Pakistan Says Efforts Continuing to Bring US and Iran Back Under MoU

🕊️ ISLAMABAD — Pakistan is still selling an MoU nobody has signed yet. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: With US strikes back on Iranian soil and Tehran firing into Kuwait, Islamabad is pitching continuity no one is buying. Pakistan's value as mediator rests on access to both sides — but resumed strikes signal Washington chose kinetics over frameworks. If Islamabad can't pause the strikes, the MoU becomes a ceasefire proposal in disguise, and Iran knows it.

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Qatar Pays Iran Toll to Transit Hormuz — First Confirmed Fee Collection

⚓ HORMUZ — Someone just paid Iran's toll. That changes what Hormuz is. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Iran collecting fees from Qatari vessels transforms a blockade threat into a functioning toll regime — legitimizing Iranian sovereignty over the strait in practice. Doha just validated the very mechanism Oman's mediation was trying

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Gulf Markets Slide as US-Iran Hostilities Resume

📉 GULF MARKETS — Markets dip, but the real signal is how small the dip is. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Gulf bourses easing — not crashing — on resumed US strikes tells you regional capital hasn't priced a spiral. That's either informed confidence or dangerous complacency. Kuwait's direct hit, Bushehr

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US HIMARS Fire ATACMS and PrSM From Kuwait Into Southern Iran

💥 KUWAIT — Ground-launched missiles from Kuwait soil — that's a new attack vector, not an air campaign extension. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: HIMARS firing from Kuwait shifts the strike architecture from air-only to ground-based — harder to intercept, shorter flight time. Abadan, Ahvaz, Bandar Abbas: oil infrastructure and IRGC naval

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Iran Strikes Kuwait, Kills Worker at Chinese Company Building

💥 KUWAIT — Iran just hit Kuwaiti soil — home to CENTCOM's most critical forward bases. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Kuwait hosts Camp Arifjan and Ali Al Salem — CENTCOM's core forward bases. A confirmed Iranian strike here pulls a host-nation state directly into the war. The target's ownership

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Qatar Pays Iran Toll to Transit Hormuz — First Confirmed Fee Collection

Gulf Markets Slide as US-Iran Hostilities Resume

US HIMARS Fire ATACMS and PrSM From Kuwait Into Southern Iran

Iran Strikes Kuwait, Kills Worker at Chinese Company Building