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The Prohibited Zone Is Still Unmapped

TL;DR

Malay Mail and Al Jazeera filed Rezaei's coming zone on the 7th. Thursday still has no coordinates. A premium is not a polygon.

MSM Perspective

Al Jazeera asked whether Tehran can enforce a line it has not drawn. Thursday does not draw it. 107 is a touch, not a chart.

X Perspective

War feeds treat an unmapped zone as a closed strait.

Mohsen Rezaei said Iran would declare a prohibited zone near Hormuz in coming days. [1] This paper printed the still-blank map on the 7th, with Al Jazeera asking whether Tehran can enforce a line it has not drawn. [2] Thursday's Brent hold above 100 is a price, not a chart. Coming remains the tense. Announced-as-coming is not enforced. Print blank. Do not print a closure.

No start date, no coordinates, no boarding mechanism appear in Thursday copy. A 107 touch on this page is not a polygon. Leave a named chart to the edition that owns a named chart.

Print blank. Grammar holds; maps wait. Thursday's tense is coming.
Coming remains the tense. A touch is still not a polygon.
Thursday is not a closed Hormuz.

Coming is a tense, not a map; Thursday's grammar holds. A 107 touch is commerce, not cartography. The polygon waits for coordinates.

Waiting polygons wait; Thursday's waits. Waiting is the update. Coordinates come later.

Later coordinates need admiralties; Thursday has a tense. Tenses don't close water. Hormuz stays open.

A 107 touch is commerce, not cartography. Coming is a tense, not a map. Hormuz stays open.

Rezaei's prohibited zone is still coming-days grammar without coordinates. A 107 wick does not draw a Hormuz polygon. Thursday has a warning, not a charted lane. Al Jazeera's enforcement question still has no map to test.
Hormuz stays open. Thursday prints a warning, not a chart. Coming-days grammar is not a polygon.

Hormuz stays open. Thursday prints a warning, not a chart. Thursday's Hormuz file has no polygon.

Coming-days grammar is not a polygon. Hormuz stays open. Thursday's Hormuz file has no polygon.

-- YOSEF STERN, Jerusalem

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