{"id":94882,"date":"2026-05-27T04:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T09:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=94882"},"modified":"2026-05-27T04:35:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T09:35:00","slug":"news-and-analysis-5-27-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=94882","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis 5\/27\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EID MUBARAK!!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The smell that once marked Eid \u2013 grilled meat shared between neighbours and relatives \u2013 has disappeared, replaced by dust, smoke and the stench of destruction&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.palestinedeepdive.com\/p\/eid-beneath-the-rubble?publication_id=22185&amp;post_id=199332453&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo3MDEzODMyLCJwb3N0X2lkIjoxOTkzMzI0NTMsImlhdCI6MTc3OTgwNjczOSwiZXhwIjoxNzgyMzk4NzM5LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMjIxODUiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.4U48qj6p4gqFoxFDc83Eh0NzrAgOz0QGoG_GRpDDYDY&amp;r=46bwo&amp;triedRedirect=true\">Eid Beneath the Rubble<\/a> (Palestine Deep Dive)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The attacks prompted Tehran to warn that it would &#8216;leave no act of hostility unanswered,&#8217; complicating negotiations to end the war&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2026\/05\/26\/us-renews-strikes-iran-citing-threats-posed-american-troops\/\">Iran Threatens Retaliation After U.S. Strikes in Southern Iran<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; but &#8220;[i]f President Trump decides to resume major combat operations in Iran, most of the targets left to strike are hidden or able to be moved around, sources say&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/national-security\/remaining-military-targets-iran-are-challenging-complicated-hit-source-rcna346204\">Remaining Military Targets in Iran Are More Challenging and Complicated to Hit, Sources Say<\/a> (NBC News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Israel is &#8216;deepening its operation&#8217; in Lebanon, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, as the Israel Defense Forces pushed beyond the demarcation zone established in a U.S.-brokered ceasefire last month, forcing civilians to flee&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2026\/05\/26\/lebanon-ceasefire-falters-trump-pushes-iran-deal\/\">Lebanon Ceasefire Falters as Trump Pushes for Iran Deal <\/a>(Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The decree aimed at restoring internet access to its pre-January state was communicated to the Ministry of Communications by the president,&#8217; the Iranian news agency Tasnim reported&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/5896061-internet-access-restored-iran\/\">Iran President Ends Internet Blackout, Orders Access to Be Restored<\/a> (The Hill)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A &#8220;former U.S. official said some of their Arab official contacts view the Trump demand as a &#8216;poison pill,&#8217; adding that &#8216;it creates new conditions for peace that neither Iran nor the states in question will accept'&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/05\/26\/trump-muslim-majority-nations-abraham-accords-00936785\">Join the Abraham Accords? US Allies Scoff at Trump\u2019s Demand<\/a> (Politico)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Freedom is &#8230; not wholly a physical condition. It is also mental. In Gaza, death may have been raining on me, but I felt like a true survivor \u2014 my mind was not colonised&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.palestinedeepdive.com\/p\/survival-outside-gaza-was-a-lie?publication_id=22185&amp;post_id=199334642&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=46bwo&amp;triedRedirect=true\">Survival Outside Gaza Was a Lie<\/a> (Palestine Deep Dive)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Conflict and cuts in funding have left World Food Programme \u2018taking from the hungry to feed the starving'&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2026\/may\/27\/us-israel-war-on-iran-driving-historic-levels-of-global-hunger-un-says\">US-Israel War on Iran Driving Historic Levels of Global Hunger, UN Says<\/a> (The Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EID MUBARAK!! &#8220;The smell that once marked Eid \u2013 grilled meat shared between neighbours and relatives \u2013 has disappeared, replaced by dust, smoke and the stench of destruction&#8221;: Eid Beneath the Rubble (Palestine Deep Dive) &#8220;The attacks prompted Tehran to warn that it would &#8216;leave no act of hostility unanswered,&#8217; complicating negotiations to end the [&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-94882","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\/94882","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=94882"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94884,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94882\/revisions\/94884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}