News and Analysis 8/7/26

“While Iran and Oman appear to be nearing an agreement to manage traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian officials are now warning that the deal will not fully reopen the crucial waterway” …

… “The U.S. and Israel would likely be excluded from all routes after launching joint strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities last year and again in March” …

… “Industry sources said U.S. sanctions and insurance restrictions would make it difficult to implement any agreement that allowed Iran to charge or oversee commercial shipping through the strategic waterway”:

Trump is “insisting he is ‘extremely happy’ with Hegseth” …

… and is “threatening long prison sentences for officials who leak information about the military’s weapons stocks” …

… even as he “acknowledged strains on US military resources, saying some weapons inventories were tighter despite what he described as a strong overall supply position”:

Some Texas Republicans have “detailed a slate of ideas he said lawmakers have discussed ahead of next year’s legislative session to make Muslims’ lives ‘miserable’”:

The manslaughter indictment of the killer of “Awdah Hathaleen, who worked on the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land … [is] … the first such indictment of an Israeli in more than seven years”:

“Netanyahu reportedly discussed the plan when persuading US President Donald Trump to go to war in February against the Islamic Republic”:

“The UK and France are not seeking confrontation with Iran in the US-Israeli war largely rejected by Europe, say analysts”:


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