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Here are links to seven reports: from Reuters, the Associated Press, Middle East Eye, the Cradle, Middle East Monitor, and Drop Site News; to an article from Conflicts Forum via Consortium News; and to interviews from National Public Radio and Danny Haiphong’s YouTube channel; other published material is accessible by clicking on their names or initials. (Scroll up for today’s 9/11TRUTH, GAZA, LEBANON and UKRAINE, and down for IRAN 7-15-26.) — MCM
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Iran tells Houtis to close second crucial sea route if U.S. hits power grid, by Iran has asked Yemen’s Houthi movement to stand ready to close the Red Sea oil route if the United States strikes Iranian power infrastructure, according to three sources, posing a potent new threat to global energy supplies. READ MORE . . .
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Iran strikes U.S. base in Jordan as American bombardment continues. From Middle East Eye. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it carried out the Jordan attack in retaliation for a strike launched from the base that hit “the vicinity of a children’s cancer hospital.” Iranian drone strikes also targeted U.S. bases and facilities in Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan. READ MORE . . .
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Vance accuses Israeli officials of efforts to keep war on Iran raging. From the Cradle. U.S. Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday accused elements within Israel of trying to derail negotiations with Iran and manipulate U.S. public opinion to keep the war going “indefinitely.” Speaking on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, Vance cited a Time magazine investigation. READ MORE . . . Click HERE for report from Reuters.
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FROM JULY 15 Iran says 35 civilians killed in recent U.S. attacks on south. From Middle East Monitor. At least 35 civilians have been killed and over 300 others injured including women and children in recent U.S. attacks on southern Iran, the Iranian Health Ministry said Wednesday, Anadolu reports. READ MORE . . .
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FROM JULY 15 Iran sent message to JD Vance warning that Kushner and Witkoff were ‘abusing’ their inside access to negotiations, by Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Grim | Drop Site News During the U.S.-Iran talks in Lake Lucerne, Switzerland, in late June, Iranian negotiators sent a private message to Vice President JD Vance through an intermediary, according to a senior Iranian official. READ MORE . . .
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FROM JULY 13 Trump invites self-destruction through the latest escalation of war. Journalist Danny Haiphong talks with former British diplomat Alastair Crooke of Conflicts Forum. Crooke sees a Greek tragedy playing out: a misled and desperate U.S. president confronts an Iran benefitting from civilizational strength. Click HERE for video of interview.
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FROM JULY 9 Iran war 3.0, by Alastair Crooke | Conflicts Forum / Consortium News When the U.S. Navy, in co-ordination with Qatar and Oman, tried to slip a convoy of four vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, via Omani waters, on the night of July 7 — rather than pass via Iran’s officially approved route — U.S. President Donald Trump may have imagined (or been told) . . . READ MORE . . .
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