⚔️ TEHRAN — Ghalibaf declared victory; the IRGC declared total war. Both can't be the exit. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: With the MOU expired and no framework in place, hardliner entrenchment means Tehran's diplomatic track — always thin — is now actively opposed from within. Khamenei faces pressure from commanders who read concession as defeat. Washington's next move has no interlocutor to receive it.
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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.
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⚓ HORMUZ — UKMTO confirms a vessel struck; nobody's claiming it yet. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: UKMTO-verified means this isn't a rumor — a vessel was struck inside the strait, not boarded, not rerouted. Three ships were already disabled enforcing blockade compliance; a projectile hit escalates that to lethal interdiction.
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🎖️ TEHRAN — A "swift, strong response" threat lands the day before Monday's Oman forum. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Iran's military chiefs signaling publicly before Muscat is a deterrence move timed to constrain US options at the table. Tehran already ruled out a Hormuz deal; now it'
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💥 SHARURAH — Houthis strike a Saudi base Riyadh won't officially admit it's defending. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Sharurah hosts Saudi air defense assets near the Yemen border — a direct hit tests Riyadh's undeclared war posture. Running 129 airstrikes without acknowledgment, a confirmed base strike forces a public