📄 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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🤝 BEIJING — Trump rolling out the airport greeting hours after AI nearly seized a Chinese ship. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Airport greetings are reserved for heads of state Trump wants to elevate publicly. After the AI fabricated nuclear cargo on a Chinese vessel and CENTCOM nearly interdicted it, a conspicuous personal welcome resets
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🚨 RIYADH — The Saudi capital is under alert; al-Kharj is where the strike jets are. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Al-Kharj hosts Prince Sultan Air Base — the kingdom's primary fast-jet platform. Simultaneous alerts for Riyadh and al-Kharj suggest incoming ballistic or cruise missile attack, not a localized incident.
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⚖️ SANCTIONS — Extended through 2031 while Araghchi boards the plane to New York. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Locking sanctions to 2031 removes the expiry leverage Tehran would negotiate against. Any Araghchi-Rubio margin deal at UNGA now has no automatic relief mechanism to offer Iran. Congress just narrowed Trump's own dealmaking
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🏥 YEMEN — An accusation with no enforcer lands in a war with no referee. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Yemen's recognized government controls little territory and less leverage. Houthi humanitarian violations — real or documented — require UN verification to trigger response. With the US declining direct Yemen intervention and Saudi Arabia under energy