
</a><span>=C2=A0</span>and a lack of support among traditional US allies. G=
iven all this, Trump has had good reasons not to allow the conflict to go o=
n for too long, especially in an election year.</font></b></p><p style=3D"m=
ax-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">The dea=
l must be very disheartening for Netanyahu, whose determination to fundamen=
tally weaken Iran is potentially unravelling.</font></b></p><div role=3D"bu=
tton" style=3D"max-width:100%;clear:both"><div style=3D"max-width:100%"><p>=
</p></div></div><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font fa=
ce=3D"georgia, serif">He may still try to undermine the peace deal by conti=
nuing strikes on Lebanon and perhaps formally annexing Gaza and the West Ba=
nk. But given Netanyahu=E2=80=99s dependence on the US for his military ope=
rations and political survival, Trump has plenty of leverage to force him a=
nd the far-right ministers in his cabinet into line.</font></b></p><p style=
=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">If=
 and when a final peace deal is signed, it carries the potential to open th=
e way for some kind of rapprochement between Iran and the US as a prerequis=
ite for a more stable and peaceful Middle East. But it is not time yet for =
excessive jubilation.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27=
,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">Both sides have been here before.=
 They had been negotiating a deal on Iran=E2=80=99s nuclear program for mon=
ths before the US and Israel attacked Iran. According to Omani mediators, a=
 deal was =E2=80=9C<a href=3D"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/28/peac=
e-within-reach-as-iran-agrees-no-nuclear-material-stockpile-oman-fm" style=
=3D"text-decoration:none;color:rgb(65,110,210);max-width:100%" target=3D"_b=
lank">within reach</a>=E2=80=9D when the bombs started falling.</font></b><=
/p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia=
, serif">This means any ceasefire reached now could be very fragile. It als=
o raises the question of what this war =E2=80=93 waged with no concern for =
international law or US Congressional approval =E2=80=93 was all about in t=
he first place.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27=
)"><em style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif"><a href=3D=
"https://theconversation.com/profiles/amin-saikal-1413547" style=3D"text-de=
coration:none;color:rgb(65,110,210);max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank">Amin =
Saikal</a><span>=C2=A0</span>is emeritus professor of Middle Eastern Studie=
s,<span>=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://theconversation.com/institutions/au=
stralian-national-university-877" style=3D"text-decoration:none;color:rgb(6=
5,110,210);max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank">Australian National University=
</a>;<span>=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://theconversation.com/institutions=
/the-university-of-western-australia-1067" style=3D"text-decoration:none;co=
lor:rgb(65,110,210);max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank">The University of Wes=
tern Australia</a>;<span>=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://theconversation.co=
m/institutions/victoria-university-1175" style=3D"text-decoration:none;colo=
r:rgb(65,110,210);max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank">Victoria University</a>=
</font></b></em></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><em sty=
le=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">This article is repu=
blished from<span>=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://theconversation.com/" sty=
le=3D"text-decoration:none;color:rgb(65,110,210);max-width:100%" target=3D"=
_blank">The Conversation</a><span>=C2=A0</span>under a Creative Commons lic=
ense. Read the<span>=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://theconversation.com/a-p=
eace-deal-may-bring-an-end-to-the-iran-war-but-what-did-the-us-and-israel-t=
ruly-achieve-285241" style=3D"text-decoration:none;color:rgb(65,110,210);ma=
x-width:100%" target=3D"_blank">original article</a>.</font></b></em></p></=
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ntinues-to-attack-lebanon
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel--goes-against-mou--co=
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6/15/26

" 'Israel' goes against MoU, continues to attack Lebanon."

*Shortly after a US=E2=80=93Iran ceasefire agreement was announced,
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/iran-forces-deal-with-us--com=
mitment-to-end-war-on-all-front>
covering
hostilities on all fronts, including Lebanon, Israeli occupation forces
(IOF) continued their attacks and violations in southern Lebanon from the
early hours of Monday.*

*Warplanes carried out two air raids targeting the town of Majdal Zoun,
while a drone strike hit the town of Kfar Tebnit, according to reports.*

*The aerial aggression was accompanied by heavy and sustained artillery
shelling on the city of Nabatieh and the towns of Kfar Remman, Nabatieh
al-Fawqa, and Kfar Tebnit. Reports also indicated additional strikes by the
occupation forces in the towns of Khiam and Markaba in southern Lebanon, as
well as a drone attack on the town of Haris in the Bint Jbeil district of
the Nabatieh Governorate.*
Statement from the Islamic Health Authority: Vital guidelines for returnees

*In a related context, and following a directive issued by the Civil
Defense of the Islamic Health Authority, the Authority extended
congratulations to the public on their victory and the return to their
homes with pride and dignity, crediting the sacrifices of martyrs and
resistance fighters.*

*It advised residents to keep their gas tanks full to avoid running out of
gas on the way.*

*At the same time, it stressed the importance of prioritizing personal
safety, warning that risks do not necessarily end with the cessation of
hostilities.*

*The Authority appealed to the residents not to return to their villages
until the ceasefire announcement and its implementation by the competent
authorities is confirmed, calling on them to adhere to a set of necessary
guidelines, foremost among them not going to the villages at night and
waiting for morning, while ensuring in advance the safety of the area and
the safety of the roads leading to the affected towns and neighborhoods.*
Preventive measures and safety precautions in homes

*The Authority urged full vigilance regarding unexploded or unfamiliar
objects, warning against touching any suspicious items due to the danger
they pose, and calling on the public to report them immediately to the
relevant authorities.*

*It also advised against entering buildings that have suffered partial
collapse until their structural safety has been confirmed, noting that such
structures may be uninhabitable and hazardous.*

*As part of internal safety measures, the statement emphasized the
importance of checking gas and electricity systems to ensure there are no
leaks or malfunctions before using any appliances.*

*It also called for careful cleaning using protective equipment such as
gloves, avoiding contact with any unknown or hazardous materials, and
verifying the safety of drinking and utility water.*

*In addition, it urged constant supervision of children to prevent them
from approaching rubble or unfamiliar objects.*

*In conclusion, the Islamic Health Authority called on residents to contact
ambulance and emergency teams when medical assistance is needed, stressing
the importance of prompt response in cases of injury or emergency. It also
underlined the need to strengthen solidarity, mutual support, and
cooperation within society, noting that such efforts help ease the impact
of the current stage.*

*At the same time, the Islamic resistance in Lebanon continues to confront
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/hezbollah-ambushes-israeli-fo=
rces-in-majdal-zoun--kfar-tebni>
the
Israeli occupation and respond to its ongoing aggression against Lebanon
and its people.*

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dth:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><font size=3D"4" face=3D"georgia, serif">&quo=
t; &#39;Israel&#39; goes against MoU, continues to attack Lebanon.&quot;</f=
ont></h1><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"g=
eorgia, serif">Shortly after a<span>=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://english=
.almayadeen.net/news/politics/iran-forces-deal-with-us--commitment-to-end-w=
ar-on-all-front" style=3D"text-decoration:none;color:rgb(65,110,210);max-wi=
dth:100%" target=3D"_blank">US=E2=80=93Iran ceasefire agreement was announc=
ed,</a><span>=C2=A0</span>covering hostilities on all fronts, including Leb=
anon, Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued their attacks and violation=
s in southern Lebanon from the early hours of Monday.</font></b></p><p styl=
e=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">W=
arplanes carried out two air raids targeting the town of Majdal Zoun, while=
 a drone strike hit the town of Kfar Tebnit, according to reports.</font></=
b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"geor=
gia, serif">The aerial aggression was accompanied by heavy and sustained ar=
tillery shelling on the city of Nabatieh and the towns of Kfar Remman, Naba=
tieh al-Fawqa, and Kfar Tebnit. Reports also indicated additional strikes b=
y the occupation forces in the towns of Khiam and Markaba in southern Leban=
on, as well as a drone attack on the town of Haris in the Bint Jbeil distri=
ct of the Nabatieh Governorate.</font></b></p><h2 style=3D"max-width:100%;c=
olor:rgb(27,27,27)"><font size=3D"2" face=3D"georgia, serif">Statement from=
 the Islamic Health Authority: Vital guidelines for returnees</font></h2><p=
 style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, ser=
if">In a related context, and following a directive issued by the Civil Def=
ense of the Islamic Health Authority, the Authority extended congratulation=
s to the public on their victory and the return to their homes with pride a=
nd dignity, crediting the sacrifices of martyrs and resistance fighters.</f=
ont></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=
=3D"georgia, serif">It advised residents to keep their gas tanks full to av=
oid running out of gas on the way.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%=
;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">At the same time, it=
 stressed the importance of prioritizing personal safety, warning that risk=
s do not necessarily end with the cessation of hostilities.</font></b></p><=
p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, se=
rif">The Authority appealed to the residents not to return to their village=
s until the ceasefire announcement and its implementation by the competent =
authorities is confirmed, calling on them to adhere to a set of necessary g=
uidelines, foremost among them not going to the villages at night and waiti=
ng for morning, while ensuring in advance the safety of the area and the sa=
fety of the roads leading to the affected towns and neighborhoods.</font></=
b></p><h2 style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><font size=3D"2" fac=
e=3D"georgia, serif">Preventive measures and safety precautions in homes</f=
ont></h2><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"g=
eorgia, serif">The Authority urged full vigilance regarding unexploded or u=
nfamiliar objects, warning against touching any suspicious items due to the=
 danger they pose, and calling on the public to report them immediately to =
the relevant authorities.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rg=
b(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">It also advised against enter=
ing buildings that have suffered partial collapse until their structural sa=
fety has been confirmed, noting that such structures may be uninhabitable a=
nd hazardous.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"=
><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">As part of internal safety measures, the =
statement emphasized the importance of checking gas and electricity systems=
 to ensure there are no leaks or malfunctions before using any appliances.<=
/font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=
=3D"georgia, serif">It also called for careful cleaning using protective eq=
uipment such as gloves, avoiding contact with any unknown or hazardous mate=
rials, and verifying the safety of drinking and utility water.</font></b></=
p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia,=
 serif">In addition, it urged constant supervision of children to prevent t=
hem from approaching rubble or unfamiliar objects.</font></b></p><p style=
=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">In=
 conclusion, the Islamic Health Authority called on residents to contact am=
bulance and emergency teams when medical assistance is needed, stressing th=
e importance of prompt response in cases of injury or emergency. It also un=
derlined the need to strengthen solidarity, mutual support, and cooperation=
 within society, noting that such efforts help ease the impact of the curre=
nt stage.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b>=
<font face=3D"georgia, serif">At the same time, the<span>=C2=A0</span><a hr=
ef=3D"https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/hezbollah-ambushes-israe=
li-forces-in-majdal-zoun--kfar-tebni" style=3D"text-decoration:none;color:r=
gb(65,110,210);max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank">Islamic resistance in Leba=
non continues to confront</a><span>=C2=A0</span>the Israeli occupation and =
respond to its ongoing aggression against Lebanon and its people.</font></b=
></p></div></div>
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China builds Southeast Asia expertise as US lets it wither

Yet neither power will truly grasp this complex, diverse region if they
continue to treat it merely as a geopolitical chessboard
SCMP
[image: People gather in front of the =E2=80=9CSunflower Angel=E2=80=9D, an=
 illuminated
nine-metre-tall fibreglass art installation, at Prambanan Temple in
Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Photo: AFP]
Zenobia Chan <https://www.scmp.com/author/zenobia-chan>
Published: 1:30pm, 14 Jun 2026Updated: 3:17pm, 14 Jun 2026
In the contest for influence in Southeast Asia, the United States
<https://www.scmp.com/topics/united-states?module=3Dinline&pgtype=3Darticle=
>
 and China <https://www.scmp.com/topics/china?module=3Dinline&pgtype=3Darti=
cle>
agree
on one thing: the region is indispensable. Yet beneath the flurry of
high-level summits lies a quieter divergence in how each cultivates
knowledge about the region.

The US is hollowing out the university-based programmes that have long
trained its students in Southeast Asian languages, history and politics.
China, conversely, is elevating area studies into a top-tier, state-backed
academic field. Beyond a shift in academic funding, this divergence exposes
a fundamental difference in the kind of knowledge each system values, and
how those choices may shape each power=E2=80=99s ability to understand Sout=
heast
Asia=E2=80=99s complexity.

In the US, area studies have never been detached from national strategy,
but the funding model has proved fragile. Historically, Title VI National
Resource Centres and Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowships were
explicitly designed to serve national needs by supporting language
training, research and public education. However, this foundation is now
being abruptly dismantled. Following the sudden termination of federal
Title VI funding in 2025, the US knowledge ecosystem has been pushed to the
brink.

The consequences are immediate and visceral. The University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill is closing all six of its area studies centres,
including the Carolina Asia Centre. The University of Washington has had to
seek emergency funding to prevent its Khmer language programme, one of only
seven in the US, from disappearing entirely. This is an ecosystem that
takes decades of fieldwork, language training and trust-building to
cultivate, yet only a single budget cycle to hollow out.
[image: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is closing all six
of its area studies centres. Photo: Getty Images via AFP]
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is closing all six of its
area studies centres. Photo: Getty Images via AFP

Regional expertise often begins with knowledge not easily reduced to policy
relevance: literature, local newspapers, archival sources, village
politics, religious life, oral histories and conversations that do not fit
neatly into policy memos. This is why universities matter. They sustain
forms of inquiry whose value may not be visible during the next budget
cycle. When funding is cut, it narrows the future pool of Americans who can
study Southeast Asia in its own languages and on its own terms.
China is taking the opposite path. Country and regional studies became a
first-level graduate discipline in 2022 and was added to China=E2=80=99s
undergraduate major catalogue last year
<https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3307464/china-fast-tracks=
-university-majors-extraordinary-push-counter-trade-war-impact?module=3Dinl=
ine&pgtype=3Darticle>.
Official narratives, including speeches by President Xi Jinping
<https://www.scmp.com/topics/xi-jinping?module=3Dinline&pgtype=3Darticle>,
emphasise comprehensive, interdisciplinary, practical and timely research
on the politics, economy and culture of different countries and regions.
For Southeast Asia, this expansion reflects proximity and geopolitics:
China is deeply involved in the region through trade, infrastructure and
diplomacy, while also being entangled in several territorial disputes.

How expertise is funded, evaluated and rewarded affects what a country
comes to know

This investment in learning should not be dismissed. China=E2=80=99s system=
 can
scale quickly, encourage language training, support policy research and
align expertise with diplomatic priorities. But scale is not the same as
understanding. China now boasts more than 300 research institutes dedicated
to Southeast Asian studies, yet top-down directives shape which questions
are asked. When area studies are explicitly tied to national strategy,
scholars are incentivised to produce work that is current and politically
legible. Such work has its value, but the top-down approach can also
privilege short-term policy relevance over deeper social knowledge and
ideological legibility over open-ended inquiry. Scholars of Southeast Asian
studies in China have already noted this =E2=80=9Cpolicy turn=E2=80=9D: rap=
id growth in
language programmes, the dominance of short-term policy research and the
marginalisation of the humanities.
[image: The Laos-China railway in Luang Prabang province, with deforested
hills nearby. Photo: Aidan Jones]
The Laos-China railway in Luang Prabang province, with deforested hills
nearby. Photo: Aidan Jones

This creates an asymmetry. The fragmented US model allows intellectual
autonomy but is vulnerable to budget politics. China=E2=80=99s coordinated =
model
can produce more region-focused personnel at scale, but risks treating
Southeast Asia primarily as an object of policy. One system may generate
too little expertise; the other, expertise too tightly organised around
state priorities.
For Southeast Asia, neither problem is trivial. A US with fewer
language-trained regional specialists may rely more heavily on
English-speaking elites, think tank policy briefs and simplified strategic
categories =E2=80=93 seeing Southeast Asian nations mainly as partners, hed=
gers,
swing states or sites of Chinese influence. China=E2=80=99s model presents =
a
different risk: it may generate abundant knowledge about how Southeast Asia
matters to China, but less tolerance for evidence that complicates
Beijing=E2=80=99s preferred narratives. Research on the Belt and Road Initi=
ative
<https://www.scmp.com/topics/belt-and-road-initiative?module=3Dinline&pgtyp=
e=3Darticle>,
for example, is often encouraged to emphasise connectivity and development,
even though such infrastructure projects have raised serious environmental
and social questions across the region.

The point is not that American area studies are pure while Chinese area
studies are instrumental. Both have been shaped by power. US area studies
emerged in part from Cold War strategic anxieties, after all. Nor should
one assume that Chinese scholars lack curiosity or independence. The
narrower point is that the political economy of knowledge production
matters. How expertise is funded, evaluated and rewarded affects what a
country comes to know.
04:43
President Xi Jinping calls for closer China-Asean trade ties during his
Malaysia visit

Southeast Asia is multilingual, religiously diverse, historically layered
and politically heterogeneous. No great power will understand it well by
treating the region merely as a chessboard. Washington should not assume
that China=E2=80=99s top-down investments will automatically yield shallow
knowledge. Beijing should not assume that more centres and majors will
automatically produce deeper understanding. The real test is whether either
country can sustain institutions that encourage people to read patiently,
travel humbly, argue openly and take Southeast Asian agency seriously.
Universities and think tanks in the region can shape how outsiders study it
by expanding fellowships, joint research and immersive residencies that
anchor regional expertise in local debates, languages and intellectual
communities.

For the US, cutting regional studies while declaring Southeast Asia
strategically important is self defeating. For China, building area studies
as a strategic discipline may increase capacity, but not necessarily deeper
appreciation or interpretive depth. The future contest over Southeast Asia
will not only be fought with ships, summits and investments. It will also
be shaped by who can understand the region beyond the limits of their own
ambitions.
*Zenobia Chan is an Assistant Professor and the Political Economy Field
Chair in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. She is also
a Wang Gungwu Visiting Fellow at ISEAS =E2=80=93 Yusof Ishak Institute. Thi=
s
article was first published by the institute=E2=80=99s commentary website*
*fulcrum.sg*
<https://fulcrum.sg/china-and-the-us-who-will-better-understand-southeast-a=
sia/>
[image: Zenobia Chan] <https://www.scmp.com/author/zenobia-chan>
Zenobia Chan <https://www.scmp.com/author/zenobia-chan>
Zenobia Chan is an assistant professor and the political economy field
chair in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. She is also
a Wang Gungwu Visiting Fellow at ISEAS =E2=80=93 Yusof Ishak Institute.

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it;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inhe=
rit;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;color:inherit">In the US, area studi=
es have never been detached from national strategy, but the funding model h=
as proved fragile. Historically, Title VI National Resource Centres and For=
eign Language and Area Studies fellowships were explicitly designed to serv=
e national needs by supporting language training, research and public educa=
tion. However, this foundation is now being abruptly dismantled. Following =
the sudden termination of federal Title VI funding in 2025, the US knowledg=
e ecosystem has been pushed to the brink.</p><div class=3D"gmail-js-reading=
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s:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px"></div><p class=3D"e8zc9q40 gm=
ail-css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding=
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ch:inherit;line-height:28.8px;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;=
font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;=
border:0px;color:inherit">The consequences are immediate and visceral. The =
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is closing all six of its area =
studies centres, including the Carolina Asia Centre. The University of Wash=
ington has had to seek emergency funding to prevent its Khmer language prog=
ramme, one of only seven in the US, from disappearing entirely. This is an =
ecosystem that takes decades of fieldwork, language training and trust-buil=
ding to cultivate, yet only a single budget cycle to hollow out.</p><div cl=
ass=3D"gmail-image-inline-container e1a5rv550 gmail-css-1llrc1m e1yqhwb40" =
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"gmail-css-bjn8wh e1gf69pb3" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padd=
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ine;border:0px"><img alt=3D"The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill=
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P" class=3D"e1gf69pb2 gmail-css-18uoenx e445x7d0" src=3D"https://img.i-scmp=
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iles/d8/images/canvas/2026/06/12/dd26a0ff-fc3f-4d2d-b4c3-f9ffbaf614c7_31a06=
cbd.jpg" title=3D"The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is closin=
g all six of its area studies centres. Photo: Getty Images via AFP" style=
=3D"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit;=
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eight: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-si=
ze-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; =
font-variation-settings: inherit; font-language-override: inherit; vertical=
-align: baseline; border: 0px; display: block; inline-size: 600px; block-si=
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; overflow: hidden; aspect-ratio: auto 2 / 1; cursor: pointer;"></div>The U=
niversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is closing all six of its area s=
tudies centres. Photo: Getty Images via AFP<div class=3D"gmail-css-mkkf9p e=
11xd9ce0" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-style:=
inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-=
height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:in=
herit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px"></d=
iv></div></div><p class=3D"e8zc9q40 gmail-css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1" style=3D"bo=
x-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:=
inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:28.8px;font-fa=
mily:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-set=
tings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;color:inherit">Regional ex=
pertise often begins with knowledge not easily reduced to policy relevance:=
 literature, local newspapers, archival sources, village politics, religiou=
s life, oral histories and conversations that do not fit neatly into policy=
 memos. This is why universities matter. They sustain forms of inquiry whos=
e value may not be visible during the next budget cycle. When funding is cu=
t, it narrows the future pool of Americans who can study Southeast Asia in =
its own languages and on its own terms.</p><div class=3D"e8zc9q40 gmail-css=
-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;fo=
nt-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inhe=
rit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-k=
erning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;border=
:0px">China is taking the opposite path. Country and regional studies becam=
e a first-level graduate discipline in 2022 and was added to China=E2=80=99=
s undergraduate major catalogue=C2=A0<a target=3D"_self" class=3D"e1yy41x40=
 ef9u0v01 gmail-css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0" href=3D"https://www.scmp.com/news/chi=
na/politics/article/3307464/china-fast-tracks-university-majors-extraordina=
ry-push-counter-trade-war-impact?module=3Dinline&amp;pgtype=3Darticle" titl=
e=3D"" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-style:inh=
erit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-siz=
e-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertica=
l-align:baseline;border:0px;display:inline;color:rgb(44,70,146);word-break:=
break-word"><span class=3D"gmail-css-0 ef9u0v00" style=3D"box-sizing:border=
-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-we=
ight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;f=
ont-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;=
vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;word-break:break-word">last year</span><=
/a>. Official narratives, including speeches by President=C2=A0<a target=3D=
"_self" class=3D"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 gmail-css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0" href=3D"htt=
ps://www.scmp.com/topics/xi-jinping?module=3Dinline&amp;pgtype=3Darticle" t=
itle=3D"" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-style:=
inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-=
size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vert=
ical-align:baseline;border:0px;display:inline;color:rgb(44,70,146);word-bre=
ak:break-word"><span class=3D"gmail-css-0 ef9u0v00" style=3D"box-sizing:bor=
der-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font=
-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inheri=
t;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inher=
it;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;word-break:break-word">Xi Jinping</sp=
an></a>, emphasise comprehensive, interdisciplinary, practical and timely r=
esearch on the politics, economy and culture of different countries and reg=
ions. For Southeast Asia, this expansion reflects proximity and geopolitics=
: China is deeply involved in the region through trade, infrastructure and =
diplomacy, while also being entangled in several territorial disputes.</div=
><blockquote class=3D"gmail-css-1twxibn e1t6i3s45" style=3D"box-sizing:bord=
er-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-=
stretch:inherit;line-height:28.6px;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:in=
herit;font-feature-settings:inherit;font-size:22px;vertical-align:baseline;=
border:0px;quotes:none;color:rgb(0,0,0)">How expertise is funded, evaluated=
 and rewarded affects what a country comes to know</blockquote><div class=
=3D"gmail-css-1yupmj4 e1t6i3s44" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;=
padding:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;fon=
t-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:=
inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:b=
aseline;border:0px;display:flex;column-gap:8px"><div class=3D"gmail-css-xd3=
tjd e1t6i3s43" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-s=
tyle:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;=
line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerni=
ng:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px=
"></div></div><div class=3D"gmail-js-reading-50-percent-completion-tracker =
gmail-css-19icq8a ekyy9du0" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;paddi=
ng:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-str=
etch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inher=
it;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseli=
ne;border:0px"></div><p class=3D"e8zc9q40 gmail-css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1" style=
=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-style:inherit;font-va=
riant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:28.8px;f=
ont-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-featu=
re-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;color:inherit">This =
investment in learning should not be dismissed. China=E2=80=99s system can =
scale quickly, encourage language training, support policy research and ali=
gn expertise with diplomatic priorities. But scale is not the same as under=
standing. China now boasts more than 300 research institutes dedicated to S=
outheast Asian studies, yet top-down directives shape which questions are a=
sked. When area studies are explicitly tied to national strategy, scholars =
are incentivised to produce work that is current and politically legible. S=
uch work has its value, but the top-down approach can also privilege short-=
term policy relevance over deeper social knowledge and ideological legibili=
ty over open-ended inquiry. Scholars of Southeast Asian studies in China ha=
ve already noted this =E2=80=9Cpolicy turn=E2=80=9D: rapid growth in langua=
ge programmes, the dominance of short-term policy research and the marginal=
isation of the humanities.</p><div class=3D"gmail-image-inline-container e1=
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it;word-break:break-word"><div class=3D"gmail-image-inline gmail-caption e1=
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st:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-alig=
n:baseline;border:0px"><div class=3D"gmail-css-bjn8wh e1gf69pb3" style=3D"b=
ox-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant=
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family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-s=
ettings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px"><img alt=3D"The Laos-Ch=
ina railway in Luang Prabang province, with deforested hills nearby. Photo:=
 Aidan Jones" class=3D"e1gf69pb2 gmail-css-18uoenx e445x7d0" title=3D"The L=
aos-China railway in Luang Prabang province, with deforested hills nearby. =
Photo: Aidan Jones" src=3D"https://img.i-scmp.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=3Dconta=
in,width=3D1024,format=3Dauto/sites/default/files/d8/images/canvas/2026/06/=
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border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: i=
nherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; =
font-family: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inher=
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; border: 0px; display: block; inline-size: 600px; block-size: 337.5px; col=
or: transparent; background: transparent; object-fit: cover; overflow: hidd=
en; aspect-ratio: auto 2 / 1; cursor: pointer;"></div>The Laos-China railwa=
y in Luang Prabang province, with deforested hills nearby. Photo: Aidan Jon=
es<div class=3D"gmail-css-mkkf9p e11xd9ce0" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;=
margin:0px;padding:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:=
inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-s=
ize-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;verti=
cal-align:baseline;border:0px"></div></div></div><p class=3D"e8zc9q40 gmail=
-css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0p=
x;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:=
inherit;line-height:28.8px;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;fon=
t-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;bor=
der:0px;color:inherit">This creates an asymmetry. The fragmented US model a=
llows intellectual autonomy but is vulnerable to budget politics. China=E2=
=80=99s coordinated model can produce more region-focused personnel at scal=
e, but risks treating Southeast Asia primarily as an object of policy. One =
system may generate too little expertise; the other, expertise too tightly =
organised around state priorities.</p><div class=3D"e8zc9q40 gmail-css-1xdh=
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>For Southeast Asia, neither problem is trivial. A US with fewer language-t=
rained regional specialists may rely more heavily on English-speaking elite=
s, think tank policy briefs and simplified strategic categories =E2=80=93 s=
eeing Southeast Asian nations mainly as partners, hedgers, swing states or =
sites of Chinese influence. China=E2=80=99s model presents a different risk=
: it may generate abundant knowledge about how Southeast Asia matters to Ch=
ina, but less tolerance for evidence that complicates Beijing=E2=80=99s pre=
ferred narratives. Research on the=C2=A0<a target=3D"_self" class=3D"e1yy41=
x40 ef9u0v01 gmail-css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0" href=3D"https://www.scmp.com/topic=
s/belt-and-road-initiative?module=3Dinline&amp;pgtype=3Darticle" title=3D""=
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ont-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-size-adju=
st:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-alig=
n:baseline;border:0px;display:inline;color:rgb(44,70,146);word-break:break-=
word"><span class=3D"gmail-css-0 ef9u0v00" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;m=
argin:0px;padding:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:i=
nherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-si=
ze-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertic=
al-align:baseline;border:0px;word-break:break-word">Belt and Road Initiativ=
e</span></a>, for example, is often encouraged to emphasise connectivity an=
d development, even though such infrastructure projects have raised serious=
 environmental and social questions across the region.</div><p class=3D"e8z=
c9q40 gmail-css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px=
;padding:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;fo=
nt-stretch:inherit;line-height:28.8px;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:=
inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:b=
aseline;border:0px;color:inherit">The point is not that American area studi=
es are pure while Chinese area studies are instrumental. Both have been sha=
ped by power. US area studies emerged in part from Cold War strategic anxie=
ties, after all. Nor should one assume that Chinese scholars lack curiosity=
 or independence. The narrower point is that the political economy of knowl=
edge production matters. How expertise is funded, evaluated and rewarded af=
fects what a country comes to know.</p><div class=3D"gmail-methode-html-wra=
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order:0px"><div class=3D"e1hpd36k2 gmail-css-1l5led6 e1o401183" style=3D"bo=
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inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-f=
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mage:url(&quot;https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YXlscBwUZD4/maxresdefault.jpg&quot;);=
background-position:center center;background-size:cover"><div class=3D"gmai=
l-css-19ot62f e1o401182" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:=
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border:0px;background:linear-gradient(rgba(0,0,0,0),rgba(0,0,0,0.6))"></div=
><div class=3D"gmail-css-hv11vq e1o401180" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;m=
argin:0px;padding:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:700;font-stretch:inh=
erit;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Roboto Condensed&quot;,&quot;Robo=
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ine;border:0px;color:rgb(255,255,255)">04:43</div></div></div><div class=3D=
"e1hpd36k3 gmail-css-79hwxn e1x11wau0" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margi=
n:0px;padding:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inher=
it;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-a=
djust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-a=
lign:baseline;border:0px;display:flex"><div class=3D"gmail-css-0 e1x11wau2"=
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ont-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:22=
.4px;font-family:Roboto,&quot;Roboto fallback&quot;,sans-serif;font-size-ad=
just:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;font-size:1=
6px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">President Xi Jinpi=
ng calls for closer China-Asean trade ties during his Malaysia visit</div><=
/div></div></div><p class=3D"e8zc9q40 gmail-css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1" style=3D"=
box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-style:inherit;font-varian=
t:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:28.8px;font-=
family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-s=
ettings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;color:inherit">Southeast=
 Asia is multilingual, religiously diverse, historically layered and politi=
cally heterogeneous. No great power will understand it well by treating the=
 region merely as a chessboard. Washington should not assume that China=E2=
=80=99s top-down investments will automatically yield shallow knowledge. Be=
ijing should not assume that more centres and majors will automatically pro=
duce deeper understanding. The real test is whether either country can sust=
ain institutions that encourage people to read patiently, travel humbly, ar=
gue openly and take Southeast Asian agency seriously. Universities and thin=
k tanks in the region can shape how outsiders study it by expanding fellows=
hips, joint research and immersive residencies that anchor regional experti=
se in local debates, languages and intellectual communities.</p><p class=3D=
"e8zc9q40 gmail-css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin=
:0px;padding:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inheri=
t;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:28.8px;font-family:inherit;font-size-adj=
ust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-ali=
gn:baseline;border:0px;color:inherit">For the US, cutting regional studies =
while declaring Southeast Asia strategically important is self defeating. F=
or China, building area studies as a strategic discipline may increase capa=
city, but not necessarily deeper appreciation or interpretive depth. The fu=
ture contest over Southeast Asia will not only be fought with ships, summit=
s and investments. It will also be shaped by who can understand the region =
beyond the limits of their own ambitions.</p><div class=3D"gmail-js-reading=
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6/15/26

