{"id":95302,"date":"2026-09-19T05:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T10:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=95302"},"modified":"2026-09-19T05:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T10:28:07","slug":"news-and-analysis-9-19-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=95302","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis 9\/19\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both the number of U.S. troops killed and Iranians killed have been understated:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2026\/09\/18\/more-us-troops-have-died-amid-iran-war-than-pentagon-has-disclosed-publicly\/\">More U.S. Troops Have Died amid Iran War than Pentagon Has Disclosed Publicly<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.algemeiner.com\/2026\/09\/18\/iran-protest-death-toll-exposed-new-report-names-more-than-4000-verified-victims-minimum-number\/\">Iran Protest Death Toll Exposed: New Report Names More Than 4,000 Verified Victims as \u2018Minimum Number\u2019<\/a> (Algemeiner)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Israeli war crimes continue:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/09\/18\/technology\/iran-china-autonomous-ai-influence-campaigns.html?login=email&amp;auth=login-email\">[Israel,] Iran and China Create First-of-Their-Kind Autonomous A.I. Influence Campaigns<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2026\/09\/18\/families-gaza-lived-damaged-building-it-collapsed-killing-21\/https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2026\/09\/18\/families-gaza-lived-damaged-building-it-collapsed-killing-21\/\">Their Gaza home was damaged, but they had nowhere else to go. It cost their lives<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Is anyone surprised?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2026\/09\/18\/robert-kraft-macklemore-ed-sheeran-israel-donations\/\">Robert Kraft Claims His Donations Help Palestinians. Turns Out He\u2019s Funding Friends of the IDF<\/a> (The Intercept)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>President Lee Jae? Myung declared &#8220;that his country would not deploy troops or military assets to support the U.S.-led war against Iran&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/09\/18\/world\/asia\/south-korea-president-lee-jae-myung-trump-iran.html\">Rejecting Trump, South Korean Leader Says He Will Not Send Troops to Iran<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>The Zionist war on free speech continues:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/deportation-case-of-palestinian-activist-salah-sarsour-tests-first-amendment\/?sourceid=1072141&amp;emci=a2bd645f-abb2-f111-a6a7-0022482a9a8d&amp;emdi=3903496e-acb2-f111-a6a7-0022482a9a8d&amp;ceid=2474321&amp;mc_cid=9910dfa8f9&amp;mc_eid=fe35b2c683\">Deportation Case of Palestinian Activist Salah Sarsour Tests First Amendment<\/a> (Truthout)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2026\/09\/16\/new-york-times-trump-free-speech-press-threat\/\">The New York Times Conveniently Forgets the Real Stakes of Attacks on Free Speech<\/a> (The Intercept)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;International law prohibits the practice of &#8216;refoulement,&#8217; returning a refugee to a country where they may be in danger of torture or persecution. But the Trump administration has found a way around that principle through third-country removals&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2026\/09\/17\/they-kept-us-like-animals-afghan-woman-deported-to-africa-by-trump-speaks-out\/?mc_eid=e1ce968106\">&#8216;They Kept Us Like Animals&#8217;: Afghan Woman Deported to Africa By Trump Speaks Out<\/a> (Reason)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;[T]here has never been a known database that has been so comprehensive and has included such a vast array of organizations and everyday people. In total, the archive contains more than 4 million data points&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/middle-east-forum-muslim-database_n_6aa309f9e4b0b2af35a58f64?mc_cid=9910dfa8f9&amp;mc_eid=fe35b2c683\">A Right-Wing Org Quietly Tracked Thousands of Muslim Americans for Decades<\/a> (Huffington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/IrnaEnglish\/status\/2100699124723253514\">said in a statement<\/a> shared by state media that it attacked a Togo-flagged tanker, the Trend, after it tried to navigate through the waterway&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/6097450-us-iran-conflict-straight-of-hormuz-tanker-hit\/\">Iran Says It Struck Oil Tanker in Strait of Hormuz<\/a> (The Hill)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; and &#8220;[h]undreds of thousands of <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/iran\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">Iranians<\/a><\/span> rallied Friday in a government-organized show of defiance after months of war, pledging their readiness to take up arms in the biggest such demonstration since the United States and Israel attacked in February&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-war-rally-volunteers-03488b5cc4c13ecac1a27096b1641972\">Hundreds of Thousands Attend Iran\u2019s Biggest Government-organized Rally Since the War Began<\/a> (AP)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Hegseth has apparently replaced the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Turning_the_other_cheek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"targetBlankDescription\">turn-the-other-cheek<\/a>, love-thy-enemy Jesus you might remember with a curb-stomping Christ who <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2026\/08\/06\/pentagon-department-defense-isaiah-6-8-send-me-iran-war\/\">brays for war<\/a>, revels in violence, and seeks to dispatch America\u2019s enemies to the fiery depths of hell&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2026\/09\/17\/hegseth-christianity-jesus-iran-war\/\">Pete Hegseth\u2019s Unholy War<\/a> (The Intercept)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both the number of U.S. troops killed and Iranians killed have been understated: More U.S. Troops Have Died amid Iran War than Pentagon Has Disclosed Publicly (Washington Post) Iran Protest Death Toll Exposed: New Report Names More Than 4,000 Verified Victims as \u2018Minimum Number\u2019 (Algemeiner) Israeli war crimes continue: [Israel,] Iran and China Create First-of-Their-Kind [&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-95302","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\/95302","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=95302"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95305,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95302\/revisions\/95305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}