Published: 25 June 2019
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Trump may chicken out on Iran, frets Israel (Al-Monitor)
BEN CASPIT: Israeli security officials are getting worried that escalating tensions between the United States and Iran could spill over into Israel through an attack by Hezbollah on the northern border
Something stopped Trump from striking Iran, and it wasn't 150 lives (Haaretz)
ZVI BAR’EL: US president says he aborted an attack on Iran out of concern for civilians, but his real fear is what one attack could spiral into
Aborted US attack exposes fatal flaw in Netanyahu’s Iran strategy: Trump’s problematic personality (Haaretz)
CHEMI SHALEV The concurrent emergence of yet another credible witness to Trump’s sexual aggression is not detached from his failures on the world stage
Two linked crises in the Persian Gulf (Lobelog)
Iran shot down a surveillance drone and crowed about it. President Donald Trump says that he decided to strike back at Iran but called it off with 10 minutes to spare. Thus, the most dangerous international game of “chicken” in recent times came within moments of supreme folly by Iran and the United States
Photo: Sailors standing on deck above a hole the US Navy says was made by a limpet mine on the damaged oil tanker anchored off the UAE on June 19 (Fay Abuelgasim/AP)