*Trump Put His Iran Deal First. Netanyahu Doesn't Have Many Choices Left *
[image: US President Donald Trump attends the "UFC Freedom 250" mixed
martial arts event on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC,
Sunday.]
*US President Donald Trump attends the "UFC Freedom 250" mixed martial arts
event on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC,
Sunday. Credit: Kent Nishimura/AFP*

*Even as the United States and Iran were on the verge of signing an
agreement, renewed tensions between Israel and Lebanon erupted on Sunday.*

*This escalation had even threatened to draw the entire Middle East into
another round of fighting. The tail once again tried to wag the dog.
However, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's fairly transparent attempt to
delay the signing of the agreement to end the war across the Gulf did not
meet any material success.*

*Meanwhile, Netanyahu's decisions once again seem to be worsening relations
with the American administration. U.S. President Donald Trump criticized
Israel's strike in Beirut and urged Iran not to respond. Trump sounded
focused on his main goal =E2=80=93 signing an agreement, which he hopes wil=
l lead
to a stable cease-fire and let him withdraw most of the American forces
from the region.*
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*The escalation du jour began Sunday morning, when Hezbollah launched three
explosive drones that penetrated into Israel but caused no casualties. In
response, Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz announced that they
had ordered the Israel Defense Forces to attack Beirut. *
[image: People gather at the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a
building in Beirut's southern suburbs on Sunday.]
*People gather at the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a building
in Beirut's southern suburbs on Sunday.Credit: Ibrahim Amro/AFP*

*That airstrike, which took place Sunday afternoon, targeted a building in
Dahiyeh, a Shi'ite neighborhood in southern Beirut. According to Lebanese
media reports, the target was a mid-level Hezbollah command post. No
official statement has been released regarding what shape it is in now.*

*Immediately after the Israeli attack, senior Iranian officials threatened
to respond by shooting missiles at Israel. The Israel Defense Forces issued
a statement saying it was prepared for this eventuality, and soon afterward
announced changes to wartime restrictions.*

*The new instructions limited mass gatherings, including in central Israel.
This led to the last-minute cancellation of two shows in the greater Tel
Aviv area that had been expected to attract massive audiences. *

*Trump, in his statement, said that "This morning's attack on Beirut should
not have happened," and forbade Israel from hitting Beirut again. He also
urged the Iranians to show restraint, and claimed that he would soon lead
the region to "a long and beautiful peace" that would also include Lebanon.=
*
[image: An Iranian woman walks next to an anti-Israeli mural on a street in
Tehran, Iran, in May.]
*An Iranian woman walks next to an anti-Israeli mural on a street in
Tehran, Iran, in May. Credit: Majid-Asgaripour/Reuters*

*The new reality that has been created in recent weeks has almost become
normalized, but there's nothing normal about it. For the second time in a
week, Israel put itself on an emergency footing in expectation of an
Iranian attack in response to an escalation in Lebanon. *

*Netanyahu doesn't have a lot of choices. Not only does it appear that
the American-Iranian agreement won't satisfy even one of the goals he
outlined with great self-confidence when he began the current war in late
February (the regime won't fall, Iran's nuclear program won't be destroyed
and both its missile program and aid given to regional proxies won't end)*

*Not only is the fire from Lebanon continuing. But Iran is now, once again,
establishing a new equation in which any Israeli attack on Beirut will
bring an Iranian attack on Israel.*

*In practice, we are sliding into a reality of repeated rounds of fighting
in which Iranian missiles launched at Israel in between lulls are being
depicted as a reasonable situation. Moreover, it's not at all clear that
Trump's agreement, assuming it is signed, will bring real quiet in Lebanon.
Consequently, there's a possibility of repeated flare-ups with Hezbollah,
and perhaps also with Iran, after it is signed.*

*Just as was true a week ago, Netanyahu had to demonstrate some
independence from Trump to avoid losing the trust of the many right-wing
voters who still support him despite the October 7 massacre and what looks
like a resounding failure in the current campaign. On Sunday, it seems he
preferred to attack Beirut even if he knew he would earn a reprimand from
Trump.*
[image: =D7=A4=D7=95=D7=AA=D7=97=D7=AA]
*Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meeting soldiers in northern
Israel, in May. Credit: Maayan Toaf/GPO*

*Nevertheless, the overall picture is wretched. Iran, like Hezbollah, is
refusing to bow to the military pressure and the heavy losses it has
suffered. And not only has Israel lost some of what had seemed to be
guaranteed support from the White House, but Trump is now acting like he
has seized control of its foreign and defense policy and transferred it to
American hands. *
In Mamdani's NY, Israel's far right used Israel parade to flex their muscle=
s

*Thus, it seems Netanyahu will have trouble marketing the idea that his
leadership is in a "different league" on the global stage, even to his most
diehard voters.*

*The details of the American-Iranian agreement aren't yet fully clear, but
the picture is far from optimistic. The restrictions on Iran's nuclear
program appear to be partial, while the regime will now likely be able to
recover thanks to the money that will flow to it with the gradual removal
of international sanctions. *

*Moreover, after the failure of the current war, it's hard to imagine any
future American president =E2=80=93 who is also likely to be less friendly =
toward
Israel =E2=80=93 backing an Israeli prime minister in any future war with I=
ran in
the fairly plausible scenario of the regime someday deciding that it does
want to make a nuclear bomb.*

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f=3D"https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israel-security/2026-06-15/ty-arti=
cle/.premium/as-netanyahu-tries-to-hold-off-u-s-iran-deal-relations-with-tr=
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v dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div style=3D"font-family:g=
eorgia,serif"><b><br></b></div><div><h1 style=3D"font-family:&quot;Times Ne=
w Roman&quot;;line-height:1.2141em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0.5em;max-w=
idth:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><font size=3D"4"><i>Trump Put His Iran Deal =
First. Netanyahu Doesn&#39;t Have Many Choices Left=C2=A0</i></font></h1><d=
iv style=3D"max-width:100%"><div style=3D"max-width:100%"><img title=3D"US =
President Donald Trump attends the &quot;UFC Freedom 250&quot; mixed martia=
l arts event on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, Sunday=
. Credit: Kent Nishimura/AFP" alt=3D"US President Donald Trump attends the =
&quot;UFC Freedom 250&quot; mixed martial arts event on the South Lawn of t=
he White House in Washington, DC, Sunday." width=3D"412" height=3D"239" src=
=3D"https://img.haarets.co.il/bs/0000019e-ca89-d7bd-addf-ee9f6df80000/82/6c=
/435c65214e2f87eaa1b592bd9d85/370132.jpg?&amp;width=3D420&amp;height=3D244&=
amp;cmsprod" style=3D"margin:0.5em 0px 0.5em auto;display:block"></div></di=
v><b><span style=3D"max-width:100%;margin-top:0.25em;margin-bottom:0.25em">=
US President Donald Trump attends the &quot;UFC Freedom 250&quot; mixed mar=
tial arts event on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, Sun=
day.</span><span>=C2=A0</span><span style=3D"max-width:100%;margin-top:0.25=
em;margin-bottom:0.25em">Credit: Kent Nishimura/AFP</span></b><p style=3D"m=
ax-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">Even as=
 the United States and Iran were on the verge of signing an agreement, rene=
wed tensions between Israel and Lebanon erupted on Sunday.</font></b></p><p=
 style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, ser=
if">This escalation had even threatened to draw the entire Middle East into=
 another round of fighting. The tail once again tried to wag the dog. Howev=
er, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#39;s fairly transparent attempt to d=
elay the signing of the agreement to end the war across the Gulf did not me=
et any material success.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb=
(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">Meanwhile, Netanyahu&#39;s dec=
isions once again seem to be worsening relations with the American administ=
ration. U.S. President Donald Trump criticized Israel&#39;s strike in Beiru=
t and urged Iran not to respond. Trump sounded focused on his main goal =E2=
=80=93 signing an agreement, which he hopes will lead to a stable cease-fir=
e and let him withdraw most of the American forces from the region.</font><=
/b></p><a href=3D"https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections" style=3D"t=
ext-decoration:none;color:rgb(65,110,210);max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank"=
><font face=3D"georgia, serif"><b></b></font></a><p style=3D"max-width:100%=
;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">The escalation du jo=
ur began Sunday morning, when Hezbollah launched three explosive drones tha=
t penetrated into Israel but caused no casualties. In response, Netanyahu a=
nd Defense Minister Israel Katz announced that they had ordered the Israel =
Defense Forces to attack Beirut.<span>=C2=A0</span></font></b></p><div styl=
e=3D"max-width:100%"><div style=3D"max-width:100%"><img title=3D"People gat=
her at the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a building in Beirut&=
#39;s southern suburbs on Sunday. Credit: Ibrahim Amro/AFP" alt=3D"People g=
ather at the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a building in Beiru=
t&#39;s southern suburbs on Sunday." width=3D"412" height=3D"276" src=3D"ht=
tps://img.haarets.co.il/bs/0000019e-c66a-db50-a3df-e7ea90bf0000/2d/07/4dcd8=
96249eea2dc29adcd5cd2df/358888.jpg?&amp;width=3D420&amp;height=3D281&amp;cm=
sprod" style=3D"margin:0.5em 0px 0.5em auto;display:block"></div></div><b><=
font face=3D"georgia, serif"><span style=3D"max-width:100%;margin-top:0.25e=
m;margin-bottom:0.25em">People gather at the site of an Israeli airstrike t=
hat targeted a building in Beirut&#39;s southern suburbs on Sunday.</span><=
span style=3D"max-width:100%;margin-top:0.25em;margin-bottom:0.25em">Credit=
: Ibrahim Amro/AFP</span></font></b><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27=
,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">That airstrike, which took place =
Sunday afternoon, targeted a building in Dahiyeh, a Shi&#39;ite neighborhoo=
d in southern Beirut. According to Lebanese media reports, the target was a=
 mid-level Hezbollah command post. No official statement has been released =
regarding what shape it is in now.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%=
;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">Immediately after th=
e Israeli attack, senior Iranian officials threatened to<span>=C2=A0</span>=
<a style=3D"color:rgb(65,110,210);max-width:100%">respond by shooting missi=
les at Israel</a>. The Israel Defense Forces issued a statement saying it w=
as prepared for this eventuality, and soon afterward announced changes to w=
artime restrictions.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,=
27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">The new instructions limited mass =
gatherings, including in central Israel. This led to the last-minute cancel=
lation of two shows in the greater Tel Aviv area that had been expected to =
attract massive audiences.<span>=C2=A0</span></font></b></p><p style=3D"max=
-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">Trump, in=
 his statement, said that &quot;This morning&#39;s attack on Beirut<span>=
=C2=A0</span><a style=3D"color:rgb(65,110,210);max-width:100%">should not h=
ave happened</a>,&quot; and forbade Israel from hitting Beirut again. He al=
so urged the Iranians to show restraint, and claimed that he would soon lea=
d the region to &quot;a long and beautiful peace&quot; that would also incl=
ude Lebanon.</font></b></p><div style=3D"max-width:100%"><div style=3D"max-=
width:100%"><img title=3D"An Iranian woman walks next to an anti-Israeli mu=
ral on a street in Tehran, Iran, in May. Credit:   Majid-Asgaripour/Reuters=
" alt=3D"An Iranian woman walks next to an anti-Israeli mural on a street i=
n Tehran, Iran, in May." width=3D"412" height=3D"276" src=3D"https://img.ha=
arets.co.il/bs/0000019e-c77a-db50-a3df-e7fa52240000/ef/77/6625abf840269692e=
5ee1a9f8dc9/029075.jpg?&amp;width=3D420&amp;height=3D281&amp;cmsprod" style=
=3D"margin:0.5em 0px 0.5em auto;display:block"></div></div><b><font face=3D=
"georgia, serif"><span style=3D"max-width:100%;margin-top:0.25em;margin-bot=
tom:0.25em">An Iranian woman walks next to an anti-Israeli mural on a stree=
t in Tehran, Iran, in May.</span><span>=C2=A0</span><span style=3D"max-widt=
h:100%;margin-top:0.25em;margin-bottom:0.25em">Credit: Majid-Asgaripour/Reu=
ters</span></font></b><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><f=
ont face=3D"georgia, serif">The new reality that has been created in recent=
 weeks has almost become normalized, but there&#39;s nothing normal about i=
t. For the second time in a week, Israel put itself on an emergency footing=
 in expectation of an Iranian attack in response to an escalation in Lebano=
n.<span>=C2=A0</span></font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27=
,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">Netanyahu doesn&#39;t have a lot =
of choices. Not only does it appear that the<span>=C2=A0</span><a style=3D"=
color:rgb(65,110,210);max-width:100%">American-Iranian agreement</a><span>=
=C2=A0</span>won&#39;t satisfy even one of the goals he outlined with great=
 self-confidence when he began the current war in late February (the regime=
 won&#39;t fall, Iran&#39;s nuclear program won&#39;t be destroyed and both=
 its missile program and aid given to regional proxies won&#39;t end)</font=
></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"g=
eorgia, serif">Not only is the fire from Lebanon continuing. But Iran is no=
w, once again, establishing a new equation in which any Israeli attack on B=
eirut will bring an Iranian attack on Israel.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max=
-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">In practi=
ce, we are sliding into a reality of repeated rounds of fighting in which I=
ranian missiles launched at Israel in between lulls are being depicted as a=
 reasonable situation. Moreover, it&#39;s not at all clear that Trump&#39;s=
 agreement, assuming it is signed, will bring real quiet in Lebanon. Conseq=
uently, there&#39;s a possibility of repeated flare-ups with Hezbollah, and=
 perhaps also with Iran, after it is signed.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-=
width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">Just as wa=
s true a week ago, Netanyahu had to demonstrate some independence from Trum=
p to avoid losing the trust of the many right-wing voters who still support=
 him despite the October 7 massacre and what looks like a resounding failur=
e in the current campaign. On Sunday, it seems he preferred to attack Beiru=
t even if he knew he would earn a reprimand from Trump.</font></b></p><div =
style=3D"max-width:100%"><div style=3D"max-width:100%"><img title=3D"Israel=
i Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meeting soldiers in northern Israel, in=
 May. Credit: Maayan Toaf/GPO" alt=3D"=D7=A4=D7=95=D7=AA=D7=97=D7=AA" width=
=3D"412" height=3D"275" src=3D"https://img.haarets.co.il/bs/0000019e-b182-d=
7a4-a9bf-f5ca30cd0002/4c/64/20695dd847629479ed9e150d4ee3/65963296.JPG?&amp;=
width=3D420&amp;height=3D280&amp;cmsprod" style=3D"margin:0.5em 0px 0.5em a=
uto;display:block"></div></div><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif"><span style=
=3D"max-width:100%;margin-top:0.25em;margin-bottom:0.25em">Israeli Prime Mi=
nister Benjamin Netanyahu meeting soldiers in northern Israel, in May.</spa=
n><span>=C2=A0</span><span style=3D"max-width:100%;margin-top:0.25em;margin=
-bottom:0.25em">Credit: Maayan Toaf/GPO</span></font></b><p style=3D"max-wi=
dth:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">Nevertheless=
, the overall picture is wretched. Iran, like Hezbollah, is refusing to bow=
 to the military pressure and the heavy losses it has suffered. And not onl=
y has Israel lost some of what had seemed to be guaranteed support from the=
 White House, but Trump is now acting like he has seized control of its for=
eign and defense policy and transferred it to American hands.<span>=C2=A0</=
span></font></b></p><div style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><div =
style=3D"max-width:100%"><div style=3D"max-width:100%"><div style=3D"max-wi=
dth:100%"><h3 style=3D"max-width:100%"><font size=3D"2" face=3D"georgia, se=
rif">In Mamdani&#39;s NY, Israel&#39;s far right used Israel parade to flex=
 their muscles</font></h3><p></p></div></div></div></div><p style=3D"max-wi=
dth:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">Thus, it see=
ms Netanyahu will have trouble marketing the idea that his leadership is in=
 a &quot;different league&quot; on the global stage, even to his most dieha=
rd voters.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b=
><font face=3D"georgia, serif">The details of the American-Iranian agreemen=
t aren&#39;t yet fully clear, but the picture is far from optimistic. The r=
estrictions on Iran&#39;s nuclear program appear to be partial, while the r=
egime will now likely be able to recover thanks to the money that will flow=
 to it with the gradual removal of international sanctions.<span>=C2=A0</sp=
an></font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font =
face=3D"georgia, serif">Moreover, after the failure of the current war, it&=
#39;s hard to imagine any future American president =E2=80=93 who is also l=
ikely to be less friendly toward Israel =E2=80=93 backing an Israeli prime =
minister in any future war with Iran in the fairly plausible scenario of th=
e regime someday deciding that it does want to make a nuclear bomb.</font><=
/b></p></div></div>
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https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026-06-15/ty-article-opinion/.premium/the-=
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The Jewish Ku Klux Klan Has a Calculated Plan for the Palestinians

The local KKK hopes its violence will spur an angry Palestinian reaction to
justify murdering more Palestinians and expelling the majority of them to
Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.
Amira Hass
<https://www.haaretz.com/ty-WRITER/0000017f-da24-d494-a17f-de27b9aa0000>
June 15 2026

Be aware that for every news report that you read about an act of settler
terror, the Jewish Ku Klux Klan is carrying out dozens more acts of
assault, harassment and bullying, while the army attacks and abuses
Palestinians in dozens of neighborhoods and checkpoints to protect the KKK
and its missions.

Be aware as well that these so-called rampages are part of a calculated,
multi-pronged plan. Their ultimate goal is a land "cleansed" of
Palestinians (in German, that already sounds clich=C3=A9d). There is a dire=
ct
line between the events of today and the violent takeover of Palestinian
lands and springs by settlers in the 1990s and early 2000s. Similarly,
there is a connection between the apathy back then and the fatalism of
today, as if the rioters are a biblical swarm of locusts and we are
helpless against them. Perhaps the fatalism at least testifies to the fact
that some are shocked, rather than delighted, by our hardy pioneers, who
remind us of the great-grandfather from an Anita Shapira biography.

Remember that behind every man with a mask, weapon and tzitzit stands a
normative society, warm and loving. It comprises of local settlement
councils, rabbis, social workers and synagogues. Its warm embrace comes in
the form of donations, the provision of herds, and water and support with
logistics that enable hundreds of so called rotten apples to take pleasure
in abusing the elderly, the young, and children, and then to squat on their
land and infest the homes of the owners they've evicted.

Do not forget that behind every attack, act of destruction and theft of
sheep, there are police officers who do not bother to answer calls for
help, and soldiers
<https://www.haaretz.com/west-bank/2026-06-09/ty-article/.premium/un-inquir=
y-finds-israeli-forces-shield-settlers-during-attacks-on-palestinians/00000=
19e-ac74-d3e2-a3df-ae76eb7c0000>
who rush to the scene to arrest those under attack and join in the
beatings, if not killing. And behind everything, there is a glorious legal
system =E2=80=93 prosecutors and judges =E2=80=93 who never knew, saw or he=
ard what was
happening around them, while legalizing the abomination called settlements
<https://www.haaretz.com/west-bank/2025-12-02/ty-article/.premium/court-can=
cels-order-blocking-west-bank-settler-outpost-construction-after-settlers-d=
efy-it/0000019a-de48-d92a-a9df-ff4dcd990000>.
They sit at home and mourn (or not) for Israeli democracy, and are content
with its Jewish part, with their grandchildren, the promotions and pensions=
.

Please refresh your memory: Every shepherd community that these dark,
ultra-kosher forces managed to expel
<https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2026-04-12/ty-article-magazine/.premiu=
m/after-expelling-120-families-israeli-settlers-turn-stream-into-holiday-ho=
tspot/0000019d-80be-d338-a39d-8bbedf7f0000>
had struggled for decades with the "legal" prohibition against living with
dignity that Israeli governments put in place. Civil Administration
officials prepared the demolition orders for every new tent or renovated
cave dwelling, every connection to water and electricity or installation of
solar panels. They signed off on fines for the offense of transporting
drinking water in a tanker, using a tractor and grazing their herds. These
former officials sit in their homes and mourn (or not) for Israeli
democracy, but are proud of their children who go on to "meaningful and
value-based" army service which means the killing of many Palestinians and
Lebanese.

And regarding the WhatsApp groups of hilltop *jugend *shouting "gevalt"
over the few among them who have been arrested by the police
<https://www.haaretz.com/west-bank/2026-06-15/ty-article/.premium/police-ar=
rest-six-suspects-in-settler-arson-attack-on-mosques-near-ramallah/0000019e=
-ca23-d7bd-addf-ee37d2b90000>,
or over a fraction of an outpost that was destroyed for the eighth time and
will be rebuilt tomorrow: behind every person known to have been arrested
are dozens of bone-crushing bandits who fall into the category of "no
suspects found."

When you drink beer, or work on research that examines the impact of global
warming on the color of butterfly wings, or plan your trip to Rome, choose
which watermelon to buy, fill up your bus pass or get quietly angry at your
boss at work =E2=80=93 what you don't want to know is indeed happening. Mom=
ent by
moment, even if our media refrain from reporting it, and the world is
preoccupied with other matters, Israel continues its war of annihilation in
Gaza. Or rather, in about a third of the 365-square kilometers of the Strip
that the state representing the victims of the Holocaust and its survivors
allows two million living-dead to stay in, at a density that only the devil
could create.

