Iran's Ghalibaf: "Never Surrender," Ready for Full-Scale Defence

🏛️ TEHRAN — Iran's chief negotiator is also the man saying "never surrender." 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Ghalibaf holding both roles — lead negotiator and Parliament Speaker declaring full-scale defense readiness — collapses the distinction between Tehran's diplomatic and hardline factions. Qatar and Egypt are pushing MoU revival; Turkey holds the ceasefire channel. But if the man at the table is also the man rejecting surrender, every mediation track just lost its interlocutor.

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US CENTCOM Confirms Advisors Supporting Saudi Partners in Yemen

🎖️ CENTCOM — Washington just admitted its boots are guiding Riyadh's campaign. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: CENTCOM confirming advisors via Al Jazeera — not a Pentagon briefing — signals US commitment to Riyadh after the F-15 shootdown, without triggering War Powers thresholds. But with US-Houthi talks in Oman just revealed, Washington is

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US Officials Held Secret Talks with Houthis in Oman Over the Weekend

🤝 MUSCAT — Washington is talking to the proxy while bombing the patron. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Direct US-Houthi contact in Oman — while Saudi F-15s are downed and Yanbu is struck — signals Washington is pursuing a Yemen off-ramp independent of Riyadh. Oman as venue is deliberate: same channel used for Iran

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Turkey State Body Seizes Bank Sanctioned by US Over Iran Ties

🏦 ANKARA — Turkey just nationalized the bank Washington sanctioned for Iran. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: State takeover doesn't dissolve US sanctions — it absorbs the liability into Ankara's sovereign balance sheet. Erdoğan is signaling Turkey won't let Washington's Iran pressure reshape domestic finance. This fractures NATO

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Polymarket Gives Iran-Israel Ceasefire 65% Chance of Holding to Year-End

📊 CEASEFIRE — Prediction markets price 65% survival odds; the war priced nothing at all six months ago. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: $30M in volume means professional money, not retail noise. At 65%, traders are pricing Israel's restraint as durable — but DEFCON 1 is still active, Hormuz is mined, and Houthis struck

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US CENTCOM Confirms Advisors Supporting Saudi Partners in Yemen

US Officials Held Secret Talks with Houthis in Oman Over the Weekend

Turkey State Body Seizes Bank Sanctioned by US Over Iran Ties

Polymarket Gives Iran-Israel Ceasefire 65% Chance of Holding to Year-End