For now, links to SIX-plus reports (a dozen or so): from the Associated Press, Reuters, Middle East Eye, the Cradle, and National Public Radio; others or at least headlines are accessible by clicking on their names or initials as highlighted. (Scroll down for IRAN 4-5-26 and this date’s SYRIA so far.) — MCM
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FROM APRIL 5 Trump issues fiery new threat against Iran as details of U.S. aviator’s rescue emerge, by Mattew Lee, Bassem Mroue. Konstantin Toropin and Samy Magdy | AP TEHRAN — U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday made expletive-filled threats against Iran and its infrastructure if it doesn’t open the Strait of Hormuz by his Tuesday deadline, after American forces rescued a wounded aviatorwhose Iran-downed plane fell behind enemy lines. A defiant Iran . . . READ MORE . . . Click HERE for same AP report in Spanish, and HERE for others. Click HERE and HERE for reports from Reuters., and Middle East Eye.
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FROM APRIL 5 U.S. was arming Iranian dissidents through Kurds while negotiating with Tehran, Trump reveals, by Elis Gjevori | Middle East Eye Donald Trump spent Easter Sunday making a series of explosive admissions about the Iran war – revealing that the United States covertly armed protesters inside the country weeks before launching military strikes, even as American negotiators were sitting across the table from senior Iranian officials in Europe. READ MORE . . .
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FROM APRIL 5 Iran claims destruction of U.S. aircraft following reported recovery of second F-15 airman. From the Cradle. Iran announced on Sunday the destruction of multiple U.S. aircraft, including two military helicopters and two C-130 transport planes carrying U.S. special forces seeking to rescue a downed U.S. fighter pilot. READ MORE . . .
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Iran claims retaliatory strikes on key Gulf energy sites, warns U.S. of ‘more destructive phase.’ From the Cradle. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed responsibility for several strikes targeting U.S.-linked energy and petrochemical sites in the Gulf, following U.S.-Israeli attacks on major Iranian infrastructure. READ MORE . . .
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FROM APRIL 5 Legal expert discusses an open letter that says the Iran war violates the U.N. charter. Ayesha Rascoe of NPR asks Stanford Program in International and Comparative Law’s Allen Weiner about international law and an open letter calling the war with Iran a violation of the U.N. charter. Click HERE to listen and read; and HERE and HERE for all five Iran war-related reports from NPR’s “Weekend Edition Sunday” and “All Things Considered” Sunday evening.
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FROM APRIL 4 Drone strike on U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia was Israeli ‘false flag’: IRGC. From the Cradle. Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps rejected on 4 April accusations that it carried out an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia during the early days of the war, saying that it was a false flag operation carried out by Israel. READ MORE . . .
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TO BE CONTINUED