The living-dead walk kilometers between growing piles of trash and stinking
puddles of sewage to bring home water. They walk on crutches and one leg
waiting for a coupon from the World Food Programme that will keep their
families alive, and take their daughters to a makeshift clinic, perhaps
there they will know what to do about the fleas, the ticks and the rat
bites. As they play music, write poetry, or plant mint and beans among the
tents, dozens of their dead loved ones cry out from the ground. And in
between, the living are slaughtered by more Israeli bombs.
<https://www.haaretz.com/gaza/2026-06-08/ty-article/.premium/idf-reportedly=
-kills-seven-in-gaza-including-child-as-idf-moves-yellow-line/0000019e-a788=
-db4c-ab9f-af9f1ec30000>

Pretend you are surprised: The Jewish KKK is hoping for a Palestinian
reaction to their violence to advance its goal =E2=80=93 a campaign of mass=
 killing
of Palestinians in the West Bank, and then a campaign of deportation of the
living to Jordan, Syria or Lebanon. The Blue-and-White KKK knows full well
that the Palestinians are afraid, shocked and angry. Their hands are tied,
and they are alone. Both of their unelected leaderships are concerned with
their own survival. *No country has issued the appropriate ultimatum to
Israel: Stop the pogroms and arrest the perpetrators, now, or we will ban
Israelis from our countries and halt all trade and scientific
collaboration.*

The KKK is waiting for some Palestinians who have personally been
assaulted, or have seen their loved ones assaulted, or for young people
unable to bear the helplessness in the face of so much evil to get weapons,
money and advice from Iran to organize and take revenge on the Israelis.
The weeds (as they are termed by other settlers) are waiting for a stone to
cause a bus full of children to roll over.

And then the majority of the people of Israel will be united with the
heroes of the KKK and the army, which will carry out most of the killing
and deportation, because after all, we were attacked. We are the victims.

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                          <h1>The Jewish Ku Klux Klan
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                      <p><font size=3D"4">The
                          local KKK hopes its violence will spur an
                          angry Palestinian reaction to justify
                          murdering more Palestinians and expelling the
                          majority of them to Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.</f=
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                              <address><font size=3D"4"><a rel=3D"author" h=
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                        <p><font size=3D"4">Be aware that for every news re=
port
                            that you read about an act of settler
                            terror, the Jewish Ku Klux Klan is carrying
                            out dozens more acts of assault, harassment
                            and bullying, while the army attacks and
                            abuses Palestinians in dozens of
                            neighborhoods and checkpoints to protect the
                            KKK and its missions.</font></p>
                        <p><font size=3D"4">Be aware as well that these
                            so-called rampages are part of a calculated,
                            multi-pronged plan. Their ultimate goal is a
                            land &quot;cleansed&quot; of Palestinians (in G=
erman,
                            that already sounds clich=C3=A9d). There is a
                            direct line between the events of today and
                            the violent takeover of Palestinian lands
                            and springs by settlers in the 1990s and
                            early 2000s. Similarly, there is a
                            connection between the apathy back then and
                            the fatalism of today, as if the rioters are
                            a biblical swarm of locusts and we are
                            helpless against them. Perhaps the fatalism
                            at least testifies to the fact that some are
                            shocked, rather than delighted, by our hardy
                            pioneers, who remind us of the
                            great-grandfather from an Anita Shapira
                            biography.</font></p>
                        <p><font size=3D"4">Remember that behind every man =
with
                            a mask, weapon and tzitzit stands a
                            normative society, warm and loving. It
                            comprises of local settlement councils,
                            rabbis, social workers and synagogues. Its
                            warm embrace comes in the form of donations,
                            the provision of herds, and water and
                            support with logistics that enable hundreds
                            of so called rotten apples to take pleasure
                            in abusing the elderly, the young, and
                            children, and then to squat on their land
                            and infest the homes of the owners they&#39;ve
                            evicted.</font></p>
                        <div>
                        </div>
                        <p><font size=3D"4">Do not forget that behind every
                            attack, act of destruction and theft of
                            sheep, there are police officers who do not
                            bother to answer calls for help, and <a href=3D=
"https://www.haaretz.com/west-bank/2026-06-09/ty-article/.premium/un-inquir=
y-finds-israeli-forces-shield-settlers-during-attacks-on-palestinians/00000=
19e-ac74-d3e2-a3df-ae76eb7c0000" target=3D"_blank">soldiers</a> who
                            rush to the scene to arrest those under
                            attack and join in the beatings, if not
                            killing. And behind everything, there is a
                            glorious legal system =E2=80=93 prosecutors and
                            judges =E2=80=93 who never knew, saw or heard w=
hat
                            was happening around them, <a href=3D"https://w=
ww.haaretz.com/west-bank/2025-12-02/ty-article/.premium/court-cancels-order=
-blocking-west-bank-settler-outpost-construction-after-settlers-defy-it/000=
0019a-de48-d92a-a9df-ff4dcd990000" target=3D"_blank">while legalizing
                              the abomination called settlements</a>.
                            They sit at home and mourn (or not) for
                            Israeli democracy, and are content with its
                            Jewish part, with their grandchildren, the
                            promotions and pensions.</font></p>
                        <p><font size=3D"4">Please refresh your memory: Eve=
ry
                            shepherd community that these dark,
                            ultra-kosher forces <a href=3D"https://www.haar=
etz.com/israel-news/2026-04-12/ty-article-magazine/.premium/after-expelling=
-120-families-israeli-settlers-turn-stream-into-holiday-hotspot/0000019d-80=
be-d338-a39d-8bbedf7f0000" target=3D"_blank">managed to expel</a>
                            had struggled for decades with the &quot;legal&=
quot;
                            prohibition against living with dignity that
                            Israeli governments put in place. Civil
                            Administration officials prepared the
                            demolition orders for every new tent or
                            renovated cave dwelling, every connection to
                            water and electricity or installation of
                            solar panels. They signed off on fines for
                            the offense of transporting drinking water
                            in a tanker, using a tractor and grazing
                            their herds. These former officials sit in
                            their homes and mourn (or not) for Israeli
                            democracy, but are proud of their children
                            who go on to &quot;meaningful and value-based&q=
uot;
                            army service which means the killing of many
                            Palestinians and Lebanese.</font></p>
                        <p><font size=3D"4">And regarding the WhatsApp grou=
ps
                            of hilltop <em>jugend </em>shouting
                            &quot;gevalt&quot; over the <a href=3D"https://=
www.haaretz.com/west-bank/2026-06-15/ty-article/.premium/police-arrest-six-=
suspects-in-settler-arson-attack-on-mosques-near-ramallah/0000019e-ca23-d7b=
d-addf-ee37d2b90000" target=3D"_blank">few among them who
                              have been arrested by the police</a>, or
                            over a fraction of an outpost that was
                            destroyed for the eighth time and will be
                            rebuilt tomorrow: behind every person known
                            to have been arrested are dozens of
                            bone-crushing bandits who fall into the
                            category of &quot;no suspects found.&quot;</fon=
t></p>
                        <p><font size=3D"4">When you drink beer, or work on
                            research that examines the impact of global
                            warming on the color of butterfly wings, or
                            plan your trip to Rome, choose which
                            watermelon to buy, fill up your bus pass or
                            get quietly angry at your boss at work =E2=80=
=93
                            what you don&#39;t want to know is indeed
                            happening. Moment by moment, even if our
                            media refrain from reporting it, and the
                            world is preoccupied with other matters,
                            Israel continues its war of annihilation in
                            Gaza. Or rather, in about a third of the
                            365-square kilometers of the Strip that the
                            state representing the victims of the
                            Holocaust and its survivors allows two
                            million living-dead to stay in, at a density
                            that only the devil could create.</font></p>
                        <p><font size=3D"4">The living-dead walk kilometers
                            between growing piles of trash and stinking
                            puddles of sewage to bring home water. They
                            walk on crutches and one leg waiting for a
                            coupon from the World Food Programme that
                            will keep their families alive, and take
                            their daughters to a makeshift clinic,
                            perhaps there they will know what to do
                            about the fleas, the ticks and the rat
                            bites. As they play music, write poetry, or
                            plant mint and beans among the tents, dozens
                            of their dead loved ones cry out from the
                            ground. And in between, the living are <a href=
=3D"https://www.haaretz.com/gaza/2026-06-08/ty-article/.premium/idf-reporte=
dly-kills-seven-in-gaza-including-child-as-idf-moves-yellow-line/0000019e-a=
788-db4c-ab9f-af9f1ec30000" target=3D"_blank">slaughtered by more
                              Israeli bombs.</a></font></p>
                        <p><font size=3D"4">Pretend you are surprised: The
                            Jewish KKK is hoping for a Palestinian
                            reaction to their violence to advance its
                            goal =E2=80=93 a campaign of mass killing of
                            Palestinians in the West Bank, and then a
                            campaign of deportation of the living to
                            Jordan, Syria or Lebanon. The Blue-and-White
                            KKK knows full well that the Palestinians
                            are afraid, shocked and angry. Their hands
                            are tied, and they are alone. Both of their
                            unelected leaderships are concerned with
                            their own survival. <b>No country has
                              issued the appropriate ultimatum to
                              Israel: Stop the pogroms and arrest the
                              perpetrators, now, or we will ban Israelis
                              from our countries and halt all trade and
                              scientific collaboration.</b></font></p>
                        <p><font size=3D"4">The KKK is waiting for some
                            Palestinians who have personally been
                            assaulted, or have seen their loved ones
                            assaulted, or for young people unable to
                            bear the helplessness in the face of so much
                            evil to get weapons, money and advice from
                            Iran to organize and take revenge on the
                            Israelis. The weeds (as they are termed by
                            other settlers) are waiting for a stone to
                            cause a bus full of children to roll over.</fon=
t></p>
                        <p><font size=3D"4">And then the majority of the pe=
ople
                            of Israel will be united with the heroes of
                            the KKK and the army, which will carry out
                            most of the killing and deportation, because
                            after all, we were attacked. We are the
                            victims.</font></p></div></div></div></div></di=
v></div></div></div></div>
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Massie Calls for New USS Liberty Investigation in Fiery House Speech

The congressman said survivors deserve recognition, closure and justice 59
years later.
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[image: Election 2026-Trump-Massie]Republican U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie
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Rep. Thomas Massie
<https://www.opensecrets.org/profiles/thomas-massie/us_congress/summary?mpi=
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(R-Ky.)
used a floor speech on the 59th anniversary of the USS Liberty attack to
call for a new investigation into one of the most controversial incidents
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in
modern U.S. naval history, arguing that surviving crew members deserve
=E2=80=9Cclosure=E2=80=9D and =E2=80=9Cjustice =E2=80=9Cwhile they are stil=
l alive.=E2=80=9D

Massie, speaking on the House floor
<https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/2064060776910905777> on June 8,
described the attack on the USS Liberty during the 1967 Six-Day War and
criticized both the original investigation and decades of congressional
inaction. He also entered into the Congressional Record a declaration from
the late Capt. Ward Boston, former chief counsel to the Navy Court of
Inquiry, who later argued that the official =E2=80=9Cinvestigation=E2=80=9D=
 was flawed.

The USS Liberty
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ight-over-secret-1967-report.html>
was
a U.S. Navy intelligence-gathering ship operating in international waters
off the Sinai Peninsula on June 8, 1967, when it came under attack from
Israeli aircraft and torpedo boats during the Six-Day War. According to the
Naval History and Heritage Command, 34 Americans were killed and 171 were
wounded in the attack.

Israel later stated that the strike was a case of mistaken identity. The
United States accepted the explanation at the time, although the incident
has remained the subject of debate for decades.
[image: uss liberty]USS Liberty (AGTR-5). Photographed circa 1966. Official
U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and
Heritage Command.

During his speech, Massie noted that several USS Liberty survivors were
present in Washington and had met with him before he took the House floor.

"It=E2=80=99s my great honor=E2=80=94maybe one of the biggest honors of my =
lifetime=E2=80=94to
stand here on the floor and do something that's 59 years overdue, to
recognize the survivors and those who gave their lives on the USS Liberty,"
Massie said.

Massie recounted the attack in detail, describing Israeli aircraft strafing
the ship before torpedo boats launched attacks that tore a large hole in
the vessel. He also repeated long-standing reports from survivors that
Israeli forces machine-gunned life rafts and targeted sailors attempting to
aid the wounded.

He further noted that attacking aircraft dropped napalm on portions of the
ship, including the bridge, during the assault.

Military.com contacted Massie's office, inquiring whether the congressman
plans to pursue legislation, support a congressional investigation, or take
additional action related to the USS Liberty. A spokesperson said they
could not provide further comment beyond his House floor remarks.
*Questioning the Official Narrative*

The Kentucky Republican went beyond simply commemorating the anniversary.

Massie cited myriad individuals, including former U.S. Secretary of State
Dean Rusk, former CIA Director Richard Helms, former NSA Director Bobby Ray
Inman, former chief counsel to the Navy Court of Inquiry Ward Boston and
former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Thomas Moorer=E2=80=94all=
 of whom
questioned whether the attack was accidental.

"If you listen to Dean Rusk, Richard Helms, Bobby Ray Inman, Capt. Ward
Boston...none of these distinguished men think this was an accident,"
Massie said.

He also highlighted Boston's later criticism of the original Navy inquiry.

At the conclusion of his remarks, Massie requested unanimous consent to
place Boston's declaration <http://www.gtr5.com/Witnesses/boston.pdf> into
the Congressional Record, stating that the declaration argued "the only
official court of inquiry was invalid."
*Calling for Congressional Action*

The most significant portion of Massie's remarks may be what he believes
Congress should do next.

Rather than merely recognizing the anniversary, Massie called for a new
investigation and suggested Congress should formally honor the survivors.

"I've got a call to action for everybody here," said Massie, who recently
lost his GOP primary and will not return to Congress in January. "Honor
these individuals. Quit ignoring that they exist."
[image: AP26140158618960]Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., speaks after losing the
Republican party's nomination during an election night watch party at the
Marriott Cincinnati Airport, Tuesday, May 19, 2026, in Hebron, Ky. (AP
Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

He then urged lawmakers to revisit the incident directly.

"Let's have an investigation. Let's pass a resolution honoring them. It's
long overdue."

Massie did not specify what form a new investigation should take, whether
he intends to introduce legislation, or whether other members of Congress
have agreed to support such an effort. He also did not elaborate on what
specific outcome would constitute the closure and justice he said survivors
deserve.

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lt=3D"Election 2026-Trump-Massie" src=3D"https://static0.mltimages.com/word=
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t; border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; width: 750px; left: 0px; top:=
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.S. Rep. Thomas Massie speaks to a crowd in Shelbyville, Ky., on Thursday, =
Sept. 25, 2025. (Bruce Schreiner/AP Photo)</div></div><div class=3D"gmail-c=
ontent-block-regular" style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px"><=
p style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 2rem;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,=
52,54);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.6em">=
Rep.=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.opensecrets.org/profiles/thomas-massie/us_=
congress/summary?mpid=3D1091614" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"box-sizing:inhe=
rit;color:rgb(2,81,155);text-decoration:none;border-width:medium medium 2px=
;border-style:none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor rgb(2,=
81,155);border-radius:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-size:1em;line-heigh=
t:1">Thomas Massie</a>=C2=A0(R-Ky.) used a floor speech on the 59th anniver=
sary of the USS Liberty attack to call for a new investigation into one of =
the=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.military.com/massie-controversial-uss-liber=
ty-naval-attack-renewed-attention-congress" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"box-=
sizing:inherit;color:rgb(2,81,155);text-decoration:none;border-width:medium=
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olor rgb(2,81,155);border-radius:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-size:1em=
;line-height:1">most controversial incidents</a>=C2=A0in modern U.S. naval =
history, arguing that surviving crew members deserve =E2=80=9Cclosure=E2=80=
=9D and =E2=80=9Cjustice =E2=80=9Cwhile they are still alive.=E2=80=9D</p><=
p style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 2rem;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,=
52,54);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.6em">=
Massie, s<a href=3D"https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/206406077691090577=
7" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(2,81,155);text-d=
ecoration:none;border-width:medium medium 2px;border-style:none none solid;=
border-color:currentcolor currentcolor rgb(2,81,155);border-radius:0px;outl=
ine:none;padding:0px;font-size:1em;line-height:1">peaking on the House floo=
r</a>=C2=A0on June 8, described the attack on the USS Liberty during the 19=
67 Six-Day War and criticized both the original investigation and decades o=
f congressional inaction. He also entered into the Congressional Record a d=
eclaration from the late Capt. Ward Boston, former chief counsel to the Nav=
y Court of Inquiry, who later argued that the official =E2=80=9Cinvestigati=
on=E2=80=9D was flawed.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 2r=
em;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,52,54);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:=
1.125rem;line-height:1.6em">The=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.military.com/fe=
ature/2026/03/11/uss-liberty-foia-lawsuit-and-fight-over-secret-1967-report=
.html" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(2,81,155);te=
xt-decoration:none;border-width:medium medium 2px;border-style:none none so=
lid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor rgb(2,81,155);border-radius:0px;=
outline:none;padding:0px;font-size:1em;line-height:1">USS Liberty</a>=C2=A0=
was a U.S. Navy intelligence-gathering ship operating in international wate=
rs off the Sinai Peninsula on June 8, 1967, when it came under attack from =
Israeli aircraft and torpedo boats during the Six-Day War. According to the=
 Naval History and Heritage Command, 34 Americans were killed and 171 were =
wounded in the attack.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 2re=
m;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,52,54);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:1=
.125rem;line-height:1.6em">Israel later stated that the strike was a case o=
f mistaken identity. The United States accepted the explanation at the time=
, although the incident has remained the subject of debate for decades.</p>=
<div class=3D"gmail-body-img gmail-landscape gmail-mobile-optimized" style=
=3D"box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 2rem;padding:0px"><div class=3D"gmail=
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sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;display:block;border-radius:2px"><img=
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timages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2026-03/image_3.jpeg?q=3D70&amp;fi=
t=3Dcrop&amp;w=3D825&amp;dpr=3D1" class=3D"gmail-img-brightness-opt-out" st=
yle=3D"box-sizing: inherit; border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; widt=
h: 750px; left: 0px; top: 0px; border-radius: 2px; max-width: 100%;"></span=
>USS Liberty (AGTR-5). Photographed circa 1966. Official U.S. Navy Photogra=
ph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command.</div></=
div><p style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 2rem;padding:0px;color:rg=
b(51,52,54);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.=
6em">During his speech, Massie noted that several USS Liberty survivors wer=
e present in Washington and had met with him before he took the House floor=
.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 2rem;padding:0px;color:r=
gb(51,52,54);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1=
.6em">&quot;It=E2=80=99s my great honor=E2=80=94maybe one of the biggest ho=
nors of my lifetime=E2=80=94to stand here on the floor and do something tha=
t&#39;s 59 years overdue, to recognize the survivors and those who gave the=
ir lives on the USS Liberty,&quot; Massie said.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:i=
nherit;margin:0px 0px 2rem;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,52,54);font-family:Robo=
to,sans-serif;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.6em">Massie recounted the at=
tack in detail, describing Israeli aircraft strafing the ship before torped=
o boats launched attacks that tore a large hole in the vessel. He also repe=
ated long-standing reports from survivors that Israeli forces machine-gunne=
d life rafts and targeted sailors attempting to aid the wounded.</p><p styl=
e=3D"box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 2rem;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,52,54)=
;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.6em">He fur=
ther noted that attacking aircraft dropped napalm on portions of the ship, =
including the bridge, during the assault.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:inherit=
;margin:0px 0px 2rem;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,52,54);font-family:Roboto,san=
s-serif;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.6em">Military.com contacted Massie=
&#39;s office, inquiring whether the congressman plans to pursue legislatio=
n, support a congressional investigation, or take additional action related=
 to the USS Liberty. A spokesperson said they could not provide further com=
ment beyond his House floor remarks.</p><h2 id=3D"gmail-questioning-the-off=
icial-narrative" style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.25rem;padding=
:0px;font-size:2.25rem;font-family:&quot;Roboto Condensed&quot;,sans-serif;=
color:rgb(51,52,54);line-height:1.2em"><strong style=3D"box-sizing:inherit"=
>Questioning the Official Narrative</strong></h2><p style=3D"box-sizing:inh=
erit;margin:0px 0px 2rem;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,52,54);font-family:Roboto=
,sans-serif;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.6em">The Kentucky Republican w=
ent beyond simply commemorating the anniversary.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:=
inherit;margin:0px 0px 2rem;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,52,54);font-family:Rob=
oto,sans-serif;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.6em">Massie cited myriad in=
dividuals, including former U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, former CIA D=
irector Richard Helms, former NSA Director Bobby Ray Inman, former chief co=
unsel to the Navy Court of Inquiry Ward Boston and former Chairman of the J=
oint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Thomas Moorer=E2=80=94all of whom questioned whet=
her the attack was accidental.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px=
 0px 2rem;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,52,54);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;fon=
t-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.6em">&quot;If you listen to Dean Rusk, Richar=
d Helms, Bobby Ray Inman, Capt. Ward Boston...none of these distinguished m=
en think this was an accident,&quot; Massie said.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing=
:inherit;margin:0px 0px 2rem;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,52,54);font-family:Ro=
boto,sans-serif;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.6em">He also highlighted B=
oston&#39;s later criticism of the original Navy inquiry.</p><p style=3D"bo=
x-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 2rem;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,52,54);font-f=
amily:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.6em">At the conclu=
sion of his remarks, Massie requested unanimous consent to place=C2=A0<a hr=
ef=3D"http://www.gtr5.com/Witnesses/boston.pdf" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"=
box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(2,81,155);text-decoration:none;border-width:me=
dium medium 2px;border-style:none none solid;border-color:currentcolor curr=
entcolor rgb(2,81,155);border-radius:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-size=
:1em;line-height:1">Boston&#39;s declaration</a>=C2=A0into the Congressiona=
l Record, stating that the declaration argued &quot;the only official court=
 of inquiry was invalid.&quot;</p><h2 id=3D"gmail-calling-for-congressional=
-action" style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.25rem;padding:0px;fon=
t-size:2.25rem;font-family:&quot;Roboto Condensed&quot;,sans-serif;color:rg=
b(51,52,54);line-height:1.2em"><strong style=3D"box-sizing:inherit">Calling=
 for Congressional Action</strong></h2><p style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;margi=
n:0px 0px 2rem;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,52,54);font-family:Roboto,sans-seri=
f;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.6em">The most significant portion of Mas=
sie&#39;s remarks may be what he believes Congress should do next.</p><p st=
yle=3D"box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 2rem;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,52,5=
4);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.6em">Rath=
er than merely recognizing the anniversary, Massie called for a new investi=
gation and suggested Congress should formally honor the survivors.</p><p st=
yle=3D"box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 2rem;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,52,5=
4);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.6em">&quo=
t;I&#39;ve got a call to action for everybody here,&quot; said Massie, who =
recently lost his GOP primary and will not return to Congress in January. &=
quot;Honor these individuals. Quit ignoring that they exist.&quot;</p><div =
class=3D"gmail-body-img gmail-landscape" style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;margin=
:0px 0px 2rem;padding:0px"><div class=3D"gmail-responsive-img gmail-image-e=
xpandable gmail-img-article-item" style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;pa=
dding:0px;overflow:hidden"><span style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;pad=
ding:0px;display:block;border-radius:2px"><img width=3D"1650" height=3D"110=
0" alt=3D"AP26140158618960" src=3D"https://static0.mltimages.com/wordpress/=
wp-content/uploads/2026/06/ap26140158618960.jpg?q=3D49&amp;fit=3Dcrop&amp;w=
=3D825&amp;dpr=3D2" class=3D"gmail-img-brightness-opt-out" style=3D"box-siz=
ing: inherit; border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; width: 750px; left=
: 0px; top: 0px; border-radius: 2px; max-width: 100%;"></span>Rep. Thomas M=
assie, R-Ky., speaks after losing the Republican party&#39;s nomination dur=
ing an election night watch party at the Marriott Cincinnati Airport, Tuesd=
ay, May 19, 2026, in Hebron, Ky. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)</div></div><p st=
yle=3D"box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 2rem;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,52,5=
4);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.6em">He t=
hen urged lawmakers to revisit the incident directly.</p><p style=3D"box-si=
zing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 2rem;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,52,54);font-famil=
y:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.6em">&quot;Let&#39;s h=
ave an investigation. Let&#39;s pass a resolution honoring them. It&#39;s l=
ong overdue.&quot;</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 2rem;pa=
dding:0px;color:rgb(51,52,54);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:1.125=
rem;line-height:1.6em">Massie did not specify what form a new investigation=
 should take, whether he intends to introduce legislation, or whether other=
 members of Congress have agreed to support such an effort. He also did not=
 elaborate on what specific outcome would constitute the closure and justic=
e he said survivors deserve.</p></div></div>

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*https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026-06-15/ty-article-opinion/.premium/ira=
n-is-playing-chess-israel-is-playing-checkers-and-america-owns-the-board/00=
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<https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026-06-15/ty-article-opinion/.premium/ira=
n-is-playing-chess-israel-is-playing-checkers-and-america-owns-the-board/00=
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*Iran Is Playing Chess, Israel Is Playing Checkers and America Owns the
Board*
*Odeh Bisharat =E2=80=A2 June 15 2026 *
[image: U.S. President Trump with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the
White House, September 2025.]
*U.S. President Trump with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the White
House, September 2025. Credit: Evan Vucci/AP *

*Israel left the game up to the Americans, who have their own agenda*

*In 1956, Israel formed a three-way coalition with two waning powers,
Britain and France, against Egypt, which had nationalized the Suez Canal =
=E2=80=93
the Strait of Hormuz of that era. This proved to be a fatal mistake. The
moment the two powers concluded that the war wasn't achieving the hoped-for
result, they turned their backs on it, leaving with a stain that remains on
their brows to this day. *

*As a result, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, who was a step away from
establishing the "third Israeli kingdom," did an about-face. The kingdom
disintegrated, remaining but a historical absurdity. It turns out you don't
play around with great powers =E2=80=93 not even if you're Ben-Gurion and n=
ot even
if you're Benjamin Netanyahu.*

*Seventy years later, Israel repeated that mistake by playing second fiddle
in the attack on Iran. Following is a list of that attack's side effects:*
[image: This handout photo provided by the Kuwaiti News Agency (KUNA) shows
Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad al-Abdullah al-Sabah, second on the
right, inspecting the damaged airport after an Iranian attack, in Kuwait
City, earlier this month.]
*This handout photo provided by the Kuwaiti News Agency (KUNA) shows
Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad al-Abdullah al-Sabah, second on the
right, inspecting the damaged airport after an Iranian attack, in Kuwait
City, earlier this month. Credit: AFP/-*

