For now, links to six reports: from the Associated Press, Reuters, Middle East Eye, and National Public Radio; and to three articles of commentary, from Middle East Eye and ScheerPost; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (IRAN 6-16-25 is HERE, or scroll down.  SYRIA and GAZA entries for this date, so far, are HERE and HERE, or scroll up.) — MCM

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Israeli strikes damage Iran’s underground nuclear site, agency says as Trump warns Tehran, by Joseph Krauss, Jon Gambrell, Natalie Melzer and Melanie Lidman | AP  DUBAI — Israel pounded Iran for a fifth day in an air campaign against its longstanding foe’s military and nuclear program, as U.S. President Donald Trump warned residents of Tehran to evacuate and suggested the United States was working on something “better than a ceasefire.” READ MORE . . .  Click HERE for report from Reuters.

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Trump rejects U.S. intelligence that Iran is not building nuclear weapon. From Middle East Eye. U.S. President Donald Trump has dismissed a U.S. intelligence assessment that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon, he said on an overnight flight back to Washington from the G7 summit. READ MORE . . .

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The latest on the conflict between Iran and Israel. Reported by Hadeel Al-Shalchi and A Martínez | NPR  President Trump left the G7 summit in Canada to focus on the conflict between Israel and Iran, he said. NPR reports the latest in the rapidly escalating conflict between the two countries. Click HERE to listen and, later, read.

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FROM JUNE 16  Israel claims control of Iran’s skies, but Tehran is managing to hit back. Reported by Greg Myre and Scott Neuman | NPR  Israel says it has crippled Iran’s air defenses and that it can now strike targets across the country at will. Click HERE to listen and read.

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FROM JUNE 16  Israel downs most incoming Iranian missiles, but some got through to deadly effect. Reported by Hadeel Al-Shalchi | NPR  Missile strikes between Iran and Israel continued over the weekend and we look at a number of places hit in and around the Israeli city of Tel Aviv. Click HERE to listen and, later, read.

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Why Netanyahu is frantically trying to pull the U.S. into Israel’s war on Iran, by Sami Al-Arian | Middle East Eye  Before Israel’s unprovoked military attack on Iran last Friday, June 13 — two days before the sixth round of U.S.-Iran nuclear talks was set to resume — Tehran had been working to reaffirm its commitments . . . READ MORE . . .

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FROM JUNE 15  The folly of a war with Iran, by Chris Hedges | Orignal to ScheerPost / Consortium News  The neoconservatives who orchestrated the disastrous wars with Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya — and who were never held accountable for the profligate waste of $8 trillion taxpayer dollars, as well as $69 billion squandered in Ukraine — look set . . . READ MORE . . .

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FROM JUNE 16  The world’s most dangerous man and his enabler, by Patrick Lawrence | Orignal to ScheerPost  It is some years since I described Benjamin Netanyahu as the most dangerous man in West Asia. READ MORE . . .

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TO BE CONTINUED