🎨 BEIRUT — Gulf arts budgets dry up; Lebanon's creative class absorbs the hit. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Gulf states contracting under oil pressure cut discretionary budgets first — Lebanon's creative sector, reliant on Gulf contracts for most revenue, has no domestic fallback. Lebanese designers and agencies compound losses from 2019's collapse. Each month of war embeds a structural contraction that won't reverse when Hormuz reopens.
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💥 SANA'A — Bunker busters on the capital while Riyadh won't admit it's at war. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: GBU-28s target hardened bunkers — their use on Sana'a means Saudi intel has mapped Houthi missile and drone infrastructure below ground. 150 reported casualties points to a
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Iran locks Hormuz. Houthis lock Bab el-Mandeb. Iraqi drones hit Saudi Petroline. For the first time in six months, Saudi oil has no open corridor. The world just lost two chokepoints at once.
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L'Iran chiude Hormuz. I Houthi chiudono Bab el-Mandeb. I droni dall'Iraq colpiscono il Petroline saudita. Per la prima volta in sei mesi, il petrolio saudita non ha più un corridoio aperto. Il mondo ha appena perso due chokepoint contemporaneamente.
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☢️ TEHRAN — Parliament moves toward NPT exit days after the IAEA referral that made it inevitable. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: The IAEA Board's UN Security Council referral handed Tehran's hardliners the domestic justification they needed. A "triple urgency" bill signals parliamentary consensus-building, not a lone voice.