Updates on prospects for a U.S. – Iran war:
- EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Military Tells Key Middle East Ally to Prepare for Attack on Iran (Drop Site)
- Commando Raids and Missile Strikes: New Iran Military Options Presented to Trump (ynet)
- US Aims to Sway Saudi Defence Minister to Get Behind Iran Strikes, Sources Say (Middle East Eye)
- Azerbaijan Will Not Allow Use of Its Airspace in Military Operations Against Iran, FM Announces (Jerusalem Post)
- Trump Weighs Imminent Iran Strikes, but What’s the Mission? (Washington Post)
- Amid Specter of Possible US Strikes, Iran’s Neighbors Brace for Blowback (RFE / RL)
- Trump’s Iran Moves Rattle Arab Allies (Politico)
- US Military Action in Iran Risks Igniting a Regional and Global Nuclear Cascade (The Conversation)
- Iran’s Top Diplomat in Istanbul for Talks as US Tension Simmers (France 24)
- US Deploys Drones to Survey Iran; at Least 10 Warships Stationed in Middle East (WION)
- Is US Preparing for Iran? Rare ‘Nuke Sniffer’ Plane Lands in Britain as Trump eighs Action on Tehran (WION)
- Where the U.S. Is Building Up Military Force near Iran (NY Times)
“Mogadishu will support separatist movements inside Somaliland”:
- Somalia Plans to Foment Conflict in Awdal Region After Israeli Recognition of Somaliland (Drop Site)
“[A]t least one surgeon now at risk of being sentenced to death”
“An Iranian government official said some children had been detained, the first such acknowledgment in weeks of anti-government protests”:
Israeli war crimes continue:
- Israel Continues Its Illegal Campaign to Dismantle International Humanitarian Agencies that Aid Palestinian Refugee (National Interest Foundation)
“Iran’s crisis is the product of domestic authoritarianism and can only be resolved by the Iranian people themselves —without foreign military intervention and through a peaceful, democratic transition” …
… “A post-revolutionary Iran would more likely resemble the violent internal conflicts of the French Revolution than a peaceful democratic transition”:
- Want Iran to Get the Bomb? Try Regime Change (Responsible Statecraft)
“The ‘madman theory’ aims to pressure adversaries but risks backfiring when opponents feel they have nothing to lose”:
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