CENTCOM Chief Hails Blockade Crew as Iran Installs Permit System on Reopened Strait

⚓ CENTCOM — Cooper declares victory; Iran is already charging for the strait he opened. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Cooper's "mission accomplished" formally closes the military chapter. But the strait CENTCOM reopened now has Iran's permit system layered on top — Tehran is taxing access CENTCOM enforced. The admiral's pride lands as Iran's 48-hour transit notice takes effect, a mechanism the MOU never authorized and Washington hasn't formally rejected.

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Trump: Iran at 10% Missile Capacity, Deal Can Stop Next Strike

🎯 TRUMP — Iran at 10% missiles, but the deal window is what keeps guns quiet. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Trump's 10% missile, 15% drone figures are the first public US damage assessment — anchoring Iran's negotiating floor. Naming the threshold (strong deal + Hormuz) converts military leverage into a public auction.

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Tel Aviv Residents Cautiously Optimistic After Eisenkot Mandate

🇮🇱 TEL AVIV — Public relief is being mistaken for political stability. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Street-level optimism in Tel Aviv doesn't translate to a functioning government fast enough to matter. Eisenkot forming isn't Eisenkot governing — coalition talks take weeks. Meanwhile Katz already signaled a new Iran campaign. CENTCOM&

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Three Tankers Ablaze in Hormuz as IRGC Confirms Strike

🚢 HORMUZ — Satellite smoke confirms what IRGC just admitted: they hit three ships this morning. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: IRGC framing the route as "unauthorized" is legal cover for deliberate interdiction — not an accident. Three simultaneous fires suggest coordinated strike, not mines. With Jask already hit and Qeshm on fourth cycle,

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USS Theodore Roosevelt Leaves Singapore, Heads Toward Arabian Sea

⚓ ARABIAN SEA — A fourth carrier moves in after three are already there. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: USS Theodore Roosevelt leaving Singapore adds a fourth carrier to a theater already running three. The US last massed four carriers in one zone during the 2003 Iraq buildup. CENTCOM doesn't stack that capacity

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Trump: Iran at 10% Missile Capacity, Deal Can Stop Next Strike

Tel Aviv Residents Cautiously Optimistic After Eisenkot Mandate

Three Tankers Ablaze in Hormuz as IRGC Confirms Strike

USS Theodore Roosevelt Leaves Singapore, Heads Toward Arabian Sea