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Deal or no deal? U.S. and Iran Close to Signing Ceasefire Deal, Officials Say (Washington Post) US-Iran Peace Deal Remains Elusive as Trump and Tehran Trade Conflicting Claims (The Guardian) US-Iran ‘Never Been Closer’ to Deal: Iran’s Abbas Araghchi (NewsBytes) ‘Close Doesn’t Count’: Mideast Experts Assess Potential U.S.-Iran Agreement (PBS) Leaked Iran Deal Details Anger…

Trump cites breakthroughs … Trump Calls Off Latest Threats to Strike Iran, Cites Breakthrough in Talks to End the War (AP) What’s in the Iran Deal Trump Says He’s Ready to Sign (Axios) Middle East Experts Assess Prospects for U.S.-Iran Deal (PBS) … that Iran denies … Tehran Says ‘Nothing’ Finalised After Trump Claims Deal…

“The U.S and Iran traded strikes for a second day, pushing the Middle East closer to the resumption of a full-scale war” … Iran Responds to a Second Day of US Strikes by Firing at Gulf States and Jordan (Washington Post) … “A wave of US strikes represents the gravest test yet of the fragile…

It was not clear if the collision of a “U.S. Army attack helicopter … with an Iranian drone … was intentional”: US Strikes Iran After Blaming Tehran for Helicopter Crash. Iran Fires on Countries in the Region (AP) “While [Deek] is tasked with projecting an image of Israel as a haven for Christians, the Armenian…

“The new attacks prompted U.S. President Donald Trump to call for an immediate stop to fighting between Israel and Iran” … Israel and Iran Appear to Pause Strikes After Trading Fire for the First Time Since April Ceasefire (AP) … but the “IDF said it would ‘continue to operate throughout Lebanon and will intensify its…

The Iran war resumes: US-Israel Wars, Day 102: Ceasefires Collapse — Iran and Israel Attack Each Other After Israelis Strike Beirut (EA Worldview) “‘I call all the shots’, not Benjamin Netanyahu” — Donald Trump: Israel Strikes Iran Despite Trump Plea as Middle East Crisis Threatens to Escalate (The Guardian) Iran closes the airspace over the…

“Iran denounces US attacks as a violation of truce”: Iran Fires Missiles at Gulf After US Targets Iranian Radar Sites (Aljazeera) Settler violence and Israeli war crimes continue: IDF Soldier Filmed Beating Palestinians in Settler Raid on West Bank Town; Eight Wounded, Medics Say (Haaretz) Deadly Israeli Strikes Hit Lebanon as Middle East Tensions Escalate…

“U.S. Indo-Pacific Command forces interdicted and boarded a stateless vessel in the Indian Ocean late Thursday as part of the expanded U.S. blockade of Iranian ports” … U.S. Forces Interdict Ship Connected to Iran in Indian Ocean, Iranian Oil Exports See Decrease (USNI) … while the “shaky ceasefire between the US and Iran has been…

“Four obstacles are preventing progress”: lack of trust, “absence of meaningful contact[,] … the gap between what each side needs[, and]  … domestic politics”: Iran and the US Both Think They Are Winning the War. The Truth Is They Are Both Losing (The Guardian) “The Iran-backed group Hezbollah said it will reject any deal allowing…

“In the House, four Republicans — Reps. Thomas Massie (Kentucky), Tom Barrett (Michigan), Warren Davidson (Ohio) and Brian Fitzpatrick (Pennsylvania) — joined Democrats in voting to force Trump to end the war” … In a First, House Votes to Block Trump from Ordering More Strikes on Iran (Washington Post) “The news of the Inspector General…