The administration plans secondary sanctions targeting all Iranian trading partners, including U.S. allies, but offers no details or timeline:
- Trump’s ‘Economic D-Day’ Threats Become Warnings for Countries to Sever Financial Ties with Iran (AP)
- Maximum Pressure on Iran Will Fail: Trump’s War Has Brought American Strategy to a Dead End (Foreign Affairs)
- Maybe Trump’s Iran Sanctions Will Work This Time (Mother Jones)
- Trump Targets Iran’s Trade Lifelines — Here Are the Countries Most Exposed (CNBC)
Iran’s newly created Persian Gulf Strait Authority said the 45 vessels had violated its rules governing passage through Hormuz”:
- Iran Blacklists 45 Tankers as Hormuz Standoff Escalates (Oilprice.com)
Settler violence and Israeli war crimes continue:
- 3 Palestinians Injured in Israeli Occupier Attacks in Occupied West Bank (Andalu Ajansi)
- Why Israeli Authorities Are Encouraging Settler Violence Against Palestinians (New Yorker)
- Why Israeli Settler Attacks on Palestinians in West Bank Are Pogroms (Aljazeera)
“Pouria Zeraati, a dissident who was living in London, was stabbed by a group of Romanian thugs. His case is part of a widening campaign by the Iranian regime to silence its detractors”:
“[T]he Pentagon’s internal cost estimate of the war was $80 billion to $100 billion when accounting for the costs of repairing damaged military bases, replacing destroyed aircraft and fully replenishing weapons stockpiles”:
Fearing “that fully enforcing the law could set off another explosion of unrest. Instead, the government has pressured businesses to enforce the hijab rules themselves, closing those that do not comply”:
“Two UN peacekeepers killed in South Sudan ambush as fears grow of the country relapsing into civil war” …
- Ambush in South Sudan Kills Peacekeeping Troops (Aljazeera)
… and “[t]he US has called for a UN arms embargo for Darfur to be broadened to the whole of Sudan. The change would require Security Council approval, with Russia warning it would hurt the Sudanese army”:
- Sudan: US Proposes Expanding UN Arms Embargo (Deutsche Welle)
“[T]he U.K.’s cybersecurity agency, the National Cyber Security Centre, but it neither confirmed nor denied any hacking had occurred”:
“Research funding by Israel’s Ministry of Defense and arms manufacturers often fails to appear in national databases intended to track foreign funding”:
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