Israel started a war with Iran, but it doesn’t know how it ends
Abdaljawad Omar
Mondoweiss / June 14, 2025
Israel's attack on Iran began as a campaign against its nuclear program but has already begun to morph into something far riskier: regime change. It is staking its strategy on deep US involvement, but fault lines between the two are already visible.
The war between...
Friday in Gaza: 51+ killed by Israeli airstrikes & artillery shelling
IMEMC News / June 14, 2025
Israeli forces continued their relentless bombardment of the entire civilian population of the Gaza Strip on Friday, day 614 since the Israeli genocide of the people of Gaza began on October 7, 2023 (with only a brief respite between January 27 and March 18,...
Egypt’s crackdown on the Global March to Gaza
Ahmed Dahaby
Drop Site News / June 14, 2025
Instead of receiving permission from Egyptian authorities to march to the Rafah border crossing, participants have been subject to hotel raids, harassment, arrests, and deportations.
CAIRO, EGYPT—On Friday, some 200 participants in the Global March to Gaza were stopped at a security checkpoint...
Israel’s air might and Iran’s nuclear bunkers may make for lengthy conflict
Dan Sabbagh
The Guardian / June 13, 2025
Lightning air strikes have weakened Iran’s military leadership, but its nuclear facilities are deeply defended.
Israel’s assault on Iran demonstrates a ruthless combination of air power and intelligence – and a significant disparity between the two countries in a conflict that is likely to...
Middle East countries call for urgent de-escalation after Israel’s strikes on Iran
William Christou
The Guardian / June 13, 2025
Foreign ministers condemn strikes amid fears of wider war, but reaction from Iran’s proxies is relatively measured.
Beirut – Nations across the Middle East have condemned the Israeli strikes on Iran, calling for urgent de-escalation amid concerns that tit-for-tat retaliation could lead to a...
Is Iran as close to building a nuclear weapon as Netanyahu claims ?
Patrick Wintour
The Guardian / June 13, 2025
Israeli PM alleges Tehran has capacity to make nine bombs. If so, Israel knows more than the US or the UN watchdog did.
In justifying Israel’s attack on Iran, Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said he had acted to pre-empt a secret Iranian program...
Israeli strikes hit more than 100 targets in Iran including nuclear facilities
Julian Borger, Peter Beaumont & Deepa Parent
The Guardian / June 13, 2025
Tehran says strikes are ‘declaration of war’ while Donald Trump warns of further, more brutal attacks
Jerusalem – Israeli strikes have hit more than 100 major targets in Iran, including nuclear facilities and missile sites, and killed senior military...
The folly of a war with Iran
Chris Hedges
The Chris Hedges Report / June 13, 2025
Israel and its neoconservative allies in the United States have long attempted to start a war with Iran, a war that neither Israel nor the U.S. can win and will engender ferocious blowback.
The neoconservatives who orchestrated the disastrous wars with Afghanistan,...
Israel attacks Iran, killing top military leaders, scientists; hits nuke sites in expanding conflict
Democracy Now! / June 13, 2025
Guests :
Trita Parsi – executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
Gideon Levy – Israeli journalist with Haaretz
Links :
Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
"Israel's Military Leaders Are Not 'Only Obeying Orders.' They Could Have Stopped the Gaza Massacre"
"The Killing of Gaza: Reports...
Amid telecommunications blackout, UNRWA says it lost contact with staff in Gaza
Middle East Monitor / June 13, 2025
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said Thursday it had lost all contact with its staff in Gaza, following a total communications blackout in the besieged enclave, Anadolu agency reported.
On X, the agency wrote: “We have lost all contact with our UNRWA...
