Qatar denies holding any Iranian pilots while Kuwait says four captives “affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards … were suspected of planning hostile actions against the country”:
- Iran Disputes Qatar, Kuwait Accounts of Captured Iranian Personnel, Demands to Investigate (Jerusalem Post)
“The United Arab Emirates accused Iran on Saturday of attacking another vessel belonging to its state oil company while it transited through the Strait of Hormuz on Friday”:
- Iran Attacks Third UAE Tanker Within a Week (The Hill)
Settler violence and Israeli war crimes continue:
- Settler Violence: 60-year-old Man Among Two Palestinians Shot, Eight Beaten (Middle East Eye)
- ‘Halt This Escalation’: Lebanese Prime Minister Condemns Israel’s Latest Deadly Bombings (Common Dreams)
Official describe replacing cobblestones in “historic pedestrian areas … with asphalt … as traffic management, but Iran International reporter Mehdi Sepahvand’s reporting suggests it could make the areas easier for security forces to penetrate and control during unrest”:
- Iran’s Rulers Turn Attention to the Threat from Within (Iran International)
“The decision comes after Gov. Greg Abbott threatened to review state grants to DFW International Airport and Houston’s Bush Intercontinental Airport over religious accommodations”:
“The person they tapped for the backchannel was Nechirvan Barzani, the president of the Kurdistan region in Iraq, who had something very few others do: the trust of both U.S. and IRGC leaders”:
“[A]cts of foreign aggression—disguised as defense against a nuclear Iran—have achieved the exact inverse of their stated intent”:
- Iran’s Nuclear Shield: Why Deterrence Has Become a Matter of Life or Death (Palestine Chronicle)
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