📺 TEHRAN — State TV airs celebrations while the missiles are still in flight. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Broadcasting live jubilation during an active strike is information warfare, not news — Tehran is manufacturing domestic consent for escalation before the damage assessment exists. It also locks Khamenei's position: a publicly celebrated attack cannot be walked back as "calibrated." Araghchi's negotiating room just shrank to zero.
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⚓ HORMUZ — Iran wants neighbors to administer the strait, not Washington. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: "Regional dialogue" means Gulf states — not the US — as the legitimizing mechanism for Hormuz governance. Tehran frames reopening as a sovereign regional arrangement, sidelining CENTCOM's role. This lets Khamenei claim he restored the strait
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✈️ LEBANON — New evacuation orders come as Iran made stopping this war a deal condition. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: IDF displacement warnings signal imminent strikes — timed precisely as Tehran's FM confirms deal text near finalization. Each new Lebanese village targeted hands IRGC hardliners fresh justification to reject Ghalibaf's channel.
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🕊️ TEHRAN — Iran just made Netanyahu a veto player in the US-Iran deal. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: By making Israeli Lebanon withdrawal a public deal condition, Tehran forces Washington to either deliver Netanyahu or expose the agreement as hollow. Trump cannot compel Israel to halt Lebanon ops — he hasn't tried.
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🕊️ 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