Trump Says US and Iran "Getting Along Very Well" Amid Doha Talks

⏱️ DEADLINE — Optimism costs nothing when the deadline just evaporated. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Trump's "getting along very well" framing follows his private admission he's fine missing Aug. 18 — meaning the warm rhetoric carries zero structural pressure. Tehran reads this as confirmation: stall, extract more, pocket goodwill. Doha negotiators on the Iranian side now have a US president publicly invested in the relationship, not the outcome.

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Netanyahu Says Iran Attempted to Assassinate His Son

🎯 TEHRAN — If true, Iran just gave Netanyahu a personal pretext for anything. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: A failed hit on Netanyahu's family transforms conflict from strategic to personal — handing the PM domestic cover for any escalation. Israeli publics rally hard around direct family threats. Iran denying it changes nothing; Netanyahu

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US to Warn Nations: Cut Iran Ties or Lose Dollar Access

💵 DOLLAR — The threat isn't sanctions. It's expulsion from the financial system itself. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Threatening dollar exclusion goes beyond OFAC listings — it targets correspondent banking, sovereign reserves, and trade settlement for any country that refuses to choose. This is the enforcement mechanism behind Bessent's

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Bessent Launches "Economic D-Day" Iran Sanctions Package

💣 SANCTIONS — The declaration was made Sunday. The weapon drops today. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Bessent's FT op-ed was the warning; today's package is the execution. Markets, Beijing, and Tehran all knew this was coming — the question is secondary sanctions scope. If Chinese refiners are named, Beijing must

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Israel Orders Forced Evacuation of Sheikh Radwan District in Gaza City

💥 GAZA — Evacuation orders come last. What's next is never a question. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Sheikh Radwan is a dense residential district in northern Gaza City. IDF forced evacuation orders are the final step before ground or air operations — not a warning, a protocol. With Israel simultaneously managing Lebanon, Syria,

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Netanyahu Says Iran Attempted to Assassinate His Son

US to Warn Nations: Cut Iran Ties or Lose Dollar Access

Bessent Launches "Economic D-Day" Iran Sanctions Package

Israel Orders Forced Evacuation of Sheikh Radwan District in Gaza City