🇶🇦 DOHA — Qatar mediates for Iran in Doha; Iran just hit Qatar's LNG. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Qatar hosts US CENTCOM, brokers Doha talks, and exports more LNG than any nation on earth. Striking an LNG tanker in Hormuz forces Doha to formally protest Tehran — publicly, on record. That ruptures the mediator-patron relationship Iran needs most before July 10 resumption. Hardliners in Tehran just burned their own diplomatic bridge.
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A supertanker explodes on an Iranian mine in the Strait of Hormuz. Brent at $104.72. Trump freezes strikes before midterms but orders plans for massive bombing. Moscow arms Tehran. The war reorganizes — it does not stop.
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Un supertanker esplode su una mina iraniana nello Stretto di Hormuz. Brent a $104,72. Trump congela i raid prima delle midterm, ma ordina piani di attacco massiccio. Mosca arma Teheran. Il conflitto si riorganizza, non si ferma.
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🏦 BANGKOK — IMF convenes while the war rewrites every debt projection it brought. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: With Brent above $135 and Hormuz functionally closed, the IMF's debt sustainability models are already obsolete. Bangkok is the first multilateral forum where war-driven energy inflation meets sovereign debt stress. Emerging markets absorbing
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🌍 SPILLOVER — The Houthi front is now outrunning the diplomacy it was meant to support. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Ghawar hit, Riyadh airport struck, American killed — the Houthi campaign has generated facts faster than any US-Iran channel can absorb them. Saudi Arabia now needs military response, which pulls Washington toward Yemen co-