"According to the United Nations nuclear watchdog, Iran is the only state without nuclear weapons enriching uranium to 60 percent":

• Iran Suggests It Could Dilute Highly Enriched Uranium for Sanctions Relief (Aljazeera)

Settler violence and Israeli war crimes continue:

• Including a Child, Army Kills Seven Palestinians in Gaza (IMEMC)
• Palestinians Say New Israeli Measures in West Bank Amount to de Facto Annexation (BBC)
• Muslim Countries, EU Join Condemnations of Israeli Moves Deepening West Bank Control (Times of Israel)
• Israeli Prisons 'Begin Preparations to Apply Death Penalty' for Palestinians (Middle East Eye)
• Israel Used Weapons in Gaza that Made Thousands of Palestinians Evaporate (Aljazeera)
• Misery Deepens in the West Bank as Israel Provides Few Palestinian Work Permits (AP)

Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Esmail Baghaei ... said the US 'must act independently of foreign pressures, especially Israeli pressures that ignore the interests of the region and even the US'":

• Iran Says Nuclear Talks Gauged 'Seriousness' of US as Araghchi Refuses to Halt Uranium Enrichment (Jerusalem Post)

Sudanese civilian murders persist, and are likely to get worse:

• Deadly Drone Attacks on Civilians Continue in Sudan’s Kordofan, UN Says (Aljazeera)
• Sudan: UN Rights Chief Says Worse Is to Come Without International Action (UN)
• Ethiopia Builds Secret Camp to Train Sudan RSF Fighters, Sources Say (Reuters)

The Zionist war on free speech -- and the resistance -- continues:

• Family Says DHS Is Withholding Location of Hospitalized Pro-Palestine Protester (Truthout)
• US Judge Blocks Trump Administration’s Effort to Deport Rumeysa Ozturk (Aljazeera)

Montgomery County Public School "officials said students observing Eid al-Fitr this year will receive an excused absence. Several Montgomery County Council members said that’s not enough":

• Makeup Snow Day on Major Muslim Holiday Sparks Backlash (Baltimore Banner)

"The rough control of objecting crowds, the paranoid insistence that protesters are paid agitators and outsiders, the harassment and arrest of political rivals: these are all hallmarks of the “new authoritarianism,” pioneered abroad and imported to the United States":

• What Iran Teaches Us About Minneapolis (Foreign Policy in Focus)

"Since the 1960s, Jewish legacy groups have made a concerted effort to sideline any Jewish organization that dares to criticize the Israeli government or to call for an end to occupation":

• The JFNA Survey Proves It: ‘Zionism’ Today Only Impedes the Conversations that Jews, Israelis and Palestinians Need (JTA)

"The U.S. has bolstered airpower and air defenses in the Middle East and Europe as the Trump administration has threatened to strike Iran if a deal constraining its nuclear program is not reached":

• F-35s Deploy Closer to Middle East After US Talks with Iran (Air & Space Forces)

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