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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; Sunday still has no coordinates.

MSM Perspective

Al Jazeera asked whether Tehran can enforce a line it has not drawn. Sunday does not draw it.

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, starting from the U.S. Navy's blockade line. [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] Sunday's Oman table is still a table. Coming remains the tense. Announced-as-coming is not enforced. No start date, no coordinates, no boarding mechanism appear in Sunday copy. Print blank. Do not print a closure. No Salalah delay belongs on this clock.

A postponed ministerial is Monday's hour. Sunday recap that treats a blank chart as a closed strait is a feed, not Malay Mail.
No coordinates are in Sunday's zone copy, so blank remains the chart word.
No polygon appears in Sunday's fetched copy, so the file stands as printed.
Sunday is not a published annex.
Blank charts hold weekends well; coordinates need business days. Sunday holds the blank.

Held blanks hold; Sunday's holds. Holding is the update. Business days bring coordinates.

Business days bring coordinates; Sunday holds a blank chart. No published annex. Malay Mail is not a closed strait.

Iran's prohibited zone near Hormuz still has no start date, no coordinates, and no boarding rule. Sunday's Oman table supplied no polygon. An undrawn line does not shut a strait. The map stays blank in this edition.
Sunday's Oman table supplied no polygon. No start date, no coordinates, no boarding rule. An undrawn line does not shut Hormuz.

Sunday's Oman table supplied no polygon. The map stays blank in this edition. An undrawn line does not shut Hormuz.

-- YOSEF STERN, Jerusalem

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