Hyping a possible resolution to the conflict …
“‘Very, very strong talks,’ President Trump claimed. Fake news, replied an Iranian parliamentary leader” …
… Iran is considering a Trump proposal, however, …
… but “Trump has made similar claims about negotiating breakthroughs before, only to reverse course and attack” …
- In Their Game of Chicken, Trump and Iran Tap the Brakes at Last: But a Pause Is Not a Peace, and the Real Victims Are Still Waiting (Washington Post)
… and Israel and Iran carry on in any case:
- Israel Launches New Strikes on Tehran as Trump Pauses Iran Energy Attacks (The Guardian)
- Iran Targets Israel and Gulf Arab States Even as Trump Says US Is in Talks to End the War (AP)
“Civilian targets have been struck by all three warring parties”:
“[T]he world has grown thoroughly exhausted with these tired and discredited ‘false flag’ storylines” — Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei:
“UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has said the world gave Israel a ‘licence to torture Palestinians’ as she presented her latest report to the Human Rights Council in Geneva”:
Diesel prices are higher, “deportations have thinned out the labor force, … Tariffs increased the prices of goods such as machinery… [and] soybean prices [are] tumbling”:
“At least 16 aircraft have been shot down or crashed…. In contrast, during the 2011 U.S. military intervention in Libya, another large-scale air campaign, there were just three reported combat losses over four months” …
… but the Iranian military has also paid a price:
“President Trump teased Monday that he’s moving closer a deal with Iran to end the war — but he stopped short of saying who the U.S. is negotiating with,” so Axios speculates …
… as Pakistan volunteers to serve as intermediary:
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