*1. Israel left the leadership of the operation to the Americans and
America, with all its affection for Israel, has its own agenda, including
targets other than Iran. Yesterday it was Venezuela, tomorrow it will be
Cuba, then Greenland and perhaps others as well. It can't afford to get
bogged down in Iran for a long time =E2=80=93 that is, until Netanyahu fini=
shes his
work in the Middle East, which will never end.*
*2. When America launched the attack, it abandoned its allies in the Gulf,
with their precious oil. After all, from Iran's standpoint, the Gulf states
are American military bases in every respect and therefore, legitimate
targets for attack. And indeed, it attacked them with great enthusiasm,
even more than it attacked American and Israeli targets.*

*3. The war against Iran became one whose consequences spanned the globe.
The entire world wants to end it, primarily to reopen the Strait of Hormuz,
whose closure has disrupted the lives of hundreds of millions of people
worldwide.*

*One could also mention many more consequences of the joint attack with
America that Netanyahu worked with all his might to secure, but I'll focus
on one essential issue. Today, Israel is merely watching what is happening
between Israel and Iran =E2=80=93 the ongoing negotiations, the Iranian "ch=
utzpah"
in saying no to America =E2=80=93 while Israel, which prepared, urged and d=
id
fantastic public relations in favor of the attack, has been left off the
court. *

*In the meantime, it's playing with Lebanon, a country of six million
people =E2=80=93 and not even all of Lebanon, just a part of it. Doesn't th=
is feel
depressing?*
[image: Smoke rises from the site of a string of Israeli airstrikes that
targeted the southern Lebanese city of Nabatieh last week.]
*Smoke rises from the site of a string of Israeli airstrikes that targeted
the southern Lebanese city of Nabatieh last week. Credit: AFP/ABBAS FAKIH*

*Thus the result so far is that Israel has returned to its natural
dimensions =E2=80=93 a country with 10 million people, compared to one with=
 300
million and another with 100 million. This sight provokes great
disappointment. Jews, stop your self-indulgence; have more children! And
where has former Prime Minister Ehud Barak disappeared? Why isn't he
bringing a few million more blondes here?*

*Journalist and intellectual Mohammed Hussein Heikel, who was an adviser to
former Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, once said that Egypt was
playing backgammon, while Israel was playing chess. For the benefit of
anyone who runs across that remark today, it's worth explaining that he was
describing the situation back then, not today.*

*I looked into the matter and it turns out chess originated in India. But
the Iranians were the ones who developed it to its current level of
sophistication. I also discovered that backgammon is an Iranian invention.
But Netanyahu and his water carrier, Defense Minister Israel Katz, aren't
playing chess, or even backgammon. Instead, they are playing bulldozers.*

*Now, the bulldozer is stalled. A stalled bulldozer first and foremost
embitters the lives of its operators. And when things get difficult, a
bulldozer destroys indiscriminately. Sometimes, it's aimed against Israel's
Arab citizens, sometimes against the Supreme Court president, sometimes
against university faculty and students, sometimes against journalists. *

*That's how the world works. When the gates to the outside close,
bulldozers turn inward =E2=80=93 because a bulldozer needs to earn a living=
 and
where doesn't matter. Israelis, prepare yourselves. The bulldozer is hungry
and you are its targets.*

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=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif"><a href=3D"h=
ttps://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026-06-15/ty-article-opinion/.premium/iran-=
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/opinion/2026-06-15/ty-article-opinion/.premium/iran-is-playing-chess-israe=
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7c361d0000</a></font></b></div><div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=
=3D"ltr"><div><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif"><br></font></b></div><div><h=
1 style=3D"line-height:1.2141em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0.5em;max-widt=
h:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><font face=3D"georgia, serif" size=3D"4"><i>Ira=
n Is Playing Chess, Israel Is Playing Checkers and America Owns the Board</=
i></font></h1><div style=3D"margin-bottom:1.45em;max-width:100%;color:rgb(2=
7,27,27)"><font face=3D"georgia, serif"><b><a rel=3D"author" style=3D"margi=
n:0px;max-width:100%;display:inline">Odeh Bisharat</a>=C2=A0=E2=80=A2 June =
15 2026=C2=A0</b></font></div><div style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,=
27)"><div style=3D"max-width:100%"><div style=3D"max-width:100%"><img title=
=3D"U.S. President Trump with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the Whi=
te House, September 2025. Credit: Evan Vucci/AP" alt=3D"U.S. President Trum=
p with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the White House, September 202=
5." width=3D"412" height=3D"239" src=3D"https://img.haarets.co.il/bs/000001=
9e-c75c-d43d-a39f-e77d67360000/b5/1a/97f17a7a4a09b778e4fd9747ac83/275104.jp=
g?precrop=3D2400,1395,x0,y101&amp;width=3D420&amp;height=3D244&amp;cmsprod"=
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=3D"georgia, serif"><b><span style=3D"max-width:100%;margin-top:0.25em;marg=
in-bottom:0.25em">U.S. President Trump with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanya=
hu, at the White House, September 2025.</span><span>=C2=A0</span><span styl=
e=3D"max-width:100%;margin-top:0.25em;margin-bottom:0.25em">Credit: Evan Vu=
cci/AP<span>=C2=A0</span></span></b></font></div><div style=3D"max-width:10=
0%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font face=3D"georgi=
a, serif">Israel left the game up to the Americans, who have their own agen=
da</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font face=3D"georgia, seri=
f">In 1956, Israel formed a three-way coalition with two waning powers, Bri=
tain and France, against Egypt, which had nationalized the Suez Canal =E2=
=80=93 the Strait of Hormuz of that era. This proved to be a fatal mistake.=
 The moment the two powers concluded that the war wasn&#39;t achieving the =
hoped-for result, they turned their backs on it, leaving with a stain that =
remains on their brows to this day.<span>=C2=A0</span></font></b></p><p sty=
le=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">As a result, Prime M=
inister David Ben-Gurion, who was a step away from establishing the &quot;t=
hird Israeli kingdom,&quot; did an about-face. The kingdom disintegrated, r=
emaining but a historical absurdity. It turns out you don&#39;t play around=
 with great powers =E2=80=93 not even if you&#39;re Ben-Gurion and not even=
 if you&#39;re Benjamin Netanyahu.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%=
"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">Seventy years later, Israel repeated tha=
t mistake by playing second fiddle in the attack on Iran. Following is a li=
st of that attack&#39;s side effects:</font></b></p><div style=3D"max-width=
:100%"><div style=3D"max-width:100%"><img title=3D"This handout photo provi=
ded by the Kuwaiti News Agency (KUNA) shows Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheikh A=
hmad al-Abdullah al-Sabah, second on the right, inspecting the damaged airp=
ort after an Iranian attack, in Kuwait City, earlier this month. Credit: AF=
P/-" alt=3D"This handout photo provided by the Kuwaiti News Agency (KUNA) s=
hows Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad al-Abdullah al-Sabah, second on th=
e right, inspecting the damaged airport after an Iranian attack, in Kuwait =
City, earlier this month." width=3D"412" height=3D"275" src=3D"https://img.=
haarets.co.il/bs/0000019e-c760-d43d-a39f-e77d7bc10000/b8/b0/87d5acce4e508c5=
0fba780621d03/228699.jpg?&amp;width=3D420&amp;height=3D280&amp;cmsprod" sty=
le=3D"margin:0.5em 0px 0.5em auto;display:block"></div></div><b><font face=
=3D"georgia, serif"><span style=3D"max-width:100%;margin-top:0.25em;margin-=
bottom:0.25em">This handout photo provided by the Kuwaiti News Agency (KUNA=
) shows Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad al-Abdullah al-Sabah, second on=
 the right, inspecting the damaged airport after an Iranian attack, in Kuwa=
it City, earlier this month.</span><span>=C2=A0</span><span style=3D"max-wi=
dth:100%;margin-top:0.25em;margin-bottom:0.25em">Credit: AFP/-</span></font=
></b><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">1. Israel=
 left the leadership of the operation to the<span>=C2=A0</span><a style=3D"=
color:rgb(65,110,210);max-width:100%">Americans</a><span>=C2=A0</span>and A=
merica, with all its affection for Israel, has its own agenda, including ta=
rgets other than Iran. Yesterday it was Venezuela, tomorrow it will be Cuba=
, then Greenland and perhaps others as well. It can&#39;t afford to get bog=
ged down in Iran for a long time =E2=80=93 that is, until Netanyahu finishe=
s his work in the Middle East, which will never end.</font></b></p><div sty=
le=3D"max-width:100%"><div style=3D"max-width:100%"><h3 style=3D"max-width:=
100%"><b style=3D"font-size:small"><font face=3D"georgia, serif">2. When Am=
erica launched the attack, it abandoned its allies in the Gulf, with their =
precious oil. After all, from Iran&#39;s standpoint, the Gulf states are Am=
erican military bases in every respect and therefore, legitimate targets fo=
r attack. And indeed, it attacked them with great enthusiasm, even more tha=
n it attacked American and Israeli targets.</font></b></h3></div></div><p s=
tyle=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">3. The war against=
 Iran became one whose consequences spanned the globe. The entire world wan=
ts to end it, primarily to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, whose closure has d=
isrupted the lives of hundreds of millions of people worldwide.</font></b><=
/p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">One could a=
lso mention many more consequences of the joint attack with America that Ne=
tanyahu worked with all his might to secure, but I&#39;ll focus on one esse=
ntial issue. Today, Israel is merely watching what is happening between Isr=
ael and Iran =E2=80=93 the ongoing negotiations, the Iranian &quot;chutzpah=
&quot; in saying no to America =E2=80=93 while Israel, which prepared, urge=
d and did fantastic public relations in favor of the attack, has been left =
off the court.<span>=C2=A0</span></font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"=
><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">In the meantime, it&#39;s playing with Le=
banon, a country of six million people =E2=80=93 and not even all of<span>=
=C2=A0</span><a style=3D"color:rgb(65,110,210);max-width:100%">Lebanon</a>,=
 just a part of it. Doesn&#39;t this feel depressing?</font></b></p><div st=
yle=3D"max-width:100%"><div style=3D"max-width:100%"><img title=3D"Smoke ri=
ses from the site of a string of Israeli airstrikes that targeted the south=
ern Lebanese city of Nabatieh last week. Credit: AFP/ABBAS FAKIH" alt=3D"Sm=
oke rises from the site of a string of Israeli airstrikes that targeted the=
 southern Lebanese city of Nabatieh last week." width=3D"412" height=3D"275=
" src=3D"https://img.haarets.co.il/bs/0000019e-c75d-d86d-adde-fffd57aa0000/=
37/c0/d90717cb46d4836c3589646c887c/322895-5.jpg?&amp;width=3D420&amp;height=
=3D280&amp;cmsprod" style=3D"margin:0.5em 0px 0.5em auto;display:block"></d=
iv></div><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif"><span style=3D"max-width:100%;mar=
gin-top:0.25em;margin-bottom:0.25em">Smoke rises from the site of a string =
of Israeli airstrikes that targeted the southern Lebanese city of Nabatieh =
last week.</span><span>=C2=A0</span><span style=3D"max-width:100%;margin-to=
p:0.25em;margin-bottom:0.25em">Credit: AFP/ABBAS FAKIH</span></font></b><p =
style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">Thus the result s=
o far is that Israel has returned to its natural dimensions =E2=80=93 a cou=
ntry with 10 million people, compared to one with 300 million and another w=
ith 100 million. This sight provokes great disappointment. Jews, stop your =
self-indulgence; have more children! And where has former Prime Minister Eh=
ud Barak disappeared? Why isn&#39;t he bringing a few million more blondes =
here?</font></b></p><div style=3D"max-width:100%"><div style=3D"max-width:1=
00%"><div style=3D"max-width:100%"><div style=3D"max-width:100%"><p style=
=3D"max-width:100%;margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.4em"></p><h5 style=3D"m=
argin:1em 0px;max-width:100%"><b style=3D"font-size:small"><font face=3D"ge=
orgia, serif">Journalist and intellectual Mohammed Hussein Heikel, who was =
an adviser to former Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, once said that =
Egypt was playing backgammon, while Israel was playing chess. For the benef=
it of anyone who runs across that remark today, it&#39;s worth explaining t=
hat he was describing the situation back then, not today.</font></b></h5></=
div></div></div></div><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font face=3D"georgia,=
 serif">I looked into the matter and it turns out chess originated in India=
. But the Iranians were the ones who developed it to its current level of s=
ophistication. I also discovered that backgammon is an Iranian invention. B=
ut<span>=C2=A0</span><a style=3D"color:rgb(65,110,210);max-width:100%">Neta=
nyahu</a><span>=C2=A0</span>and his water carrier, Defense Minister Israel =
Katz, aren&#39;t playing chess, or even backgammon. Instead, they are playi=
ng bulldozers.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font face=3D"g=
eorgia, serif">Now, the bulldozer is stalled. A stalled bulldozer first and=
 foremost embitters the lives of its operators. And when things get difficu=
lt, a bulldozer destroys indiscriminately. Sometimes, it&#39;s aimed agains=
t Israel&#39;s Arab citizens, sometimes against the Supreme Court president=
, sometimes against university faculty and students, sometimes against jour=
nalists.<span>=C2=A0</span></font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><f=
ont face=3D"georgia, serif">That&#39;s how the world works. When the gates =
to the outside close, bulldozers turn inward =E2=80=93 because a bulldozer =
needs to earn a living and where doesn&#39;t matter. Israelis, prepare your=
selves. The bulldozer is hungry and you are its targets.</font></b></p></di=
v></div></div>
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/world/europe/uk-palestine-action-ban-app=
eal.html
U.K. Ban on Pro-Palestinian Protest Group Is Lawful, Court of Appeal Rules

The decision overturned a lower-court ruling that found that banning
Palestine Action as a terrorist group had breached free speech rights.
[image: An ornate stone building with arches and spires. A large red,
black, white and green flag is visible above a gathered crowd.]
Demonstrators gathered on Monday as the Court of Appeal ruled on the
government=E2=80=99s ban of Palestine Action. Credit...Carlos Jasso/Agence
France-Presse =E2=80=94 Getty Images

By Stephen Castle <https://www.nytimes.com/by/stephen-castle>

Reporting from London
June 15, 2026,

The British government acted lawfully when it banned a pro-Palestinian
protest group as a terrorist organization, the Court of Appeal in London
said on Monday, overturning a lower-court ruling
<https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/world/europe/uk-palestine-action-ban-co=
urt-ruling.html>
that
found the ban had breached free speech rights.

The decision is a victory for the government of Prime Minister Keir
Starmer, but it is unlikely to be the final word on the case and supporters
of the group said they would appeal to the Supreme Court.

The ban on Palestine Action, a direct action group that vandalized
facilities linked to Israeli weapons manufacturers, took effect in July,
and immediately proved contentious.

It was the first time
<https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/world/europe/palestine-action-uk-ban.ht=
ml>
the
British government had used terrorism powers against a group for =E2=80=9Cs=
erious
damage to property,=E2=80=9D rather than because of the use or threat of vi=
olence
against people, prompting criticism from a broad range of human rights
groups and international bodies.

Palestine Action, which no longer exists in its original form, did not
promote violence against individuals. But its members damaged sites linked
to Elbit Systems, an Israeli weapons manufacturer, and last June broke into
<https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/world/europe/pro-palestinian-activists-=
uk-air-base-raf-brize-norton.html>
R.A.F.
Brize Norton, Britain=E2=80=99s largest air force base, in Oxfordshire, van=
dalizing
two aircraft. The British government argued that those activities brought
the group into the scope of an official terrorism definition
<https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/world/europe/palestine-action-uk-ban.ht=
ml>
covering
=E2=80=9Cserious damage to property=E2=80=9D for an ideological cause.

In a statement responding to Monday=E2=80=99s ruling Huda Ammori, co-founde=
r of
Palestine Action said she would appeal and =E2=80=9Cfight proscription all =
the way=E2=80=9D
to the Supreme Court.

The ban put Palestine Action on the same legal footing as terrorist
organizations including Al Qaeda, the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division
and Hezbollah.

It automatically triggered laws that apply to all designated terrorist
groups, criminalizing anyone who expressed support for Palestine Action.
More than 2,000 people have subsequently been arrested just for holding
signs reading: =E2=80=9CI oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action.=E2=
=80=9D

An assessment drawn up by a security body
<https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/world/europe/palestine-action-uk-govern=
ment-assessment.html>
led
by Britain=E2=80=99s MI5 domestic intelligence agency in March last year fo=
und that
only three out of 385 actions then carried out by Palestine Action met the
terrorism definition through =E2=80=9Cserious property damage with the aim =
of
progressing its political cause.=E2=80=9D

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l.html</a></font><div><h1 id=3D"m_-127962899264721732link-6d82079">U.K. Ban=
 on Pro-Palestinian Protest Group Is Lawful, Court of Appeal Rules</h1></di=
v><p id=3D"m_-127962899264721732article-summary"><font size=3D"4">The decis=
ion overturned a lower-court ruling that found that banning Palestine Actio=
n as a terrorist group had breached free speech rights.</font></p><div><div=
><u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u><img alt=3D"An ornate stone building with arch=
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=3D"cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><u></u></div>Demonstrators gathered on =
Monday as the Court of Appeal ruled on the government=E2=80=99s ban of Pale=
stine Action.=C2=A0Credit...<span aria-hidden=3D"false">Carlos Jasso/Agence=
 France-Presse =E2=80=94 Getty Images</span></div><div><div><div><p><font s=
ize=3D"4">By=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.nytimes.com/by/stephen-castle" tar=
get=3D"_blank">Stephen Castle</a></font></p><div><div id=3D"m_-127962899264=
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</div></div></div></div></div><div><font size=3D"4">June 15, 2026,<br></fon=
t></div><div id=3D"m_-127962899264721732NYT_ABOVE_MAIN_CONTENT_REGION"><div=
><div><div><div id=3D"m_-127962899264721732embed-id-100000010805361"></div>=
</div></div></div></div><div><div><p><font size=3D"4">The British governmen=
t acted lawfully when it banned a pro-Palestinian protest group as a terror=
ist organization, the Court of Appeal in London said on Monday, overturning=
 a=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/world/europe/uk-pales=
tine-action-ban-court-ruling.html" title=3D"" target=3D"_blank">lower-court=
 ruling</a>=C2=A0that found the ban had breached free speech rights.</font>=
</p><p><font size=3D"4">The decision is a victory for the government of Pri=
me Minister Keir Starmer, but it is=C2=A0unlikely to be the final word on t=
he case and supporters of the group said they would appeal to the Supreme C=
ourt.</font></p><p><font size=3D"4">The ban on Palestine Action, a direct a=
ction group that vandalized facilities linked to Israeli weapons manufactur=
ers, took effect in July, and immediately proved contentious.</font></p><p>=
<font size=3D"4">It was the=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08=
/07/world/europe/palestine-action-uk-ban.html" title=3D"" target=3D"_blank"=
>first time</a>=C2=A0the British government had used terrorism powers again=
st a group for =E2=80=9Cserious damage to property,=E2=80=9D rather than be=
cause of the use or threat of violence against people, prompting criticism =
from a broad range of human rights groups and international bodies.</font><=
/p></div></div><div><div><p><font size=3D"4">Palestine Action, which no lon=
ger exists in its original form, did not promote violence against individua=
ls. But its members damaged sites linked to Elbit Systems, an Israeli weapo=
ns manufacturer, and last June=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.nytimes.com/2025=
/06/20/world/europe/pro-palestinian-activists-uk-air-base-raf-brize-norton.=
html" title=3D"" target=3D"_blank">broke into</a>=C2=A0R.A.F. Brize Norton,=
 Britain=E2=80=99s largest air force base, in Oxfordshire, vandalizing two =
aircraft. The British government argued that those activities brought the g=
roup into the scope of an=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/0=
7/world/europe/palestine-action-uk-ban.html" title=3D"" target=3D"_blank">o=
fficial terrorism definition</a>=C2=A0covering =E2=80=9Cserious damage to p=
roperty=E2=80=9D for an ideological cause.</font></p><p><font size=3D"4">In=
 a statement responding to Monday=E2=80=99s ruling Huda Ammori, co-founder =
of Palestine Action said she would appeal and =E2=80=9Cfight proscription a=
ll the way=E2=80=9D to the Supreme Court.</font></p><p><font size=3D"4">The=
 ban put Palestine Action on the same legal footing as terrorist organizati=
ons including Al Qaeda, the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division and Hezbolla=
h.</font></p><p><font size=3D"4">It automatically triggered laws that apply=
 to all designated terrorist groups, criminalizing anyone who expressed sup=
port for Palestine Action. More than 2,000 people have subsequently been ar=
rested just for holding signs reading: =E2=80=9CI oppose genocide, I suppor=
t Palestine Action.=E2=80=9D</font></p><p><font size=3D"4">An assessment=C2=
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ion-uk-government-assessment.html" title=3D"" target=3D"_blank">drawn up by=
 a security body</a>=C2=A0led by Britain=E2=80=99s MI5 domestic intelligenc=
e agency in March last year found that only three out of 385 actions then c=
arried out by Palestine Action met the terrorism definition through =E2=80=
=9Cserious property damage with the aim of progressing its political cause.=
=E2=80=9D</font></p></div></div></div>

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*https://www.juancole.com/2026/06/iran-agreement-talking.html
<https://www.juancole.com/2026/06/iran-agreement-talking.html>*

*US-Iran MOU is a mere Agreement to Keep Talking*

*Juan Cole <https://www.juancole.com/author/jcedit> 06/15/2026*

*Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) =E2=80=93 Early Monday morning Islamabad time=
,
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced on =E2=80=9CX=E2=80=9D
<https://x.com/CMShehbaz/status/2066268332832194810> that =E2=80=9CFollowin=
g
intensive talks, we are pleased to announce that the Peace Deal between the
United States of America and Islamic Republic of Iran has been REACHED.
Both sides have declared the immediate and permanent termination of
military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon. The official
signing ceremony will be on Friday, 19 June in Switzerland.=E2=80=9D Pakist=
an and
Qatar had been the lead negotiators, though Qatar=E2=80=99s negotiating tea=
m
appears to have sealed the deal Sunday with a marathon 14-hour session.*

*The White House concurred. US President Donald Trump posted
<https://x.com/CMShehbaz/status/2066268332832194810>that the deal with Iran
is =E2=80=9Ccomplete=E2=80=9D and that he would immediately lift the U.S. b=
lockade on the
Strait of Hormuz and is announcing its =E2=80=9Ctoll-free=E2=80=9D opening.=
 =E2=80=9CLet the oil
flow,=E2=80=9D he said.*

*Al Jazeera reports
<https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/6/14/iran-war-live-trump-says=
-deal-to-be-signed-today-as-tehran-urges-caution>
that
Iran=E2=80=99s National Security Council announced the end of all military =
actions,
including in Lebanon.*

*Israel=E2=80=99s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, wanted on an Internat=
ional
Criminal Court indictment for war crimes, attempted to derail Sunday=E2=80=
=99s
negotiations by bombing Beirut, an Iranian red line, but this petulant
display failed in its purpose. Trump called
<https://www.moneycontrol.com/world/us-iran-ceasefire-live-news-donald-trum=
p-us-news-netanyahu-lebanon-israel-peace-pakistan-mediation-jd-vance-livebl=
og-13949427.html>
Netanyahu
=E2=80=9Ca very difficult guy=E2=80=9D and insisted that he should be =E2=
=80=9Cvery thankful=E2=80=9D for
the deal. Israel was not involved in the negotiations although it began the
war in partnership with the U.S. Having lost to Tehran, Netanyahu has been
marginalized and is clearly increasingly seen as a problem by Trump and
MAGA.*

*Tasnim,
<https://www.google.com/url?sa=3Dt&source=3Dweb&rct=3Dj&opi=3D89978449&url=
=3Dhttps://tasnimnews.ir/fa/news/1405/03/25/3617349/%25D9%2588%25D8%25A7%25=
DA%25A9%25D9%2586%25D8%25B4-%25D9%2587%25D8%25A7%25DB%258C-%25D8%25AC%25D9%=
2587%25D8%25A7%25D9%2586%25DB%258C-%25D8%25A8%25D9%2587-%25DB%258C%25D8%25A=
7%25D8%25AF%25D8%25AF%25D8%25A7%25D8%25B4%25D8%25AA-%25D8%25AA%25D9%2581%25=
D8%25A7%25D9%2587%25D9%2585-%25D8%25A7%25D9%2588%25D9%2584%25DB%258C%25D9%2=
587-%25D8%25AA%25D9%2587%25D8%25B1%25D8%25A7%25D9%2586-%25D9%2588%25D8%25A7=
%25D8%25B4%25D9%2586%25DA%25AF%25D8%25AA%25D9%2586>the
pro-government news agency, reported that Iran=E2=80=99s Deputy Foreign Min=
ister
Kazem Gharibabadi confirmed that the text of the MOU had been finalized,
that there has been an immediate end to military actions, and that it will
be signed in Switzerland on Friday. Over the next sixty days, he said,
issues will be negotiated in the lifting of U.S. sanctions on Iran and the
disposition of Iran=E2=80=99s civilian nuclear enrichment program and its e=
xisting
stockpile of High Enriched Uranium, which the U.S. and others fear could be
enriched to weapons grade.*

*What exactly has been agreed on? Much less than meets the eye. It is a
=E2=80=9CMemorandum of Understanding,=E2=80=9D not a detailed peace treaty =
of the sort the
Obama administration negotiated in 2015. It is simply an agreement to stop
fighting while further negotiations continue.*

*Although the U.S. says that the Strait is open =E2=80=9Ctoll-free,=E2=80=
=9D the Iranians
have changed their terminology and are speaking of collecting an
=E2=80=9Cadministrative fee.=E2=80=9D*

*File photo showing US President Trump at Board of Peace with Shehbaz
Sharif. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok) . Public Domain.
Via Picryl
<https://picryl.com/media/p20260122dt-0413-president-donald-trump-participa=
tes-in-the-board-of-peace-5cbff5>.
*

*Sharif=E2=80=99s breathless announcement was the first sign of a breakthro=
ugh,
though the leadership of Israel=E2=80=99s extremist far right government co=
ntinues
to insist that it will occupy and attack Lebanon at will, defying President
Trump. Lebanon is one of the Iranian government=E2=80=99s =E2=80=9Cred line=
s,=E2=80=9D and Tehran=E2=80=99s
inclusion of it in the ceasefire is an attempt to project Iranian influence
so as to counter Israeli expansion into south Lebanon. *

