📉 MARKETS — Oil prices easing while five US strike waves say otherwise. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: After surging its most since May, Brent is pulling back on one analyst assumption: Hormuz stays open. That bet contradicts CENTCOM's own failure to reopen it across five waves. Markets pricing in resolution while Iran fires ballistic missiles at Bahrain is a dangerous disconnect — if Hormuz tightens further, the repricing will be violent and fast.
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Houthis strike Aramco in Jizan and Yanbu: oil tops $100 again and the Saudi relief valve shuts down. The US pauses bombing Iran. But diplomacy is stalled. The conflict is changing shape, not intensity.
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Gli Houthi colpiscono Aramco a Jizan e Yanbu: il petrolio torna sopra i 100 dollari e la valvola di sfogo saudita si chiude. Gli USA fanno una pausa nei bombardamenti sull'Iran. Ma la diplomazia è ferma. Il conflitto cambia forma, non intensità.
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🎯 TEHRAN — Ukraine hit an Iranian ship; Tehran answered with a missile range reminder. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Kyiv's Caspian strike cost one Iranian sailor; Tehran's answer is a Sejjil-2 range warning. Iran threatening Ukraine pulls NATO's eastern flank into the threat perimeter. Britain was first;
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🛡️ KUWAIT — The host of Ali Al Salem just told Tehran: those aren't our bombs. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Kuwait's public denial is basing-state politics under fire — literally. Iran struck Kuwaiti infrastructure in Day 142; Kuwaiti denial now is sovereign cover, not betrayal. But it complicates CENTCOM: the