Israel's Smotrich Says Country Has No Interest in Joining War on Iran

🇮🇱 JERUSALEM — Israel's hardest hawk just told the world: stay out. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Smotrich is Netanyahu's most hawkish coalition voice — if he's cooling on Iran, cabinet calculus has shifted. Israel is already stretched across Gaza and Lebanon. Joining the US campaign risks overextension and eliminates strategic ambiguity. The public distancing gives Netanyahu deniability if Washington pushes for Israeli kinetic participation.

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Satellite Imagery Confirms Ongoing Fire at Jazan Refinery After Houthi Strike

🛢️ JAZAN — Satellite confirms the fire is still burning, days later. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Days-old fire at Jazan means damage is structural, not symbolic. Saudi Arabia's Red Sea export corridor — the Plan B route bypassing Hormuz — loses credibility as a functioning alternative. Markets priced the Houthi strike as contained;

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Oman Presents Gulf-Backed Voluntary Fee Plan for Hormuz Transit

⚓ HORMUZ — Oman just handed Tehran a fee formula to avoid sovereignty loss. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Voluntary fees let Iran collect strait revenue without asserting blockade rights — Gulf states retain free navigation framing. This is Oman's sovereignty-substitute formula, now backed by Gulf consensus. Tehran can say yes without a

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White House Calls Netanyahu and Zelenskyy Meetings 'Positive and Productive'

🤝 WASHINGTON — 'Positive and productive' means no blowup — but also no deal. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: The White House framing signals Netanyahu didn't veto the Iran ceasefire text publicly — but "productive" stops well short of Israeli endorsement. Netanyahu arrived holding Trump's "Israel wouldn'

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Trump: 'Without Me as President, Israel Would Not Exist Today'

🇺🇸 TRUMP-ISRAEL — Without him, he says, Israel is gone. Tehran just filed that away. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: The statement fuses Trump's political identity with Israel's survival — making any US pressure on Netanyahu nearly impossible while the Iran pause holds. It signals to Tehran that the patron-client

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Satellite Imagery Confirms Ongoing Fire at Jazan Refinery After Houthi Strike

Oman Presents Gulf-Backed Voluntary Fee Plan for Hormuz Transit

White House Calls Netanyahu and Zelenskyy Meetings 'Positive and Productive'

Trump: 'Without Me as President, Israel Would Not Exist Today'