*Lebanon is a small country of 4 million people, about a third of them Shia
Muslims, the same branch of Islam that predominates in Iran. Those Lebanese
Shia live in the south of the country abutting Israel and were brutalized
by repeated Israel invasions and attempts at occupation. Their chief
paramilitary power is Hezbollah, which subjected northern Israel to
repeated rocket barrages in response to the Israeli genocide against Gaza.
Israeli politicians have expressed a desire to ethnically cleanse the Shia
from the south, and have been destroying entire towns and villages and
attempting to depopulate Tyre, the ancient major city of the south. The
Israelis have also been bombing the disproportionately Shia Beirut district
of Dahieh, killing and wounding civilians. Iran insists that this bombing
cease as part of the agreement with Trump.*

*Netanyahu=E2=80=99s land-grab of fully 1/5 of Lebanese territory and his a=
ttempt
to do to south Lebanon and parts of Beirut what he did to Gaza remains a
wild card in US-Iran relations.*

*The MOU is good news, but it is only a first step.*

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div class=3D"gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir=
=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr"><b style=3D"font-family:georgia,serif"><a hre=
f=3D"https://www.juancole.com/2026/06/iran-agreement-talking.html" target=
=3D"_blank">https://www.juancole.com/2026/06/iran-agreement-talking.html</a=
></b></div><div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div style=3D=
"font-family:georgia,serif"><b><br></b></div><div><h1 style=3D"font-family:=
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;line-height:1.2141em;margin-top:0px;margin-bott=
om:0.5em;max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><font size=3D"4"><i>US-Iran MO=
U is a mere Agreement to Keep Talking</i></font></h1><div style=3D"font-fam=
ily:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;margin-bottom:1.45em;max-width:100%;color:r=
gb(27,27,27)"><p style=3D"margin:0px;max-width:100%;display:inline"><b><spa=
n style=3D"margin:0px;max-width:100%;clear:both;display:inline"><a href=3D"=
https://www.juancole.com/author/jcedit" rel=3D"author" style=3D"text-decora=
tion:none;margin:0px;color:rgb(27,27,27);max-width:100%;display:inline" tar=
get=3D"_blank"><span style=3D"margin:0px;max-width:100%">Juan Cole</span></=
a></span><span>=C2=A0</span><span style=3D"margin:0.07em 0.45em 0px;padding=
:0px;max-width:100%;display:inline"></span>06/15/2026</b></p></div><p style=
=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">An=
n Arbor (Informed Comment) =E2=80=93 Early Monday morning Islamabad time, P=
akistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif<span>=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https:/=
/x.com/CMShehbaz/status/2066268332832194810" style=3D"text-decoration:none;=
color:rgb(65,110,210);max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank">announced on =E2=80=
=9CX=E2=80=9D</a><span>=C2=A0</span>that =E2=80=9CFollowing intensive talks=
, we are pleased to announce that the Peace Deal between the United States =
of America and Islamic Republic of Iran has been REACHED. Both sides have d=
eclared the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on a=
ll fronts, including in Lebanon. The official signing ceremony will be on F=
riday, 19 June in Switzerland.=E2=80=9D Pakistan and Qatar had been the lea=
d negotiators, though Qatar=E2=80=99s negotiating team appears to have seal=
ed the deal Sunday with a marathon 14-hour session.</font></b></p><p style=
=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">Th=
e White House concurred. US President Donald Trump<span>=C2=A0</span><a hre=
f=3D"https://x.com/CMShehbaz/status/2066268332832194810" style=3D"text-deco=
ration:none;color:rgb(65,110,210);max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank">posted<=
span>=C2=A0</span></a>that the deal with Iran is =E2=80=9Ccomplete=E2=80=9D=
 and that he would immediately lift the U.S. blockade on the Strait of Horm=
uz and is announcing its =E2=80=9Ctoll-free=E2=80=9D opening. =E2=80=9CLet =
the oil flow,=E2=80=9D he said.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;co=
lor:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">Al Jazeera<span>=C2=A0<=
/span><a href=3D"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/6/14/iran-war=
-live-trump-says-deal-to-be-signed-today-as-tehran-urges-caution" style=3D"=
text-decoration:none;color:rgb(65,110,210);max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank=
">reports</a><span>=C2=A0</span>that Iran=E2=80=99s National Security Counc=
il announced the end of all military actions, including in Lebanon.</font><=
/b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"geo=
rgia, serif">Israel=E2=80=99s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, wanted on=
 an International Criminal Court indictment for war crimes, attempted to de=
rail Sunday=E2=80=99s negotiations by bombing Beirut, an Iranian red line, =
but this petulant display failed in its purpose. Trump<span>=C2=A0</span><a=
 href=3D"https://www.moneycontrol.com/world/us-iran-ceasefire-live-news-don=
ald-trump-us-news-netanyahu-lebanon-israel-peace-pakistan-mediation-jd-vanc=
e-liveblog-13949427.html" style=3D"text-decoration:none;color:rgb(65,110,21=
0);max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank">called</a><span>=C2=A0</span>Netanyahu=
 =E2=80=9Ca very difficult guy=E2=80=9D and insisted that he should be =E2=
=80=9Cvery thankful=E2=80=9D for the deal. Israel was not involved in the n=
egotiations although it began the war in partnership with the U.S. Having l=
ost to Tehran, Netanyahu has been marginalized and is clearly increasingly =
seen as a problem by Trump and MAGA.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:10=
0%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif"><a href=3D"https:/=
/www.google.com/url?sa=3Dt&amp;source=3Dweb&amp;rct=3Dj&amp;opi=3D89978449&=
amp;url=3Dhttps://tasnimnews.ir/fa/news/1405/03/25/3617349/%25D9%2588%25D8%=
25A7%25DA%25A9%25D9%2586%25D8%25B4-%25D9%2587%25D8%25A7%25DB%258C-%25D8%25A=
C%25D9%2587%25D8%25A7%25D9%2586%25DB%258C-%25D8%25A8%25D9%2587-%25DB%258C%2=
5D8%25A7%25D8%25AF%25D8%25AF%25D8%25A7%25D8%25B4%25D8%25AA-%25D8%25AA%25D9%=
2581%25D8%25A7%25D9%2587%25D9%2585-%25D8%25A7%25D9%2588%25D9%2584%25DB%258C=
%25D9%2587-%25D8%25AA%25D9%2587%25D8%25B1%25D8%25A7%25D9%2586-%25D9%2588%25=
D8%25A7%25D8%25B4%25D9%2586%25DA%25AF%25D8%25AA%25D9%2586" style=3D"text-de=
coration:none;color:rgb(65,110,210);max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank">Tasni=
m,<span>=C2=A0</span></a>the pro-government news agency, reported that Iran=
=E2=80=99s Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi confirmed that the tex=
t of the MOU had been finalized, that there has been an immediate end to mi=
litary actions, and that it will be signed in Switzerland on Friday. Over t=
he next sixty days, he said, issues will be negotiated in the lifting of U.=
S. sanctions on Iran and the disposition of Iran=E2=80=99s civilian nuclear=
 enrichment program and its existing stockpile of High Enriched Uranium, wh=
ich the U.S. and others fear could be enriched to weapons grade.</font></b>=
</p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgi=
a, serif">What exactly has been agreed on? Much less than meets the eye. It=
 is a =E2=80=9CMemorandum of Understanding,=E2=80=9D not a detailed peace t=
reaty of the sort the Obama administration negotiated in 2015. It is simply=
 an agreement to stop fighting while further negotiations continue.</font><=
/b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"geo=
rgia, serif">Although the U.S. says that the Strait is open =E2=80=9Ctoll-f=
ree,=E2=80=9D the Iranians have changed their terminology and are speaking =
of collecting an =E2=80=9Cadministrative fee.=E2=80=9D</font></b></p><p sty=
le=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><img src=3D"https://media.juancol=
e.com/images/2026/06/p20260122dt-0413-president-donald-trump-participates-i=
n-the-board-of-peace-5cbff5.jpg" alt=3D"" width=3D"403" height=3D"412" styl=
e=3D"margin:0.5em 0px 0.5em auto;display:block"><i style=3D"max-width:100%"=
><small style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">File phot=
o showing US President Trump at Board of Peace with Shehbaz Sharif. (Offici=
al White House Photo by Daniel Torok) . Public Domain. Via<span>=C2=A0</spa=
n><a href=3D"https://picryl.com/media/p20260122dt-0413-president-donald-tru=
mp-participates-in-the-board-of-peace-5cbff5" style=3D"text-decoration:none=
;color:rgb(65,110,210);max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank">Picryl</a>.<span>=
=C2=A0</span></font></b></small></i></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rg=
b(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">Sharif=E2=80=99s breathless a=
nnouncement was the first sign of a breakthrough, though the leadership of =
Israel=E2=80=99s extremist far right government continues to insist that it=
 will occupy and attack Lebanon at will, defying President Trump. Lebanon i=
s one of the Iranian government=E2=80=99s =E2=80=9Cred lines,=E2=80=9D and =
Tehran=E2=80=99s inclusion of it in the ceasefire is an attempt to project =
Iranian influence so as to counter Israeli expansion into south Lebanon.<sp=
an>=C2=A0</span></font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,2=
7)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">Lebanon is a small country of 4 millio=
n people, about a third of them Shia Muslims, the same branch of Islam that=
 predominates in Iran. Those Lebanese Shia live in the south of the country=
 abutting Israel and were brutalized by repeated Israel invasions and attem=
pts at occupation. Their chief paramilitary power is Hezbollah, which subje=
cted northern Israel to repeated rocket barrages in response to the Israeli=
 genocide against Gaza. Israeli politicians have expressed a desire to ethn=
ically cleanse the Shia from the south, and have been destroying entire tow=
ns and villages and attempting to depopulate Tyre, the ancient major city o=
f the south. The Israelis have also been bombing the disproportionately Shi=
a Beirut district of Dahieh, killing and wounding civilians. Iran insists t=
hat this bombing cease as part of the agreement with Trump.</font></b></p><=
p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, se=
rif">Netanyahu=E2=80=99s land-grab of fully 1/5 of Lebanese territory and h=
is attempt to do to south Lebanon and parts of Beirut what he did to Gaza r=
emains a wild card in US-Iran relations.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-widt=
h:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">The MOU is goo=
d news, but it is only a first step.</font></b></p></div></div>
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*https://oilprice.com/Energy/Oil-Prices/US-Iran-Deal-Doesnt-Mean-a-Swift-Re=
turn-of-Oil-and-Gas-Flows.html
<https://oilprice.com/Energy/Oil-Prices/US-Iran-Deal-Doesnt-Mean-a-Swift-Re=
turn-of-Oil-and-Gas-Flows.html>*

*U.S.-Iran Deal Doesn=E2=80=99t Mean a Swift Return of Oil and Gas Flows*

   - *A U.S.-Iran agreement could reopen the Strait of Hormuz, but shipping
   and production will not immediately return to normal.*
   - *More than 10 million bpd of Middle Eastern oil production has been
   shut in, and some fields may take months to restart fully.*
   - *Iraq faces a slower recovery than Saudi Arabia or the UAE because its
   southern exports depend heavily on access through Basrah.*

*The U.S.-Iran deal and the potentially imminent reopening of the Strait of
Hormuz do not mean that oil and gas trade will quickly return to its
previous levels. The announcement of the deal is just the first step, and
it could take months for oil and gas shipments in the region to return to
pre-war levels.*

*Middle Eastern producers have been forced to shut in more than 10 million
barrels per day of oil production since the Strait of Hormuz was closed
three and a half months ago. Producers will need months to fully ramp up
wells to previous output levels, while the status of the Strait of Hormuz =
=E2=80=93
even if it re-opens on Friday as expected =E2=80=93 is still unclear.*

*=E2=80=9CWe don=E2=80=99t know what open means or what the speed of evacua=
tion of trapped
material is going to be,=E2=80=9D Daniel Sternoff, senior fellow at the Cen=
ter on
Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, told AP
<https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-trump-deal-oil-supply-strait-of-hormuz=
-42bdd71d5afa6fb5ac5d0c3e7857de6c>
late
on Sunday.*

*Some producers like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates would be
quicker to restore output compared to Iraq, for example, which had to
curtail the highest proportion of its production due to its inability to
move the crude out of its southern fields through Basrah.*

*=E2=80=9CPlaces like Iraq could be much more challenged because they=E2=80=
=99ve had a much
bigger shut-in, their fields are more difficult,=E2=80=9D Alan Gelder, seni=
or vice
president of refining, chemicals, and oil markets at Wood Mackenzie, said.*

*=E2=80=9CIt may well take about a year before they get back,=E2=80=9D the =
expert told AP.*

*At the end of May, WoodMac=E2=80=99s analysts said
<https://www.woodmac.com/blogs/the-edge/how-quickly-can-gulf-oil-exports-re=
cover/>
that
assuming operators choose a measured and controlled ramp-up, the fields
affected by the Strait of Hormuz closure could get back to 70% of prior
production within three months and to 90% within six months. The last 1
million bpd or so will take considerably longer, according to the energy
consultancy.*

*According to Ole Hansen, head of commodity strategy at Saxo Bank
<https://x.com/Ole_S_Hansen/status/2066394833753702673>, =E2=80=9CThe speed=
 at
which supply chains normalise and export flows recover will also play a key
role in determining how much of the geopolitical risk premium remains
embedded in the market.=E2=80=9D*

*Already, some shipping companies have made it clear that they will wait
until the deal is formalized on Friday before attempting to cross the
Strait. Even for shipowners who are willing to make the crossing,
organizing insurance and other practical issues could further delay the
recovery.*

*The agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz could well mark the end of
the war between Iran and the U.S., but it marks only the beginning of what
will likely be a long road to recovery for the oil and gas industry.*

*By Tsvetana Paraskova for Oilprice.com*

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div class=3D"gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir=
=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr"><b style=3D"font-family:georgia,serif"><a hre=
f=3D"https://oilprice.com/Energy/Oil-Prices/US-Iran-Deal-Doesnt-Mean-a-Swif=
t-Return-of-Oil-and-Gas-Flows.html" target=3D"_blank">https://oilprice.com/=
Energy/Oil-Prices/US-Iran-Deal-Doesnt-Mean-a-Swift-Return-of-Oil-and-Gas-Fl=
ows.html</a></b></div><div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr"><d=
iv style=3D"font-family:georgia,serif"><b><br></b></div><div><h1 style=3D"f=
ont-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;line-height:1.2141em;margin-top:0px;=
margin-bottom:0.5em;max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><font size=3D"4"><i=
>U.S.-Iran Deal Doesn=E2=80=99t Mean a Swift Return of Oil and Gas Flows</i=
></font></h1><div style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><ul style=3D=
"max-width:100%;list-style-type:none"><li style=3D"max-width:100%;list-styl=
e-type:none"><b><font face=3D"Times New Roman">A U.S.-Iran agreement could =
reopen the Strait of Hormuz, but shipping and production will not </font><f=
ont face=3D"georgia, serif">immediately return to normal.</font></b></li><l=
i style=3D"max-width:100%;list-style-type:none"><b><font face=3D"georgia, s=
erif">More than 10 million bpd of Middle Eastern oil production has been sh=
ut in, and some fields may take months to restart fully.</font></b></li><li=
 style=3D"max-width:100%;list-style-type:none"><b><font face=3D"georgia, se=
rif">Iraq faces a slower recovery than Saudi Arabia or the UAE because its =
southern exports depend heavily on access through Basrah.</font></b></li></=
ul></div><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"g=
eorgia, serif">The U.S.-Iran deal and the potentially imminent reopening of=
 the Strait of Hormuz do not mean that oil and gas trade will quickly retur=
n to its previous levels. The<span>=C2=A0</span><a style=3D"color:rgb(65,11=
0,210);max-width:100%">announcement</a><span>=C2=A0</span>of the deal is ju=
st the first step, and it could take months for oil and gas shipments in th=
e region to return to pre-war levels.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:1=
00%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">Middle Eastern pr=
oducers have been forced to shut in more than 10 million barrels per day of=
 oil production since the Strait of Hormuz was closed three and a half mont=
hs ago. Producers will need months to fully ramp up wells to previous outpu=
t levels, while the status of the Strait of Hormuz =E2=80=93 even if it re-=
opens on Friday as expected =E2=80=93 is still unclear.</font></b></p><p st=
yle=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif"=
>=E2=80=9CWe don=E2=80=99t know what open means or what the speed of evacua=
tion of trapped material is going to be,=E2=80=9D Daniel Sternoff, senior f=
ellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University,<span>=
=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-trump-deal-oil-=
supply-strait-of-hormuz-42bdd71d5afa6fb5ac5d0c3e7857de6c" style=3D"text-dec=
oration:none;color:rgb(65,110,210);max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank">told A=
P</a><span>=C2=A0</span>late on Sunday.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width=
:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">Some producers =
like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates would be quicker to restore =
output compared to Iraq, for example, which had to curtail the highest prop=
ortion of its production due to its inability to move the crude out of its =
southern fields through Basrah.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;co=
lor:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">=E2=80=9CPlaces like Ir=
aq could be much more challenged because they=E2=80=99ve had a much bigger =
shut-in, their fields are more difficult,=E2=80=9D Alan Gelder, senior vice=
 president of refining, chemicals, and oil markets at Wood Mackenzie, said.=
</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font fac=
e=3D"georgia, serif">=E2=80=9CIt may well take about a year before they get=
 back,=E2=80=9D the expert told AP.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100=
%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">At the end of May, =
WoodMac=E2=80=99s analysts<span>=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://www.woodmac=
.com/blogs/the-edge/how-quickly-can-gulf-oil-exports-recover/" style=3D"tex=
t-decoration:none;color:rgb(65,110,210);max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank">s=
aid</a><span>=C2=A0</span>that assuming operators choose a measured and con=
trolled ramp-up, the fields affected by the Strait of Hormuz closure could =
get back to 70% of prior production within three months and to 90% within s=
ix months. The last 1 million bpd or so will take considerably longer, acco=
rding to the energy consultancy.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;c=
olor:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">According to Ole Hanse=
n, head of commodity strategy at<span>=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://x.com=
/Ole_S_Hansen/status/2066394833753702673" style=3D"text-decoration:none;col=
or:rgb(65,110,210);max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank">Saxo Bank</a>, =E2=80=
=9CThe speed at which supply chains normalise and export flows recover will=
 also play a key role in determining how much of the geopolitical risk prem=
ium remains embedded in the market.=E2=80=9D</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-=
width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">Already, s=
ome shipping companies have<span>=C2=A0</span><a rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"=
color:rgb(65,110,210);max-width:100%">made it clear</a><span>=C2=A0</span>t=
hat they will wait until the deal is formalized on Friday before attempting=
 to cross the Strait. Even for shipowners who are willing to make the cross=
ing, organizing insurance and other practical issues could further delay th=
e recovery.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><=
b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">The agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormu=
z could well mark the end of the war between Iran and the U.S., but it mark=
s only the beginning of what will likely be a long road to recovery for the=
 oil and gas industry.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(2=
7,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">By Tsvetana Paraskova for Oilpri=
ce.com</font></b></p><p style=3D"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;ma=
x-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><br></p></div></div>
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 FM: John Whitbeck

 Transmitted below is DAWN's statement on the announced interim agreement
for ending the criminal war of aggression against Iran.

 Even if Israel does not succeed in preventing this agreement from being
signed, it is highly likely that, as with the Gaza "ceasefire" agreements
and "peace" plan, the contemplated   Phase 2 will not be implemented -- and
not solely because Israel has no interest in its implementation or in any
semblance of peace.

 On the "issues" publicly asserted as justifying the Israeli/American
attack (regime change, Iran's alleged nuclear nuclear "ambitions", Iran's
missile defense capabilities and Iran's support   for regional allies
resisting Israeli regional hegemony), as well as Iran's insistence on the
release of its frozen assets and an end to all sanctions against it, the
Iranian government Iran has   no reason to violate its publicly proclaimed
and legally justified "red lines" while the current U.S. government would
find it politically excruciating to violate its publicly proclaimed and
 often illegal and delusional "red lines".

 Fortunately, in my view, even in the absence of any future "peace"
agreement after 60 or more days of negotiations, it is highly unlikely that
President Trump will choose to resume this     war.

 The reason for my cautious optimism in this regard is a simple and basic
one: While most Iranians consider these outstanding issues to be of
existential importance to the dignity and   survival of their great
civilization and while many Israelis consider them important or useful (
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/07/01/the-excuse-of-the-iranian-nuclear-t=
hreat)
to     their government's "Greater Israel" ambitions, these "issues" are
utterly irrelevant to the American people, and even President Trump, if he
is still capable of rational thought, must   recognize this, as most
Americans now do.


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DAWN Statement on the U.S.-Iran Agreement on Framework to End Hostilities
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(Washington, D.C., June 15, 2026) =E2=80=93 In response to the announcement=
 of the
U.S. and Iran agreeing
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on an extension to the ceasefire and on a framework for negotiations and
the end of hostilities, DAWN issues the following statement:


=E2=80=9CEnding the war does not retroactively legalize it, nor does it ext=
inguish
the obligation to account for the crimes committed in it. A ceasefire is
not an amnesty,=E2=80=9D said Omar Shakir, DAWN=E2=80=99s Executive Directo=
r. =E2=80=9CIsrael and
the U.S.=E2=80=99 decision to launch this war violated the UN Charter, and =
the way
they waged it violated the laws that govern the conduct of hostilities.
Unless Congress and other states press for accountability, the takeaway
will be that states can wage war whenever and however they choose.=E2=80=9D


=E2=80=9CThe greatest threat to this agreement is neither Iran nor the Unit=
ed
States. It is Israel,=E2=80=9D said Raed Jarrar, DAWN=E2=80=99s Advocacy Di=
rector. =E2=80=9CIsrael
is not a party to the agreement and its government transparently wants a
different outcome. To avoid Israel again upending the ceasefire, President
Trump should state publicly that any Israeli strike or other move to derail
the agreement will be met with a suspension of arms transfers and sanctions
on the Israeli officials who order it.=E2=80=9D


=E2=80=9CThe extension of this ceasefire underscores a reality that diploma=
ts and
nuclear experts have recognized for years: Iran=E2=80=99s nuclear program c=
an only
be addressed through negotiations, not war,=E2=80=9D said Omid Memarian, DA=
WN=E2=80=99s
Senior Iran Analyst. =E2=80=9CWith parties now returning to the negotiating=
 table,
it has to be asked why thousands of people had to die and so much
destruction had to occur before diplomacy was allowed to run its course.
The suffering caused by this war cannot be treated as a footnote to an
agreement that could have been pursued from the outset. Those who chose
military action over diplomacy should be held accountable for the
consequences of that choice. The civilians killed, injured and whose lives
have been shattered deserve justice.=E2=80=9D


Background


The United States and Israel launched their assault on Iran on February 28
without UN Security Council authorization and without a lawful basis in
self-defense under Article 51 of the UN Charter, making the war illegal, as
DAWN documented
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The war also violated U.S. domestic law from the outset: it proceeded witho=
ut
a declaration of war
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a national emergency arising from an attack on the United States, and no
statutory authorization.


Oman, who mediated indirect U.S.-Iran talks before the war, indicated that
the pre-war negotiations were making headway. On February 27, 2026, Omani
Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi told
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CBS News' Face the Nation that "a peace deal is within our reach" if
diplomacy were given "enough room and enough space" to close the remaining
gaps. He
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said
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the parties had achieved "substantial progress," including an Iranian
commitment to zero stockpiling of nuclear material that could be used for a
bomb, conversion of existing enriched material into irreversible fuel, and
full IAEA verification. After the U.S. and Israel launched their assault,
Albusaidi
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said
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he was "dismayed" that "active and serious negotiations" had been
undermined, and later
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wrote
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that the attack came only hours after "the latest and most substantive
talks" and struck against "the peace that had briefly appeared really
possible."


Once the war began, U.S. and Israeli forces committed apparent war crimes
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including strikes on a girls=E2=80=99 elementary school, hospitals, and 30 =
fuel
depots that released toxic compounds falling as black acid rain over
Tehran. The U.S.-Israeli assault has killed
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more than 3,400 people in Iran, including more than 370 children.


