Trump is “looking for a negotiating partner in Iran akin to interim Venezuelan President Delcy Rodriguez,” but Israel says Iranian parliamentary speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf isn’t the guy:
- Iran’s Parliamentary Speaker Qalibaf Is Floated as a Possible US Contact in Talks as War Rages (AP)
- Israeli Ambassador Splits with Trump Administration on Potential Iran Leader (Politico)
“[T]he plan may largely be a rehash of something that Iran did not accept a year ago” …
… and in any case, Iranians say “that they have now been tricked twice by President Trump and “we don’t want to be fooled again“:
“[T]here is no indication that the war will let up imminently; Israeli officials have said they expect it to continue for weeks” …
… and the U.S. “is preparing to deploy up to 3,000 paratroopers to supplement some 50,000 troops already present in the Middle East” …
… and the Secretary of State has set out on a mission of literal “war-mongering”:
Israeli (and U.S.) war crimes continue …
- Iran’s Red Crescent Says More Than 82,000 ‘Civilian Units’ Damaged or Destroyed by US-Israeli Strikes (Antiwar.com)
- Israel Has Crushed UNRWA in Gaza – and the Rest of the World Has Done Nothing (The Guardian)
… while Gulf state diplomats say “that Tehran was acting like a ‘runaway horse,’ warning that attacking another Arab country crossed a new red line and would not be tolerated”:
- Iran Missile Hits Lebanon After Tehran Envoy Expelled from Beirut (Iran International)
The “Iraqi government says it plans to deliver ‘formal notes of protest’ amid recent strikes tied to US-Israeli war on Iran”:
Iran denies launching the missiles, but if it did, their “failure may indicate that Iran is attempting to operate these systems at distances they are not reliably capable of”:
- How Far Can Iran’s Ballistic Missiles Reach? A Defense Expert Explains How the Missiles Work, and What Iran Can and Can’t Hit (The Conversation)
“Iran’s parliament is preparing to introduce new regulations … to reciprocate the actions of countries that supported the US sanctions against Iran, and … to shift transactions from the US dollar to alternative currencies”:
- Iran Says ‘Non-hostile’ Ships Can Transit Strait of Hormuz (Financial Times)
Speaker Johnson “can only afford one GOP defection on an otherwise party-line vote. That doesn’t even factor in House Republican leadership’s attendance concerns“:
“Has the level of your inner struggle reached the stage of you negotiating with yourself?” — Ebrahim Zolfaqari, spokesperson for the unified command of Iran’s armed forces:
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