🇶🇦 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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Day 202: IRGC attempts to seize a US Navy drone in the Strait, CENTCOM destroys two Iranian boats. In Vienna, the IAEA refers Iran to the UN Security Council for the first time in twenty years. Pickaxe Mountain burns unanswered questions.
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Giorno 202: l'IRGC tenta di sequestrare un drone navale USA nello Stretto, CENTCOM risponde distruggendo due imbarcazioni iraniane. A Vienna, l'IAEA riferisce l'Iran all'ONU per la prima volta in vent'anni. Pickaxe Mountain brucia domande senza risposta.
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🏦 TREASURY — Multilateral sanctions coordination is being built while Oman talks quietly run in parallel. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Treasury convening global institutions signals Washington is hardening the financial siege even as it pursues a Yemen off-ramp via Oman. The contradiction is deliberate: sanctions tightening raises the cost of Iranian non-compliance
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💥 LEBANON — The front that went quiet just came back at the worst possible moment. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: South Lebanon had been silent for days — a de facto containment while Hormuz and Yemen absorbed attention. Israeli strikes now reopening this front force Hezbollah to respond or concede deterrence. With ceasefire odds at