“While the growing popularity of the Eid selfie has contributed to promoting a positive image of Muslims…, it has not … capture[d] the racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the Muslim world”:<\/p>\n
As usual Saudis and Iranians split on the date of the Eid in the region, but “Jordan and Egypt did not follow in lockstep,” dividing Palestinians:<\/p>\n
“The fact that Pompeo so easily conceded the perception \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and likely the reality \u00e2\u20ac\u201d that the plan was strongly structured and tilted toward the Israelis is striking” — Aaron David Miller:<\/p>\n
AI objects that “Amirsalar Davoudi is blatantly being punished for his work defending human rights. Setting up a Telegram channel to expose human rights violations is not a crime” …<\/p>\n
… and the Center for Human Rights in Iran urges parliament to “address these violations of due process and the Iranian Bar Association [to] take the lead in defending its own members” …<\/p>\n
… yet Iran has \u00e2\u20ac\u0153expressed the readiness of the authorities in Iran to receive any Lebanese delegation at any time for the extradition of” Nizar Zakka:<\/p>\n
Abraham Sumanthiran, a senior lawmaker from the Tamil alliance, said it was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153unfortunate that Muslim ministers succumbed to pressure from racists. Yesterday us, today you, tomorrow a new \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcother\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u009d:<\/p>\n
Politicians in “[b]oth Israel and the U.S. need <\/i>Iran … need to be able to point to Iran as a threat, as a menace, as the source of terrorism and evil in the world. … The fact that Iran is none of those things is beside the point” …<\/p>\n … as Larry Wilkerson explains “how the Trump administration has began using [State Dept.] briefings as vehicle for ‘outright lies’ about Iran”:<\/p>\n … and Riyadh failed to get the OIC to condemn Tehran directly in the final communique<\/a>” while “the GCC and Arab summits, where Riyadh did succeed to single out Iran by name … carr[y] little to no strategic weight”:<\/p>\n A RAND Corp. analyst says that continuing to condition negotiations on Iran “acting like a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcnormal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 country … is not likely to entice the Iranians to the table, especially as maximum pressure policies continue on the ground”:<\/p>\n Abe’s upcoming trip to Iran highlights that Japan depends on the U.S. for protection and on Iran for oil so it has an interest in good relations with (and between) both:<\/p>\n\n
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