First, links to TEN reports and analyses: from Reuters, the Associated Press, National Public Radio, and Jonathan-Cook.net; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials. (Scroll up or down for today’s ALL OF IT, LEBANON, WEST BANK and MEDIA, and down for IRAN 5-24-26.) — MCM
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NEWER Iran’s top envoys discussing potential peace deal with Qatar prime minister, official says, by Michael Martina and Elwely Elwelly | Reuters NEW DELHI / DUBAI — Iran’s top negotiator and its foreign minister were in Doha for talks with Qatar’s prime minister on a potential deal with the U.S. to end the three-month-old war, an official briefed on the visit said today, after Washington and Tehran played down hopes for an imminent breakthrough. READ MORE . . .
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What we know and don’t know about the emerging deal to end the Iran war, by Samy Magdy, Darlene Superville and Cara Anna | AP CAIRO — A deal appears to be emerging between the United States and Iran to end the war and open the Strait of Hormuz, and U.S. President Donald Trump over the weekend said it had been “largely negotiated.” It is not clear . . . READ MORE . . . Click HERE for same AP report in Spanish; and HERE for others.
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FROM MAY 24 Has the U.S. lost the war in Iran? Reported by Daniel Ofman, Adrian Florido and Sarah Robbins | NPR As both the U.S. and Iran signal a peace deal is near, Robert Kagan, a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, says the U.S. will likely come out weaker than before the war. Click HERE to listen and, later, read. Click HERE, HERE and HERE for links to the other Iran war-related reports last night and today from NPR.
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FROM MARCH 20 How the U.S. and Israel came close to launching a war on Iran 20 years ago, by Jonathan Cook | Jonathan-Cook.net In 2008, Pluto Press published my book Israel and the Clash of Civilisations: Iran, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East. It was an attempt to explain . . . READ MORE . . .
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