{"id":95363,"date":"2026-10-06T06:03:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T11:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=95363"},"modified":"2026-10-06T06:03:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T11:03:44","slug":"news-and-analysis-10-6-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=95363","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis 10\/6\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump (jokingly?) advise Iran on how to conduct war in a way that benefits him politically:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/us-politics\/trump-iran-los-angeles-san-diego-b3061961.html\">Outrage as Trump Names Two US Cities for Iran to Take Out: \u2018That\u2019s a Very Small Price to Pay\u2019<\/a> (Independent)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Settler violence and Israeli war crimes continue:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.muslimnetwork.tv\/israeli-occupiers-army-injure-8-palestinians-in-west-bank-attacks\/\">Israeli Occupiers, Army Injure 8 Palestinians in West Bank Attacks<\/a> (Muslim Network TV)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2026\/10\/05\/israeli-settlers-race-reshape-west-bank-election-nears\/\">With Attention on Gaza and Iran, Israeli Settlers Grab Land in West Bank<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/imemc.org\/article\/ben-gvir-oversees-jerusalem-demolition-displacing-70-palestinians\/\">Ben-Gvir Oversees Jerusalem Demolition, Displacing 70 Palestinians<\/a> (IMEMC)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/imemc.org\/article\/israeli-forces-invade-west-bank-communities-abduct-palestinians-2\/\">Israeli Forces Invade West Bank Communities, Abduct Palestinians<\/a> (IMEMC)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/imemc.org\/article\/israeli-attacks-kill-two-palestinians-in-gaza\/\">Israeli Attacks Kill Two Palestinians in Gaza<\/a> (IMEMC)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/features\/2026\/10\/6\/widowed-twice-a-gaza-mothers-story-of-loss-and-survival\">Widowed Twice: A Gaza Mother\u2019s Story of Loss and Survival<\/a> (Aljazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Whether the military was properly prepared for treating its wounded has become a sharp point of contention&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-war-soldiers-wounded-military-port-shuaiba-f867128532cb6746c26636c2dbaea2fb\">Soldiers Seriously Wounded in Iranian Drone Strike Tell AP the Military\u2019s Medical System Failed Them<\/a> (AP)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;[A]s security forces extend pressure on families seeking accountability into the most private spaces of their grief nearly nine months after the January 2026 killings&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202610068542\">Clothes, Diaries, Dolls: Iran Forces Raid Slain Protesters\u2019 Rooms<\/a> (Iran International)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; &#8220;human rights activist Narges Mohammadi &#8230; [fears] that another imprisonment could endanger her life&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2026\/oct\/06\/iranian-nobel-laureate-narges-mohammadi-recounts-prison-beating\">\u2018A Return to Prison Is Always Looming\u2019: Iran Nobel Laureate Recounts Torture in Jail and Hopes for the Future<\/a> (The Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The meeting &#8220;took place less than two weeks after Sudanese Foreign Minister Mohieldin Salim Ahmed Ibrahim accused the U.S. of denying a visa for Burhan to attend the high-level week of the U.N. General Assembly last month in New York&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhregister.com\/news\/article\/us-envoy-holds-rare-meeting-with-sudan-s-top-22463650.php\">US Envoy Holds Rare Meeting with Sudan&#8217;s Top General in Push to Seek End to Fighting<\/a> (New Haven Register)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some attribute the high cost of oil despite increased traffic to insurance rates, but head of policy and geopolitical risk at Kpler speculates that &#8220;Gulf countries, she suggested, may be paying Iran to allow their oil through&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/10\/5\/is-iran-charging-a-toll-to-allow-oil-traffic-through-hormuz\">Is Iran Charging a Toll to Allow Oil Traffic Through Hormuz?<\/a> (Aljazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"tdu\">&#8220;Experts say the war most acutely affects people who were already living paycheck to paycheck&#8221;:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/inkstickmedia.com\/how-the-war-is-sharpening-inequality-in-both-the-us-and-iran\/\">Sharpening Inequality in Both the US and Iran<\/a> (Inkstick)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some &#8220;Pentagon appointees &#8230; repeatedly raised questions in meetings about how an extended military campaign against the Houthis could deplete stocks of key U.S. munitions&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2026\/10\/05\/pentagon-dispute-trumps-first-war-foreshadowed-iran-challenges\/\">Pentagon Officials\u2019 Heated Debates Foreshadowed Problems in Iran<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump (jokingly?) advise Iran on how to conduct war in a way that benefits him politically: Outrage as Trump Names Two US Cities for Iran to Take Out: \u2018That\u2019s a Very Small Price to Pay\u2019 (Independent) Settler violence and Israeli war crimes continue: Israeli Occupiers, Army Injure 8 Palestinians in West Bank Attacks (Muslim Network [&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-95363","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\/95363","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=95363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95365,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95363\/revisions\/95365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}