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💥 LEBANON — Fresh Israeli strikes kill in Shahabiya and al-Rafid — the ceasefire is a name only. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Confirmed casualties in two south Lebanon villages extend a pattern now averaging 37 dead daily under a nominal truce. Each lethal strike hands Hezbollah recruitment oxygen and narrows EU capitals' room
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🕊️ MUSCAT — Oman re-enters as Tehran's back-channel to Washington. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Araghchi calling Albusaidi activates the channel that historically carried US-Iran nuclear messages Washington couldn't send publicly. With Qatar gone and Doha stalled, Oman is the shortest distance to the White House without a
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🚢 HORMUZ — Tehran is monetizing the blockade. Washington just called it sanctions violation. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Reuters confirms Iran's transit system includes fees — converting Hormuz control into a revenue stream. Any shipper paying risks US secondary sanctions, forcing a binary choice: pay Tehran or keep US market access. This fractures
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💥 LEBANON — A named IDF strike as the ceasefire was already fiction. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Yohmor al-Shaqif sits in the Bekaa approach — IDF striking there signals a push into Hezbollah's logistics corridor, beyond southern containment. At 3,111 dead under a nominal ceasefire, EU ambassadors have fresh grounds for
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Iran refuses to surrender enriched uranium and demands Hormuz tolls. Pakistan-brokered talks stall. Republicans block a war powers vote in Congress. The IEA warns oil markets could hit a "red zone" by July if Hormuz stays shut.
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Iran rifiuta di cedere l'uranio arricchito, Teheran vuole pedaggi su Hormuz. I negoziati via Pakistan sono vivi ma impantanati. Al Congresso i repubblicani bloccano il voto sulla risoluzione anti-guerra. L'IEA avverte: mercato energetico in zona rossa entro luglio.
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💸 SANCTIONS — Iran found the pipe Washington couldn't see or block. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: A covert payment network bypassing sanctions means Iran's military resilience isn't ideological — it's structural. Every failed squeeze on Tehran was partly neutralized by channels Washington didn't map. This
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🛰️ INTEL — The US intelligence chair is empty at DEFCON 1, now filled by a deputy. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Lukas stepping up as acting DNI means the permanent seat stays vacant during the most consequential window — NSC deliberating strikes, Doha stalled, airspace sealed. Acting directors brief presidents but carry less institutional weight
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🚢 HORMUZ — Qatar moves LNG to China while diplomats go home empty-handed. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Three Qatari tankers through Hormuz signals Tehran is selectively permitting transit — rewarding China's position while the blockade holds for others. This is Iran's permit system in practice: economic leverage disguised as operational
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🗺️ HORMUZ — A map changes nothing militarily, but everything legally. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Publishing a formal sovereignty map converts IRGC's de facto transit authority into a documented legal claim — the baseline for future international disputes. It signals Tehran is institutionalizing the blockade, not preparing to lift it. For trapped mariners
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🚨 TEHRAN — Iran's military at highest alert; Washington may hand Israel the trigger. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Iran at maximum alert reframes the sealed airspace and Trump's NSC pause as parallel tracks toward the same window. A US green-light for Israel — minimal American footprint — lets Washington claim distance
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🏛️ WASHINGTON — Trump just told his war council to wait, but didn't say for what. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: "More time" after canceling Bahamas trip and restating zero-nuclear line signals no imminent strike order — but also no concession. With Doha stalled, airspace sealed, and 90-day clock public,