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🇮🇷🇺🇸 3rd wave of strikes hits Iran's coast?

Explosions heard around Chabahar in Sistan and Baluchestan, the southeastern province on the Gulf of Oman.
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Up the coast, Bushehr in southern Iran saw air defense activity too, with explosions also reported there.

No one knows the source of these explosions yet.

Axios says it's not the U.S., NAYA says it was from Kuwait, and Faytuks says it cold be the Gulf.

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🇮🇷🇰🇼🇧🇭 Channel 11 now claiming Gulf states, likely Kuwait and Bahrain, have launched a joint strike operation against Iran.
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Eyewitnesses on the ground in Kuwait reporting missile launches.

The war just got a new front.

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🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 The strike-pause pattern decoded: Washington is deliberately bombing in bursts to let diplomacy breathe.
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-Per a U.S. official to CNN, diplomacy is actively working behind the scenes right now, with the U.S. striking then pausing "to avoid escalation and let diplomacy work"

-The Pentagon is maintaining a target list as LEVERAGE, with preparations ready for potential strikes tonight if needed

-Aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, crews loaded fighter jets with armaments and pilots drilled, with the captain telling thousands aboard to maintain readiness

-Officials called Iranian claims of fresh U.S. strikes tonight inaccurate, while stressing strikes could resume "if needed"

The rhythm of the past 72 hours suddenly reads as deliberate choreography.

Two record nights, then silence, wasn't exhaustion, it was sequencing: hit, hold, negotiate, keep the list loaded.

The target list as standing leverage is the entire performance-based doctrine in operational form, every un-struck site is a bargaining chip.

The Lincoln's armed jets are the punctuation.

The talks never died, and now we know the bombs were purposely structured around them.
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🇺🇸🇮🇷 Washington just reached for its financial weapon at the exact moment the physical one sits in Iran's hand

Think through the sequencing.
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The strait had just posted its best day of the entire recovery, 41 ships out in 24 hours.

Then came the tanker attacks, the strikes, and the waiver revocation, and now Iranian oil is back on the sanctions list while the IRGC declares Hormuz closed to anyone who won't recognize its authority.

Here's the contradiction nobody in Washington is pricing.

Sanctions are a patience weapon.

They work by isolating a country financially over years. But Iran's counter is a speed weapon, the ability to choke a fifth of the world's oil overnight.

Reimposing maximum pressure removes Iran's last financial reason to keep the strait calm, at the precise moment American buffers are thinnest.

U.S. inventories sit at levels last seen in 2004, the reserve has been draining for months, and Trump himself admitted the cushion is weeks from critical.

Financial pressure assumes time is on your side.

The energy math says it isn't. Iran can bleed slowly for years.

America's tank runs on a deadline, and Tehran just watched Washington restart the clock.

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🚨🇺🇸 🇮🇷 The nuclear talks never stopped. A U.S. official confirms negotiations continued straight through the strikes...

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-Per CNN, the U.S. and Iran remain engaged in technical negotiations on nuclear issues, with the official saying "the United States is still committed to finding a resolution"

-The official's bottom line stands: "Iran can never possess a nuclear weapon"

-The MOU is described as "performance-based," with Iran's ship attacks and the half-open strait constituting "failed performance at an unacceptable level"

-The official branded Iran's vessel attacks "acts of terrorism"

This is the revelation that reframes the entire week.

Through 170-plus strikes, four-country barrages, a "ceasefire is over" declaration, and a burial, the technical channel never actually closed.

The bombs and the diplomats have been working in parallel the whole time, exactly the dual-track this war has run since April.

"Performance-based" is the doctrine in one word: the strikes are the penalty clause, not the end of the contract.

The deal both sides declared DEAD is still being negotiated under the smoke. Go Figure...
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⚡️BREAKING: The Body of Grand Ayatollah Khamenei has officially been laid to rest in Mashhad

The State Funeral is now over

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🇷🇺🇮🇷🇺🇸 Russia says any Iran deal has to work for everyone

Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, wants a settlement to the U.S.-Iran war that doesn't just satisfy the two sides trading blows.

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He says the damage runs wider, to Iran's neighbours, the U.S., and every country hit by the economic mess around the Strait of Hormuz, the lane that carries a big slice of the world's oil.

Speaking after a Mozambique visit, he said it can only end with a deal reflecting all parties, not just the ones fighting.

It's also Russia making sure it isn't left out of however this ends.
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🚨BREAKING:

The Key railway bridge connecting Iran and Russia has been Repaired after being Bombed by the United States‌

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🚨Breaking:

Gulf countries officially denied the US to get involved in war with Iran.
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They call USA to stop breaching ceasefire and MoU.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 JUST IN:

US and Iran to continue technical talks despite recent strikes, with Washington still committed to finding a resolution, per Bloomberg.

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🇺🇸 TODAY:

The Fed announces leadership for five task forces reviewing its monetary policy conduct, including a16z's Marc Andreessen on the productivity and jobs panel.

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🚨BREAKING:

🇪🇺 The EU will start monitoring people's private chats

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314 MEPs voted to REJECT Chat Control… but 361 were needed. They failed to stop this authoritarian law.

🇷🇺🇺🇦Russian President Putin Rejects Peace Freeze and Orders Push for Full Donetsk Control as Russia Prepares a large scale escalation.

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Putin has turned down freezing the front lines. Russia plans to keep attacking to seize the rest of Donetsk and may need more troops to do it. No peace talks breakthrough expected soon.

Putin rejected his advisers' proposal to freeze the war along the current front line. The Kremlin believes the army will still be able to occupy the remaining part of the Donetsk region, and Putin calls this a "matter of principle."

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Binance Pay is now powering 5,000 POS terminals at Alatau City Bank in Kazakhstan, enabling crypto payments at merchants nationwide.

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🚨BREAKING: CFTC is set to block CME’s fast-track bid for a 24/7 oil futures contract, per FT.

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CME wanted to launch a new 10-barrel WTI-linked futures contract that could trade around the clock, allowing investors to manage oil exposure whenever major news breaks.

Regulators are reportedly concerned the energy market is not ready for a flood of 24/7 derivatives trading.

🇮🇷🇮🇶IRAN Masses IRGC Special Forces Near Iraqi Kurdistan, Signals Possible Ground Strike.

Statement from Iranian field commander;

‘If the Kurdish groups, with backing of the U.S. and Israel, try to infringe on Iranian sovereignty, we will not only push them back—we will establish a security zone of several kilometers

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🇳🇬 Dangote Refinery owned by the richest black man, is reportedly delivering petrol at zero transportation costs, to 6 Nigerian states.

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🇪🇺 The EU just passed Chat Control 1.0 in Brussels.

Platforms can now scan your private messages again, officially "voluntary," in practice blanket surveillance.

Here's the democratic scandal: 314 MEPs voted against it. Only 276 voted for it.

It passed anyway... because an absolute majority of all MEPs was required to reject it, not just a majority of those present.

More people voted no than yes. It still passed.

Pushed through on an urgent procedure just before summer recess, when absences are highest and attention is lowest.

This is how rights disappear folks. Not in one dramatic moment, but in procedural fine print, on a slow news day, while everyone's looking at Tehran.

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⚡️BREAKING:

Iran has deployed hundreds of Special Forces near the Iraqi Kurdistan

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Ground operations in that area could be Imminent