{"id":94956,"date":"2026-06-16T05:51:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T10:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=94956"},"modified":"2026-06-16T05:51:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T10:51:02","slug":"news-and-analysis-6-16-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=94956","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis 6\/16\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If we get to a Friday signing ceremony without this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jun\/14\/trump-calls-for-restraint-israel-airstrikes-beirut-us-iran-peace-deal\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">uncertain new US-Iran deal<\/a> being derailed by any of its inherent ambiguities, then nuclear talks can finally restart &#8230; at almost exactly the same point they were before this conflict started&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jun\/15\/analysis-us-iran-peace-deal-nuclear-talks-resume\">Trump Hails Iran Deal that Fixes Nothing Except a Problem His War Caused<\/a> (The Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; The US-Iran ceasefire is welcome. But the US president is trying to disguise a failed war of choice as a diplomatic victory:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/jun\/15\/the-guardian-view-on-donald-trumps-iran-deal-a-pause-is-not-a-triumph\">The Guardian View on Donald Trump\u2019s Iran Deal: a Pause Is Not a Triumph &#8212; Editorial<\/a> (The Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"gated-content\" data-cy=\"story-go-deeper-content\" data-nosnippet=\"\">&#8220;While Trump announced the &#8216;immediate&#8217; lifting of the U.S. blockade and opening of the strait on Sunday, he later said it would open on Friday once the ceremony takes place&#8221;:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/06\/15\/trump-iran-deal-questions-strait-funds\">The 8 Unresolved Questions in Trump&#8217;s Iran Deal<\/a> (Axios)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Critics &#8230; say the prime minister misjudged Trump&#8217;s appetite for a protracted conflict, was outflanked by Iran in negotiations and grew increasingly sidelined by the region&#8217;s other major players&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/world\/israelis-argry-over-u-s-iran-peace-deal-lash-out-at-netanyahu\">Israelis Angry over U.S.-Iran Peace Deal Lash Out at Netanyahu<\/a> (PBS)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; and &#8220;Israelis disparaged the peace deal and said the fight against Hezbollah would go on&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2026\/06\/15\/israelis-denounce-trumps-deal-with-iran\/\">Israelis Denounce Trump\u2019s Deal with Iran<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; and &#8220;Israel\u2019s more focused fight against the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia in Lebanon still has the power to disrupt broader American efforts to resolve its monthslong war with Iran&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/world\/israel\/us-iran-ceasefire-deal-memorandum-israel-netanyahu-hezbollah-lebanon-rcna350085\">Renewed Fighting Between Israel and Hezbollah Could Scupper the U.S-Iran Deal<\/a> (NBC News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Zionist war on free speech &#8212; and the resistance&#8211; continues:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c4gy927jx88o\">Palestine Action Ban Is Lawful, Court of Appeal Rules<\/a> (BBC)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/6\/16\/israel-uses-battlefield-evidence-to-prosecute-palestinians-abroad\">Israel Uses \u2018Battlefield Evidence\u2019 to Prosecute Palestinians Abroad<\/a> (Aljazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Few analysts believe final settlement can be reached in 60 days \u2013 and even if it is, war and instability could soon return&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jun\/15\/us-iran-ceasefire-respite-true-peace-distant\">US-Iran Deal May Get Oil Flowing Again, but Region\u2019s Root Problems Are Unsolved<\/a> (The Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A &#8220;a conservative lawyer &#8230; won the nonpartisan mayoral runoff Saturday &#8230;\u00a0 over a retired construction company owner, called immigrants &#8216;rats&#8217; and Islam a &#8216;terrorist group'&#8221; after &#8220;candidates who used similar anti-immigrant rhetoric won recent statewide runoffs&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2026\/06\/15\/anti-islam-candidate-loses-mayors-race-texas-city-torn-over-immigration\/\">Anti-Islam Candidate Loses Mayor\u2019s Race in Texas City Torn over Immigration<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;We spent so much time in the air commuting, they didn&#8217;t even give us time to recover. After the game today, they said to us, &#8216;You have to leave immediately&#8221; &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=469\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"bf49dbeb-e7e8-b8f1-27e8-ae3c730ac278\">Iran<\/a> coach Amir Ghalenoei:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/story\/_\/id\/49078938\/iran-forced-leave-us-new-zealand-draw\">&#8216;Oppressed&#8217; Iran Forced to Leave U.S. After New Zealand Draw<\/a> (ESPN)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"wpds-c-PJLV article-body type-text\" data-qa=\"article-body\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If we get to a Friday signing ceremony without this uncertain new US-Iran deal being derailed by any of its inherent ambiguities, then nuclear talks can finally restart &#8230; at almost exactly the same point they were before this conflict started&#8221; &#8230; Trump Hails Iran Deal that Fixes Nothing Except a Problem His War Caused [&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-94956","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\/94956","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=94956"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94960,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94956\/revisions\/94960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}