{"id":94940,"date":"2026-06-11T05:30:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T10:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=94940"},"modified":"2026-06-11T05:30:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T10:30:51","slug":"news-and-analysis-6-11-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=94940","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis 6\/11\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The U.S and Iran traded strikes for a second day, pushing the Middle East closer to the resumption of a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/iran\">full-scale war<\/a>&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2026\/06\/11\/iran-us-ceasefire-hezbollah-israel-11-june-2026\/ae2d8764-6553-11f1-bdd4-805ebb99a693_story.html\">Iran Responds to a Second Day of US Strikes by Firing at Gulf States and Jordan<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; &#8220;A wave of US strikes represents the gravest test yet of the fragile truce&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jun\/11\/iran-ceasefire-us-attacks-strikes-deal\">Is the Iran Ceasefire Over? What the Latest US Attacks Tell Us<\/a> (The Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;It is unclear if the U.S. intentionally struck the facility or knew what it was. Deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure could constitute a war crime&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/10\/world\/middleeast\/precision-strike-iran-water.html\">Analysis of Satellite Image and Videos Suggest Precision U.S. Strikes on Iranian Water Facility<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Donald Trump, losing patience over the protracted negotiations to end the war, has leaned into violence to ratchet up the pressure on the Iranian leadership&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/are-the-us-and-iran-back-at-war-why-bombing-your-way-to-peace-wont-work-284952\">Are the US and Iran Back at War? Why Bombing Your Way to Peace Won\u2019t Work<\/a> (The Conversation)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Zionist war on free speech continues:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/americas\/trump-administration-considering-revoking-trita-parsi-s-permanent-residency-over-stance-on-us-iran-war-report\/3963776\">Trump Administration Considering Revoking Trita Parsi\u2019s Permanent Residency over Stance on US-Iran War: Report<\/a> (Andalu Ajansi)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.palestinedeepdive.com\/p\/every-us-counterterrorism-law-traces?publication_id=22185&amp;post_id=201486792&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=46bwo&amp;triedRedirect=true\">&#8220;Every US Counterterrorism Law Traces Back to Criminalising Dissent on Palestine<\/a> (Drop Site \/ Palestine Deep Dive)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Twenty-one countries on the agency&#8217;s 35-member board of governors voted for the resolution at its headquarters in Vienna&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arkansasonline.com\/news\/2026\/jun\/11\/atomic-energy-agency-orders-iran-compliance\/\">Atomic Energy Agency Orders Iran Compliance<\/a> (Arkansas Democrat Gazette)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Israeli war crimes continue:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/06\/11\/g-s1-127411\/amnesty-israel-west-bank\">Amnesty Accuses Israel&#8217;s Government of &#8216;Ethnic Cleansing&#8217; of West Bank Palestinians<\/a> (NPR)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.palestinedeepdive.com\/p\/the-heroic-doctor-who-refused-to?publication_id=22185&amp;post_id=201565395&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=46bwo&amp;triedRedirect=true\">The Heroic Doctor Who Refused to Leave His Patients<\/a> (Palestine Deep Dive)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A &#8220;collective of activist groups &#8211; called on people to march to the regional capital Muzaffarabad to protest against the reservation of 12 seats for refugees in upcoming elections&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cdxdyn5716xo\">Thousands March in Pakistan-administered Kashmir as Clashes Kill at Least 15<\/a> (BBC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The U.S and Iran traded strikes for a second day, pushing the Middle East closer to the resumption of a full-scale war&#8221; &#8230; Iran Responds to a Second Day of US Strikes by Firing at Gulf States and Jordan (Washington Post) &#8230; &#8220;A wave of US strikes represents the gravest test yet of the fragile [&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-94940","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\/94940","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=94940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94942,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94940\/revisions\/94942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}