ADVISORY Watch: The World This Week — ‘Chaos of the old order,’ at 8 p.m. EDT. Joe Lauria of Consortium News talks again with former CIA analyst Ray McGovern and former U.S. Marine Corps intelligence officer Scott Ritter. From CN intro: Chinese and Russian presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin “say unilateral efforts to rule the world ‘have failed’ and ‘a new type of international relations’ emerges despite ‘neocolonial tendencies’ bringing the ‘law of the jungle.'” U.S. President Donald Trump is “mad over Iran and mulls Cuba invasion.” Click HERE later today for Lauria’s analytical article and tonight at 8 to livestream discussion; video to follow after live discussion is over.
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Links to TEN reports or analyses: from CBS News, Reuters, the Associated Press, Middle East Eye, and the Cradle; others or at least headlines are accessible by clicking on their names or initials. (Scroll up for today’s CUBA, UKRAINE, LEBANON and WEST BANK so far. Scroll down for IRAN 5-22-26.) — MCM
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NEWER Trump says U.S. will only sign agreement with Iran ‘if we get what we want, by Tucker Reals, Jennifer Jacobs, Mark Osborne, Nancy Cordes and Frank Andrews | CBS News President Trump said today that negotiators for U.S. and Iran are “getting a lot closer” to finalizing an agreement between the two countries with the latest proposal including . . . READ MORE . . .
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NEWER Iran’s top negotiator says Tehran will not compromise in talks with U.S., by Jana Choukeir | Reuters Iran’s top negotiator, Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, told Pakistani army chief Asim Munir during talks in Tehran on today that the U.S. was not an honest party in negotiations to end their war and Iran would not compromise on its national rights, state television reported. READ MORE . . .
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Iran and U.S. signal some progress in talks as Trump weighs striking again. From AP. JERUSALEM — Iran today signaled “narrowing differences” in negotiations with the U.S. after Pakistan’s army chief held more talks in Tehran and the United States weighs a new round of attacks on the Islamic Republic. READ MORE . . . Click HERE and HERE for two reports from Middle East Eye.
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Three months in, is Trump losing the Iran war? From Reuters. With Iran’s grip on the Strait of Hormuz, its resistance to nuclear concessions and its theocratic government largely intact, doubts are growing that U.S. President Donald Trump can translate tactical military successes into an outcome he can frame convincingly as a geopolitical win against the Islamic Republic. READ MORE . . .
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Tehran demands Arab states pay ‘full compensation’ for facilitating U.S.-Israeli war. From the Cradle. Iran issued a letter to the UN demanding that Persian Gulf states and Jordan pay reparations for facilitating the U.S.-Israeli war against the Islamic Republic, Fars News Agency reported today. READ MORE . . .
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Dozans of nations scramble for World Bank financing amid U.S.-Israeli created global shock. From the Cradle. Twenty-seven countries have moved to activate emergency World Bank financing mechanisms since the US-Israeli war on Iran began in late February, Reuters reported on Friday. Three nations have already received approval for . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM MAY 22 Iran destroyed 20 percent of U.S.’s MQ-9 Reaper drone fleet: report. Middle East Eye. Iran has destroyed $1bn worth of MQ-9 Reaper Drones, or roughly 20 percent of the US’s pre-war inventory of the sophisticated unmanned aerial vehicles, according to a report by Bloomberg on Friday. READ MORE . . .
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FROM MAY 22 Top U.S. intelligence official resigns over war in Iran. From the Cradle. Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, a top U.S. intelligence official, is stepping down this week from two key posts due to her opposition to US President Donald Trump’s war on Iran, the Washington Post reported on Friday. READ MORE . . .
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