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L'IRGC attacca la "Ever Lovely" nello Stretto di Hormuz: l'ONU sospende i piani di evacuazione navale. Il cessate il fuoco regge su carta, ma l'Iran ridisegna le regole del transito. L'accordo tiene — per ora.
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🛢️ RAS TANURA — The terminal is back; the queue was Iranian oil, not Saudi. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Ras Tanura handles ~6% of global crude — four months dark pushed buyers to spot alternatives. Resumption restores Saudi export capacity but Hormuz throughput stays below pre-war levels and inbound lanes were dominated by Iranian
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🏥 MEDEVAC — More US war wounded leave theater now than when the war was active. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: 24 medevac missions since April 8 ceasefire, 21 before — the casualty curve is running backward. These are Walter Reed transfers: serious injuries. Senate passed war powers 50-48 this week. Every PEV rolling to
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🇺🇳 LEBANON — The UN says "largely holding"; IDF is still burning houses. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: A "largely holding" call is a compliance floor, not a clearance — it absorbs violations without triggering formal collapse. Washington needs this framing: Lebanon talks opened today require the ceasefire to exist on paper.
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💥 IRGC — Tehran just attacked the deal it signed one week ago. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: WSJ cites two senior US officials: IRGC-Navy hit a Singapore-flagged vessel inside the strait, bridge damaged. IMO has paused its evacuation of queued ships — 35+ vessels now hold. The MOU's safe-passage guarantee
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🎖️ NATO — Rutte offers defense billions; Trump is owed a war, not a summit. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Summit contract announcements signal intent, not capability — hardware takes years. Rutte visited Washington as a supplicant; the billions reframe that visit as burden-sharing. But Trump's grievance is retroactive: Europe watched the Iran
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🇮🇹 ROME — Italy just denied the last war; now it's signing up for the next one. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Rome denying US aircraft use, then co-proposing troops for Lebanon, is triangulation: own the post-war order without owning the war. UNIFIL's end removes the buffer keeping IDF
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📉 IMF — The fund says prices ease; the ECB just said they won't. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: IMF and ECB are now publicly contradicting each other on the post-deal inflation trajectory. The IMF reads spot commodity relief; Schnabel flagged embedded wage and services inflation that survives an oil drop. For
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⚓ HORMUZ — A confirmed strike inside the strait while Bürgenstock is still open. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: UKMTO confirmation makes this official — a vessel hit by projectile inside Hormuz, not the perimeter. Araghchi holds MOU leverage; whoever fired just handed Washington a compliance violation or a pretext. Fifth Fleet is already on elevated
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💥 HORMUZ — An attack in Omani waters just put US warplanes on station. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Five KC-135s airborne means fighters are being sustained aloft — not on standby. Omani waters sits outside the contested strait lane, so whoever hit a vessel there is pushing the perimeter. If Iran or proxy, it
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🕌 MUSCAT — Iran's FM opens a Hormuz governance track while Bürgenstock is still live. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: "Future administration and maritime services" means Iran is claiming post-deal institutional authority over Hormuz, not just agreeing to reopen it. Oman sidesteps the Gulf coalition Rubio is assembling. Tehran negotiates
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🏛️ WASHINGTON — DC hosts the final round; IDF evidence is already en route. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Washington convening the final round while IDF arson is documented in the south is a structural contradiction. Beirut has MOU violations on record; Washington has no lever over Netanyahu. Lebanon can't sign without withdrawal