For today, links to reports from Reuters and the Cradle; others are accessible by clicking on their names below. (WEST BANK, LEBANON, GAZA and UKRAINE entries for this date are HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE, or scroll up or down. IRAN 2-16-25 entry is HERE, or scroll down.) — MCM

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Iran says Israel, U.S. ‘cannot do a damn thing’ against Tehran. From Reuters. Iran claims U.S. and Israeli threats against it are a blatant violation of international law and boasts that they cannot “do a damn thing” to hurt Tehran — this after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met on Sunday with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and said . . . READ MORE . . .

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FROM FEB. 11  Leaked documents expose U.S. interference projects in Iran, by Kit Klarenberg | The Cradle  A bombshell leak reviewed by The Cradle exposes the depths of Washington’s long-running campaign to destabilize the Islamic Republic. For years, the U.S. State Department’s Near East Regional Democracy fund . . . READ MORE . . .