Links to ELEVEN reports, analyses and discussions: from Anadolu Ajansi, the Associated Press, Reuters, National Public Radio, Middle East Monitor, the Cradle, ScheerPost, Geopolitical Economy Report, and Consortium News; other published material is accessible by clicking on their names or initials. (Scroll down for IRAN 5-2-26. Scroll up for LEBANON, GAZA and ENERGY.) — MCM
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Trump must choose ‘impossible’ war or ‘bad deal’ with Iran, says IRGC, by Serdar Dincel | Anadolu ISTANBUL — In a post today on the U.S. social media company X, the intelligence department of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps said Tehran sent the U.S. military a deadline to end its blockade of Iranian ports. READ MORE . . . Click HERE for same Anadolu report in French, and HERE for others.
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NEWER Cargo ship near Strait of Hormuz says it’s attacked as Iran makes new peace proposal, by Adam Schreck and Melanie Lidman | AP DUBAI — A cargo ship near the Strait of Hormuz said it was attacked by multiple small craft, according to the British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center today, marking at least two dozen attacks in and around the strait since the Iran war began. READ MORE . . . Click HERE for same AP report in Spanish; and HERE for others. Click HERE for report from Reuters.
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Iran submits 14-point response to U.S. proposal to end war. From NPR. Iran has submitted a 14-point response to the U.S. proposal to end the conflict that began with U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran on February 28, according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency and the state-owned media organization Press TV. READ MORE . . .
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Iran sets one-month deadline for U.S. to end naval blockade, wars in Iran, Lebanon. From Middle East Monitor. Iran has set a one-month deadline for negotiations on a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, end a U.S. naval blockade and permanently end the war in Iran and Lebanon, according to a report Saturday by Axios, Anadolu reports. READ MORE . . . Click HERE for report from the Cradle.
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Israel approves multi-billion dollar Lockheed, Boeing fighter squadrons to ‘boost air superiority.’ From the Cradle. Israel has approved a plan to purchase two new squadrons of F-35 and F-15IA warplanes from U.S. weapons makers Lockheed Martin and Boeing, in a deal worth tens of billions of dollars, the war ministry announced today. READ MORE . . .
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FROM MAY 2 Oil, empire, and the price of war, by Joshua Scheer of ScheerPost and Ben Norton of Geopolitical Economy Report This war isn’t just being fought with missiles — it’s being waged through oil markets, currencies, and corporate balance sheets. Meanwhile, a global energy system is being weaponized in real time. Click HERE for article by Scheer and video presentation by Norton.
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FROM MAY 2 Trump’s trap, Trump’s sanity, by Patrick Lawrence | Special to CN The Trumpster’s mental instability — indeed, his relationship with reality — is much remarked upon these days. Threatening to destroy one of humanity’s oldest civilizations, blowing his cool so badly his adjutants recently locked him out of the Situation Room so they could coherently discuss . . . the situation . . . READ MORE . . .
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Watch: The World This Week: ‘Economic war or bombs?’ Joe Lauria of Consortium News, former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, and former U.S. Marine Corps intelligence officer Scott Ritter talk about a range of topics related to the Iran war, among them Israeli pressure to restart military acts, the economic war, Russia’s role as a mediator, President Trump’s mental condition, and King Charles III’s speech before Congress. Click HERE for video.
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