As violence on the Iranian demonstrations continues …
- Iran Security Forces Member Stabbed, Shot Dead at Protest: Agency (AFP / Al-Monitor)
- Iran Protests: Death Toll Cited at 10 amid Reports of Unrest Spreading to Rural Provinces (i24 News)
… and Trump’s threats against Iran have upset some previous and current supporters:
- Greene: Trump Threatening Troops in Iran ‘Everything We Voted Against in ’24’ (The Hill)
- Massie: Trump’s Iran Threat About Oil Not Free Speech (The Hill)
- Bannon Says Trump’s Iran Threat Echoes Hillary Clinton’s Playbook (The Hill)
- Trump’s Iran Threat Angers ‘America First’ Wing; Tehran Hawks Question Tactics (The Hill)
Iran’s Supreme Leader says, “When a bazaari looks at the country’s monetary situation, the decline in the value of the national currency, and the instability of the currency and foreign exchange, which makes the business environment unstable, he says, ‘I cannot do business,’ and he is right” …
… but seeks “to separate the concerns of protesting Iranians upset about the rial’s collapse to ‘rioters’”:
- Iran’s Leader Says Rioters ‘Must Be Put in Their Place’ as Protest Death Toll Reaches at Least 10 (AP)
Israeli war crimes continue:
“Analyst Trita Parsi lays out three different ways the US and Israel could attack Iran, the potentially disastrous consequences”:
There is no doubt the expert was qualified to testify, but the defendant claims “that his trial lawyer failed to adequately represent his interests by objecting that she had violated the judge’s warning not “to make broad statements about all Muslim people”:
- Expert Testimony or Anti-Islam Bias? Sex Assault Case Tests Legal Limit (Washington Post)
Four possible scenerios outlined by the US-based news outlet Al-Monitor are ” limited structural reform,” “prolonged, grinding unrest,” “regime change driven or accelerated by foreign intervention,” or “fragmentation, sudden collapse, or a long and unstable transition”:
- Four Possible Scenarios for Iran as Unrest Widens (Khaama Press)
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