{"id":94801,"date":"2026-05-14T04:54:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T09:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=94801"},"modified":"2026-05-14T04:54:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T09:54:02","slug":"news-and-analysis-5-14-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=94801","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (5\/14\/26)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;[T]hree Republican senators broke with their party over President Donald Trump\u2019s handling of the conflict&#8221; but the &#8220;deciding vote was cast by Senator John Fetterman, a Pennsylvania Democrat and staunch supporter of Israel&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/article\/2026\/05\/13\/iran-war-vote-senate-murkowski-closest-vote-yet\/\">3 Republicans Join Democrats in Closest Senate Vote Yet to Halt Iran War<\/a> (Time)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Sarsour says he never understood the charges presented against him in Hebrew and that he was tortured in Israeli custody&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2026\/5\/13\/salah_sarsour_ice_milwaukee_muslim_leader\">Free Salah Sarsour: Muslim &amp; Jewish Communities Demand ICE Release Milwaukee Mosque Leader<\/a> (Democracy Now)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Did he or didn&#8217;t he?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/netanyahu-reveals-he-secretly-visited-uae-during-iran-war-hails-historic-breakthrough\/\">Netanyahu Says He Secretly Visited UAE During Iran War, Hails \u2018Historic Breakthrough\u2019<\/a> (Times of Israel)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/netanyahu-secret-visit-united-arab-emirates-iran-war-664cf1ec33396a66d11e8509f8a5d10c\">UAE Denies Netanyahu Secretly Visited the country during the Iran War<\/a> (AP)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The president seems less upset about the developments in Iran than he does about Americans knowing about the developments in Iran&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ms.now\/rachel-maddow-show\/maddowblog\/as-evidence-contradicts-the-white-houses-line-on-iran-trump-targets-free-press\">As Evidence Contradicts the White House\u2019s Line on Iran, Trump Targets Free Press<\/a> (MS Now)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"wpds-c-PJLV article-body type-text\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\" data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"AEMC24LRINAQDAPKQ2MZYMKJPE\" data-el=\"text\">&#8220;Benjamin Netanyahu said this month he had &#8216;ordered the establishment of a special project to thwart the drone threat. It will take time,&#8217; he said&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"null\" data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"AEMC24LRINAQDAPKQ2MZYMKJPE\" data-el=\"text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2026\/05\/13\/hezbollahs-unjammable-drones-pose-new-threat-israel\/\">Hezbollah\u2019s Unjammable Drones Pose New Threat to Israel<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;While Washington believed conflict would leave a weakened Tehran unable to aid its proxies, Hamas has dug in on refusing to disarm&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/us-thought-iran-war-would-hasten-gazas-demilitarization-instead-hamas-is-emboldened\/\">US Thought Iran War Would Hasten Gaza\u2019s Demilitarization. Instead, Hamas Is Emboldened<\/a> (Times of Israel)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Beijing will require concessions from the US, likely over Taiwan, if it were to aid in resolving the crisis&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/5\/13\/trump-xi-summit-chinas-help-in-iran-may-require-us-concessions\">Trump-Xi Summit: China\u2019s Help in Iran May Require US Concessions<\/a> (Aljazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A third Chinese tanker passes through Hormuz &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-896072\">Chinese Supertanker Breaks Through US-Iran War Blockade in Hormuz<\/a> (Jerusalem Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; while Britain says an unnamed &#8220;ship anchored off the east coast of the United Arab Emirates has been seized and is heading toward Iranian territorial waters&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-us-israel-war-oil-hormuz-may-14-2026-efb53c39ee6334733e1cb22ca4a6c279\">Ship Is Reported Seized off the Coast of the UAE and Is Heading Toward Iran<\/a> (AP)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Although the photos are staged, Akhlaghi sees her work more as &#8216;historical paintings,&#8217; rooted in fact rather than a type of &#8216;photo journalism'&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/news\/2026\/05\/14\/peabody-museum-from-iran-azadeh-akhlaghi\">At Harvard&#8217;s Peabody Museum, a Visual Testimony of Iran&#8217;s Undocumented History<\/a> (WBUR)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;[T]hree Republican senators broke with their party over President Donald Trump\u2019s handling of the conflict&#8221; but the &#8220;deciding vote was cast by Senator John Fetterman, a Pennsylvania Democrat and staunch supporter of Israel&#8221;: 3 Republicans Join Democrats in Closest Senate Vote Yet to Halt Iran War (Time) &#8220;Sarsour says he never understood the charges presented [&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-94801","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\/94801","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=94801"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94808,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94801\/revisions\/94808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}