For now, links to reports from Reuters, the Associated Press, National Public Radio, and Anadolu Agency; and to four articles of commentary; others or at least headlines are accessible by clicking on their sources’ names or initials below. NOTE: Much of today’s NPR Morning Edition coverage related to the Israel-Iran war was soon out of date and is not linked to. (IRAN 6-23-25 is HERE, or scroll down. UKRAINE and GAZA entries for today, so far, are HERE and HERE, or scroll up or down.) — MCM
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NEWER New Israeli strikes reported by media despite Trump’s command to stop. From Reuters. Iranian and Israeli media reported new Israeli airstrikes on Iran today, despite U.S. President Donald Trump having said Israel had called them off at his command to preserve an hours-old ceasefire. READ MORE . . .
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Israel accuses Iran of violating the ceasefire. Iranian military denies it. Updates from AP. President Donald Trump says that, in his view, both Iran and Israel violated a nascent ceasefire he announced earlier. READ MORE . . .
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Why limit Iranian enrichment peacefully when you can bomb them instead? by Joe Lauria | Consortium News In the last great achievement of international diplomacy, the United States and its allies Britain, France and Germany, concluded a deal in 2015 with Russia and China — something that today would be unthinkable — to limit Iran’s nuclear enrichment to purely civilian uses at 3.67 percent. READ MORE . . .
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War on Iran is fight for U.S. unipolar control of world, by Michael Hudson | Geopolitical Economy Report / ScheerPost Opponents of the war with Iran say that the war is not in American interests, seeing that Iran does not pose any visible threat to the United States. This appeal to reason misses the neoconservative logic that has guided U.S. foreign policy for more than a half century and . . . READ MORE . . .
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The phantom ceasefire, by Craig Murray | CraigMurray.org.uk You can never trust the Israelis – or indeed the Americans – with either a ceasefire or a negotiation. READ MORE . . . Click HERE for the author’s June 23 article, via Consortium News.
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Why limit Iranian enrichment peacefully when you can bomb them instead? by Joe Lauria | Consortium News In the last great achievement of international diplomacy, the United States and its allies Britain, France and Germany, concluded a deal in 2015 with Russia and China — something that today would be unthinkable — to limit Iran’s nuclear enrichment to purely civilian uses at 3.67 percent. READ MORE . . .
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Big questions loom over Trump’s announcement of Israel-Iran ceasefire deal, by Matt Spetalnick, Jeff Mason and Steve Holland | Reuters Among the unanswered questions is whether any ceasefire can hold between two bitter foes whose years-long “shadow” conflict had erupted into an air war marked by the past 12 days of strikes on each other’s territory. READ MORE . . .
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FROM JUNE 23 French president says U.S. attacks on Iran have ‘no legal basis,‘ by Ilayda Cakirtekin | Anadolu Agency ISTANBUL — French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday reiterated that the recent U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities lack any legitimate legal basis. He spoke in a joint news briefing in Oslo with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store. READ MORE . . .
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FROM JUNE 23 Trump says Israel and Iran agree to ‘complete and total ceasefire,’ edited by Bridget Brown, Curtis Yee, Cara Anna, Kiana Doyle, Carley Petesch and Nell Clark | AP U.S. President Donald Trump said on social media Monday that Israel and Iran have agreed to a “complete and total ceasefire” to be phased in over 24 hours. Iran’s foreign minister said Iran will stop its attacks if Israel stops its airstrikes by 4 a.m. Tuesday local time in Tehran. Israel did not immediately acknowledge . . . Click HERE to read a report that is being updated, and HERE and HERE for reports from Reuters and Common Dreams.
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FROM JUNE 23 Iran launches missiles at U.S. military base in Qatar in retaliation for American bombing, by David Rising, Jon Gambrell and Melanie Lidman | AP DUBAI — Iran launched a limited missile attack Monday on a U.S. military base in Qatar, retaliating for the American bombing of its nuclear sites but indicating it was prepared to step back from escalating tensions in the volatile region. The U.S. was warned by Iran in advance . . . READ MORE . . . Click HERE and HERE for reports from NPR and Reuters.
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FROM JUNE 23 Atomic agency gave diplomatic cover to war on Iran, by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies | Common Dreams / Consortium News Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, allowed the IAEA to be used by the United States and Israel — an undeclared nuclear weapons state in long-term violation of IAEA rules — to manufacture a pretext for war on Iran, despite his agency’s own conclusion that Iran had no nuclear weapons program. READ MORE . . .
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‘Completely and totally obliterated,’ by Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News / ScheerPost I have heard many unhinged speeches by American presidents over the years, but — no risk of exaggeration here — Donald Trump’s as he declared “a spectacular military success” after seven B–2 bombers attacked three nuclear sites in Iran Saturday night is the barmiest of my lifetime. READ MORE . . .
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