{"id":92050,"date":"2025-06-23T04:55:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T09:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=92050"},"modified":"2025-06-23T04:55:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T09:55:23","slug":"news-and-analysis-6-23-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=92050","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis 6\/23\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Iran is merely the next domino in a long line of crises engineered to justify total social control\u2014digital ID systems, CBDCs, surveillance expansion, and militarized policing. War abroad. Tyranny at home&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/libertarianism.uk\/2025\/06\/22\/why-the-u-s-is-at-war-with-iran-and-why-the-real-target-is-you\/\">Why the U.S. Is at War With Iran\u2014And Why the Real Target Is You<\/a> (Libertarian Alliance)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Zionist war on free speech &#8212; and the resistance &#8212; continues:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.siasat.com\/released-palestinian-activist-mahmoud-khalil-even-if-they-kill-me-i-will-speak-up-for-palestine-3237269\/\">\u2018Even if They Kill Me\u2019: Activist Mahmoud Khalil Vows to Speak Up for Palestine<\/a> (Siasat Daily)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;For Tehran, the attacks by two nuclear-armed countries revealed that the Non-Proliferation Treaty, of which Iran is a member, not only has no real value, but is in fact harmful&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/opinion\/after-us-attack-iran-could-reconsider-its-nuclear-strategy\">After US Attack, Iran Could Reconsider Its Nuclear Strategy<\/a> (Middle East Eye)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; &#8220;For years, hard-line voices inside the Islamic Republic have been calling for a nuclear weapon as a deterrent against exactly this kind of overwhelming attack&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/06\/23\/middleeast\/iran-nuclear-threat-us-strikes-analysis-intl-latam\">Iran\u2019s Nuclear Facilities Have Been Smashed, but the Race Toward a Bomb May Be Gathering Pace<\/a> (CNN)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Israeli war crimes continue:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/show\/desperation-mounts-in-gaza-as-palestinians-are-killed-while-seeking-food-aid\">Desperation Mounts in Gaza as Palestinians Are killed While Seeking Food Aid<\/a> (PBS)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An interview with with James M. Acton, the chair and co-director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=92050&amp;action=edit\">The Dangerous Consequences of Donald Trump\u2019s Strikes in Iran<\/a> (New Yorker)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;[P]roscribing an entire organisation under the Terrorism Act is not the same thing as prosecuting particular individuals for specific transgressions&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/jun\/22\/israel-palestine-action-uk-government-terrorism-sally-rooney\">Israel Kills Innocent Palestinians. Activists Spray-paint a Plane. Guess Which the UK Government Calls Terrorism<\/a> (The Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s lunch with Steve Bannon &#8220;was a calculated misdirection intended to buy some breathing room for the president while suggesting that no attack was imminent&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/06\/22\/us\/politics\/trump-iran-decision-strikes.html\">Shifting Views and Misdirection: How Trump Decided to Strike Iran<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;In light of Israel\u2019s continued refusal to allow the transfer of surplus shekels from Palestinian banks to Israeli ones, the PMA stated it is now seriously studying alternative options&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/english.pnn.ps\/news\/47513\">Palestine Monetary Authority Considers Phasing Out Israeli Shekel amid accumulation Crisis<\/a> (Palestine News Network)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The &#8220;possibility has raised the specter of higher energy prices and aggravated geopolitical tensions, with Washington calling upon Beijing to prevent the strait\u2019s closure&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/06\/23\/irans-parliament-approves-blocking-strait-of-hormuz.html\">Iran\u2019s Parliament Backs Blocking Strait of Hormuz. Its Closure Will Alienate Tehran Further<\/a> (CNBC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Iran is merely the next domino in a long line of crises engineered to justify total social control\u2014digital ID systems, CBDCs, surveillance expansion, and militarized policing. War abroad. Tyranny at home&#8221;: Why the U.S. Is at War With Iran\u2014And Why the Real Target Is You (Libertarian Alliance) The Zionist war on free speech &#8212; and [&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-92050","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\/92050","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=92050"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92062,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92050\/revisions\/92062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}