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News and Analysis 8/19/26

A world war in the making?

  • Iran Weighs Attacks on Military Targets in Europe – FT (Iran International)
  • NATO ‘Strong and Effective,’ Prepared to Defend All Allies, Says Official in Iran Threat Response (Jerusalem Post)
  • Iran Issues Warning Against Arab States Aiding US, as UAE Cuts Economic Ties (Middle East Eye)
  • UAE Trade Embargo Could Shut Iran’s Key Economic Escape Route: Here’s Why (Aljazeera)

The Zionist war on free speech — and the resistance — continues:

  • Politics Drove Antisemitism Probes Against Ivy League Schools, DOJ Whistleblower Says (Washington Post)

“Iranian judicial authorities have brought criminal charges against the online media platform Azad and barred its director and host, Mehdi Ahmadi, from media activity”:

  • Iranian Authorities Bar Azad Media Director from Journalism Amid Growing Restrictions on Free Expression (NIAC)

Israeli war crimes continue:

  • Gaza’s Teachers Struggle to Fill the Void of a School System Decimated by Israel (Drop Site)
  • Israel Numbers Palestinian Detainee Foreheads: What We Know (Aljazeera)
  • Palestinians Condemn Israeli Step to Advance Illegal E1 Settlement Plan (Aljazeera)

“US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that no talks with Iran are underway and none are scheduled, as he posted a map showing the Strait of Hormuz as a new American territory”:

  • Trump Says No Iran Talks Planned, Claims Hormuz ‘New US Territory’ (Al-Monitor)

The school is named for Mariama Ba whose “novels explored women caught between traditional upbringing and modern aspirations…. She resisted the label of feminist, which she saw as a Western invention”:

  • This School Teaches Senegal’s Brightest Girls to Push Back Against Patriarchal Norms (Washington Post)

“[W]hy states have no inherent right to exist and … [how] Germany is transferring its Holocaust guilt to Palestinians while protecting Israel’s apartheid regime and violently repressing its opponents”:

  • UN Lawyer: Israel Has “NO RIGHT TO EXIST” (Katie Halper / YouTube)

“Turkey boasts the second largest army in Nato (second only to the US), while Saudi Arabia is the second most oil-rich nation on the planet. Pakistan is a nuclear power”:

  • The Creation of a ‘Muslim Nato’ Shows Trump Is Losing His Grip in the Middle East (Independent)

Experts are skeptical “that tightening the economic vise will force Iran to relinquish its desire to toll ships passing through the State of Hormuz and make the other concessions Trump is demanding to bring an end to the war”:

  • ‘There Is No Breaking Point’: The Problem with Trump’s Plan to Economically strangle Iran (Politico)

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