📞 DOHA — Trump calling the back-channel's host while Iran is still firing. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Qatar runs the US-Iran conduit — Trump calling the Emir directly on maritime security bypasses Rubio and goes to the source. With Hormuz at 40% flow and IRGC channels signaling ceasefire withdrawal, Washington is either confirming the channel holds or pressing Doha to deliver Tehran's restraint. The call resets MOU timing.
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🎯 TAIWAN — Taipei fires HIMARS toward the Strait for the first time. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: First live HIMARS salvo toward the Strait signals Taipei testing deterrence while US forces are deep in Hormuz. Beijing reads dual-theater overextension — Washington can't credibly reinforce the Pacific if the Gulf is still live.
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🛢️ TRIPOLI — Trump's envoy is packaging an oil dynasty into a unity deal. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Saddam Haftar controls LNA eastern oil infrastructure — his elevation is privatization, not power-sharing. Boulos positions Washington to access Libyan crude while Hormuz normalization stalls. Italy, Libya's top gas client, gets a
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💰 DEAL TERMS — Half the money is already spoken for before the ink dries in Geneva. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: A $300B fund with $150B+ pre-committed reframes the MOU from ceasefire to economic architecture — and raises who controls disbursement. If Iran's share is conditional on IAEA sequencing or Lebanon restraint,
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🌍 G7 — Leaders who stayed vague yesterday just named Lebanon directly. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: A formal G7 ceasefire demand is the first collective Western pressure on Israel's separate Lebanon track. Netanyahu framed Lebanon as outside the Iran MOU — this communiqué contests that. Trump's Lebanon rebuke now has allied