News and Analysis 9/26/26

Iran war updates:

US-Iran War To Resume In November? Trump Rejects Tehran’s 7-Day Peace Plan (NDTV)
Pentagon Quietly Adds Dozens to Tally of Troops Wounded amid Iran War (Washington Post)
Trump Asked Xi to Stop Supporting Iran (Axios)
Iranian American Organization Sues Trump to Demand End to War on Iran (Truthout)
Trump Doesn’t Have the Right to Send National Guard to Iran | Opinion (USA Today)

“Afghanistan’s Defense Ministry denied that its forces had suffered any casualties. It said in a post on X that Afghan personnel had instead destroyed a Pakistani post Thursday and described Pakistan’s account of the fighting as false”:

13 Afghan Taliban Personnel Killed in Overnight Border Clash, Pakistan Says. Kabul Denies the Claim (Washington Post)

“Mothers without headscarves walked daughters in regulation hoods to school in Iran this week”:

Bareheaded Mother, Veiled Daughter: Iran’s Schools Keep a Rule Its Streets Have Dropped (Iran International)

“The consultants appear to believe that by surrounding Jackson with big donors who have a sympathetic view of Israel, they will be able to pressure Jackson into moderating his public statements on the genocide in Gaza”:

Democratic Party Consultants Surround Troy Jackson with Pro-Israel Donors (Drop Site)

“The Trump administration has rejected jumping straight into Yemen, for now. But Congress may be laying the ground for U.S. involvement”:

Democrats Are Quietly Clashing over U.S. Involvement in Saudi Arabia’s War in Yemen (Reason)

“Islam is an American faith, present for over 250 years. No one who wrote the Constitution or enforced it since has empowered these legislators to pick which religions get to exist in America”: