Iran Foreign Ministry Says Framework Text Near Finalization

🕊️ TEHRAN — Iran's own mouth, not Trump's, is now saying the deal is close. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Tehran's FM confirming framework text proximity is the first Iranian-sourced validation of what Trump has been claiming unilaterally. That asymmetry mattered — now it closes. IRGC hardliners and state media have been running counter-narrative; the FM speaking publicly signals Khamenei has authorized the diplomatic lane. Watch if IRGC operations pause within hours.

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Israeli Troops Remain in Lebanon as Hezbollah Disarmament Stalls

🌾 SOUTH LEBANON — Neither side left; the civilians caught between them have no lobby. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: IDF's continued presence and Hezbollah's partial disarmament create a frozen stalemate with no enforcement mechanism — UNIFIL can document but not compel. Farmers and tradespeople can't rebuild while two armed

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Iran Approves Law to Control Data Routing Through Hormuz Strait

💻 HORMUZ — Iran legislating data control in the same strait it physically blockades. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Physical and informational chokepoints are now being fused. Undersea cables and shipping comms transit Hormuz alongside tankers. Legal authority over data routing gives Tehran a pretext to intercept or disrupt communications — including CENTCOM's escort

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Houthis Claim Ballistic Missile and Drone Strike on Riyadh and Aramco Yanbu

💥 RIYADH — Houthis hit the capital and Aramco's Red Sea terminal simultaneously. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Yanbu is Saudi Arabia's last open crude export corridor — Houthis already control Bab el-Mandeb. A simultaneous strike on Riyadh and Aramco's Red Sea terminal is the scenario Washington called catastrophic.

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Baltic Tensions Mount as Belarus Drills Near Suwalki Corridor

🪖 SUWALKI — Belarus drills, Russian hospital surge: someone expects casualties. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Belarus tank drills at Suwalki, Russia adding 20,000 hospital beds in its northwest, Lithuania activating evacuation plans — three actors preparing for kinetics in the same window. Suwalki is NATO's thinnest point. With CENTCOM overextended and SACEUR

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Israeli Troops Remain in Lebanon as Hezbollah Disarmament Stalls

Iran Approves Law to Control Data Routing Through Hormuz Strait

Houthis Claim Ballistic Missile and Drone Strike on Riyadh and Aramco Yanbu

Baltic Tensions Mount as Belarus Drills Near Suwalki Corridor