{"id":84170,"date":"2021-04-15T10:48:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T15:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=84170"},"modified":"2021-04-15T12:07:08","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T17:07:08","slug":"news-and-analysis-4-15-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=84170","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis 4\/15\/21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vienna talks aimed at allowing the US to rejoin the nuclear deal have &#8220;fallen into disarray&#8221; in the aftermath of an attack on Iran&#8217;s Natanz nuclear facility:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-nuclear-uranium-enrichment-hassan-rouhani-abecc41b63cef275a2788029ebd277a4\">Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Supreme Leader: Vienna Offers \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcNot Worth Looking At\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/a> (AP News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Europe buys into and the Taliban reject Biden&#8217;s plan for a delayed unconditional troop withdrawal:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/bidens-top-diplomat-tries-to-sell-european-allies-on-end-of-war-in-afghanistan\/2021\/04\/14\/df8079f4-9d1a-11eb-8a83-3bc1fa69c2e8_story.html\">NATO Backs Biden\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Plan to Withdraw from Afghanistan<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/04\/14\/afghanistan-taliban-us-troop-withdrawal\/\">Taliban Issues Warning over U.S. Troop Plan, Demanding Forces Withdraw from Afghanistan by May 1 or Risk &#8216;Compounded&#8217; Problems<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/joe-biden-afghanistan-troop-withdrawals-antony-blinken-ashraf-ghani-49477ad06972282faa6097e38865e57f\">Blinken In Afghanistan to Sell Biden Troop Withdrawal<\/a> (AP News)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/04\/14\/afghanistan-graveyard-hubris\/\">Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of American Hubris<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Overruling a nearly five-decade judgment, the Kerala High Court &#8230; [noted] that the Holy Quran recognises the right to divorce equally for both men and women&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/kerala-news\/muslim-women-have-right-to-invoke-extra-judical-divorce-kerala-high-court-2413905\">Muslim Women Have Right to Invoke Extra-Judicial Divorce: Kerala High Court<\/a> (NDTV)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The United States, in addition to backing Saudia Arabia&#8217;s barbaric war in Yemen, is behind the naval and aerial blockade that is causing millions of Yemenis to go hungry:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/4\/14\/us-activists-hunger-strike-demand-end-to-yemen-blockade\">Hunger Striking US Activists Demand End To Yemen Blockade<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Instead of protecting the occupied populace as per the fourth Geneva convention, Israel continues to employ extremist ideology intended to terrorize Palestinians and push them to move:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/4\/14\/un-experts-highlight-rise-in-israeli-settler-against-palestinians\">UN Highlights Rise in Israeli Settler Attacks on Palestinians<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/israel-palestine-boy-lost-eye-rubber-bullet\">Palestinian Boy, 14, Loses Eye After Being Hit by Israeli Rubber Bullet<\/a> (Middle East Eye)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/2021\/04\/videos-showing-palestinian-experience-of-violent-apartheid-deserve-an-american-audience\/?fbclid=IwAR30rlzk8Eqr0iZTZUYMS51H9HQguBbqAWs3LO14hhz18LC7T1PMuZ6rhyg\">Videos Showing Palestinian Experience of Violent Apartheid Deserve an American Audience<\/a> (Mondoweisss)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/04\/14\/israel-palestine-us-aid-betty-mccollum\/\">Rep. 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