Links to two reports from the Associated Press and to commentaries via ScheerPost and Consortium News; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials. (Scroll up or down for LEBANON, UKRAINE and ALL OF IT, and down for IRAN 6-23-26.) — MCM
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UN nuclear boss says inspectors will visit Iran sites. Tehran says only after a final deal, by Mari Yamaguchi and Jon Gambrell | AP TOKYO — The head of the U.N.’s nuclear agency signaled Wednesday that Iranian nuclear enrichment sites would be visited by his inspectors, a key component in the interim U.S.-Iran to reach
an end to the war. But an Iranian diplomat promptly rejected this, saying such a visit can only come after a final deal — a denial that highlighted the precariousness of the ongoing negotiations.
READ MORE . . . Click HERE for same AP report in Spanish, and HERE for others.
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FROM JUNE 22 Netanyahu’s claims about Iran’s nuclear program run counter to public evidence, by Jon Gambrell | AP DUBAI — Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed that Iran would have developed a nuclear weapon and used it on Israel were it not for
the two recent wars. There is no public evidence for that assessment, which runs counter to those of the U.N. nuclear watchdog and U.S. intelligence agencies.
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FROM JUNE 23 Israel’s game is up, by Chris Hedges | ScheerPost Israel is blind to its own limitations. It is willing to inflict harm on its allies, including the U.S., in service to itself. And that is what it now intends to do. READ MORE . . .
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FROM JUNE 23 In praise of defeat, by Patrick Lawrence | Special to Consortium News Well, J.D. Vance had his first talks with the Iranians — 18 hours of them Sunday tipping into Monday — since the American and Iranian presidents signed the two sides’ much-disputed memorandum of understanding last Wednesday. What got done? READ MORE . . .
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