News and Analysis 9/19/26

Both the number of U.S. troops killed and Iranians killed have been understated:

More U.S. Troops Have Died amid Iran War than Pentagon Has Disclosed Publicly (Washington Post)
Iran Protest Death Toll Exposed: New Report Names More Than 4,000 Verified Victims as ‘Minimum Number’ (Algemeiner)

Israeli war crimes continue:

[Israel,] Iran and China Create First-of-Their-Kind Autonomous A.I. Influence Campaigns (NY Times)
Their Gaza home was damaged, but they had nowhere else to go. It cost their lives (Washington Post)

Is anyone surprised?

Robert Kraft Claims His Donations Help Palestinians. Turns Out He’s Funding Friends of the IDF (The Intercept)

President Lee Jae? Myung declared “that his country would not deploy troops or military assets to support the U.S.-led war against Iran”:

Rejecting Trump, South Korean Leader Says He Will Not Send Troops to Iran (NY Times)

The Zionist war on free speech continues:

Deportation Case of Palestinian Activist Salah Sarsour Tests First Amendment (Truthout)
The New York Times Conveniently Forgets the Real Stakes of Attacks on Free Speech (The Intercept)

“International law prohibits the practice of ‘refoulement,’ returning a refugee to a country where they may be in danger of torture or persecution. But the Trump administration has found a way around that principle through third-country removals”:

‘They Kept Us Like Animals’: Afghan Woman Deported to Africa By Trump Speaks Out (Reason)

“[T]here has never been a known database that has been so comprehensive and has included such a vast array of organizations and everyday people. In total, the archive contains more than 4 million data points”:

A Right-Wing Org Quietly Tracked Thousands of Muslim Americans for Decades (Huffington Post)

“Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said in a statement shared by state media that it attacked a Togo-flagged tanker, the Trend, after it tried to navigate through the waterway” …

Iran Says It Struck Oil Tanker in Strait of Hormuz (The Hill)

… and “[h]undreds of thousands of Iranians rallied Friday in a government-organized show of defiance after months of war, pledging their readiness to take up arms in the biggest such demonstration since the United States and Israel attacked in February”:

Hundreds of Thousands Attend Iran’s Biggest Government-organized Rally Since the War Began (AP)

“Hegseth has apparently replaced the turn-the-other-cheek, love-thy-enemy Jesus you might remember with a curb-stomping Christ who brays for war, revels in violence, and seeks to dispatch America’s enemies to the fiery depths of hell”: