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Trump repeats threat of attack on Iran
The US president has been asked whether a potential response to any Iranian push for a nuclear weapon would include a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
“Of course it does,” Trump said.
Iran and the US held talks over the weekend, but Trump expressed some impatience at the pace of the talks before the next round this coming weekend.
“I think they’re tapping us along,” Trump said. “These are radicalised people, and they cannot have a nuclear weapon.”
The radicalized people are the Maga supporters. There's no appetite for war in Iran, Iran isn't posing any threat to the US. It's Netanyahu that wants the US to attack Iran to get rid of the last bit of resistance worth a damn to his genocidal expansionist policies.
Netanyahu would love to be able to freely bomb Iran like he does Lebanon, Syria and threatening to bomb Iraq as well, Trump doing it for him in Yemen.
Palestinian student arrested in US faces deportation to West Bank: Report
Another Palestinian student at Columbia University has been arrested by US immigration services over involvement in protests against Israel’s war on Gaza, The Intercept reports.
Mohsen K Mahdawi, a permanent resident who was applying for US citizenship, is facing removal, days after an immigration judge ruled that the deportation case against another Columbia University student, Mahmoud Khalil, could proceed.
“Mohsen Mahdawi was unlawfully detained today for no reason other than his Palestinian identity,” his lawyer, Luna Droubi, said in a statement to The Intercept. “He came to this country hoping to be free to speak out about the atrocities he has witnessed, only to be punished for such speech.”
The lawyer challenged the legality of Mahdawi’s detention, and alleged that the government was violating his statutory and due process rights by punishing him for speech related to Palestine and Israel.
The Trump administration is seeking to deport many students across the country, based on allegations of anti-Semitism and alignment with Hamas, without providing any evidence to back its claims.
“The fight for freedom of Palestine and the fight against anti-Semitism go hand-in-hand because injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,” Mahdawi told CBS News in November 2023.
Deportation to a war zone no less. No doubt he'll end up in one of the Israeli torture camps.
Harvard refuses to comply with Trump’s rules on ‘anti-Semitism’, risks funding cut
Harvard University has said it will not comply with a list of demands from the Trump administration that purport to crack down on anti-Semitism and civil rights violations, putting $9bn of federal grants and contracts on the line.
University president Alan Garber said in a letter that the institution would “not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights”.
The statement comes days after the Trump administration warned Harvard that it must comply with an updated and expanded list of demands if it intends to “maintain [its] financial relationship with the federal government”.
The institution was required to “‘audit’ the viewpoints of our student body, faculty, staff, and to ‘reduc[e] the power’ of certain students, faculty, and administrators targeted because of their ideological views”, Garber said.
“The administration’s prescription goes beyond the power of the federal government,” he continued. “No government – regardless of which party is in power – should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.”
The Trump administration has sought to crack down on pro-Palestinian speech at US universities after widespread campus protests in opposition to Israel’s war on Gaza over the past 18 months.
