{"id":94735,"date":"2026-05-07T04:24:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T09:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=94735"},"modified":"2026-05-07T04:24:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T09:24:48","slug":"news-and-analysis-5-7-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=94735","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis 5\/7\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Hope that the two-month conflict could soon end <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/stocks-markets-rates-iran-trump-oil-44bac8b794519ae9169f968ddc9ea675\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">buoyed international markets<\/a><\/span> on Thursday, even as the U.S. military fired on an Iranian oil tanker attempting to breach an American blockade of Iran\u2019s ports hours earlier&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-us-israel-war-may-7-2026-fdc6d2ae9396377919c967746fa9996b\">Iran Reviewing US Proposal as Trump Pressures Tehran for Agreement on Deal to End War<\/a> (AP)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; but Iran &#8220;denied any involvement by Tehran\u2019s armed forces in an incident that damaged a South Korean vessel in the Strait of Hormuz&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/us-israel-iran-war\/iran-denies-involvement-in-attack-on-south-korean-vessel-in-strait-of-hormuz\/3929696\">Iran Denies Involvement in Attack on South Korean Vessel in Strait of Hormuz<\/a> (Andalu Ajansi)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;All parties would declare an end to the war, including Iranian proxy Hezbollah and Israel. And then the strait would be opened as quickly as possible. The second phase would focus on the longer-running issues of contention&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/show\/u-s-and-iran-exchange-new-proposals-to-end-war\">U.S. and Iran Exchange New Proposals to End War<\/a> (PBS)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Settler violence and Israeli war crimes continue:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/5\/6\/shoot-palestinians-not-settlers-israeli-general-exposes-double-standard\">Shoot Palestinians, Not Settlers: Israeli General Exposes Double Standard<\/a> (Aljazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;[T]he attack that struck the school building was carried out by a Pakistani military drone, as an ongoing war between Pakistan and Afghanistan continues to escalate across Kunar Province&#8221;:<\/p>\n<div class=\"subscribe-widget is-signed-up is-fully-subscribed\" data-component-name=\"SubscribeWidget\">\n<div class=\"pencraft pc-reset button-wrapper\">\n<ul>\n<li class=\"pencraft pc-display-flex pc-justifyContent-center pc-reset\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropsitenews.com\/p\/pakistant-afghanistan-university-attack?publication_id=2510348&amp;post_id=196702745&amp;isFreemail=false&amp;r=46bwo&amp;triedRedirect=true\">\u201cWe Stopped Classes and Tried to Flee\u201d\u2014Pakistan Targets Afghan Civilians in Scorched-Earth Military Campaign<\/a> (Drop Site)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Behind an image of defending democracies &#8220;sits a network of former Israeli military and intelligence officials who have spent years pushing the US towards confrontation with Iran&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/5\/6\/what-is-the-fdd-the-pro-israel-think-tank-shaping-trumps-iran-policy\">What Is the FDD, the Pro-Israel Think Tank Shaping Trump\u2019s Iran Policy?<\/a> (Aljazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThe decision to remove Palestine has nothing to do with historical accuracy\u201d &#8212; Marchella Ward, a lecturer in classical studies at the Open University:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/06\/palestinian-ambassador-protest-foreign-office-british-museum\">Palestinian Ambassador Protests to Foreign Office over \u2019Erasure\u2019 by British Museum<\/a> (The Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;[T]he Iranians are so far refusing to give him what he needs to save face and leave. And he does not seem to understand that they need to save face, too&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/05\/06\/iran-deal-obstacle-trump-ego-00909102\">The Biggest Obstacle to an Iran Deal May Be Trump\u2019s Ego<\/a> (Politico)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Hope that the two-month conflict could soon end buoyed international markets on Thursday, even as the U.S. military fired on an Iranian oil tanker attempting to breach an American blockade of Iran\u2019s ports hours earlier&#8221; &#8230; Iran Reviewing US Proposal as Trump Pressures Tehran for Agreement on Deal to End War (AP) &#8230; but Iran [&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-94735","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\/94735","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=94735"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94742,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94735\/revisions\/94742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}