{"id":94930,"date":"2026-06-08T03:58:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T08:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=94930"},"modified":"2026-06-08T03:58:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T08:58:23","slug":"news-and-analysis-6-8-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=94930","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis 6\/8\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Iran war resumes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eaworldview.com\/2026\/06\/us-israel-iran-wars-ceasefire-collapse\/\">US-Israel Wars, Day 102: Ceasefires Collapse \u2014 Iran and Israel Attack Each Other After Israelis Strike Beirut<\/a> (EA Worldview)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;\u2018I call all the shots\u2019, not Benjamin Netanyahu&#8221; &#8212; Donald Trump:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jun\/08\/israel-netanyahu-airstrikes-iran-retaliation-defies-trump\">Israel Strikes Iran Despite Trump Plea as Middle East Crisis Threatens to Escalate<\/a> (The Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Iran closes the airspace over the west of the country[,] &#8230; The Iraqi Civil Aviation Authority says Iraqi airspace will remain closed for 72 hours. Syria also temporarily closes its southern airspace for 12 hours&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/liveblog_entry\/iran-iraq-and-syria-order-airspace-closures-after-tehrans-missile-attack-on-israel\/\">Iran, Iraq and Syria Order Airspace Closures After Tehran\u2019s Missile Attack on Israel<\/a> (Times of Israel)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Yemen\u2019s Iran-backed Houthis announced a missile attack on Israel on Monday and declared a ban on Israeli shipping in the Red Sea, raising the specter of a return to major disruption on the key route&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/english.alarabiya.net\/News\/middle-east\/2026\/06\/08\/yemen-s-houthis-declare-ban-on-israeli-shipping-in-red-sea-statement\">Yemen\u2019s Houthis Declare \u2018Total Ban\u2019 on Israeli Ships in Red Sea<\/a> (Alarabiya)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The Pentagon neither responded nor denied the original report and had not done so by press time on Sunday night. The CIA also had not responded&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-898647\">US Sources Dismiss Pentagon Leak Alleging Israeli Spying as Anti-Iran War Pushback<\/a> (Jerusalem Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iran war resumes: US-Israel Wars, Day 102: Ceasefires Collapse \u2014 Iran and Israel Attack Each Other After Israelis Strike Beirut (EA Worldview) &#8220;\u2018I call all the shots\u2019, not Benjamin Netanyahu&#8221; &#8212; Donald Trump: Israel Strikes Iran Despite Trump Plea as Middle East Crisis Threatens to Escalate (The Guardian) Iran closes the airspace over 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-94930","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\/94930","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=94930"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94932,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94930\/revisions\/94932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}