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Gli USA pianificano una nuova ondata di attacchi sull'Iran entro il weekend. L'IRGC ha colpito due tanker a Hormuz, il Brent chiude a 90 dollari. Il MoU di giugno è carta straccia. La guerra ha ripreso il suo ritmo.
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🛰️ MOSCOW — Russia is feeding Iran the data to hit back at America's own forces. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Every US strike Iran absorbed, every jamming event on American munitions, now carries a Russian intelligence signature. CENTCOM's operational security is compromised at source. This retroactively explains Iranian targeting precision
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⚓ OMAN — UKMTO confirmed it. Hormuz active, now Oman's waters too. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: UKMTO confirmation is the gold standard — not a claim, a verified incident. Oman sits at Hormuz's mouth and hosts Washington's only active mediation channel. A strike in Omani waters threatens Muscat'
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💻 CYBER — Iran suspected; Trump blamed Minnesota instead. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Hitting water systems is civilian infrastructure — a threshold US cyber doctrine treats as a hard red line. Federal suspicion of Iran makes this the first attributed domestic cyber strike since kinetic escalation began. Trump deflecting to Minnesota signals he's
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🛢️ ABU DHABI — ADNOC just rewrote how Gulf crude gets priced. Why now? 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Murban futures were ADNOC's own benchmark, launched 2021 — switching to Platts Dubai signals that benchmark has lost liquidity under Hormuz war-risk. With transits at 10%, markets need pricing that reflects actual traded cargoes.
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🇬🇧 LONDON — UK just told Tehran it's not at war with Iran. Washington didn't. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Miliband calling Araghchi to assert non-belligerence creates deliberate daylight from Washington's "surrender" campaign. UK bases across the Gulf need protecting — distance is insurance. But it also
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⚠️ TEHRAN — A threat to hit infrastructure is not the same as a path to negotiation. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Tehran's warning follows Trump's "surrender" framing by hours — hardliners answering, not moderates. With Iran's power and fuel already degraded, threatening US-Israeli infrastructure is mutual
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🇷🇸 BELGRADE — Washington exempted a Russian oil firm mid-sanctions campaign. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: NIS is Gazprom Neft-majority-owned — a sanctioned entity. Washington's waiver trades sanctions compliance for Balkan alignment. With Iranian crude offline and European supply fractured, the US can't lose Belgrade to Moscow. But exempting
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🛢️ HORMUZ FLANK — Shadow fleet leaking off Oman: the blockade has visible collateral now. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Shadow tankers carry Iranian crude outside the formal system — a spill means one was moving, suggesting the blockade has gaps or Iran is still running covert exports. Oman sits at the strait's mouth;
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🎖️ PENTAGON — Washington is escalating while simultaneously hunting a deal. That contradiction has a logic. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: A "surrender" framing marks a shift from attrition to coercion — Washington wants collapse, not negotiation. Timing it days after Bessent's asset hunt and Iran's civilian infrastructure breakdown suggests
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🇬🇧 LONDON — UK needs Hormuz open; UAE just bought the hulls to profit from it staying shut. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: That tension defines this meeting. London's energy exposure is acute — North Sea assets sold, alternatives disrupted. UAE's tanker buy converts disruption into structural leverage. What London is really
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🏭 TEHRAN — Iran's civilian economy is breaking down, but the war machine hasn't stopped. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Infrastructure strikes degrading power, water, and fuel simultaneously shift Iran's calculus from military to regime survival. A population under blackout and fuel scarcity creates internal pressure Tehran can'