{"id":20688,"date":"2019-07-15T04:46:24","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T09:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=20688"},"modified":"2019-07-15T04:46:25","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T09:46:25","slug":"news-and-analysis-7-15-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=20688","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (7\/15\/19)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is this Trump&#8217;s big chance?\u00c2\u00a0 Is he smart enough to seize it?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/irans-rouhani-wants-return-to-the-obama-era-nuclear-agreement-2019-7\">Iran&#8217;s President Said They Would Hold Talks with the US if It Returns to the 2015 Nuclear Deal<\/a> (Business Insider)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>British FM Jeremy Hunt promised Javad Zarif to return the ship if Iran satisfies the Gibraltar court that the ship is not bound for Syria:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/07\/13\/world\/middleeast\/britain-iran-oil-tanker-syria.html\">U.K. Offers to Return Seized Iranian Oil Tanker<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Taking a lead from China, Israel&#8217;s Anyvision&#8217;s confidential project &#8220;includes facial recognition technology elsewhere in the West Bank, not just at border crossings&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/business\/.premium-this-israeli-face-recognition-startup-is-secretly-tracking-palestinians-1.7500359\">This Israeli Face-recognition Startup Is Secretly Tracking Palestinians<\/a> (Reuters)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Ayatollah Khomeini put it shortly after the revolution: &#8216;We recognize our Jews as separate from those godless Zionists'&#8221; and unlike the U.S. and Germany, &#8220;Iran has not seen a single attack on a Jewish building&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/celebrating-sabbath-with-irans-jewish-minority\/a-49543137-0\">Celebrating Sabbath with Iran&#8217;s Jewish Minority<\/a> (Deutsche Welle)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Netanyahu called Peretz&#8217;s anti-gay comments &#8220;unacceptable&#8221; but offered no objection to his desire to deny Palestinians the vote:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/.premium-gay-conversion-therapy-is-possible-and-i-did-it-israel-s-education-minister-says-1.7497578\">Israel&#8217;s Education Minister: Gay Conversion Therapy &#8216;Possible,&#8217; Palestinians &#8216;Shouldn&#8217;t Vote&#8217;<\/a> (Haaretz)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;[E]ven if the act succeeds in preventing such manufacturers in most countries from selling mining units to Iran, &#8230; this might not prevent Bitcoin or cryptocurrency mining from taking place in the Islamic Republic&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/us-sanctions-on-iran-crypto-mining-inevitable-or-impossible\">US Sanctions on Iran Crypto Mining \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Inevitable or Impossible?<\/a> (Cointelegraph)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On a plane leaving Turkey (!) two women accused three bearded men in prayer shawls of being &#8220;terrorists&#8221;; and one &#8220;stood at the front of the plane screaming abuse[, refusing] to let the plane take off with them on board&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/crazy-racist-woman-thrown-off-flight-claiming-muslim-passengers-threat-safety-plane-1449197\">&#8216;Crazy Racist&#8217; Woman Thrown Off Flight After Claiming Muslim Passengers Were Threat to Safety of Plane<\/a> (Newsweek)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230; while in the U.S., Trump told four Congresswomen to &#8220;go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.&#8221; Three were born in the U.S. and the fourth lived here since she was a child:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/07\/racist-trump-slammed-attack-congresswomen-190714184044872.html\">&#8216;Disgusting, Racist&#8217;: Trump Slammed for Attack on Congresswomen<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Attitudes have changed. 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