The agreement follows
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a fragile, April 8, 2026 ceasefire that was repeatedly violated. Trump said
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on May 23 that a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz was =E2=80=9Clargely
negotiated,=E2=80=9D with a framework
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involving a 60-day ceasefire extension during which the strait reopens,
Iran resumes oil exports, and nuclear negotiations continue separately.
Even as the framework came together, Netanyahu pressed
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Trump to resume strikes on Iran. Israel has also violated
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the U.S.-brokered Lebanon ceasefire
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on an almost daily basis since it was announced in mid-April, and on May
28, 2026, defied a U.S. demand
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not to strike Beirut, reportedly hitting
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an apartment building and killing
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a woman and two children. Israeli forces again struck Beirut on June 7 in
an apparent attempt to sabotage the emerging Iran-U.S. deal, killing at
least two people, which triggered an overnight escalation
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which Israel, Iran and regional actors exchanged fire. Israeli forces have
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land, killing and starving Palestinians and destroying civilian
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=3D"en-US" align=3D"center" style=3D"min-width:100%;width:100%;margin:0px;p=
adding:0px"><div><div><div><div style=3D"text-align:left"><span style=3D"fo=
nt-size:large">=C2=A0FM: John Whitbeck</span></div> <font size=3D"4"><div s=
tyle=3D"text-align:left"><br></div><div style=3D"text-align:left">=C2=A0Tra=
nsmitted below is DAWN&#39;s statement on the announced
            interim agreement for ending the criminal war of aggression
            against Iran.</div>
          </font><div style=3D"text-align:left"><span style=3D"font-size:la=
rge"><br></span></div> <font size=3D"4"><div style=3D"text-align:left">=C2=
=A0Even if Israel does not succeed in preventing this
            agreement from being signed, it is highly likely that, as
            with the Gaza &quot;ceasefire&quot; agreements and &quot;peace&=
quot; plan, the
            contemplated=C2=A0 =C2=A0Phase 2 will not be implemented -- and=
 not
            solely because Israel has no interest in its implementation
            or in any semblance of peace.</div>
          </font><div style=3D"text-align:left"><span style=3D"font-size:la=
rge"><br></span></div> <font size=3D"4"><div style=3D"text-align:left">=C2=
=A0On the &quot;issues&quot; publicly asserted as justifying the
            Israeli/American attack (regime change, Iran&#39;s alleged
            nuclear nuclear &quot;ambitions&quot;, Iran&#39;s missile defen=
se
            capabilities and Iran&#39;s support=C2=A0 =C2=A0for regional al=
lies
            resisting Israeli regional hegemony), as well as Iran&#39;s
            insistence on the release of its frozen assets and an end to
            all sanctions against it, the Iranian government Iran has=C2=A0
            =C2=A0no reason to violate its publicly proclaimed and legally
            justified &quot;red lines&quot; while the current U.S. governme=
nt
            would find it politically excruciating to violate its
            publicly proclaimed and=C2=A0 =C2=A0often illegal and delusiona=
l &quot;red
            lines&quot;.</div>
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rge"><br></span></div> <font size=3D"4"><div style=3D"text-align:left">=C2=
=A0Fortunately, in my view, even in the absence of any future
            &quot;peace&quot; agreement after 60 or more days of negotiatio=
ns, it
            is highly unlikely that President Trump will choose to
            resume this=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0war.</div>
          </font><div style=3D"text-align:left"><span style=3D"font-size:la=
rge"><br></span></div> <font size=3D"4"><div style=3D"text-align:left">=C2=
=A0The reason for my cautious optimism in this regard is a
            simple and basic one: While most Iranians consider these
            outstanding issues to be of existential importance to the
            dignity and=C2=A0 =C2=A0survival of their great civilization an=
d while
            many Israelis consider them important or useful
            (<a href=3D"https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/07/01/the-excuse-=
of-the-iranian-nuclear-threat" target=3D"_blank">https://www.counterpunch.o=
rg/2025/07/01/the-excuse-of-the-iranian-nuclear-threat</a>)
            to=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0their government&#39;s &quot;Greater Isra=
el&quot; ambitions, these
            &quot;issues&quot; are utterly irrelevant to the American peopl=
e, and
            even President Trump, if he is still capable of rational
            thought, must=C2=A0 =C2=A0recognize this, as most Americans now=
 do.</div></font>
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                                                      <p style=3D"text-alig=
n:left;margin:0" align=3D"left"><span style=3D"background-color:transparent=
;font-size:15px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-s=
erif">(Washington,
                                                          D.C., June 15,
                                                          2026) =E2=80=93 I=
n
                                                          response to
                                                          the
                                                          announcement
                                                          of the U.S.
                                                          and Iran </span><=
a href=3D"https://wx5umwhbb.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=3D001Ot-hEDq_u7sOjqqtQCcEGG=
Bqi9PBWSHSIq8ZebE5UeKNUyY2JoZQFzKOU-mUpYlzXVDbZ3-b4AjyS0zcVtitNzpVxSBgKH3MI=
pTEQ3PgkFccuQOptgiXXF3DPtu4Enm2Zxp6QB1l_VTCaT1_plob4gFaE8Bvzjxwg70zoAq38pqz=
hw6kKVF1zZ4TOkOsV_-6U1gHgFilvDVgiEZQa4ViEO0VrZTMIsB7AcqPHTtDozM=3D&amp;c=3D=
adHBUM--Njo52SVzbMe3LLtTaKqEZjmYiOR0v9fSuKw4i2zxuC7sIg=3D=3D&amp;ch=3DZ7Zfb=
AVx2o8msKvRXFpJEqf9abt0dFexSmR8oo-HauS_Fvs7B2vykw=3D=3D" rel=3D"noopener no=
referrer" style=3D"background-color:transparent;font-size:15px;color:rgb(17=
,85,204);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-decoration:und=
erline;font-weight:bold" target=3D"_blank">agreeing</a><span style=3D"backg=
round-color:transparent;font-size:15px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,V=
erdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">
                                                          on an
                                                          extension to
                                                          the ceasefire
                                                          and on a
                                                          framework for
                                                          negotiations
                                                          and the end of
                                                          hostilities,
                                                          DAWN issues
                                                          the following
                                                          statement:</span>=
</p>
                                                      <p style=3D"text-alig=
n:left;margin:0" align=3D"left"><br>
                                                      </p>
                                                      <p style=3D"text-alig=
n:left;margin:0" align=3D"left"><span style=3D"background-color:transparent=
;font-size:15px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-s=
erif">=E2=80=9CEnding
                                                          the war does
                                                          not
                                                          retroactively
                                                          legalize it,
                                                          nor does it
                                                          extinguish the
                                                          obligation to
                                                          account for
                                                          the crimes
                                                          committed in
                                                          it. A
                                                          ceasefire is
                                                          not an
                                                          amnesty,=E2=80=9D=
 said
                                                          Omar Shakir,
                                                          DAWN=E2=80=99s
                                                          Executive
                                                          Director.
                                                          =E2=80=9CIsrael a=
nd
                                                          the U.S.=E2=80=99
                                                          decision to
                                                          launch this
                                                          war violated
                                                          the UN
                                                          Charter, and
                                                          the way they
                                                          waged it
                                                          violated the
                                                          laws that
                                                          govern the
                                                          conduct of
                                                          hostilities.
                                                          Unless
                                                          Congress and
                                                          other states
                                                          press for
                                                          accountability,
                                                          the takeaway
                                                          will be that
                                                          states can
                                                          wage war
                                                          whenever and
                                                          however they
                                                          choose.=E2=80=9D<=
/span></p>
                                                      <p style=3D"text-alig=
n:left;margin:0" align=3D"left"><br>
                                                      </p>
                                                      <p style=3D"text-alig=
n:left;margin:0" align=3D"left"><span style=3D"background-color:transparent=
;font-size:15px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-s=
erif">=E2=80=9CThe
                                                          greatest
                                                          threat to this
                                                          agreement is
                                                          neither Iran
                                                          nor the United
                                                          States. It is
                                                          Israel,=E2=80=9D =
said
                                                          Raed Jarrar,
                                                          DAWN=E2=80=99s
                                                          Advocacy
                                                          Director.
                                                          =E2=80=9CIsrael i=
s not
                                                          a party to the
                                                          agreement and
                                                          its government
                                                          transparently
                                                          wants a
                                                          different
                                                          outcome. To
                                                          avoid Israel
                                                          again upending
                                                          the=C2=A0ceasefir=
e,
                                                          President
                                                          Trump should
                                                          state
                                                          publicly=C2=A0tha=
t
                                                          any Israeli
                                                          strike or
                                                          other move to
                                                          derail the
                                                          agreement=C2=A0wi=
ll
                                                          be met with a
                                                          suspension of
                                                          arms transfers
                                                          and sanctions
                                                          on the Israeli
                                                          officials who
                                                          order it.=E2=80=
=9D</span></p>
                                                      <p style=3D"text-alig=
n:left;margin:0" align=3D"left"><br>
                                                      </p>
                                                      <p style=3D"text-alig=
n:left;margin:0" align=3D"left"><span style=3D"background-color:transparent=
;font-size:15px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-s=
erif">=E2=80=9CThe
                                                          extension of
                                                          this ceasefire
                                                          underscores a
                                                          reality that
                                                          diplomats and
                                                          nuclear
                                                          experts have
                                                          recognized for
                                                          years: Iran=E2=80=
=99s
                                                          nuclear
                                                          program can
                                                          only be
                                                          addressed
                                                          through
                                                          negotiations,
                                                          not war,=E2=80=9D=
 said
                                                          Omid Memarian,
                                                          DAWN=E2=80=99s Se=
nior
                                                          Iran Analyst.
                                                          =E2=80=9CWith par=
ties
                                                          now returning
                                                          to the
                                                          negotiating
                                                          table, it has
                                                          to be asked
                                                          why thousands
                                                          of people had
                                                          to die and so
                                                          much
                                                          destruction
                                                          had to occur
                                                          before
                                                          diplomacy was
                                                          allowed to run
                                                          its course.
                                                          The suffering
                                                          caused by this
                                                          war cannot be
                                                          treated as a
                                                          footnote to an
                                                          agreement that
                                                          could have
                                                          been pursued
                                                          from the
                                                          outset. Those
                                                          who chose
                                                          military
                                                          action over
                                                          diplomacy
                                                          should be held
                                                          accountable
                                                          for the
                                                          consequences
                                                          of that
                                                          choice. The
                                                          civilians
                                                          killed,
                                                          injured and
                                                          whose lives
                                                          have been
                                                          shattered
                                                          deserve
                                                          justice.=E2=80=9D=
</span></p>
                                                      <p style=3D"text-alig=
n:left;margin:0" align=3D"left"><br>
                                                      </p>
                                                      <p style=3D"text-alig=
n:left;margin:0" align=3D"left"><span style=3D"background-color:transparent=
;font-weight:bold;font-size:15px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana=
,Helvetica,sans-serif">Background</span></p>
                                                      <p style=3D"text-alig=
n:left;margin:0" align=3D"left"><br>
                                                      </p>
                                                      <p style=3D"text-alig=
n:left;margin:0" align=3D"left"><span style=3D"background-color:transparent=
;font-size:15px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-s=
erif">The
                                                          United States
                                                          and Israel
                                                          launched their
                                                          assault on
                                                          Iran on
                                                          February 28
                                                          without UN
                                                          Security
                                                          Council
                                                          authorization
                                                          and without a
                                                          lawful basis
                                                          in
                                                          self-defense
                                                          under Article
                                                          51 of the UN
                                                          Charter,
                                                          making the war
                                                          illegal, as
                                                          DAWN </span><a hr=
ef=3D"https://wx5umwhbb.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=3D001Ot-hEDq_u7sOjqqtQCcEGGBqi9=
PBWSHSIq8ZebE5UeKNUyY2JoZQF5xYMTwG3s3Wzm-hOLChfC0N3KS7so6w8azWt4iB49aX_lBYb=
idtXywKWEnIjgr1rjk3gw0BsQwvW254S999MnngdFJGbjboqDzr3mSSHUta1oRv9rpt4pI_YBFP=
vVLiGuA8nCDaiGcHuJFjuZorkCUT20bLhYmUup-aQOMJfHJQVtkyJMSt8WU5Y4n3apumjQ=3D=
=3D&amp;c=3DadHBUM--Njo52SVzbMe3LLtTaKqEZjmYiOR0v9fSuKw4i2zxuC7sIg=3D=3D&am=
p;ch=3DZ7ZfbAVx2o8msKvRXFpJEqf9abt0dFexSmR8oo-HauS_Fvs7B2vykw=3D=3D" rel=3D=
"noopener noreferrer" style=3D"background-color:transparent;font-size:15px;=
color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-de=
coration:underline;font-weight:bold" target=3D"_blank">documented</a><span =
style=3D"background-color:transparent;font-size:15px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-=
family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">.
                                                          The war also
                                                          violated U.S.
                                                          domestic law
                                                          from the
                                                          outset: it
                                                          proceeded </span>=
<a href=3D"https://wx5umwhbb.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=3D001Ot-hEDq_u7sOjqqtQCcEG=
GBqi9PBWSHSIq8ZebE5UeKNUyY2JoZQF5xYMTwG3s3Wzm-hOLChfC0N3KS7so6w8azWt4iB49aX=
_lBYbidtXywKWEnIjgr1rjk3gw0BsQwvW254S999MnngdFJGbjboqDzr3mSSHUta1oRv9rpt4pI=
_YBFPvVLiGuA8nCDaiGcHuJFjuZorkCUT20bLhYmUup-aQOMJfHJQWxSFBiKDPJW575nBHC75xQ=
=3D=3D&amp;c=3DadHBUM--Njo52SVzbMe3LLtTaKqEZjmYiOR0v9fSuKw4i2zxuC7sIg=3D=3D=
&amp;ch=3DZ7ZfbAVx2o8msKvRXFpJEqf9abt0dFexSmR8oo-HauS_Fvs7B2vykw=3D=3D" rel=
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px;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;text=
-decoration:underline;font-weight:bold" target=3D"_blank">without a declara=
tion of war</a><span style=3D"background-color:transparent;font-size:15px;c=
olor:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">,
                                                          a national
                                                          emergency
                                                          arising from
                                                          an attack on
                                                          the United
                                                          States, and no
                                                          statutory
                                                          authorization.</s=
pan></p>
                                                      <p style=3D"text-alig=
n:left;margin:0" align=3D"left"><br>
                                                      </p>
                                                      <p style=3D"text-alig=
n:left;margin:0" align=3D"left"><span style=3D"background-color:transparent=
;font-size:15px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-s=
erif">Oman,
                                                          who mediated
                                                          indirect
                                                          U.S.-Iran
                                                          talks before
                                                          the war,
                                                          indicated that
                                                          the pre-war
                                                          negotiations
                                                          were making
                                                          headway. On
                                                          February 27,
                                                          2026, Omani
                                                          Foreign
                                                          Minister Badr
                                                          Albusaidi </span>=
<a href=3D"https://wx5umwhbb.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=3D001Ot-hEDq_u7sOjqqtQCcEG=
GBqi9PBWSHSIq8ZebE5UeKNUyY2JoZQFzKOU-mUpYlz5k-Dow2P3tQt66xAC-yOPdTiIFv9Lu9h=
TCxc_AQe9Hb9yDZLukhjbOG7QHAcyBuldbtKzJRN5zezpEI_BCKETnUNcXT4qM8jdWgFVMXznph=
xbLlSweONG6EL0hyyFzkZbcG9qwhE87iwWpZFMgrBMlOih187PVwdYjr75KOhkuo=3D&amp;c=
=3DadHBUM--Njo52SVzbMe3LLtTaKqEZjmYiOR0v9fSuKw4i2zxuC7sIg=3D=3D&amp;ch=3DZ7=
ZfbAVx2o8msKvRXFpJEqf9abt0dFexSmR8oo-HauS_Fvs7B2vykw=3D=3D" rel=3D"noopener=
 noreferrer" style=3D"background-color:transparent;font-size:15px;color:rgb=
(17,85,204);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-decoration:=
underline;font-weight:bold" target=3D"_blank">told</a><span style=3D"backgr=
ound-color:transparent;font-size:15px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Ve=
rdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">
                                                          CBS News&#39; Fac=
e
                                                          the Nation
                                                          that &quot;a peac=
e
                                                          deal is within
                                                          our reach&quot; i=
f
                                                          diplomacy were
                                                          given &quot;enoug=
h
                                                          room and
                                                          enough space&quot=
;
                                                          to close the
                                                          remaining
                                                          gaps. He</span><a=
 href=3D"https://wx5umwhbb.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=3D001Ot-hEDq_u7sOjqqtQCcEGGB=
qi9PBWSHSIq8ZebE5UeKNUyY2JoZQF5xYMTwG3s3Ws2dvMvfaBnHp7H9woEl14KubWFb0sK5QPR=
Q-E20eidwUlA2pglPe9Mg5fKQKQpO8f7701u6dGtONJPnWUSHgi1wpfKsaExXLxInsA_BjTXFep=
_6CL_8OS1OXbHHgULPDX54k1GHlfU6js7NewiPvNp7GFSy5nZJEMdBkGEUAVrQ=3D&amp;c=3Da=
dHBUM--Njo52SVzbMe3LLtTaKqEZjmYiOR0v9fSuKw4i2zxuC7sIg=3D=3D&amp;ch=3DZ7ZfbA=
Vx2o8msKvRXFpJEqf9abt0dFexSmR8oo-HauS_Fvs7B2vykw=3D=3D" rel=3D"noopener nor=
eferrer" style=3D"background-color:transparent;font-size:15px;color:rgb(0,0=
,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-weight:bold;text-de=
coration:none" target=3D"_blank"> </a><a href=3D"https://wx5umwhbb.cc.rs6.n=
et/tn.jsp?f=3D001Ot-hEDq_u7sOjqqtQCcEGGBqi9PBWSHSIq8ZebE5UeKNUyY2JoZQF5xYMT=
wG3s3Ws2dvMvfaBnHp7H9woEl14KubWFb0sK5QPRQ-E20eidwUlA2pglPe9Mg5fKQKQpO8f7701=
u6dGtONJPnWUSHgi1wpfKsaExXLxInsA_BjTXFep_6CL_8OS1OXbHHgULPDX54k1GHlfU6js7Ne=
wiPvNmJDWVMnAQutLR64W7hocyo=3D&amp;c=3DadHBUM--Njo52SVzbMe3LLtTaKqEZjmYiOR0=
v9fSuKw4i2zxuC7sIg=3D=3D&amp;ch=3DZ7ZfbAVx2o8msKvRXFpJEqf9abt0dFexSmR8oo-Ha=
uS_Fvs7B2vykw=3D=3D" rel=3D"noopener noreferrer" style=3D"background-color:=
transparent;font-size:15px;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial,Verdana,H=
elvetica,sans-serif;text-decoration:underline;font-weight:bold" target=3D"_=
blank">said</a><span style=3D"background-color:transparent;font-size:15px;c=
olor:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">
                                                          the parties
                                                          had achieved
                                                          &quot;substantial
                                                          progress,&quot;
                                                          including an
                                                          Iranian
                                                          commitment to
                                                          zero
                                                          stockpiling of
                                                          nuclear
                                                          material that
                                                          could be used
                                                          for a bomb,
                                                          conversion of
                                                          existing
                                                          enriched
                                                          material into
                                                          irreversible
                                                          fuel, and full
                                                          IAEA
                                                          verification.
                                                          After the U.S.
                                                          and Israel
                                                          launched their
                                                          assault,
                                                          Albusaidi</span><=
a href=3D"https://wx5umwhbb.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=3D001Ot-hEDq_u7sOjqqtQCcEGG=
Bqi9PBWSHSIq8ZebE5UeKNUyY2JoZQFzKOU-mUpYlzJTqrSNwUEx5IFsRlyUmCnFNR7USCZoCAs=
uVsDWJDtgLm5nQvXa78f_7HwBDawq1BzMUnAJbXaZtdo2HjLy_WFhr58sUNvFgoqbRvOln84Jzu=
aqKBas_RSOZ5hM7seMJzogNMVwvYkE7rpAfkKmL8ADiafRhKUGUE1-v13x9qBeYP26vSwwNOXA=
=3D=3D&amp;c=3DadHBUM--Njo52SVzbMe3LLtTaKqEZjmYiOR0v9fSuKw4i2zxuC7sIg=3D=3D=
&amp;ch=3DZ7ZfbAVx2o8msKvRXFpJEqf9abt0dFexSmR8oo-HauS_Fvs7B2vykw=3D=3D" rel=
=3D"noopener noreferrer" style=3D"background-color:transparent;font-size:15=
px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-wei=
ght:bold;text-decoration:none" target=3D"_blank"> </a><a href=3D"https://wx=
5umwhbb.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=3D001Ot-hEDq_u7sOjqqtQCcEGGBqi9PBWSHSIq8ZebE5Ue=
KNUyY2JoZQFzKOU-mUpYlzJTqrSNwUEx5IFsRlyUmCnFNR7USCZoCAsuVsDWJDtgLm5nQvXa78f=
_7HwBDawq1BzMUnAJbXaZtdo2HjLy_WFhr58sUNvFgoqbRvOln84JzuaqKBas_RSOZ5hM7seMJz=
ogNMVwvYkE7rpAfkKmL8ADiafRhKUGUE1-v13x9qBeaweyI4jJ61qg=3D=3D&amp;c=3DadHBUM=
--Njo52SVzbMe3LLtTaKqEZjmYiOR0v9fSuKw4i2zxuC7sIg=3D=3D&amp;ch=3DZ7ZfbAVx2o8=
msKvRXFpJEqf9abt0dFexSmR8oo-HauS_Fvs7B2vykw=3D=3D" rel=3D"noopener noreferr=
er" style=3D"background-color:transparent;font-size:15px;color:rgb(17,85,20=
4);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-decoration:underline=
;font-weight:bold" target=3D"_blank">said</a><span style=3D"background-colo=
r:transparent;font-size:15px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Hel=
vetica,sans-serif">
                                                          he was
                                                          &quot;dismayed&qu=
ot;
                                                          that &quot;active
                                                          and serious
                                                          negotiations&quot=
;
                                                          had been
                                                          undermined,
                                                          and later</span><=
a href=3D"https://wx5umwhbb.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=3D001Ot-hEDq_u7sOjqqtQCcEGG=
Bqi9PBWSHSIq8ZebE5UeKNUyY2JoZQFzKOU-mUpYlzxVSftE3PDOB0kESXwqLvnUaxtyHmDNeV5=
S_cRZuGpYGo0AwawHUyt639TAKzIbdZiYn0oxAIktBuRquEOVKaVsfiiys2j_9TIrDwmeinXnU-=
wZJ5wq6wVFiTqdAsTVnO&amp;c=3DadHBUM--Njo52SVzbMe3LLtTaKqEZjmYiOR0v9fSuKw4i2=
zxuC7sIg=3D=3D&amp;ch=3DZ7ZfbAVx2o8msKvRXFpJEqf9abt0dFexSmR8oo-HauS_Fvs7B2v=
ykw=3D=3D" rel=3D"noopener noreferrer" style=3D"background-color:transparen=
t;font-size:15px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-=
serif;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none" target=3D"_blank"> </a><a href=
=3D"https://wx5umwhbb.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=3D001Ot-hEDq_u7sOjqqtQCcEGGBqi9PB=
WSHSIq8ZebE5UeKNUyY2JoZQFzKOU-mUpYlzxVSftE3PDOB0kESXwqLvnUaxtyHmDNeV5S_cRZu=
GpYGo0AwawHUyt639TAKzIbdZiYn0oxAIktBuRquEOVKaVsfiiys2j_9TIrDwmeinXnUUvAtxdu=
N9tWdXRaSwOnxY&amp;c=3DadHBUM--Njo52SVzbMe3LLtTaKqEZjmYiOR0v9fSuKw4i2zxuC7s=
Ig=3D=3D&amp;ch=3DZ7ZfbAVx2o8msKvRXFpJEqf9abt0dFexSmR8oo-HauS_Fvs7B2vykw=3D=
=3D" rel=3D"noopener noreferrer" style=3D"background-color:transparent;font=
-size:15px;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-se=
rif;text-decoration:underline;font-weight:bold" target=3D"_blank">wrote</a>=
<span style=3D"background-color:transparent;font-size:15px;color:rgb(0,0,0)=
;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">
                                                          that the
                                                          attack came
                                                          only hours
                                                          after &quot;the
                                                          latest and
                                                          most
                                                          substantive
                                                          talks&quot; and
                                                          struck against
                                                          &quot;the peace
                                                          that had
                                                          briefly
                                                          appeared
                                                          really
                                                          possible.&quot;</=
span></p>
                                                      <p style=3D"text-alig=
n:left;margin:0" align=3D"left"><br>
                                                      </p>
                                                      <p style=3D"text-alig=
n:left;margin:0" align=3D"left"><span style=3D"background-color:transparent=
;font-size:15px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-s=
erif">Once
                                                          the war began,
                                                          U.S. and
                                                          Israeli forces
                                                          committed </span>=
<a href=3D"https://wx5umwhbb.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=3D001Ot-hEDq_u7sOjqqtQCcEG=
GBqi9PBWSHSIq8ZebE5UeKNUyY2JoZQF0zOiIP183X21X5mRT7QajCoU4Py8i0sQPcya-SFc1hp=
gOjtJ8z3Z0kmEkTyCL57SfmT03Jp7o2p3kH1J1_cHHlmTjQCS1JSOzaSqi-uRHI1uQvGK_4wYD2=
D74YgPyC4aydh6LXIEwO_w3wWueQ0ggI93c0znYBbrK9dPGez0YXoXVsgAdiuMe3g9fbTjH2xHA=
=3D=3D&amp;c=3DadHBUM--Njo52SVzbMe3LLtTaKqEZjmYiOR0v9fSuKw4i2zxuC7sIg=3D=3D=
&amp;ch=3DZ7ZfbAVx2o8msKvRXFpJEqf9abt0dFexSmR8oo-HauS_Fvs7B2vykw=3D=3D" rel=
=3D"noopener noreferrer" style=3D"background-color:transparent;font-size:15=
px;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;text=
-decoration:underline;font-weight:bold" target=3D"_blank">apparent war crim=
es</a><span style=3D"background-color:transparent;font-size:15px;color:rgb(=
0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">,
                                                          including
                                                          strikes on a
                                                          girls=E2=80=99
                                                          elementary
                                                          school,
                                                          hospitals, and
                                                          30 fuel depots
                                                          that released
                                                          toxic
                                                          compounds
                                                          falling as
                                                          black acid
                                                          rain over
                                                          Tehran. The
                                                          U.S.-Israeli
                                                          assault has </spa=
n><a href=3D"https://wx5umwhbb.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=3D001Ot-hEDq_u7sOjqqtQCc=
EGGBqi9PBWSHSIq8ZebE5UeKNUyY2JoZQFzKOU-mUpYlz5I4q06ikjYBrAbMKceZbT5X8CvBrfn=
p_yyrH8BvmXgLxWIgImlSxHCWshEYoV1rIrZtgt9vkpV3MUR7SMVsKhWbxMF-cUEY7MuR3Z7PFu=
vQ3jZs8uHF9NBLeDqLKX7FjGVtwqWb5HCFc7htXOEDzzbcOYxekcbasyRsiY3fqtL0MN1yQX6d5=
MMfGiRbatoQHhA2S__KKC_I=3D&amp;c=3DadHBUM--Njo52SVzbMe3LLtTaKqEZjmYiOR0v9fS=
uKw4i2zxuC7sIg=3D=3D&amp;ch=3DZ7ZfbAVx2o8msKvRXFpJEqf9abt0dFexSmR8oo-HauS_F=
vs7B2vykw=3D=3D" rel=3D"noopener noreferrer" style=3D"background-color:tran=
sparent;font-size:15px;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helve=
tica,sans-serif;text-decoration:underline;font-weight:bold" target=3D"_blan=
k">killed</a><span style=3D"background-color:transparent;font-size:15px;col=
or:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">
                                                          more than
                                                          3,400 people
                                                          in Iran,
                                                          including more
                                                          than 370
                                                          children.</span><=
/p>
                                                      <p style=3D"text-alig=
n:left;margin:0" align=3D"left"><br>
                                                      </p>
                                                      <p style=3D"text-alig=
n:left;margin:0" align=3D"left"><span style=3D"background-color:transparent=
;font-size:15px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-s=
erif">The
                                                          agreement </span>=
<a href=3D"https://wx5umwhbb.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=3D001Ot-hEDq_u7sOjqqtQCcEG=
GBqi9PBWSHSIq8ZebE5UeKNUyY2JoZQFzKOU-mUpYlztMrZchD-Wf6Nnc1oXIBaBRqK76gkdblP=
YHu-_SJ84V0ZoWzA7TOgdasMDX6Kl6p0I95iLf9vvLMSOgJwjb3rGFbLoQy-dCFwHydHmjkSuE0=
7XgZ15IMKurA0PGadhmw5vUtit5PjTpdu0nuIZ3fyU73NwCh_Ts0_FZsrmj8-jbStuPTWDf-2sm=
ISlU_1uygv8K9Owd6kfok=3D&amp;c=3DadHBUM--Njo52SVzbMe3LLtTaKqEZjmYiOR0v9fSuK=
w4i2zxuC7sIg=3D=3D&amp;ch=3DZ7ZfbAVx2o8msKvRXFpJEqf9abt0dFexSmR8oo-HauS_Fvs=
7B2vykw=3D=3D" rel=3D"noopener noreferrer" style=3D"background-color:transp=
arent;font-size:15px;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helveti=
ca,sans-serif;text-decoration:underline;font-weight:bold" target=3D"_blank"=
>follows</a><span style=3D"background-color:transparent;font-size:15px;colo=
r:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">
                                                          a fragile,
                                                          April 8, 2026
                                                          ceasefire that
                                                          was repeatedly
                                                          violated.
                                                          Trump </span><a h=
ref=3D"https://wx5umwhbb.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=3D001Ot-hEDq_u7sOjqqtQCcEGGBqi=
9PBWSHSIq8ZebE5UeKNUyY2JoZQFzKOU-mUpYlziMauExe-6xJ1oSMsgUlIo8xNYu7lmJ4qvZbW=
xkfb7DVn1IPx9Z7mhaLfOPAogJD7vNaO3zwEjCjGcNl7UCzW4gxY-Xy2MCk1rFS5Vf3RSm6yegT=
_obk-ysI78UBq6YRF_7QxHM3bvvzDsC95M5U1r41NGuvKf4pRXN7H2ulNymVT4oUlwkOCHg=3D=
=3D&amp;c=3DadHBUM--Njo52SVzbMe3LLtTaKqEZjmYiOR0v9fSuKw4i2zxuC7sIg=3D=3D&am=
p;ch=3DZ7ZfbAVx2o8msKvRXFpJEqf9abt0dFexSmR8oo-HauS_Fvs7B2vykw=3D=3D" rel=3D=
"noopener noreferrer" style=3D"background-color:transparent;font-size:15px;=
color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-de=
coration:underline;font-weight:bold" target=3D"_blank">said</a><span style=
=3D"background-color:transparent;font-size:15px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-famil=
y:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">
                                                          on May 23 that
                                                          a deal to
                                                          reopen the
                                                          Strait of
                                                          Hormuz was
                                                          =E2=80=9Clargely
                                                          negotiated,=E2=80=
=9D
                                                          with a </span><a =
href=3D"https://wx5umwhbb.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=3D001Ot-hEDq_u7sOjqqtQCcEGGBq=
i9PBWSHSIq8ZebE5UeKNUyY2JoZQFzKOU-mUpYlzxZ9dJi1AeWtwe_u0dOXMO3guPP5BE-hS3yE=
i0hrcO9p9YNicYCq30yWDMVGwFz8pJhNNyaKh5YU4ywA7OTTOOcxOu_KcVdc7T4nySx6qFubG9V=
H9ziBYCEhH8oY4aeQFKY-XQNHWaNP9cPLLW97vBbZF5narXGrD&amp;c=3DadHBUM--Njo52SVz=
bMe3LLtTaKqEZjmYiOR0v9fSuKw4i2zxuC7sIg=3D=3D&amp;ch=3DZ7ZfbAVx2o8msKvRXFpJE=
qf9abt0dFexSmR8oo-HauS_Fvs7B2vykw=3D=3D" rel=3D"noopener noreferrer" style=
=3D"background-color:transparent;font-size:15px;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-f=
amily:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-decoration:underline;font-wei=
ght:bold" target=3D"_blank">framework</a><span style=3D"background-color:tr=
ansparent;font-size:15px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helveti=
ca,sans-serif">
                                                          involving a
                                                          60-day
                                                          ceasefire
                                                          extension
                                                          during which
                                                          the strait
                                                          reopens, Iran
                                                          resumes oil
                                                          exports, and
                                                          nuclear
                                                          negotiations
                                                          continue
                                                          separately.
                                                          Even as the
                                                          framework came
                                                          together,
                                                          Netanyahu </span>=
<a href=3D"https://wx5umwhbb.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=3D001Ot-hEDq_u7sOjqqtQCcEG=
GBqi9PBWSHSIq8ZebE5UeKNUyY2JoZQFzKOU-mUpYlz-_ugIWrVocvnX1rsyd6DlV_r45m_aLXm=
BSvFeLSSQAumVTDXY-fbXAuvfFUQf_6X6XGCHH54SITt4JOrE8TEAa7mhj7UHeMLnTy86pNUizx=
MsCWYXjhiJXJdLAxUcKh6HQqUMq8hgIFJUVs9D-v32ARq6YygnL-5&amp;c=3DadHBUM--Njo52=
SVzbMe3LLtTaKqEZjmYiOR0v9fSuKw4i2zxuC7sIg=3D=3D&amp;ch=3DZ7ZfbAVx2o8msKvRXF=
pJEqf9abt0dFexSmR8oo-HauS_Fvs7B2vykw=3D=3D" rel=3D"noopener noreferrer" sty=
le=3D"background-color:transparent;font-size:15px;color:rgb(17,85,204);font=
-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-decoration:underline;font-w=
eight:bold" target=3D"_blank">pressed</a><span style=3D"background-color:tr=
ansparent;font-size:15px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helveti=
ca,sans-serif">
                                                          Trump to
                                                          resume strikes
                                                          on Iran.
                                                          Israel has
                                                          also </span><a hr=
ef=3D"https://wx5umwhbb.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=3D001Ot-hEDq_u7sOjqqtQCcEGGBqi9=
PBWSHSIq8ZebE5UeKNUyY2JoZQFzKOU-mUpYlzN1MfaihWyNwxFHIZcIvPnooaP5CpCL-iQZnUt=
kB4euJw1klutJJro0r7KS0TKvlUWkheNmJU0vGqSP5Wb_2zec9U6y_Tv4e4KDQPzvw5ddyz0U6S=
gPV5W_9ViJjwvxKa&amp;c=3DadHBUM--Njo52SVzbMe3LLtTaKqEZjmYiOR0v9fSuKw4i2zxuC=
7sIg=3D=3D&amp;ch=3DZ7ZfbAVx2o8msKvRXFpJEqf9abt0dFexSmR8oo-HauS_Fvs7B2vykw=
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0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">
                                                          the
                                                          U.S.-brokered
                                                          Lebanon </span><a=
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n style=3D"background-color:transparent;font-size:15px;color:rgb(0,0,0);fon=
t-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">
                                                          on an almost
                                                          daily basis
                                                          since it was
                                                          announced in
                                                          mid-April, and
                                                          on May 28,
                                                          2026, defied a
                                                          U.S. </span><a hr=
ef=3D"https://wx5umwhbb.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=3D001Ot-hEDq_u7sOjqqtQCcEGGBqi9=
PBWSHSIq8ZebE5UeKNUyY2JoZQFzKOU-mUpYlzbZhkyd6EdNSRPB2zd3EsUzlfqng5_UspcFU6l=
xaNTyMaAp1tTQ5XmhNCPHFKt0j4RGj5q8Cw3h4HAWFWST9zTwh1OIOUvKNm42D5gajpAtES2Ky2=
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rif;text-decoration:underline;font-weight:bold" target=3D"_blank">demand</a=
><span style=3D"background-color:transparent;font-size:15px;color:rgb(0,0,0=
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                                                          not to strike
                                                          Beirut,
                                                          reportedly </span=
><a href=3D"https://wx5umwhbb.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=3D001Ot-hEDq_u7sOjqqtQCcE=
GGBqi9PBWSHSIq8ZebE5UeKNUyY2JoZQFzKOU-mUpYlzHvP2-SKCywqZk_vLQKuFbbxMxt479DG=
Ph1lv5g3pLFUDP8W53Xl2bPGUJ4v0chcxVnn2d3DexenKKVK8HaGzmWg7cbZ9Ob9EJGpG0VCmfn=
xgXfWUHG2dhK9nbtBzArTAJB1BPxycovsjkVxvdipg3hAgnomMJi9MdtxYh6V6lwtdhADHILQIC=
OpsBNSijS-MD68-lI9hd_rw5hcKn5LMFQ=3D=3D&amp;c=3DadHBUM--Njo52SVzbMe3LLtTaKq=
EZjmYiOR0v9fSuKw4i2zxuC7sIg=3D=3D&amp;ch=3DZ7ZfbAVx2o8msKvRXFpJEqf9abt0dFex=
SmR8oo-HauS_Fvs7B2vykw=3D=3D" rel=3D"noopener noreferrer" style=3D"backgrou=
nd-color:transparent;font-size:15px;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial,=
Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-decoration:underline;font-weight:bold" ta=
rget=3D"_blank">hitting</a><span style=3D"background-color:transparent;font=
-size:15px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif"=
>
                                                          an apartment
                                                          building and </sp=
an><a href=3D"https://wx5umwhbb.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=3D001Ot-hEDq_u7sOjqqtQC=
cEGGBqi9PBWSHSIq8ZebE5UeKNUyY2JoZQFzKOU-mUpYlzynwkLaqhqO-RhhEzlEA6N1SeMJmXd=
LB3uWFBkIXQefB0JnH7qffSeBozPxqrPSJsooP9b1Jw2Lkl9dTqUg35DGME5Uwrkr3AhuZBlm9L=
7tDEjH3x6dQWyvf9dso_n39I8wZcfdntbhAvLFZgU57sDco6EX9dg3FIHK99blp168UPaNqI0jI=
0yTRKuUscanFMGtgQUxc-fRNh4ID37781HJ-osFjJ8ULH&amp;c=3DadHBUM--Njo52SVzbMe3L=
LtTaKqEZjmYiOR0v9fSuKw4i2zxuC7sIg=3D=3D&amp;ch=3DZ7ZfbAVx2o8msKvRXFpJEqf9ab=
t0dFexSmR8oo-HauS_Fvs7B2vykw=3D=3D" rel=3D"noopener noreferrer" style=3D"ba=
ckground-color:transparent;font-size:15px;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:=
Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-decoration:underline;font-weight:bo=
ld" target=3D"_blank">killing</a><span style=3D"background-color:transparen=
t;font-size:15px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-=
serif">
                                                          a woman and
                                                          two children.
                                                          Israeli forces
                                                          again struck
                                                          Beirut on June
                                                          7 in an
                                                          apparent
                                                          attempt to
                                                          sabotage the
                                                          emerging
                                                          Iran-U.S.
                                                          deal, killing
                                                          at least two
                                                          people, which
                                                          triggered an </sp=
an><a href=3D"https://wx5umwhbb.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=3D001Ot-hEDq_u7sOjqqtQC=
cEGGBqi9PBWSHSIq8ZebE5UeKNUyY2JoZQF531_oA4j0KE46CApbwDaiuXVShZQVBLUtiJWd0Ya=
xiMwC8bCbBymcEbWVLyet8KedRNYz9Z9_7AilKsfvpNN_hwyhc4VyFwzkeUs7YHIcrn2ZaaIwRm=
0tQ-K5AiLICgMGZF5KYaYHuuvXhGCeaUMXtLvpv9NH7Jom4murjqohN3WLt4m-i_F2oVnlGHeVQ=
PqQ=3D=3D&amp;c=3DadHBUM--Njo52SVzbMe3LLtTaKqEZjmYiOR0v9fSuKw4i2zxuC7sIg=3D=
=3D&amp;ch=3DZ7ZfbAVx2o8msKvRXFpJEqf9abt0dFexSmR8oo-HauS_Fvs7B2vykw=3D=3D" =
rel=3D"noopener noreferrer" style=3D"background-color:transparent;font-size=
:15px;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;t=
ext-decoration:underline;font-weight:bold" target=3D"_blank">overnight esca=
lation </a><span style=3D"background-color:transparent;font-size:15px;color=
:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">in
                                                          which Israel,
                                                          Iran and
                                                          regional
                                                          actors
                                                          exchanged
                                                          fire. Israeli
                                                          forces have
                                                          also </span><a hr=
ef=3D"https://wx5umwhbb.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=3D001Ot-hEDq_u7sOjqqtQCcEGGBqi9=
PBWSHSIq8ZebE5UeKNUyY2JoZQFzKOU-mUpYlzH891tNnKad-jisgVTjEIup3vDFUmYA-qLjirH=
jeLJPQLdLTgNUsyag_l7i81Ss3HN51aepKfV593ztybTpFFnEpn8TJd4DDlRvE5kbqsgFvk4sAi=
OdmTDj4TApfK8JdJnoo383eDWKDUIW0gnsq5MSII7knjHMj1VO0WwQIefyg_mwNrHMISVG45uEv=
KOCUH&amp;c=3DadHBUM--Njo52SVzbMe3LLtTaKqEZjmYiOR0v9fSuKw4i2zxuC7sIg=3D=3D&=
amp;ch=3DZ7ZfbAVx2o8msKvRXFpJEqf9abt0dFexSmR8oo-HauS_Fvs7B2vykw=3D=3D" rel=
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px;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;text=
-decoration:underline;font-weight:bold" target=3D"_blank">continued taking =
over</a><span style=3D"background-color:transparent;font-size:15px;color:rg=
b(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">
                                                          land, killing
                                                          and starving
                                                          Palestinians
                                                          and destroying
                                                          civilian
                                                          infrastructure
                                                          in Gaza
                                                          despite an
                                                          October 2025
                                                          =E2=80=9Cceasefir=
e=E2=80=9D
                                                          agreement.=C2=A0<=
/span>=EF=BB=BF<span><br>
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=BB=BF<span><br>
                                                        </span>=EF=BB=BF<sp=
an style=3D"font-size:14px;font-style:italic">Read the statement on
                                                          DAWN&#39;s
                                                          website: </span><=
a href=3D"https://wx5umwhbb.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=3D001Ot-hEDq_u7sOjqqtQCcEGG=
Bqi9PBWSHSIq8ZebE5UeKNUyY2JoZQFzKOU-mUpYlzHxefVkRVadhZrP2U2l3lHP0_q1V97YSRk=
lvn9lPT4Am-CrYvUkoJVQy3ivSMDvcZIIhrpgUH8-OwkXNiq2j5GyytYD8zs4KCV-1eI8fIUNUQ=
VYYha9fOpasi2azhmuyGwa3lRCFHISW0F1WSwo3lBhi5r61O6pCbdkPKQuUP_tngYhLB02fc-g7=
fUMZfb9al&amp;c=3DadHBUM--Njo52SVzbMe3LLtTaKqEZjmYiOR0v9fSuKw4i2zxuC7sIg=3D=
=3D&amp;ch=3DZ7ZfbAVx2o8msKvRXFpJEqf9abt0dFexSmR8oo-HauS_Fvs7B2vykw=3D=3D" =
rel=3D"noopener noreferrer" style=3D"font-size:14px;color:#064a96;font-weig=
ht:bold;text-decoration:none" target=3D"_blank">https://dawnmena.org/dawn-s=
tatement-on-the-u-s-iran-agreement-on-framework-to-end-hostilities/</a></p>
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*https://www.juancole.com/2026/06/netanyahu-collapse-western.html
<https://www.juancole.com/2026/06/netanyahu-collapse-western.html>*

