{"id":94455,"date":"2026-04-02T06:21:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=94455"},"modified":"2026-04-02T06:21:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:21:20","slug":"news-and-analysis-4-2-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=94455","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis 4\/2\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>War updates:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/04\/01\/trump-speech-iran-war\/\">Trump Says Iran War Is \u2018Nearing Completion\u2019 as He Seeks to Calm Economic Worries<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-address-iran-war-takeaways-3a232cc5ae76436433bc62118a32b415\">Takeaways from Trump\u2019s Address: No End Date for Iran War and Few Details on Strategy Ahead<\/a> (AP)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/article\/2026\/04\/02\/unbothered-by-reality-trump-gives-disjointed-update-on-iran-war\/\">Unbothered by Reality, Trump Gives Disjointed Update on Iran War<\/a> (Time)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-us-israel-trump-lebanon-april-1-2026-19cf516c2d2c614eb182dbad7a6592ef\">Attacks Persist on Iran and Across the Mideast as Trump Threatens Escalation<\/a> (AP)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/world\/iran\/trumps-iran-threats-alarm-war-crimes-experts-rcna265978\">Trump&#8217;s Iran Threats Alarm War Crimes Experts<\/a> (NBC News)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/01\/israel-hits-iran-attacks-killed-senior-hezbollah-commander\">Israel Hits Iran with Waves of Attacks and Says It Killed Top Hezbollah Commander<\/a> (The Guardian)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/video\/newsfeed\/2026\/4\/1\/central-israel-hit-by-one-of-irans-largest-missile-barrages-in-weeks\">Central Israel Hit by One of Iran\u2019s Largest Missile Barrages in Weeks<\/a> (Aljazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The Supreme Court appeared poised Wednesday to uphold the legal principle that almost everyone born on U.S. soil is a citizen&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/04\/01\/birthright-citizenship-supreme-court-argument\/\">Supreme Court Appears Skeptical of Trump\u2019s Effort to End Birthright Citizenship<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;[T]he President of Islamic Society of Milwaukee (ISM) and hes been a community advocate for over three decades. Mr. Sarsour is a lawful permanent resident who has lived in the United States for over 30 years&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mlfa.org\/ice-unlawfully-detains-salah-sarsour-palestinian-community-leader\/\">ICE Unlawfully Detains Salah Sarsour, Palestinian Community Leader<\/a> (Muslim Legal Fund)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Blackouts forced doctors to remove the premature infants from respirators:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2026\/03\/31\/gaza-palestinian-babies-premature-evacuate-hospital-newborn\/2d717308-2cf8-11f1-aac2-f56b5ccad184_story.html\">Evacuated from Gaza as Newborns, a Group of Palestinian Toddlers Returns to an Uncertain Future<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;After an Iranian drone struck a residential tower in Dubai\u2019s expat enclave of Creek Harbour &#8230;, three survivors were <a title=\"undefined\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/16\/world-news\/survivors-of-iranian-drone-strike-in-dubai-arrested-for-sending-photos-of-the-aftermath\/\" target=\"undefined\">arrested<\/a> after sending photos of their damaged home in private messages simply to reassure relatives they were safe&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/article\/2026\/04\/01\/dubai-uae-iran-war-crackdown-safety\/\">How the Iran War Cracked Dubai\u2019s Liberal Facade<\/a> (Time)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Abbas has called for a strike against the death-to-Palestinians law:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/4\/1\/palestinians-in-west-bank-protest-strike-against-israeli-death-penalty-law\">Palestinians in West Bank Protest, Strike Against Israeli Death Penalty Law<\/a> (Aljazeera)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2026\/4\/2\/israels-death-penalty-law-is-not-about-executing-palestinians\">Israel\u2019s Death Penalty Law Is Not About Executing Palestinians: It Is About Eliminating Palestinian Existence in Palestine<\/a> (Aljazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>War updates: Trump Says Iran War Is \u2018Nearing Completion\u2019 as He Seeks to Calm Economic Worries (Washington Post) Takeaways from Trump\u2019s Address: No End Date for Iran War and Few Details on Strategy Ahead (AP) Unbothered by Reality, Trump Gives Disjointed Update on Iran War (Time) Attacks Persist on Iran and Across the Mideast as [&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-94455","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\/94455","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=94455"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94458,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94455\/revisions\/94458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}