🚢 HORMUZ — Satellite smoke confirms what IRGC just admitted: they hit three ships this morning. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: IRGC framing the route as "unauthorized" is legal cover for deliberate interdiction — not an accident. Three simultaneous fires suggest coordinated strike, not mines. With Jask already hit and Qeshm on fourth cycle, Iran just answered CENTCOM's attrition sequence. Hormuz's one daily transit may now drop to zero.
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⚓ ARABIAN SEA — A fourth carrier moves in after three are already there. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: USS Theodore Roosevelt leaving Singapore adds a fourth carrier to a theater already running three. The US last massed four carriers in one zone during the 2003 Iraq buildup. CENTCOM doesn't stack that capacity
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🏦 BEIJING — Bessent called Iran "finished," then called Beijing for help. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Bessent's public posture — Iran is finished — was cover, not conviction. Calling Beijing signals Washington doubts the military track can close this. China holds Iran's oil lifeline; its leverage is real. But Beijing&
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🏭 ARAMCO — The interceptors worked twice. The third hit didn't need to. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: An Aramco tower struck in Riyadh's financial district changes the calculus — this is no longer near-miss deterrence, it's confirmed infrastructure damage in the kingdom's economic core. Saudi danger
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🔥 HORMUZ — Two tankers hit in one hour; the strait just got narrower. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: One vessel on fire northwest of Khasab with crew evacuated; a second struck outbound by unknown projectile — both within 60 minutes. UKMTO's delayed report flag means military held the first incident before disclosure. With