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⚡ BUDAPEST — Paks offline Sunday. Orban loses his cheapest card. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Paks provides ~50% of Hungary's electricity — the cheapest baseload in the EU. With Hormuz throttled and spot prices elevated, Hungary must import at crisis rates. That cost lands on Budapest's budget and erodes Orban'
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Trump calls off Iran strikes: "deal perimeters reached." But Hormuz remains under fire, Kuwait hit by Iranian drones, a tanker disabled. Day 156: the war doesn't stop — only the script changes.
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Trump cancella gli strike su Iran: "i perimetri di un accordo sono stati raggiunti". Ma Hormuz resta sotto attacco, Kuwait colpita da droni iraniani, un tanker immobilizzato. Giorno 156: la guerra non si ferma — cambia solo il copione.
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🎙️ WASHINGTON — Rubio says the bombs worked. Tehran hasn't agreed. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Rubio's framing is domestic — turning Trump's canceled strike into leverage, not retreat. Iran hasn't confirmed any parameters, and Araghchi is still working Ankara and Islamabad. If Tehran accepts that bombs produce
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⏱️ WASHINGTON — A deal framework appeared hours after Trump canceled a strike. That's not coincidence. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Trump's strike cancellation at 02:45 now has a stated rationale — regional allies brokered parameters, not Washington directly. That framing shields Trump from concession optics but leaves Tehran unaddressed. Iran
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⏱️ WASHINGTON — Trump just canceled a strike on Iran. Nobody saw the call coming. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: With US-Israel already hitting Iran's power grid tonight and CENTCOM stretched on interceptors, a last-minute cancellation points to one of three levers: MBS's phone call landed, markets crossed a
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🇸🇦 RIYADH — Iran just threatened Aramco. Now MBS is calling Trump to protect Iran. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Iran's FM warned Riyadh hours ago that Saudi energy sites face retaliation if US strikes continue. MBS calling Trump to halt those strikes isn't solidarity with Tehran — it's self-
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⚓ HORMUZ — Iran is naming more waterways. It hasn't named which ones yet. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: With Hormuz already at 10% transit and Bab el-Mandeb under Houthi embargo, a threat to close additional waterways points toward the Red Sea, Bab el-Mandeb formalization, or Oman's coastal lanes
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🕊️ GAZA — Kushner told Dahlan first. Israel and Hamas weren't in the room. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Dahlan is a Fatah rival with UAE backing — not Hamas, not the PA. Routing a halt signal through him bypasses both official parties and signals Washington is building a post-war governance track in
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📞 RIYADH — Iran is calling Riyadh directly. That's not diplomacy — it's a warning label. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Araghchi reaching Saudi FM while US-Israel strikes hit Iran's grid signals Tehran is drawing a red line around Gulf energy infrastructure — Aramco included. Saudi Arabia is already inside
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⚡ TEHRAN — Iran just told every Gulf energy producer they're a target too. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Tehran shifting from US-Israel infrastructure threats to foreign energy fields is coercive expansion — it puts UAE, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia directly in the crosshairs of any US follow-on strike. Gulf states hosting
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🇮🇶 BAGHDAD — Iraq says it'll stop cross-border attacks. From which side, exactly? 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Baghdad's framing is deliberately ambiguous — covering Iranian proxies moving through Iraq and US-Saudi strikes on PMF. With seven Iraqi provinces already hit by joint US-Saudi operations, this is domestic political