{"id":20769,"date":"2019-08-05T04:21:30","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T09:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=20769"},"modified":"2019-08-05T04:21:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T09:21:31","slug":"news-and-analysis-8-5-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=20769","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (8\/5\/19)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jehan Hakim, chair of the Yemeni Alliance Committee, explains, &#8220;[O]ur Islamic values come in where we have to fight for justice even in the face of a tyrant, even if it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s speaking against your own family&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/fpif.org\/mobilizing-muslim-resistance-to-the-saudi-war-in-yemen\/\">Mobilizing Muslim Resistance to the Saudi War in Yemen<\/a> (Foreign Policy in Focus)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Robin Wright says that Javad Zarif gave Rand Paul multiple ways of guaranteeing Iran would never have a nuclear weapon, but suggested that &#8220;if Trump wanted more, he would also have to offer more&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/news-desk\/irans-foreign-minister-invited-to-meet-trump-in-the-oval-office?utm_campaign=aud-dev&amp;utm_source=nl&amp;utm_brand=tny&amp;utm_mailing=TNY_Daily_080319&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;bxid=5c8e8d393f92a46e8972f5a2&amp;cndid=56708508&amp;esrc=&amp;utm_term=TNY_Daily\">Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Foreign Minister Was Invited to Meet Trump in the Oval Office<\/a> (New Yorker)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; but knowing Trump prefers direct negotiation,\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/08\/iran-turned-trump-invite-zarif-white-house-talks-190804083609121.html\">Iran &#8216;Turned Down&#8217; Trump&#8217;s Invite to Zarif for White House Talks<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(Al-Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; administration hawks have convinced him to sanction the man who could help him prevent war. Is the President smart enough to see through their manipulation?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/feature\/zarif-sanctioned-does-trump-still-want-talks-iran-70946?page=0%2C1\">Zarif Sanctioned: Does Trump Still Want Talks with Iran?<\/a> (National Interest)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; before Iran must choose between joining Egypt in calling for a nuclear free Middle East or emulating Israel in &#8220;<span lang=\"EN-US\">developing nuclear weapons in defiance of international agreements on denuclearisation&#8221; &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/opinion\/iran-nuclear-options-190729112714738.html\">Iran Has Two Nuclear Options<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; under the circumstances, not only Europe and the UAE, but even the Saudis have signaled a willingness to negotiate with Iran:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/middle-east-news\/.premium-iran-u-s-threats-warms-up-to-arab-neighbors-even-saudi-arabia-yemen-war-1.7620847\">Faced With U.S. Threats, Iran Warms Up to Arab Neighbors \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Even Riyadh<\/a> (Haaretz)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Defenders of Trump&#8217;s call for four Congresswomen to go back where they came from &#8220;conflate love of Israel with love of America because they see Israel as a model for what they want America to be: An ethnic democracy&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/portside.org\/2019-08-03\/real-reason-so-many-republicans-love-israel-their-own-white-supremacy\">The Real Reason So Many Republicans Love Israel? Their Own White Supremacy<\/a> (Portside)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Tlaib&#8217;s visit, which she plans for August together with her fellow &#8220;squad&#8221; member Ilhan Omar and other US officials, is going to be significantly different from these AIPAC-organised visits&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/opinion\/squad-occupied-palestine-190731123054231.html\">When the &#8216;Squad&#8217; Goes to Occupied Palestine<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Iran says the captured ship &#8220;was carrying 700,000 liters of fuel, without elaborating on the nationalities of the detained crewmen&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-mideast-iran-tanker\/iran-seizes-a-foreign-oil-tanker-in-gulf-smuggling-fuel-to-some-arab-states-tv-idUSKCN1UU08Y\">Iran Seizes Iraqi Oil Tanker Smuggling Fuel in Gulf: TV<\/a> (Reuters)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The government&#8217;s August 4 directive &#8230; said employing cryptocurrencies is permitted if users accept the risks involved, and also banned using cryptocurrencies as methods of payment inside Iran&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/ajimpact\/iran-government-recognises-cryptocurrency-mining-caveat-190804193912792.html\">Iran&#8217;s Government Recognises Cryptocurrency Mining with Caveat<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One attorney said his client &#8220;had merely protested compulsory hijab and had nothing to do with other charges claimed by the prosecutor.&#8221; None were allowed to represent at indictment, interrogation, or trial:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.radiofarda.com\/a\/three-women-sentenced-to-55-years-for-defying-compulsory-hijab-in-iran\/30088712.html\">Three Women Sentenced to 55 Years for Defying Compulsory Hijab in Iran<\/a> (Radio Farda)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jehan Hakim, chair of the Yemeni Alliance Committee, explains, &#8220;[O]ur Islamic values come in where we have to fight for justice even in the face of a tyrant, even if it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s speaking against your own family&#8221; Mobilizing Muslim Resistance to the Saudi War in Yemen (Foreign Policy in Focus) Robin Wright says that Javad Zarif [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20769"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20778,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20769\/revisions\/20778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}