Trump Shelves Vance Diplomacy, Doubles Down on Naval Blockade
⏱️ PIVOT — Vance's channel closes before it opened. Tehran's calculation just changed. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Trump dialing back Vance-Rezaei talks removes the only direct US-Iran contact point floated since Qatar hit its wall. Tehran's seven conditions now have no American interlocutor. IRGC hardliners who struck two tankers today gain the internal argument. The blockade-as-endgame framing locks both sides into an economic war of attrition with no exit architecture.