New Threat to Netanyahu: The Collapse of Western Support

*Paul Rogers <https://www.juancole.com/author/paul-rogers> 06/14/2026*

*( OpenDemocracy.net
<https://www.opendemocracy.net/netanyahu-new-threat-collapse-support-united=
-states-israel-iran-gaza/>)
In a further fracturing of the very shaky ceasefire between Iran and the
United States, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) this week shot
down a US Army Apache attack helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz.*

*At any other time, the US would have seen this as an unacceptable act of
war requiring a very strong reaction. But where Donald Trump=E2=80=99s
unpredictable social media output would usually have breathed hellfire and
damnation, this time it talked a proportionate response.*

*It seemed a welcome sign that Trump=E2=80=99s advisers, and maybe even the
president himself, are having to accept that this war will not be won by
bombs, missiles and drones, and will have to end in compromise.   *

*As domestic support for the war is ebbing away in the US, the mood in
Washington is changing. Opposition to the war is growing, while support for
Israel and its prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, is dwindling. *

*A week ago, this was all reasonably obvious
<https://www.opendemocracy.net/two-ceasefires-no-peace-the-middle-easts-dan=
gerous-pause/>,
but the past few days have given a sharp indication of how difficult it
will be to move to negotiated settlements in the double conflicts involving
Israel and Lebanon, and the US and Iran.*

*The recent sequence of events started with a warning from the IRGC
leadership in Tehran: Israel=E2=80=99s continued bombing of Lebanese towns =
and
cities, including the widespread targeting of health facilities, violated
the temporary ceasefire and must stop. Instead, Netanyahu ordered more
attacks, including on the Lebanese port city of Tyre, which has been
subject to around 30 direct air raids
<https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/10/satellite-images-show-israels-des=
truction-of-historical-city-of-tyre?ref=3Dopendemocracy.net>
by
the IDF in the past three months.  *

*As well as healthcare facilities, the IDF attacks have also been aimed at
critical urban infrastructure, such as power and communications lines,
water treatment plants and sewage treatment systems. The New York Times
<https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/world/middleeast/white-phosphorous-isra=
el-lebanon.html?ref=3Dopendemocracy.net>
even
reports the probable use by the Israelis of white phosphorus, an incendiary
substance that spontaneously ignites on contact with air and is
exceptionally difficult to extinguish.*

*The IDF is also continuing its practice of ordering mass evacuations of
both urban populations and rural communities.*

*Yet despite the extent of the force it is using, the IDF has failed to
destroy Hezbollah. There is little sign of that changing; consider that the
IDF is still unable to control Hamas in Gaza despite having destroyed so
many urban areas. *

*Meanwhile, Netanyahu has made it abundantly clear that Israel is stepping
up its plans to annex the great majority of Gaza. Over 50% of the land,
including most of the area previously used for intensive horticulture, has
been taken over by Israel. That is now increasing to 70% of Gaza, with yet
more Palestinians being forced into overcrowded camps.*

*Taken alongside the increasing number of illegal settlements as well as
Jewish settler violence in the Occupied West Bank, and the move to control
substantial parts of southern Lebanon, the immediate prospects for a
peaceful outcome are minimal.  *

*A remarkable indicator of this is that, as settler violence against
Palestinians continues, Amnesty International reports on
<https://www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/uk-amnesty-condemns-great-israeli-real-e=
state-event-promoting-illegal-settlement-property-sales-in-london/?ref=3Dop=
endemocracy.net>
a
=E2=80=9CGreat Israeli Real Estate Event=E2=80=9D scheduled to take place i=
n London this
weekend, in which land in illegal settlements will be marketed to the
Israeli diaspora in the UK.  *

*Two substantial issues remain. The first has been glaringly obvious for
over 30 months: Israel is radicalising many thousands of young Palestinians
to resist the IDF, even to the extent of sacrificing their lives. That
alone means Netanyahu and his government are engaged in an unwinnable war. =
*

*Then there is the second issue: overseas opposition to Israel is growing
in some unexpected quarters. Germany is historically reluctant to criticise
Israel in public, yet a pro-Palestinian wave of support
<https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/9/historic-wave-of-palestinian-solid=
arity-grows-at-universities-in-germany?ref=3Dopendemocracy.net>
has
been seen in universities across the country. *

*In Britain, Labour MP Melanie Ward has brought attention to UK charities
that she says have given at least =C2=A328m illegal Jewish settlements
<https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jun/10/charities-in-england-and-w=
ales-donate-millions-to-israeli-settlements?ref=3Dopendemocracy.net>
across
the occupied West Bank. Foreign secretary Yvette Cooper has responded by
announcing that the Charity Commission will investigate the organisations=
=E2=80=99
links to the settlements and whether they can retain their charity status.*

*This comes in the week that the Foreign Office announced
<https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-and-allies-sanction-%20networks-enab=
ling-settler-violence-in-the-west-bank?ref=3Dopendemocracy.net>
plans
for the UK to bring =E2=80=9Ctogether Australia, Canada, France, New Zealan=
d and
Norway to deliver coordinated sanctions against networks financing and
enabling settler attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank, and firmly
advises British businesses against activity in illegal Israeli
settlements.=E2=80=9D*

*Benjamin Netanyahu. [State Department Photo/Public Domain]. Via Picryl
<https://picryl.com/media/benjamin-netanyahu-november-2015-425746>. *

*Despite the Labour government=E2=80=99s antagonism to pro-Palestinian
activists, The Guardian
<https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/12/pro-palestine-activists-b=
elieve-sea-change-labour-approach-middle-east-israel?ref=3Dopendemocracy.ne=
t>reports
that some activists believe there is a =E2=80=9Csea-change=E2=80=9D underwa=
y in government
circles, aided by the strongly pro-Palestinian stance of leading Green
Party politicians, including leader Zac Polanski. *

*Successive Israeli governments have spent decades cultivating support
through well-funded lobbies in these two key European states. That support
is fraying, but what is far more significant is the shift in attitudes in
the US. A trenchant piece in the influential Wall Street Journal
<https://www.wsj.com/opinion/netanyahu-has-lost-middle-america-ee4fb407?ref=
=3Dopendemocracy.net>,
entitled =E2=80=98Netanyahu has lost Middle America=E2=80=99, concludes tha=
t whatever
happens in the Gaza conflict, the loss of public US support =E2=80=9Chas be=
en
catastrophic and won=E2=80=99t be reversed quickly.=E2=80=9D  *

*That conclusion, in that journal, may turn out to be the most significant
development in a singularly chaotic week.*

*Via OpenDemocracy.net
<https://www.opendemocracy.net/netanyahu-new-threat-collapse-support-united=
-states-israel-iran-gaza/>*

*This article is published under a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence.
<https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode.en>*

