Hot Dispute: Iran has announced that by the end of this month it will have breached its agreement to limit the amount of enriched uranium it has in its stockpile. The country’s atomic energy agency said Iran has quadrupled production of fuel for reactors and potential nuclear weapons.

  Iran expressed a willingness to back off if other signatories to the 2015 nuclear agreement convince the US to lift its punishing economic sanctions.

  This comes in the midst of an already heated situation over attacks on oil tankers. 

  While the world has doubts about whether ran was responsible for the attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman last week, Secretary of state Mike Pompeo said yesterday that the US will be releasing convincing proof. “There is no doubt,” he said on “Fox News Sunday.” “The intelligence community has lots of data, lots of evidence. The world will come to see much of it, but the American people should rest assured we have high confidence with respect to who conducted these attacks as well as half a dozen other attacks throughout the world over the past 40 days.”

China Syndrome: The political crisis in Hong Kong appears to be growing as hundreds of thousands and perhaps a million or more people hit the streets again Sunday, rejecting the apology of their political leader for a bill that would allow criminal suspects to be extradited to the mainland for trial.

 Protesters said the apology of Carrie Lam seemed insincere and made under pressure.

  The protesters demanded complete withdrawal of the bill, not just an indefinite suspension, and the rescinding the official description of protests as an illegal riot, which could expose anyone arrested during the violent demonstration to long jail terms.

  Willy Lam, an adjunct professor at the Center for China Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong told The NY Times,  “If Beijing wants to do something that really infringes upon Hong Kong’s basic value, Hong Kong people will turn out in force, again and again, to pour out their discontent.”

Trump Heights:Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has named a new community to be built on the disputed Golan Heights as “Trump Heights.”  Israel took the Golan from Syria in 1974. “We are proud that we have the opportunity to establish a new settlement and to give thanks to a great friend,” Netanyahu said during a celebration at the site.

  Trump has recognized Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan although most of the rest of the world has not. Putting his name up there is like sticking the American flag in the eyes of Syria and the Palestinians. Trump is pleased to have his name anywhere and everywhere.

  Maureen Dowd wrote in The NY Timesover the weekend that, “It is very disorienting when those who are supposed to be our highest moral exemplars have no morals — not even of the alley-cat variety.”

 She says, It’s turning out to be a genuinely reactionary administration led by a wannabe authoritarian who refuses to recognize constitutional checks on power. The real danger is not the antics but the policies. If Trump isn’t careful, he’s going to add substance to his administration. And it won’t be the kind we want.”

Poll Purge: Just two days before he is expected to formally announce for re-election, an outraged President Trump has fired three out of five campaign pollsters after the leak of unfavorable results.

 Trump called the polls “fake” and even said “those polls don’t exist,” but his own advisers have confirmed they do. The polls show Trump trailing former Vice President Joe Biden in several important battleground states.

  The NY Timesreports that, “By removing several pollsters, the campaign hopes to shrink the circle of outside operatives who have access to information that could leak, according to the presidential adviser, who was not authorized to speak publicly.”

From the Pitch:The US women’s soccer team won its second game in the World Cup yesterday, beating Chile 3-0. They play again on Thursday. “We have the best team in the world,” defender Ali Krieger said, “and the second-best team in the world.”

Fatal Error:Speaking in Paris, Boeing’s chief executive admitted that the company made a “mistake” in devising a cockpit warning light on the 737 Max that’s been grounded because of two catastrophic crashes. Dennis Muilenburg spoke to reporters on the eve of the Paris Air Show, a major sale event for aircraft makers.

  The mechanism that made an angle of attack warning light work was optional, and most airlines that bought the Max didn’t choose to get it. The light indicates disagreement between two sensors as to whether the jet is nosing up or nosing down. 

  Muilenburg said yesterday, “We clearly had a mistake in the implementation of the alert.” 

  No kidding.