{"id":80974,"date":"2020-01-12T07:30:18","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T12:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=80974"},"modified":"2020-01-12T07:30:19","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T12:30:19","slug":"news-and-analysis-1-10-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=80974","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (1\/10\/20)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Two of Trump&#8217;s Senate allies have criticized the administration briefing on Soleimani killing, charging that it provided no evidence of an imminent attack, and it dismissed Congress&#8217;s role in military actions &#8230;  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/01\/08\/politics\/iran-briefing-senators\/index.html\">&#8216;The Worst Briefing I&#8217;ve Had&#8217;: Senate Iran Briefing Gets Heated<\/a> (CNN)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230; and reports confirm that Soleimani didn&#8217;t pose an imminent threat, but the timing of the strike suggests that Trump may have had the impeachment  in his mind:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/impeachment\/2020\/01\/report-trump-ordered-iran-strike-because-of-impeachment-fears\/\">Report: Trump Ordered Iran Strike Because of Impeachment Fears<\/a> (Mother Jones)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>President Rouhani acknowledges the responsibility of the tragic downing of the Ukraine plane, blaming human error, evoking memories a similar tragic mistake made by U.S.  in 1988:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/iran-blames-downing-of-ukrainian-jet-on-human-error-11578749178\">Iran Blames Its Downing of Ukrainian Jet on Human Error <\/a>(Wall Street Journal)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;What  happened is inexcusable. Jeopardy should apologise and give a clear  explanation. This shouldn&#8217;t just pass calmly and be forgotten&#8221; &#8212;  &#8220;Omar Ghraieb, a Palestinian writer based in Gaza:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/01\/jeopardy-episode-palestine-question-uproar-200111165110124.html\">Outrage After Jeopardy! Host Rules Bethlehem Not in Palestine<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The rapid escalation between Iran and US change the Gulf&#8217;s hostile relationship with Iran; countries in the region see no coherence in American policy according to Dalia Dassa Kaye of Rand Cooperation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/01\/11\/795514864\/what-u-s-iran-tensions-mean-for-the-middle-east\">What U.S.-Iran Tensions Mean For The Middle East<\/a> (NPR)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>During a joint press conference with Russia on Saturday, Merkel pressed for preserving the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, and urged all parties to respect the JCPOA multilateral agreement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-russia-germany-iran-nuclear\/german-chancellor-urges-all-parties-to-back-iran-nuclear-deal-idUSKBN1ZA0PR\">Chancellor Urges All Parties to Back Iran Nuclear Deal<\/a> (Reuters)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The comments appear to downplay speculation that Iraqi militias would  attack US interests in Iraq or that Lebanese Hezbollah leader Hassan  Nasrallah, would try to attack Israel&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/gulfnews.com\/world\/mena\/in-an-effort-to-ease-tensions-iran-says-allied-militias-not-ordered-to-avenge-soleimani-death-1.68959106\">In an Effort to Ease Tensions, Iran Says Allied Militias Not Ordered to Avenge Soleimani Death<\/a> (Gulf News)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In a <g class=\"gr_ gr_3 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace\" id=\"3\" data-gr-id=\"3\"><g class=\"gr_ gr_3 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace\" id=\"3\" data-gr-id=\"3\">rare<\/g><\/g> policy agreement between the two presidential candidates, Warner and Sanders take the same position on Soleimani killing and the US foreign policy with Tehran:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/01\/08\/us\/politics\/bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren-iran.html\">Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren Jointly Urge Against War With Iran<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We agreed that we should do anything to preserve the deal, the JCPOA. Germany is convinced that Iran should not acquire or have nuclear weapons&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-russia-germany-iran-nuclear\/german-chancellor-urges-all-parties-to-back-iran-nuclear-deal-idUSKBN1ZA0PR\">German Chancellor Urges All Parties to Back Iran Nuclear Deal<\/a> (Reuters)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of Trump&#8217;s Senate allies have criticized the administration briefing on Soleimani killing, charging that it provided no evidence of an imminent attack, and it dismissed Congress&#8217;s role in military actions &#8230; &#8216;The Worst Briefing I&#8217;ve Had&#8217;: Senate Iran Briefing Gets Heated (CNN) &#8230; and reports confirm that Soleimani didn&#8217;t pose an imminent threat, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122827,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80974","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\/80974","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\/122827"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80974"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81004,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80974\/revisions\/81004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}