“President Donald Trump says Iran has contacted the United States to propose talks as his administration weighs responses — including military options — amid reports from rights groups that hundreds of people have been killed across the country amid mass protests against the regime”:
- Trump Says Tehran Wants to Talk as U.S. Weighs Military Options (Washington Post)
“The options being presented to Trump would range from targeted strikes inside Iran to offensive cyber attacks …
… but “Trump doesn’t have good options. He doesn’t even have mediocre ones” …
… “How do you drop a bomb in the middle of a crowd or a protest and protect the people there? … Plus there’s the constitution that we don’t let presidents bomb countries when they feel like it. They are supposed to ask the people through the Congress for permission” …
- Rand Paul: Bombing Iran ‘Is Not the Answer’ (Politico)
… “Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, said he was skeptical of a military strike in Iran because American intervention there has had unintended consequences” …
… “A disruption through the Strait of Hormuz could cause a global oil and gas crisis” especially when considering the “desperate and ill advised lengths the current Iranian regime may go to” should they find themselves increasingly backed into a corner”:
“[W]arheads in four of the 16 Tomahawk missiles that were fired that night appeared not to explode” with one “landing in an onion field in the village of Jabo … [in] northwest Nigeria, while another hit residential buildings … around 300 miles to the south. The third … crashed in an agricultural field outside Offa, … and the fourth … 120 miles to the north”:
- Unexploded Missiles, Witnesses Undercut Trump Account of Nigeria Strike (Washington Post)
“Police alleged the occupants of the car hurled objects, drove dangerously to intimidate the couple and got out of their car to assault the imam and threaten his wife after forcing them into a service station”:
- Three Arrested After Alleged Racially Motivated Attack on Muslim Religious Leader in Victoria (The Guardian)
“Protesters appeared to pull signs off the stopped U-Haul, kick it and smash its passenger’s side window and rearview mirror before the truck accelerated towards the crowd, according to video from KNN, a freelance news organization. The protesters chased the truck after it moved through the crowd”:
- U-Haul Truck Plows Through Anti-Iranian Regime Protest in Westwood (Orange County Register)
After retrieving her body, her family “found that intelligence forces had surrounded their home and that they were … forced to bury her body along the road”:
“State media attempted to indicate that the government had regained control, airing images from similar demonstrations across the country”:
- Iranian Pro-Government Demonstration: A Show of Power (Devdiscourse)
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