Both sides are satisfied enough with the first round of talks to schedule another. Is it a ruse? RSF and war crimes continue: Bessent claimed "the Trump administration’s 'maximum pressure campaign' against Iran [rather than the Iranian government's blunders] was responsible for collapsing the country’s economy and sparking the protests and unrest that began at the end of December": "Aggregated data published by the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reports 6,941 confirmed deaths overall, including 171 children" ... ... as reports emerge of "growing signs of discontent among some IRGC members over the continued use of live fire against civilians" ... ... and "[j]ournalists said family members had been threatened with arrest and the seizure of their assets unless their loved ones stopped reporting on Iranian unrest": "According to The New York Times, the approval of the arms deals marks the third time that the Trump administration bypassed Congress to send [$6.5 billion in] weapons to Israel" ... ... and the administration has also approved "$12 billion in arms sales to Saudi Arabia ... a few months after Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman visited President Trump at the White House": "They indicate that blackouts, filtering, forced migration to state platforms and aggressive enforcement against circumvention tools are intended to become permanent features of Iran’s digital landscape": "Under the resolution, the police are required to provide the groundwork for issuing such licenses to women, with practical training for female applicants and the administration of licensing exams": The “'three no’s' ...have been referred to as 'poison pill' demands which Israel has pressured Washington to adopt given that they are designed to make any diplomatic agreement with Iran impossible" ... ... but "Trump knows Iran is not pursuing nuclear weapons," he just wants to remove "the only actor in the region beyond U.S. control": The "BoP’s presentation of plans for 'New Gaza' offered stark clarity about the greed-driven intentions Trump, his inner circle, and their Israeli billionaire partners seek to pursue, while raising a fundamental question as to how such a project of colonization and land theft could claim any legal basis at all, let alone a moral one":
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