News and Analysis 5/19/26

“The president said he postponed a planned strike at the urging of Middle Eastern leaders’”:

… President Donald Trump admitted that there is no real reason to continue his war against Iran. Instead, … he said he couldn’t stop fighting now because of ‘public relations’ and a vague need to ‘feel good’” …

… “Amid Trump’s mixed signals, the growing concern among policymakers is how long tensions can persist before the wide gaps between the two sides trigger renewed conflict”:

“Among those killed was a mosque security guard, who police believe ‘played a pivotal role’ in keeping the attack from being ‘much worse’”:

On the morning of Monday, March 23, President Trump pulled his first “TACO” of the Iran war. … Stocks rose…. The brokerage account in Trump’s name spent the day buying them”:

The Zionist war on free speech continues:

Romanian men accused of a knife attack on a journalist for the London-based Iran International, denied the charges:

Settler violence and Israeli war crimes continue:

The chairman of Iran’s national security commission says  “the action was a necessary retaliation for the assassination of Iran’s former supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei”:

“Egypt does charge fees on cables that cross its territory,” but in the case of Hormuz, “[m]ost of the cables in question do not terminate in Iran; they pass under the sea, miles offshore”:


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