Dear Friends,
Here is the latest round of links to pieces dealing with the US-Israel war against Iran and related issues. Some of these will be dated by the time you receive this, but the issues they raise—concerning Iran's internal politics, the economic impact of the war, and more—are not. I apologize for not offering my usual small commentaries, but I have been a little under the weather. In most cases, I think the titles speaks for themselves in terms of why the piece I've linked to is worth reading.
The Links
- In Strait of Hormuz, Iran and China take aim at US dollar hegemony, by John Power
- Israeli Missile Interceptors Have Dwindled to “Double Digits”: Trump Administration Official, by Ryan Grim and Murtaza Hussain
- A respite in the Gulf, but will it stop the slide to world war? by Yezid Sayigh
- The Effects of the Ongoing Internet Shutdown and the 2 Wars on Journalism in Iran, translations of two pieces from inside Iran by Naghmeh Sohrabi
- Understanding Pro-War Sentiments In Iran, from Naghmeh Sohrabi
- These Iranians supported the US-Israeli war. Now they realise their mistake, by Fleur Hargreaves
- Sweet Lies and Bitter Truths: Iran's Propaganda War, by Roya Khoshnevis
- Inside the Israeli army’s propaganda wing, by Illy Pe’ery
- Gulf Funds Are Recalibrating American Investments, Drop Site News
- Iranian Kurds Deny Receiving US Weapons to Arm Iran's Protestors, by Wladimir van Wilgenburg
- "Not Guns for Hire": Trump's Failure to Trigger a Kurdish Uprising, by Alexis Daloumis
- From Fox News to the Noose: How a Claim About Kurds Became a Useful Narrative, by Mina Khanlarzadeh
- Teaching in the Ruins of Sharif, by Mina Khanlarzadeh
- The Iran War You're Not Hearing About, Ken Klippenstein
- Trump’s NSPM-7 Alarms Law Firms While Congress Is Silent, Ken Klippenstein (NSPM stands for National Security Presidential Memorandum)
- Exclusive: FBI’s New Political Pre-Crime Center, Ken Klippenstein
- How Pakistan’s solar boom is shielding it from worst of Iran war crisis, by Zeeshan Nasir
- Why Turkey will be a key regional powerbroker after Iran war, by Taha Ozhan
- ‘Dying of thirst’: Inside Gaza’s al-Mawasi water crisis, by Maram Humaid
- Bloodbath, by Lucian K. Truscott IV (An analysis of what would happen if Trump decided to put boots on the ground in Iran.)
- Epistles from Israel April 7, 2026, by Judy Lev
- Excerpts from "Trump Is Attacking Iranians, Not Just Iran" an essay in Foreign Policy by Nik Kowsar and Alireza Nader
- Israeli-Backed Militia Launches Deadly Attack on Gaza Refugee Camp Under Cover of Airstrikes, by Mohammed Ahmed, Jawa Ahmad, and Sharif Abdel Kouddous
- 30 Poets for National Poetry Month, Scientists & Poets (A list of 30 poets from Iran, Lebanon, Palestine, and Ukraine)
- The Narrow Geometry of Peace, by Isaiah Wilson III (An analysis of the "bargaining space" between Washington and Tehran)
- Record animal sacrifice attempts at Al-Aqsa prompt status quo fears, by Jivara Budeiri and Mohammad Mansour
- Unfollow Mehdi Hasan: He Hurts Every Cause He Touches, by Maryam Love
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