{"id":95346,"date":"2026-10-02T05:34:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T10:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=95346"},"modified":"2026-10-02T05:34:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T10:34:04","slug":"news-and-analysis-10-2-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=95346","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis 10\/2\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;[T]he group of ships now en route to the Middle East together carry over 7,000 sailors and 2,000 Marines&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-war-trump-ships-deployment-middle-east-42c23e9af0333f4bc3b4f419cc3a603e\">Third Aircraft Carrier and Thousands of Troops Head to Mideast as Trump Weighs New Iran Strikes<\/a> (AP)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThe investigation into circumstances surrounding events in Gloucestershire is hugely complex, and our specialist teams are interrogating multiple lines of inquiry\u201d:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2026\/oct\/01\/uk-iran-national-arrested-terrorism-act-raf-fairford\">UK-Iran National Arrested Under Terrorism Act over RAF Fairford Incident<\/a> (The Guardian)<\/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:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/border-agents-are-randomly-seizing-phones-of-us-citizens-who-support-palestine\/\">Border Agents Are Randomly Seizing Phones of US Citizens Who Support Palestine<\/a> (Truthout)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/10\/1\/jewish-human-rights-barrister-94-arrested-for-supporting-palestine-action\">Jewish Human Rights Barrister, 94, Arrested for Supporting Palestine Action<\/a> (Aljazeera)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2026\/10\/1\/germany_palestine_advocacy_crackdown\">\u201cBerlin 4\u201d Lawyer on Pro-Palestine Protest Crackdown &amp; Germany\u2019s Unconditional Support for Israel<\/a> (Democracy Now!)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropsitenews.com\/p\/palestinian-journalist-israeli-megiddo-prison-jenin-mujahed-saadi?publication_id=2510348&amp;post_id=218384790&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=46bwo&amp;triedRedirect=true\">Cruelty, Deprivation, Indignity: My 22 Months in Israeli Prison<\/a> (Drop Site)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The arrest this week of the six journalists of Matsadaash (Arabic for \u201cDon\u2019t Believe\u201d) sparked an outcry from international and regional rights groups who called it an &#8216;alarming escalation on independent media and freedom of expression]&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/10\/02\/world-news\/egypt-arrests-entire-media-editorial-team-over-muslim-brotherhood-accusations\/\">Egypt Arrests Entire Media Editorial Team over Muslim Brotherhood Accusations<\/a> (NY Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The &#8220;President also dismissed low poll ratings as \u2018fake numbers\u2019 and deflected responsibility for Iran war in Time interview&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/01\/trump-iran-war-poll-ratings-time-interview\">Trump Doesn\u2019t Rule Out Declaring State of Emergency Before Midterm Elections<\/a> (The Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; while forcing taxpayers to pay for an ad focused &#8220;on speeches and images of celebration that all came in the first three days of the war, when it looked like Iran\u2019s government could collapse,&#8221; but aired &#8220;as the war enters its seventh month and continues <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/21\/trump-iran-war-stirs-anger-maga-kentucky\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">to<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/18\/trumps-deeply-unpopular-war\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">alienate<\/a> many of Trump\u2019s supporters&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/01\/trump-iran-war-ad-fox-taxpayers\">White House Airs New Taxpayer-funded Ad Praising Trump\u2019s War on Iran<\/a> (The Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cPalestine offers a kind of condensed case study for how the state emerges, how the state becomes the enemy of the people and then what we do about that\u201d:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/themacweekly.com\/2026\/10\/professor-bamyeh-holds-a-talk-on-how-statism-failed-palestine\/\">Professor Bamyeh Holds a Talk on How Statism Failed Palestine<\/a> (The Mac Weekly)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"dn-text\">&#8220;No tankers loaded in Iran during September as the US blockade choked off the country\u2019s oil exports.\u00a0This has forced production cuts to domestic minimums as floating storage has plunged&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tradewindsnews.com\/tankers\/iran-tanker-loadings-plunge-to-zero-for-first-time-in-war-as-us-blockade-strangles-kharg-island-exports\/2-1-2052866\">Iran Tanker Loadings Plunge to Zero for First Time in War as US Blockade Strangles Kharg Island Exports<\/a> (TradeWinds)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;If convicted, Ellaboudy faces up to 20 years in prison, the Justice Department said&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/energy-department-employee-arrested-fbi-iran-houthis-yemen-ashton-ellaboudy\/\">Energy Department Employee Arrested by FBI for Allegedly Trying to Support Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen<\/a> (CBS News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/10\/01\/india\/india-captain-smit-machchhar-flydubai-intl-hnk\">Capt. Smit Machchhar<\/a>, the Indian pilot who has been hailed for his heroism in thwarting the suspected hijacking attempt, continues to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/10\/01\/world\/live-news\/flydubai-flight-israel-pilot-passengers-intl?post-id=cmupq9u7d000d3d5ukrmxz8vy\">receive medical attention<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/10\/01\/world\/live-news\/flydubai-flight-israel-pilot-passengers-intl\">Pilot Suspected of Flydubai Attack Transferred to UAE as Investigation Unfolds<\/a> (CNN)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;[T]he group of ships now en route to the Middle East together carry over 7,000 sailors and 2,000 Marines&#8221;: Third Aircraft Carrier and Thousands of Troops Head to Mideast as Trump Weighs New Iran Strikes (AP) \u201cThe investigation into circumstances surrounding events in Gloucestershire is hugely complex, and our specialist teams are interrogating multiple lines [&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-95346","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\/95346","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=95346"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95350,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95346\/revisions\/95350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}