Iran, 4-25-26

ADVISORY  Watch: The World This Week: ‘War on hold,’ at 8 p.m. EDT tonight. Joe Lauria of Consortium News and former CIA analyst Ray McGovern talk with former UN weapons inspector Marine Corps intelligence officer Scott Ritter about “the latest developments in the Iran war as Donald Trump cancels his realtors’* return to Islamabad.” Click HERE at 8 p.m. EDT to livestream and read print introduction, and later for video.

* Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner

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Links to reports from the Associated Press and National Public Radio, an essay from Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, and documentary films via Consortium News; other published material is accessible by clicking on their names as highlighted. (Scroll down for IRAN.) — MCM

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Iran’s foreign minister leaves Pakistan without meeting with U.S. envoys, officials say, by Munir Ahmed, Samy Magdy and Jon Gambrell | AP  ISLAMABAD — Iran ‘s foreign minister left Pakistan this evening, two Pakistani officials told The Associated Press, before any sign that U.S. envoys had even arrived for indirect talks on the fragile ceasefire. READ MORE . . .  Click HERE for same AP report in Spanish.  Click HERE for report from NPR.

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FROM APRIL 23  Iran’s civilizational strength, by Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research  In December 1997, the Organisation of the Islamic Conference released the Tehran Declaration, which advanced the idea of a “Dialogue of Civilisations” — a direct response to Samuel Huntington’s 1993 essay and 1996 book The Clash of Civilisations and the Remaking of World Order. READ MORE . . .

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FROM APRIL 24  Watch: Inside Iran. Four films by Dimitri Lascaris | Consortium News. In late March, Lascaris, a Canadian lawyer, journalist and filmmaker, spent 11 days in Iran while the country was under U.S. and Israeli bombardment. Click HERE for four of the films he produced and a brief print introduction.

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* Among the news organizations with frequent war updates, photos and occasionally maps are Al Jazeera, the Associated Press, Middle East Eye, and Middle East Monitor. They are found HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE. AP and El País reports in Spanish are HERE and HERE. *

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TO BE CONTINUED