News and Analysis 6/2/26

“[N]egotiations were suspended because of Israel’s intensifying military attacks in Lebanon” …

Iran Says It Is Breaking Off Talks to End War After U.S. and Israeli Strikes (Washington Post)

… and the President of the United States says he “couldn’t care less” …

Trump Says He ‘Couldn’t Care Less’ if Peace Talks with Iran Fall Apart After Countries Exchange Renewed Strikes (Time)

… or does he?

Trump Seeks to Revive Iran Peace Talks After Negotiations Stall (USA Today)
‘Everybody Hates Israel’, Trump Allegedly Tells Netanyahu in Angry Call (The Times)
Trump Says Iran Talks Still On, Attacks in Lebanon to Halt (News Tribune)

Israeli war crimes continue:

The Last Day of School (Palestine Deep Dive)

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that “the US-Iran truce was ‘unequivocally a ceasefire on all fronts, including in Lebanon’ and that ‘its violation on one front is a violation of the ceasefire on all fronts’”:

Clashes Continue in Lebanon Despite Israel and Hezbollah Accepting US Partial Ceasefire Plan (BBC)

“[T]he EU has approved a controversial migration law allowing member states to establish return hubs in third countries”:

Europe Today: US-Iran Peace Deal at Risk as EU Approves Controversial Migration Law (Euronews)

“People might have been willing to give up land, but not who they were” — Rabbi Michael Melchior, “eighth generation in a line of Danish rabbis [who] chose to move to Israel from Denmark in 1986”: