{"id":94459,"date":"2026-04-03T05:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T10:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=94459"},"modified":"2026-04-03T05:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T10:17:10","slug":"news-and-analysis-4-3-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=94459","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis 4\/3\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the war continues unabated &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-us-israel-trump-lebanon-april-3-2026-a6365c6123cc8a696474f576d4ce7668\">Iran Fires on Targets Across Mideast While Israel and US Hit Tehran as War Shows No Signs of Slowing<\/a> (AP)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; &#8220;<span data-schema=\"smart-brevity\">the Army&#8217;s most senior general &#8230; is being removed&#8221; &#8230; <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/04\/02\/iran-war-hegseth-remove-gen-george-army-chief-staff\">Hegseth Removes Army&#8217;s Top General During Iran War<\/a> (Axios)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; &#8220;The Pentagon intends to replace him with a leader aligned with Hegseth and President Donald Trump\u2019s vision for the Army, the official added. They did not specify what this vision entails&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2026\/04\/02\/hegseth-asks-armys-top-general-to-retire-immediately-as-iran-war-rages\/\">Hegseth Asks Army\u2019s Top General to Retire Immediately as Iran War Rages<\/a> (Military Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As the U..S. runs out of military targets &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/04\/02\/trump-vows-to-keep-attacking-iran-but-hes-running-out-of-targets-to-hit-00856497\">Officials Warn US Is Running Out of Targets to Strike in Iran<\/a> (Politico)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; it turns to the destruction of civilian infrastructure:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/04\/02\/trump-iran-bridge-stone-age\">U.S. Bombs Iran&#8217;s <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/04\/02\/trump-iran-bridge-stone-age\">Civilian Infrastructure for First Time After &#8220;Stone Ages&#8221; Threat<\/a> (Axios)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/02\/trump-warns-tehran-more-to-follow-after-strike-destroys-irans-largest-bridge\">Trump Warns Tehran \u2018More to Follow\u2019 After Strike Destroys Iran\u2019s Largest Bridge<\/a> (The Guardian)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/video\/multiple-airstrikes-hit-iranian-missile-sites-in-isfahan-260573765896\">Dramatic Videos Show the Attack on the B1 Bridge in Iran<\/a> (NBC News)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/us-israeli-strike-hits-iran-s-qom-tehran-highway-report\/3890030\">US-Israeli Strike Hits Iran\u2019s Qom-Tehran Highway: Report<\/a> (Andalou Ajansi)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/4\/3\/iran-condemns-us-israeli-moral-collapse-after-attacks-on-civilian-sites\">Iran Condemns US-Israeli \u2018Moral Collapse\u2019 After Attacks on Civilian Sites<\/a> (Aljazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; while Iran takes &#8220;its first action against US and Israeli &#8216;espionage&#8217; firms in the region in retaliation for the &#8216;assassinations&#8221; of Iranians'&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadailyasia.com\/hk\/article\/631512\">Iran says It Hit Amazon&#8217;s Cloud Computing Center in Bahrain<\/a> (China Daily)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In &#8220;a sign that the war will continue to escalate despite President Trump\u2019s claims that he is looking to end the conflict[, t]he aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush and other warships &#8230; are expected to arrive in the Middle East in a few weeks&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2026\/03\/31\/us-deploying-another-aircraft-carrier-to-the-middle-east-for-iran-war\/\">US Deploying Another Aircraft Carrier to the Middle East for Iran War<\/a> (Antiwar.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Israeli war crimes continue:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2026\/03\/31\/israeli-dm-says-all-of-south-lebanon-will-be-occupied-villages-leveled-in-accordance-with-gaza\/\">Israeli DM Says All of South Lebanon Will Be Occupied, Villages Leveled \u2018in Accordance with Gaza\u2019<\/a> (Antiwar.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The agency refused to prosecute alleged national security, labor, and white-collar crime while increasing immigration cases&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2026\/04\/02\/justice-department-drops-23000-cases-to-make-room-for-trumps-immigration-crackdown\/\">Justice Department Drops 23,000 Cases To Make Room for Trump&#8217;s Immigration Crackdown<\/a> (Reason)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;His comments come just weeks after the <em>Bulletin &#8230; <\/em>moved its <a href=\"https:\/\/thebulletin.org\/2026\/01\/press-release-it-is-85-seconds-to-midnight\/\">Doomsday Clock<\/a> \u2013 a gauge of how close the world is to annihilation \u2013 from 89 to 85 seconds to midnight<strong>,<\/strong> and warned that humanity is now &#8216;the closest it has ever been to catastrophe'&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euractiv.com\/interview\/interview-doomsday-clock-chief-slams-absolutely-idiotic-us-israeli-war-on-iran\/\">INTERVIEW: Doomsday Clock Chief Slams \u2018Absolutely Idiotic\u2019 US-Israeli War on Iran<\/a> (Euractiv)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;China has expressed strong opposition to any resolution that authorizes the use of force&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devdiscourse.com\/article\/politics\/3861137-strait-of-hormuz-tensions-rise-over-bahrains-resolution-for-shipping-security\">Strait of Hormuz: Tensions Rise over Bahrain&#8217;s Resolution for Shipping Security<\/a> (Devdiscourse)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the war continues unabated &#8230; Iran Fires on Targets Across Mideast While Israel and US Hit Tehran as War Shows No Signs of Slowing (AP) &#8230; &#8220;the Army&#8217;s most senior general &#8230; is being removed&#8221; &#8230; Hegseth Removes Army&#8217;s Top General During Iran War (Axios) &#8230; &#8220;The Pentagon intends to replace him with a [&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-94459","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\/94459","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=94459"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94467,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94459\/revisions\/94467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}