Links to three reports from National Public Radio and to two commentaries via Middle East Eye and Consortium News; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials. (Scroll up for today’s UKRAINE so far, and down for IRAN 11-10-26.) — MCM

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Trump says U.S. won Iran war, Iran responds. Reported by Hadeel Al-Shalchi and Michel Martin | NPR  President Trump said that the U.S. won the war with Iran but that the U.S. naval blockade would continue. Iranian officials responded on the sidelines of an international climate summit in Turkey. Click HERE to listen and, later, read; and HERE and HERE for two more NPR reports.

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Trump cannot freeze the Iran war on his own terms, by Shahir Shahidsaless | Middle East Eye  Washington can choose to maintain a blockade. It cannot decide how long Tehran will tolerate it. READ MORE . . .

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FROM NOV. 10  Economic coercion worked in 1950s Iran — not now, by Eric Lob | Florida International University / The Conversation / Consortium News  The U.S. war in Iran — now into its ninth month — is increasingly resembling an earlier episode of Iranian-Western conflict. In the early 1950s, the British imposed a two-year blockade and embargo . . . READ MORE . . .