{"id":94867,"date":"2026-05-22T06:23:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T11:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=94867"},"modified":"2026-05-22T06:23:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T11:23:33","slug":"news-and-analysis-5-22-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=94867","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis 5\/22\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Amid hostilities with Iran, the American military expended far more advanced interceptors to protect Israel than Israeli forces did, according to Defense Department data&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2026\/05\/21\/us-bears-brunt-israels-missile-defense-pentagon-assessments-show\/\">U.S. Bears Brunt of Israel\u2019s Missile Defense, Pentagon Assessments Show<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"gated-content\" data-nosnippet=\"\">&#8220;GOP leaders plan to bring the measure back up when the chamber returns from its week-long Memorial Day recess&#8221;:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/05\/21\/house-iran-war-powers-vote\">House Republicans Scrap Vote to Rein in Trump&#8217;s War in Iran<\/a> (Axios)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The State Department on Tuesday issued a cable, obtained by NPR, instructing the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem to pressure Palestinian officials to drop the leadership bid or face the potential revocation of their U.N. delegation&#8217;s U.S. visas&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/05\/21\/g-s1-123450\/us-palestinians-united-nations-general-assembly\">Palestinians Drop Bid for a Senior U.N. Role After U.S. Pressure<\/a> (NPR)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Right now we\u2019re doing a pause in order to make sure we have the munitions we need for Epic Fury [the Iran war] \u2013 which we have plenty&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/22\/us-arms-sales-taiwan-pause-iran-war-says-acting-navy-chief\">US Arms Sales to Taiwan on \u2018Pause\u2019 Due to Iran War, Says Acting Navy Chief<\/a> (The Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;U.S. intelligence assesses that Iran could fully reconstitute its drone attack capability in as soon as six months&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/05\/21\/world\/video\/ac360-karim-sadjadpour-beth-sanner\">Sources Tell CNN that According to U.S. Intelligence, Iran Is Rebuilding Its Military Capability Faster than Expected <\/a>(CNN)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Israeli war crimes continue:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/iran-war-israeli-strike-kills-two-in-southern-lebanon\/live-77258282\">Iran War: Israeli Strike Kills Two in Southern Lebanon<\/a> (Deutsche Welle)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The discussions suggest that the United States and the Iranian government may not be close to reaching a deal to end a war that has badly damaged the global economy&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/21\/world\/middleeast\/iran-strait-of-hormuz-tolls.html\">Iran and Oman in Talks Over Strait of Hormuz Ship Payment System<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The Iran war is pushing the UAE and Israel into unprecedented cooperation, while Saudi Arabia looks elsewhere to counter Tehran without empowering Jerusalem&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-896875\">Iran War Pulls Some Gulf States Toward Israel, While Pushing Others Away<\/a> (Jerusalem Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Amid hostilities with Iran, the American military expended far more advanced interceptors to protect Israel than Israeli forces did, according to Defense Department data&#8221;: U.S. Bears Brunt of Israel\u2019s Missile Defense, Pentagon Assessments Show (Washington Post) &#8220;GOP leaders plan to bring the measure back up when the chamber returns from its week-long Memorial Day recess&#8221;: [&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-94867","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\/94867","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=94867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94869,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94867\/revisions\/94869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}