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:100%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"><b><font color=3D"#000000">(=
<a href=3D"https://www.opendemocracy.net/netanyahu-new-threat-collapse-supp=
ort-united-states-israel-iran-gaza/" style=3D"text-decoration:none;max-widt=
h:100%" target=3D"_blank"><span>=C2=A0</span>OpenDemocracy.net<span>=C2=A0<=
/span></a>) In a further fracturing of the very shaky ceasefire between Ira=
n and the United States, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) this =
week shot down a US Army Apache attack helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz=
.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roma=
n&quot;"><b><font color=3D"#000000">At any other time, the US would have se=
en this as an unacceptable act of war requiring a very strong reaction. But=
 where Donald Trump=E2=80=99s unpredictable social media output would usual=
ly have breathed hellfire and damnation, this time it talked a proportionat=
e response.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;font-family:&quot;Time=
s New Roman&quot;"><b><font color=3D"#000000">It seemed a welcome sign that=
 Trump=E2=80=99s advisers, and maybe even the president himself, are having=
 to accept that this war will not be won by bombs, missiles and drones, and=
 will have to end in compromise.=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0</font></b></p><p style=
=3D"max-width:100%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"><b><font color=
=3D"#000000">As domestic support for the war is ebbing away in the US, the =
mood in Washington is changing. Opposition to the war is growing, while sup=
port for Israel and its prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, is dwindling.=
=C2=A0</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;font-family:&quot;Times New=
 Roman&quot;"><b><font color=3D"#000000">A week ago, this was<span>=C2=A0</=
span><a href=3D"https://www.opendemocracy.net/two-ceasefires-no-peace-the-m=
iddle-easts-dangerous-pause/" style=3D"text-decoration:none;max-width:100%"=
 target=3D"_blank"><u style=3D"max-width:100%">all reasonably obvious</u></=
a>, but the past few days have given a sharp indication of how difficult it=
 will be to move to negotiated settlements in the double conflicts involvin=
g Israel and Lebanon, and the US and Iran.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-wi=
dth:100%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"><b><font color=3D"#000000=
">The recent sequence of events started with a warning from the IRGC leader=
ship in Tehran: Israel=E2=80=99s continued bombing of Lebanese towns and ci=
ties, including the widespread targeting of health facilities, violated the=
 temporary ceasefire and must stop. Instead, Netanyahu ordered more attacks=
, including on the Lebanese port city of Tyre, which has been subject to<sp=
an>=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/10/satelli=
te-images-show-israels-destruction-of-historical-city-of-tyre?ref=3Dopendem=
ocracy.net" style=3D"text-decoration:none;max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank"=
><u style=3D"max-width:100%">around 30 direct air raids</u></a><span>=C2=A0=
</span>by the IDF in the past three months.=C2=A0=C2=A0</font></b></p><p st=
yle=3D"max-width:100%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"><b><font col=
or=3D"#000000">As well as healthcare facilities, the IDF attacks have also =
been aimed at critical urban infrastructure, such as power and communicatio=
ns lines, water treatment plants and sewage treatment systems. The<span>=C2=
=A0</span><a href=3D"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/world/middleeast/wh=
ite-phosphorous-israel-lebanon.html?ref=3Dopendemocracy.net" style=3D"text-=
decoration:none;max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank"><u style=3D"max-width:100=
%">New York Times</u></a><span>=C2=A0</span>even reports the probable use b=
y the Israelis of white phosphorus, an incendiary substance that spontaneou=
sly ignites on contact with air and is exceptionally difficult to extinguis=
h.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;font-family:&quot;Times New Rom=
an&quot;"><b><font color=3D"#000000">The IDF is also continuing its practic=
e of ordering mass evacuations of both urban populations and rural communit=
ies.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;font-family:&quot;Times New R=
oman&quot;"><b><font color=3D"#000000">Yet despite the extent of the force =
it is using, the IDF has failed to destroy Hezbollah. There is little sign =
of that changing; consider that the IDF is still unable to control Hamas in=
 Gaza despite having destroyed so many urban areas.=C2=A0</font></b></p><p =
style=3D"max-width:100%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"><b><font c=
olor=3D"#000000">Meanwhile, Netanyahu has made it abundantly clear that Isr=
ael is stepping up its plans to annex the great majority of Gaza. Over 50% =
of the land, including most of the area previously used for intensive horti=
culture, has been taken over by Israel. That is now increasing to 70% of Ga=
za, with yet more Palestinians being forced into overcrowded camps.</font><=
/b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">=
<b><font color=3D"#000000">Taken alongside the increasing number of illegal=
 settlements as well as Jewish settler violence in the Occupied West Bank, =
and the move to control substantial parts of southern Lebanon, the immediat=
e prospects for a peaceful outcome are minimal.=C2=A0=C2=A0</font></b></p><=
p style=3D"max-width:100%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"><b><font=
 color=3D"#000000">A remarkable indicator of this is that, as settler viole=
nce against Palestinians continues,<span>=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://ww=
w.amnesty.org.uk/latest/uk-amnesty-condemns-great-israeli-real-estate-event=
-promoting-illegal-settlement-property-sales-in-london/?ref=3Dopendemocracy=
.net" style=3D"text-decoration:none;max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank"><u st=
yle=3D"max-width:100%">Amnesty International reports on</u></a><span>=C2=A0=
</span>a =E2=80=9CGreat Israeli Real Estate Event=E2=80=9D scheduled to tak=
e place in London this weekend, in which land in illegal settlements will b=
e marketed to the Israeli diaspora in the UK.=C2=A0=C2=A0</font></b></p><p =
style=3D"max-width:100%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"><b><font c=
olor=3D"#000000">Two substantial issues remain. The first has been glaringl=
y obvious for over 30 months: Israel is radicalising many thousands of youn=
g Palestinians to resist the IDF, even to the extent of sacrificing their l=
ives. That alone means Netanyahu and his government are engaged in an unwin=
nable war.=C2=A0</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;font-family:&quot=
;Times New Roman&quot;"><b><font color=3D"#000000">Then there is the second=
 issue: overseas opposition to Israel is growing in some unexpected quarter=
s. Germany is historically reluctant to criticise Israel in public, yet<spa=
n>=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/9/historic-=
wave-of-palestinian-solidarity-grows-at-universities-in-germany?ref=3Dopend=
emocracy.net" style=3D"text-decoration:none;max-width:100%" target=3D"_blan=
k"><u style=3D"max-width:100%">a pro-Palestinian wave of support</u></a><sp=
an>=C2=A0</span>has been seen in universities across the country.=C2=A0</fo=
nt></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quo=
t;"><b><font color=3D"#000000">In Britain, Labour MP Melanie Ward has broug=
ht attention to UK charities that she says have<span>=C2=A0</span><a href=
=3D"https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jun/10/charities-in-england-an=
d-wales-donate-millions-to-israeli-settlements?ref=3Dopendemocracy.net" sty=
le=3D"text-decoration:none;max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank"><u style=3D"ma=
x-width:100%">given at least =C2=A328m illegal Jewish settlements</u></a><s=
pan>=C2=A0</span>across the occupied West Bank. Foreign secretary Yvette Co=
oper has responded by announcing that the Charity Commission will investiga=
te the organisations=E2=80=99 links to the settlements and whether they can=
 retain their charity status.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;font=
-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"><b><font color=3D"#000000">This comes =
in the week that the<span>=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://www.gov.uk/govern=
ment/news/uk-and-allies-sanction-%20networks-enabling-settler-violence-in-t=
he-west-bank?ref=3Dopendemocracy.net" style=3D"text-decoration:none;max-wid=
th:100%" target=3D"_blank"><u style=3D"max-width:100%">Foreign Office annou=
nced</u></a><span>=C2=A0</span>plans for the UK to bring =E2=80=9Ctogether=
=C2=A0Australia,=C2=A0Canada,=C2=A0France,=C2=A0New Zealand=C2=A0and Norway=
=C2=A0to deliver coordinated sanctions=C2=A0against=C2=A0networks financing=
 and enabling settler attacks against Palestinians in the West=C2=A0Bank, a=
nd firmly advises British=C2=A0businesses against activity in illegal Israe=
li settlements.=E2=80=9D</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;font-fami=
ly:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"><i style=3D"max-width:100%"><small style=3D=
"max-width:100%"><b><font color=3D"#000000">Benjamin Netanyahu. [State Depa=
rtment Photo/Public Domain]. Via<span>=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://picry=
l.com/media/benjamin-netanyahu-november-2015-425746" style=3D"text-decorati=
on:none;max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank">Picryl<span>=C2=A0</span></a>.<sp=
an>=C2=A0</span></font></b></small></i></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;font-=
family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"><b><font color=3D"#000000">Despite the =
Labour government=E2=80=99s antagonism to pro-Palestinian activists,<span>=
=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/12/pr=
o-palestine-activists-believe-sea-change-labour-approach-middle-east-israel=
?ref=3Dopendemocracy.net" style=3D"text-decoration:none;max-width:100%" tar=
get=3D"_blank"><u style=3D"max-width:100%">The Guardian</u></a>reports that=
 some activists believe there is a =E2=80=9Csea-change=E2=80=9D underway in=
 government circles, aided by the strongly pro-Palestinian stance of leadin=
g Green Party politicians, including leader Zac Polanski.=C2=A0</font></b><=
/p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"><b><=
font color=3D"#000000">Successive Israeli governments have spent decades cu=
ltivating support through well-funded lobbies in these two key European sta=
tes. That support is fraying, but what is far more significant is the shift=
 in attitudes in the US.<span>=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://www.wsj.com/o=
pinion/netanyahu-has-lost-middle-america-ee4fb407?ref=3Dopendemocracy.net" =
style=3D"text-decoration:none;max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank"><u style=3D=
"max-width:100%">A trenchant piece in the influential Wall Street Journal</=
u></a>, entitled =E2=80=98Netanyahu has lost Middle America=E2=80=99, concl=
udes that whatever happens in the Gaza conflict, the loss of public US supp=
ort =E2=80=9Chas been catastrophic and won=E2=80=99t be reversed quickly.=
=E2=80=9D=C2=A0=C2=A0</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;font-family:=
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"><b><font color=3D"#000000">That conclusion, in=
 that journal, may turn out to be the most significant development in a sin=
gularly chaotic week.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;font-family:=
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"><b><font color=3D"#000000">Via<span>=C2=A0</sp=
an><a href=3D"https://www.opendemocracy.net/netanyahu-new-threat-collapse-s=
upport-united-states-israel-iran-gaza/" style=3D"text-decoration:none;max-w=
idth:100%" target=3D"_blank">OpenDemocracy.net<span>=C2=A0</span></a></font=
></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;=
"><b><font color=3D"#000000">This article is published under a<span>=C2=A0<=
/span><a href=3D"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode.e=
n" style=3D"text-decoration:none;max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank">Creative=
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*https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260614-israel-wont-withdraw-from-south=
ern-lebanon-under-us-iran-understandings-israeli-media/
<https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260614-israel-wont-withdraw-from-south=
ern-lebanon-under-us-iran-understandings-israeli-media/>*

6/14/26

*Israel won=E2=80=99t withdraw from southern Lebanon under US-Iran understa=
ndings:
Israeli media*
[image: Israeli military vehicles and tanks are stationed in southern
Lebanon, as seen from a vantage point in northern Israel on March 14, 2026.
[Tsafrir Abayov - Anadolu Agency]]

*Israel will not withdraw from the so-called =E2=80=9Csecurity zone=E2=80=
=9D in southern
Lebanon as part of anticipated understandings between the US and Iran,
Israeli security sources said Saturday, Anadolu reports.*

*=E2=80=9CThe security establishment is preparing for possible instructions=
 from
the political leadership to halt the ground offensive in southern Lebanon,
given the emerging agreement between Washington and Tehran,=E2=80=9D the pu=
blic
broadcaster KAN said, citing the sources.*

*According to the sources, Tel Aviv is also preparing to reduce its attacks
deep inside Lebanese territory for fears they could jeopardize the US-Iran
agreement.*

*=E2=80=9CMilitary operations, however, will continue with a greater focus =
in the
south,=E2=80=9D the sources said.*

*=E2=80=9CThe Israeli army will not withdraw from the security zone in sout=
hern
Lebanon,=E2=80=9D they added.*

*The Israeli army has continued a deadly offensive in Lebanon since March
2, killing more than 3,700 people, injuring 11,600 others and displacing
over 1.5 million people, according to Lebanese officials.*

*READ: Israeli army claims to kill several Hezbollah members in Lebanon
strikes
<https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260613-israeli-army-claims-to-kill-sev=
eral-hezbollah-members-in-lebanon-strikes/>*

*The military also advanced more than 10 kilometers (6 miles) into Lebanese
territory, creating what Tel Aviv calls a =E2=80=9Csecurity zone.=E2=80=9D*

*Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to hold a
Security Cabinet meeting on Sunday to discuss the anticipated US-Iran
agreement.*

*According to the daily Yedioth Ahronoth, the meeting will review the
regional implications of the agreement between Washington and Tehran.*

*US President Donald Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform early
Saturday that a deal with Iran is scheduled to be signed on Sunday.*

*Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, whose country has been mediating
between the US and Iran, also said the deal could be finalized in the next
24 hours.*

*Iran, however, said the agreement will not be signed on Sunday, but may be
inked in the coming days.*

*The region has remained on edge since the US and Israel launched
airstrikes on Iran in late February, triggering Iranian retaliation against
Israel and other regional countries hosting US assets, along with the
closure of the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world=E2=80=99s key energy chok=
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=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif"><a href=3D"h=
ttps://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260614-israel-wont-withdraw-from-souther=
n-lebanon-under-us-iran-understandings-israeli-media/" target=3D"_blank">ht=
tps://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260614-israel-wont-withdraw-from-southern=
-lebanon-under-us-iran-understandings-israeli-media/</a></font></b></div><d=
iv dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr"><b><br></b></div><div dir=3D"ltr" class=
=3D"gmail_attr">6/14/26</div><div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div><b><fon=
t face=3D"georgia, serif"><br></font></b></div><div><h1 style=3D"line-heigh=
t:1.2141em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0.5em;max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,2=
7,27)"><font face=3D"georgia, serif" size=3D"4"><i>Israel won=E2=80=99t wit=
hdraw from southern Lebanon under US-Iran understandings: Israeli media</i>=
</font></h1><div style=3D"max-width:100%;margin-bottom:1.15em;line-height:1=
.5em;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.65)"><img src=3D"https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmo=
nitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/AA-20260314-40826688-40826683-MILITARY=
_BUILDUP_IN_NORTHERN_ISRAEL_AMID_ONGOING_STRIKES_ON_LEBANON.jpg?fit=3D920%2=
C613&amp;ssl=3D1" alt=3D"Israeli military vehicles and tanks are stationed =
in southern Lebanon, as seen from a vantage point in northern Israel on Mar=
ch 14, 2026. [Tsafrir Abayov - Anadolu Agency]" style=3D"margin:auto 0px au=
to auto;display:block;clear:both" width=3D"412" height=3D"275"></div><p sty=
le=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">=
Israel will not withdraw from the so-called =E2=80=9Csecurity zone=E2=80=9D=
 in southern Lebanon as part of anticipated understandings between the US a=
nd Iran, Israeli security sources said Saturday,=C2=A0<em style=3D"max-widt=
h:100%">Anadolu reports.</em></font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;colo=
r:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">=E2=80=9CThe security est=
ablishment is preparing for possible instructions from the political leader=
ship to halt the ground offensive in southern Lebanon, given the emerging a=
greement between Washington and Tehran,=E2=80=9D the public broadcaster KAN=
 said, citing the sources.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:r=
gb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">According to the sources, Te=
l Aviv is also preparing to reduce its attacks deep inside Lebanese territo=
ry for fears they could jeopardize the US-Iran agreement.</font></b></p><p =
style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, seri=
f">=E2=80=9CMilitary operations, however, will continue with a greater focu=
s in the south,=E2=80=9D the sources said.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-wi=
dth:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">=E2=80=9CThe=
 Israeli army will not withdraw from the security zone in southern Lebanon,=
=E2=80=9D they added.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27=
,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">The Israeli army has continued a =
deadly offensive in Lebanon since March 2, killing more than 3,700 people, =
injuring 11,600 others and displacing over 1.5 million people, according to=
 Lebanese officials.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,=
27,27)"><strong style=3D"max-width:100%"><font face=3D"georgia, serif">READ=
:=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260613-israeli-army-c=
laims-to-kill-several-hezbollah-members-in-lebanon-strikes/" style=3D"text-=
decoration:none;color:rgb(65,110,210);max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank">Isr=
aeli army claims to kill several Hezbollah members in Lebanon strikes</a></=
font></strong></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font =
face=3D"georgia, serif">The military also advanced more than 10 kilometers =
(6 miles) into Lebanese territory, creating what Tel Aviv calls a =E2=80=9C=
security zone.=E2=80=9D</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(=
27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minist=
er Benjamin Netanyahu is set to hold a Security Cabinet meeting on Sunday t=
o discuss the anticipated US-Iran agreement.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-=
width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">According =
to the daily Yedioth Ahronoth, the meeting will review the regional implica=
tions of the agreement between Washington and Tehran.</font></b></p><p styl=
e=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">U=
S President Donald Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform early Saturday =
that a deal with Iran is scheduled to be signed on Sunday.</font></b></p><p=
 style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, ser=
if">Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, whose country has been mediati=
ng between the US and Iran, also said the deal could be finalized in the ne=
xt 24 hours.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)">=
<b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">Iran, however, said the agreement will not=
 be signed on Sunday, but may be inked in the coming days.</font></b></p><p=
 style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, ser=
if">The region has remained on edge since the US and Israel launched airstr=
ikes on Iran in late February, triggering Iranian retaliation against Israe=
l and other regional countries hosting US assets, along with the closure of=
 the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world=E2=80=99s key energy chokepoints.</=
font></b></p></div></div>
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dath toll in Gaza tops 73,000 as Israel launches strikes despite ceasefire
Palestinian death toll in Gaza tops 73,000 as Israel launches strikes
despite ceasefire
By  WAFAA SHURAFA <https://apnews.com/author/wafaa-shurafa> and SAMY MAGDY
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Updated 11:55 AM EDT, June 14, 2026
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DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) =E2=80=94 The Palestinian death toll from th=
e
Israel-Hamas
war <https://apnews.com/hub/israel-hamas-war> has surpassed 73,000, Gaza=E2=
=80=99s
Health Ministry said Sunday, as Israeli military operations continued
despite a stalled and fragile ceasefire in place since October.

Israel says it is targeting Hamas and other militants who pose a threat,
and in response to ceasefire violations, including occasional attacks.

Nearly 1,000 people have been killed in Gaza since the start of the
ceasefire, according to the health ministry. Five Israeli soldiers have
been killed since the truce.

The number of deaths since the beginning of the war is now 73,001,
according to the health ministry=E2=80=99s tally. Over 173,200 people have =
been
wounded since the start of the war on Oct. 7, 2023, following the Hamas-led
attack into Israel. That attack killed some 1,200 people and took 251
others hostage.

The health ministry, part of the Hamas-led government, is staffed by
medical professionals and maintains detailed records viewed as generally
reliable by United Nations agencies and independent experts. It does not
distinguish between civilians and militants but says women and children
make up around half of all fatalities.

Israel says it tries to avoid harming civilians and blames their deaths on
Hamas because the militants operate in densely populated areas.
[image: A Red Cross convoy arrives to collect Israeli hostages who were
released after a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas took effect,
in Gaza City, Jan. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Abed Hajjar, File)]
<https://apnews.com/world-news/israel-hamas-war-tracking-the-gaza-ceasefire=
>
Tracking the Gaza ceasefire
<https://apnews.com/world-news/israel-hamas-war-tracking-the-gaza-ceasefire=
>
Keeping track of the status of President Donald Trump=E2=80=99s 20-point pl=
an for a
ceasefire that would end Hamas=E2=80=99 rule in Gaza and rebuilding the ter=
ritory
after a devastating war.
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*https://thecradle.co/articles/iran-warns-no-point-in-deal-with-us-if-israe=
l-remains-unrestrained
<https://thecradle.co/articles/iran-warns-no-point-in-deal-with-us-if-israe=
l-remains-unrestrained>*

*Iran warns =E2=80=98no point=E2=80=99 in deal with US if Israel remains un=
restrained*Another
top Iranian official said Washington=E2=80=99s =E2=80=98rabid dog=E2=80=99 =
must be =E2=80=98controlled=E2=80=99
following Israel's latest strike on Beirut

*News Desk  *6/14/26

*Iran=E2=80=99s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf warned in a sta=
tement
on 14 June that there is =E2=80=9Cno point=E2=80=9D in continuing efforts t=
o reach a deal
with Washington if Tel Aviv remains unrestrained, a few hours after a new
Israeli attack on Lebanon=E2=80=99s capital. *

*"The Zionists' aggression against the southern suburb [of Beirut] once
again demonstrated that the US either lacks the will to uphold its
commitments or lacks the ability to do so,=E2=80=9D Ghalibaf said.*

*=E2=80=9CYou cannot gain concessions by giving the [Israeli] regime a gree=
n light.
The 'good cop, bad cop' game has grown old. If you lack the will and the
ability to fulfill your commitments, then there is no point in speaking
about continuing down this path," the parliament speaker added. *

*Meanwhile, Brigadier General Mohammad Jafar Asadi, deputy commander and
deputy inspector of the Iranian military=E2=80=99s Khatam al-Anbiya Central
Headquarters, said Israel's attack on Beirut's southern suburb will not go
unanswered.*

*=E2=80=9CIf you seek an agreement or understanding, you must discipline th=
e
Zionist regime. If this rabid dog is not controlled, it will bite your leg
before the ink is dry on the agreement,=E2=80=9D said
<https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/senior-iranian-mp-after-beiru=
t-strike-rabid-dog-israel-must-be-controlled-if-deal-is-to-be-reached/>Ebra=
him
Rezaei, spokesperson for the Iranian parliament=E2=80=99s Foreign Policy an=
d
National Security Committee.*

*The latest Israeli airstrike
<https://thecradle.co/articles/israel-bombs-beiruts-southern-suburb-after-h=
ezbollah-drones-hit-galilee>on
the Lebanese capital took place earlier on Sunday afternoon. The attack hit
a building in the southern suburb=E2=80=99s Ghobeiry area. *

*According to the Lebanese Civil Defense
<https://www.nna-leb.gov.lb/ar/news/546900/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%81%D8%A7%D=
8%B9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AF%D9%86%D9%8A-%D8%B3%D8%AD%D8%A8-%D8%AC%D8%AB%D=
8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%AB%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AB%D8%A9-%D8%B4%D9%87%D8%AF%D8=
%A7%D8%A1-%D9%88%D9%86%D9%82%D9%84-%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A9-%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8=
%A8%D9%8A%D9%86-%D9%85%D9%86-%D9%85%D9%88%D9%82%D8%B9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8=
%B3%D8%AA%D9%87%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%81-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B6%D8%A7%D8%=
AD%D9%8A%D8%A9-2>,
three people were killed and six others injured.*

*The Israeli army claimed it bombed a =E2=80=9Ccommand center belonging to =
the
Hezbollah terrorist organization in Beirut.=E2=80=9D*

*=E2=80=9CThe targeted command center was being used by Hezbollah operative=
s to
advance terrorist plans against the citizens of the State of Israel,=E2=80=
=9D the
Israeli military added, calling its deadly attack on Beirut a =E2=80=9Cprec=
ise
strike.=E2=80=9D*

*The new attack on Beirut coincides with intensive Pakistani mediation to
secure a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the US and Iran. *

*Among Tehran=E2=80=99s terms is a full ceasefire in Lebanon and an end to =
Israel=E2=80=99s
wars, attacks, and occupation across the region. *

*Following an Israeli attack on Beirut earlier this month, Iran carried out
a ballistic missile
<https://thecradle.co/articles/iran-announces-operation-victory-as-yemen-cl=
oses-bab-al-mandab-strait-to-israeli-shipping>attack
on an Israeli air base and vowed harsher retaliation in response to any new
attacks on the Lebanese capital.*

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div class=3D"gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir=
=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr"><b style=3D"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:geor=
gia,serif"><a href=3D"https://thecradle.co/articles/iran-warns-no-point-in-=
deal-with-us-if-israel-remains-unrestrained" target=3D"_blank">https://thec=
radle.co/articles/iran-warns-no-point-in-deal-with-us-if-israel-remains-unr=
estrained</a></b></div><div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div class=3D"gmai=
l_default"><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif"><b><br></b></fon=
t></div><div class=3D"gmail_default"><h1 style=3D"line-height:1.2141em;marg=
in-top:0px;margin-bottom:0.5em;max-width:100%"><font color=3D"#000000" face=
=3D"georgia, serif" size=3D"4"><i>Iran warns =E2=80=98no point=E2=80=99 in =
deal with US if Israel remains unrestrained</i></font></h1><h2 style=3D"lin=
e-height:1.27275em;max-width:100%"><font color=3D"#000000" size=3D"2" face=
=3D"georgia, serif">Another top Iranian official said Washington=E2=80=99s =
=E2=80=98rabid dog=E2=80=99 must be =E2=80=98controlled=E2=80=99 following =
Israel&#39;s latest strike on Beirut</font></h2><div style=3D"margin-bottom=
:1.45em;max-width:100%"><p style=3D"margin:0px;max-width:100%;display:inlin=
e"><a style=3D"margin:0px;max-width:100%;display:inline"><font color=3D"#00=
0000" face=3D"georgia, serif"><b>News Desk=C2=A0 </b>6/14/26</font></a></p>=
</div><div style=3D"max-width:100%;margin-bottom:1.15em;line-height:1.5em">=
<img src=3D"https://thecradle-main.oss-eu-central-1.aliyuncs.com/public/art=
icles/63aeb8dc-67fd-11f1-9c9d-00163e02c055.webp" alt=3D"" style=3D"margin:a=
uto 0px auto auto;display:block;clear:both" width=3D"412" height=3D"232"></=
div><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, se=
rif"><b>Iran=E2=80=99s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf warned i=
n a statement on 14 June that there is =E2=80=9Cno point=E2=80=9D in contin=
uing efforts to reach a deal with Washington if Tel Aviv remains unrestrain=
ed, a few hours after a new Israeli attack on Lebanon=E2=80=99s capital.=C2=
=A0</b></font></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom=
:0.4em"></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"geo=
rgia, serif"><b>&quot;The Zionists&#39; aggression against the southern sub=
urb [of Beirut] once again demonstrated that the US either lacks the will t=
o uphold its commitments or lacks the ability to do so,=E2=80=9D Ghalibaf s=
aid.</b></font></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><font color=3D"#000000" face=
=3D"georgia, serif"><b>=E2=80=9CYou cannot gain concessions by giving the [=
Israeli] regime a green light. The &#39;good cop, bad cop&#39; game has gro=
wn old. If you lack the will and the ability to fulfill your commitments, t=
hen there is no point in speaking about continuing down this path,&quot; th=
e parliament speaker added.=C2=A0</b></font></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"=
><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif"><b>Meanwhile, Brigadier Ge=
neral Mohammad Jafar Asadi, deputy commander and deputy inspector of the Ir=
anian military=E2=80=99s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, said Israel=
&#39;s attack on Beirut&#39;s southern suburb will not go unanswered.</b></=
font></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgi=
a, serif"><b>=E2=80=9CIf you seek an agreement or understanding, you must d=
iscipline the Zionist regime. If this rabid dog is not controlled, it will =
bite your leg before the ink is dry on the agreement,=E2=80=9D<span>=C2=A0<=
/span><a href=3D"https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/senior-irania=
n-mp-after-beirut-strike-rabid-dog-israel-must-be-controlled-if-deal-is-to-=
be-reached/" style=3D"text-decoration:none;max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank=
">said</a>Ebrahim Rezaei, spokesperson for the Iranian parliament=E2=80=99s=
 Foreign Policy and National Security Committee.</b></font></p><p style=3D"=
max-width:100%"><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif"><b>The late=
st<a href=3D"https://thecradle.co/articles/israel-bombs-beiruts-southern-su=
burb-after-hezbollah-drones-hit-galilee" style=3D"text-decoration:none;max-=
width:100%" target=3D"_blank"><span>=C2=A0</span>Israeli airstrike<span>=C2=
=A0</span></a>on the Lebanese capital took place earlier on Sunday afternoo=
n. The attack hit a building in the southern suburb=E2=80=99s Ghobeiry area=
.=C2=A0</b></font></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;margin-top:0.4em;margin-bo=
ttom:0.4em"></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D=
"georgia, serif"><b>According to the<span>=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://w=
ww.nna-leb.gov.lb/ar/news/546900/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B9-%D8%A=
7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AF%D9%86%D9%8A-%D8%B3%D8%AD%D8%A8-%D8%AC%D8%AB%D8%A7%D9%85=
%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%AB%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AB%D8%A9-%D8%B4%D9%87%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%A1-=
%D9%88%D9%86%D9%82%D9%84-%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A9-%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%8A%=
D9%86-%D9%85%D9%86-%D9%85%D9%88%D9%82%D8%B9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%=
D9%87%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%81-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B6%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%8A%D=
8%A9-2" style=3D"text-decoration:none;max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank">Leb=
anese Civil Defense</a>, three people were killed and six others injured.</=
b></font></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"ge=
orgia, serif"><b>The Israeli army claimed it bombed a =E2=80=9Ccommand cent=
er belonging to the Hezbollah terrorist organization in Beirut.=E2=80=9D</b=
></font></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"geo=
rgia, serif"><b>=E2=80=9CThe targeted command center was being used by Hezb=
ollah operatives to advance terrorist plans against the citizens of the Sta=
te of Israel,=E2=80=9D the Israeli military added, calling its deadly attac=
k on Beirut a =E2=80=9Cprecise strike.=E2=80=9D</b></font></p><p style=3D"m=
ax-width:100%"><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif"><b>The new a=
ttack on Beirut coincides with intensive Pakistani mediation to secure a Me=
morandum of Understanding (MoU) between the US and Iran.=C2=A0</b></font></=
p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, seri=
f"><b>Among Tehran=E2=80=99s terms is a full ceasefire in Lebanon and an en=
d to Israel=E2=80=99s wars, attacks, and occupation across the region.=C2=
=A0</b></font></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><font color=3D"#000000" face=
=3D"georgia, serif"><b>Following an Israeli attack on Beirut earlier this m=
onth, Iran carried out a<a href=3D"https://thecradle.co/articles/iran-annou=
nces-operation-victory-as-yemen-closes-bab-al-mandab-strait-to-israeli-ship=
ping" style=3D"text-decoration:none;max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank"><span=
>=C2=A0</span>ballistic missile</a>attack on an Israeli air base and vowed =
harsher retaliation in response to any new attacks on the Lebanese capital.=
</b></font></p></div></div>
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federal data =E2=80=94 SEC, Congress.gov, FEC =E2=80=94 plus licensed marke=
t feeds and ML
enrichment. No scrapers. No middlemen. The patterns were hidden =E2=80=94 u=
ntil now.

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etter-spacing:-.4pt">Congress Trades on Inside Knowledge.=C2=A0We Have the =
Receipts.<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal" align=3D"cente=
r" style=3D"text-align:center"><b><span style=3D"font-size:24.0pt;font-fami=
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normal">56% of every Congress stock purchase</span></strong><span class=3D"=
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quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif">=C2=A0</span></b></span><b><span style=3D"font=
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the buyer later voted on. We built the AI that scores them.</span></b><span=
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-style:solid;word-spacing:0px"><span style=3D"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;=
,sans-serif;color:#c8d8e8">190K insider trades across 540 politicians. 45K =
bills scored. Direct federal data =E2=80=94 SEC, Congress.gov, FEC =E2=80=
=94 plus licensed market feeds and ML enrichment. No scrapers. No middlemen=
. The patterns were hidden =E2=80=94 until now.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p =
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