Saudi and Pakistan FMs Welcome Final Stage of US-Iran Talks

🛢️ RIYADH — Saudi endorsing the deal publicly is Riyadh pricing its own survival. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Riyadh has stayed off the public mediation track — speaking now signals Saudi calculates a deal serves its interests more than strategic ambiguity. Saudi FM alongside Pakistan FM closes the regional legitimacy gap: Gulf states aren't just observers. If the deal collapses after this, Saudi takes reputational damage too — which means Riyadh now has skin in pushing compliance.

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USS Abraham Lincoln Nears Record Deployment as CENTCOM Overextension Mounts

⚓ CENTCOM — The Navy's near-record deployment tells you what the budget figures don't. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: USS Abraham Lincoln is 10 days from breaking the post-Vietnam carrier record — not a milestone, a symptom. With MQ-9s pulled from Africa and $28.1B in munitions burned, keeping

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CENTCOM: 1 Billion Barrels Escorted Through Hormuz, Iran Exports Zero

⚓ HORMUZ — The US is moving everyone else's oil while Iran moves none of its own. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Cooper's figures reframe the blockade: Washington has built a protected corridor for allied crude while simultaneously enforcing a zero-export chokehold on Iran. Tehran loses oil revenue as Brent

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Blast in Southern Lebanon Wounds Two Israeli Soldiers

💥 SOUTH LEBANON — Hezbollah's nine-day pause just ended, or someone wants it to look that way. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Lebanon front had been silent for nine consecutive days — longest lull since the war began. Two wounded IDF soldiers changes that baseline. Hezbollah hasn't claimed it; attribution gap

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Iran Hardliner: Hormuz Stays Closed Until Trump and Netanyahu Are Gone

⚓ HORMUZ — The condition isn't a deal — it's regime change by another name. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Mojtaba Khamenei's adviser setting leader removal as the reopening threshold eliminates any negotiated corridor. Araghchi lands at UNGA with a hardline ceiling above him. For Rubio, this forecloses marginal deals.

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USS Abraham Lincoln Nears Record Deployment as CENTCOM Overextension Mounts

CENTCOM: 1 Billion Barrels Escorted Through Hormuz, Iran Exports Zero

Blast in Southern Lebanon Wounds Two Israeli Soldiers

Iran Hardliner: Hormuz Stays Closed Until Trump and Netanyahu Are Gone