Trump Threatens to Resume Iran Strikes If Proxies in Lebanon Don't Stop

💥 ESCALATION — The ceasefire just got a public ultimatum attached to it. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Trump's threat reframes the MOU: Lebanon compliance — which Israel controls operationally, not Iran directly — is now a US red line against Tehran. Iran can't unilaterally stop Hezbollah on Washington's timeline. If strikes resume, the $6B funds, nuclear pledge, and Hormuz framework all collapse simultaneously. Vance is still in Bürgenstock.

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Tel Aviv Residents Cautiously Optimistic After Eisenkot Mandate

🇮🇱 TEL AVIV — Public relief is being mistaken for political stability. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Street-level optimism in Tel Aviv doesn't translate to a functioning government fast enough to matter. Eisenkot forming isn't Eisenkot governing — coalition talks take weeks. Meanwhile Katz already signaled a new Iran campaign. CENTCOM&

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Three Tankers Ablaze in Hormuz as IRGC Confirms Strike

🚢 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,

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USS Theodore Roosevelt Leaves Singapore, Heads Toward Arabian Sea

⚓ 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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US Treasury Chief Secretly Calls China to Help End Iran War

🏦 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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Tel Aviv Residents Cautiously Optimistic After Eisenkot Mandate

Three Tankers Ablaze in Hormuz as IRGC Confirms Strike

USS Theodore Roosevelt Leaves Singapore, Heads Toward Arabian Sea

US Treasury Chief Secretly Calls China to Help End Iran War