The role of the Gulf states in the Iran war greater than previously known and the risks in the future are sobering:<\/p>\n
The rise in real prices wrought by the Iran War is something worse than inflation …<\/p>\n
… but Trump gives “Not even a little bit” of thought to Americans’ financial situations in negotiating with Iran …<\/p>\n
… and Hegseth thinks Congress has no role at all …<\/p>\n
… yet, “[e]ven as he insisted that the U.S. military has plenty of missile defense systems and other munitions for the Iran war or future conflicts, Hegseth told House and Senate lawmakers overseeing defense spending that the Trump administration is working to ramp up production of weapons”:<\/p>\n
The ruling means that defendants “convicted of criminal damage for disrupting an arms factory …. [can] then be sentenced as \u2018terrorists\u2019 without having been convicted of terror charges and with this having been kept secret from the jury” …<\/p>\n
… but an “unprecedented attempt to criminalise lawyers for doing their job and representing their clients fearlessly” has been foiled:<\/p>\n
Settler violence and Israeli war crimes continue:<\/p>\n
“Iran denies accusations, saying the arrested sailors were in Kuwaiti waters due to their navigation system\u2019s malfunction”:<\/p>\n
“The suspected oil spill covering many square miles of sea near Iran\u2019s main oil hub of Kharg Island has been seen on satellite imagery”:<\/p>\n
“The resolution calls for freedom of navigation through the waterway and urges an immediate halt to Iranian attacks on its Gulf neighbours”:<\/p>\n
“The report cited by Case, published by US defense news outlet The War Zone, said the US Air Force carried out nearly 13,000 flights during the conflict with Iran” …<\/p>\n