{"id":94961,"date":"2026-06-17T04:05:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T09:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=94961"},"modified":"2026-06-17T04:05:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T09:05:56","slug":"news-and-analysis-6-17-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=94961","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis 6\/17\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration &#8220;denied Israel&#8217;s request to view the newly agreed-upon Memorandum of Understanding before the signing ceremony&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-899606\">US Denied Israel&#8217;s Request to View Iran Deal Prior to Signing Ceremony, Source Tells &#8216;Post&#8217;<\/a> (Jerusalem Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; professing the text is &#8220;incredibly vague, mainly &#8230; aimed at providing Iran the ability to sell it politically to their internal audience&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/06\/16\/politics\/iran-agreement-text-trump\">US Officials Downplay Text of the Iran Agreement, Saying It Doesn\u2019t Account for Back-channel Commitments<\/a> (CNN)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; yet Trump is willing to (at some unidentified point) send the agreement to Congress for approval, which is more than Obama did with the JOPCA agreement Trump reneged on &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/5926050-trump-iran-agreement-congress-approval\/\">Trump Says He\u2019ll Send Iran Deal to Congress for Approval<\/a> (The Hill)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; and &#8220;the text of the 14-point draft memorandum, as seen by Bloomberg News&#8221; has been published:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/economy\/policy\/articles\/read-the-14-point-draft-memorandum-between-the-us-and-iran-220917023.html\">Read the 14-Point Draft Memorandum Between the US and Iran<\/a> (Bloomberg \/ Yahoo)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Israeli war crimes continue:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/6\/16\/israel-seizes-power-over-occupied-west-bank-mosque-from-palestinians\">Israel Seizes Power over Occupied West Bank Mosque from Palestinians<\/a> (Aljazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The prospect of a reopening prompted some shipowners to begin repositioning vessels toward Gulf ports in anticipation of a surge in restocking demand, while most are more cautious&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/06\/17\/iranian-tankers-oil-shipment-us-iran-deal-strait-of-hormuz-.html\">Three Iranian Tankers Exit U.S. Blockade for First Time in Months as Shipowners Eye Hormuz in \u2018Wary Disbelief\u2019<\/a> (CNBC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Dr. Rick Scarborough, former Southern Baptist pastor and president of Recover America &#8230; [told] Mohamed Hussein to convert to Christianity or leave the country&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/articles\/news\/religion\/2026\/06\/16\/554663\/texas-republican-party-convention-muslims-sharia-law\/\">A Muslim Texan Sought to Find His Place in the Party at the State GOP Convention. He Left in Tears<\/a> (Houston Public Media)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Zionist war on free speech &#8212; and the resistance &#8212; continues:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2026\/jun\/16\/palestine-action-ban-will-be-overturned-groups-co-founder-vows\">Palestine Action Ban Will Be Overturned, Group\u2019s Co-founder Vows<\/a> (The Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"gated-content\" data-cy=\"story-go-deeper-content\" data-nosnippet=\"\">&#8220;Critics argue that after shredding the 2015 nuclear deal in his first term, Trump is now <a class=\"gtmContentClick\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/06\/12\/iran-deal-mou-strait-open-sanctions-relief\" target=\"_self\" data-vars-link-text=\"following the same playbook\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/06\/12\/iran-deal-mou-strait-open-sanctions-relief\" data-vars-content-id=\"fb68587c-55f3-4070-b781-1f21a6591be6\" data-vars-headline=\"Breaking down the billions Iran could receive under Trump's deal\" data-vars-event-category=\"story\" data-vars-sub-category=\"story\" data-vars-item=\"in_content_link\">following the same playbook<\/a> \u2014 unfreezing cash in exchange for nuclear concessions \u2014 while potentially going a step further with the rebuilding fund&#8221;:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/06\/16\/trump-iran-deal-billions-frozen-funds\">Breaking Down the Billions Iran Could Receive Under Trump&#8217;s Deal<\/a> (Axios)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;This issue has been resolved. As soon as we became aware of the issue, we worked to ensure that the player can participate in every game&#8221; &#8212; a U.S. Department of State spokesperson:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/story\/_\/id\/49086571\/iran-torabi-cleared-world-cup-us-visa-issue-resolved\">Iran&#8217;s Torabi Cleared for World Cup After U.S. Visa Issue Resolved<\/a> (ESPN)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Four Republicans \u2014 Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Rand Paul of Kentucky \u2014 joined nearly all Democrats in favor. Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was the sole Democrat to oppose&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/senate-war-powers-vote-iran-trump-deal\/\">Senate Rejects Latest Resolution to Limit Trump&#8217;s Iran War Powers<\/a> (CBS News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Any sense of relief is offset by doubts over durability of agreement and feelings of betrayal by Trump administration&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jun\/16\/iran-reaction-peace-deal-agreement-us-trump\">\u2018Everyone Is Angry for Different Reasons\u2019: Scepticism in Iran as Peace Deal Nears<\/a> (The Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration &#8220;denied Israel&#8217;s request to view the newly agreed-upon Memorandum of Understanding before the signing ceremony&#8221; &#8230; US Denied Israel&#8217;s Request to View Iran Deal Prior to Signing Ceremony, Source Tells &#8216;Post&#8217; (Jerusalem Post) &#8230; professing the text is &#8220;incredibly vague, mainly &#8230; aimed at providing Iran the ability to sell it politically [&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-94961","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\/94961","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=94961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94963,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94961\/revisions\/94963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}