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In today’s edition, Andrea Mitchell breaks down the critical decision against President Donald Trump on the Israeli-Iranian conflict. In addition, Lawrence Hurley examines the questions that a major decision of the Supreme Court on the rights of transgender people has not remained unanswered.
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Political showdown at the center of Trump’s decision in Iran
By Andrea Mitchell
While President Donald Trump examines if the United States strikes Iran – probably the most important decision of his second term, the one that could redo the landscape of the Middle East – the allies and adversaries take sides, both in the country and abroad.
“I can do it. I may not be doing it ”, Trump said journalists outside the White House Earlier in the day. “No one knows what I’m going to do.”
The president openly admired the effectiveness of Israel’s initial air strikes against Iran, even if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has clearly launched his strikes to interrupt Trump’s nuclear diplomacy with Tehran.
But after being postponed in April when he asked for Trump’s approval for a joint operation against the Iranian nuclear program, Netanyahu could be about to persuade an American president to provide the B-2 to deliver “Bunker Buster” bombs of 30,000 pounds Capable of penetrating the concrete fortress suspected of hiding the most dangerous stocks of uranium teheran almost of arms quality, on the basis of new Israeli intelligence. Senator Mark Warner, D-VA., The vice-president of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said on MSNBC today who is in conflict with a briefing at the Congress this week that US intelligence had not changed: Iran has not decided to build a nuclear weapon.
The argument of Israel is that it is now or never. He beheaded two of Iranian proxies – Hezbollah and Hamas – and overthrew the Assad regime in Syria, and his reprisal strikes eliminated many Iran’s aerial defenses last year. The Air Force of Israel could damage the nuclear sites and the missile bases of Iran if it struck now, before Iran repairs its defenses, but cannot eliminate the nuclear threat without American bombs and bombers to reach the most critical underground installation.
This created a political showdown for the heart and mind of Trump, which publicly sucked in the Nobel Prize, seeing itself as a peaceful who could bring Iran back to the community of non -terrorist nations and avoid another “war forever”. Fighting this vision is his competing impetus to join Israel to eliminate the nuclear threat once and for all. And the leaders of Tehran clearly judged how much the patient Trump would be with their refusal to compromise in the negotiations.
Russian President Vladimir Putin remains on the sidelines, concerned about his own war. The king of Jordan Abdullah II and the French president Emmanuel Macron firmly oppose American participation. Trump consulted Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, the most influential leader in the Gulf.
At home, Maga’s base is dividedWith Senator Lindsey Graham, RS.C., leading the Hawks and an increasing cohort of republican insulation – even in Trump’s office – opposed. More importantly, the director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard published a very produced anti-war video on his official account X, which would have exasperated his boss.
Critics are concerned about the involuntary consequences of military action, repeating the former secretary of state Colin Powell warning before the American war in Iraq. It’s like the Pottery Barn rule: if you break it, you have it.
Consider our latest reports on the Israel-Iran conflict:
In the middle of climbing global tensions, Trump is struggling to be a pacifier ” ,, by Peter Nicholas, Peter Alexander, Jonathan Allen and Dan de Luce
The change of regime supported by the United States has a checkered past – Iran may not be differentby Alexander Smith
Will the air strikes of Israel cause the collapse of the Iranian regime?by Dan de Luce and Alexander Smith
Tucker Carlson collides with Senator Ted Cruz: “You don’t know anything about Iran”. by Megan Lebowitz
The decision of the Supreme Court on transgender medical care of young people leaves wider legal questions not resolved
By Lawrence Hurley
The Supreme Court ruled that maintained a law of Tennessee The prohibition of certain care for young transgenders has left various legal questions open, even if other laws intended for people according to gender identity, including those involving sporting and military prohibitions, heading for judges.
This means that even if transgender rights activists face a setback, the decision does not control how other cases will ultimately take place.
“This decision has little, or even no light on how the majority of judges will analyze or govern on other questions,” said Shannon Minir, lawyer in the National Center for LGBTQ Rights.
More specifically, the Court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, did not address the key question of the question of whether these laws should be automatically examined by the courts with a more skeptical eye, an approach known as “increased control”. In practice, this would mean that laws on transgender people should erase a higher legal bar to be maintained.
The judges jumped by answering this question because the court concluded that the law of Tennessee prohibiting gender transitional care for minors did not discriminate at all transgender people.
But other cases are likely to raise this problem more directly, which means that in -depth attention will be paid to what the judges have said in the various written opinions, as well as what they have not said.
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