📄 DEAL TEXT — WSJ publishes MOU draft; the silence just became searchable. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: The WSJ draft is the first public authoritative text — not a leak, but a G7-circulated copy. Two competing versions on Hormuz permanence and management authority now have a reference document. Congressional hawks, Netanyahu's team, and Tehran read the same pages differently. Whatever WSJ found is now the new legal battlefield.
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⚠️ IRGC — UAE named as target for the first time; warnings here precede strikes. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: IRGC issued identical warnings before its multi-base strike wave on Kuwait and Bahrain — those strikes followed within hours. UAE is new on this list: Abu Dhabi hosts Al Dhafra, a CENTCOM node. Adding it
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🎙️ TRUMP — A deal was reached, signed off, then Iran struck a ship anyway. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Trump's account places a completed agreement hours before the Hormuz vessel attack — meaning IRGC acted while negotiators were still in the building. That sequence strips Tehran of any ambiguity defense: the attack wasn&
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⚰️ IRAN — First confirmed death named; a worker, not a fighter. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Tehran's first confirmed fatality from US strikes is a maintenance worker — civilian-adjacent, not IRGC. That framing matters: Iran can use it to build war-crimes narrative internationally while keeping the casualty toll low enough to
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💥 QESHM — Iran's governor counts 10-11 hits; no casualties, no denial. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Qeshm hosts IRGC naval assets at Hormuz's narrowest point — already struck in Day 132's wave. A return hit signals CENTCOM re-targeting degraded but intact infrastructure. The governor naming the projectile