First, links to FOUR reports: from the Associated Press, National Public Radio, and Reuters; and to commentary from Middle East Eye; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials. (Scroll down today’s LEBANON so far, and for IRAN 5-25-26.) — MCM

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FROM MAY 25  U.S. military says it carried out ‘self-defense’ strikes on Iran, including on missile launch sites, by Konstantin Toropin, Lindsay Whitehurst and Munir Ahmed | AP  WASHINGTON — The U.S. military said Monday that it carried out “self-defense” strikes in southern Iran, including on missile launch sites and boats placing mines, even as President Donald Trump said on social media that negotiations were “proceeding nicely.” READ MORE . . . Click HERE for same AP report in Spanish, and HERE for others.

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FROM MAY 25  Why Israel is unhappy with the latest U.S. negotiations with Iran. Reported by Daniel Estrin and Mary Louise Kelly | NPR  Israeli officials have called the emerging U.S. deal with Iran a “bad” deal, over concerns that it does not force Iran to give up its nuclear program at the start. Click HERE to listen and, later, read; and HERE and HERE for related reports from NPR and Reuters.

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FROM MAY 25  Iran has won the war. Trump and Netanyahu now face a reckoning, by David Hearst | Middle East Eye  Each day brings a fresh turn in the tortured negotiations between U.S. President Donald Trump and the Islamic Republic of Iran. Each time an agreement on one point is close, Trump picks up the phone to call . . . READ MORE . . .

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