For now, links to an interview from the Glenn Diesen Show via ScheerPost; to EIGHT reports: from Reuters, the Cradle, the Associated Press, and Middle East Monitor; and to an analysis via Middle East Eye; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials. (Scroll up or down for today’s UKRAINE, LEBANON, MEDIA and ALL OF IT, and down for IRAN 6-8-26.) — MCM
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FROM JUNE 8 Wilkerson: Israel bet everything on war with Iran — and lost. Glenn Diesen of the Glenn Diesen Show talks with former U.S. State Department Chief of Staff Lawrence Wilkerson. From ScheerPost intro: “For decades, Israeli leaders argued that confrontation with Iran was essential to the country’s security and survival. But according to Wilkerson, that strategy has reached a dangerous dead end.” Click HERE for video of interview and print introduction.
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Israel kills eight in strike on Lebanon; U.S. rescues helicopter crew from Hormuz, by Phil Stewart, Maya Gebeily and Tala Ramadan | Reuters WASHINGTON / BEIRUT / DUBAI — Israel struck the historic port city of Tyre in southern Lebanon today, killing at least eight people, in an escalation that adds strain to efforts to broker a peace deal to end the wider Middle East war. On Monday, Israel and Iran halted direct attacks . . . READ MORE . . .
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IRGC declares new regional security belt extending from Hormuz to Red Sea. From the Cradle. The commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force Esmail Qaani today announced the creation of a “new security belt” managed by the Axis of Resistance, spanning from the Strait of Hormuz to the Bab al-Mandab Strait, encompassing the Persian Gulf and Red Sea, to counter military actions by Israel and the U.S. READ MORE . . .
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Iran to pursue ‘war and diplomacy’ simultaneously: Ghalibaf. From the Cradle. Iranian Parliament Speaker and top negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said in comments released today that Tehran will “simultaneously pursue war and diplomacy” as a strategy to defend itself. READ MORE . . .
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