This paper's hull count has been five named U.S. sinkings against IRGC claims that run higher, including a six that was never independently confirmed in the Sunday-week file. Monday has no new named American hull and no confirmed Iranian six in fetched copy. Salalah does not sink a ship. Hanish does not sink a ship. Print five as five. Do not print ten. Leave a new named hull to the edition that owns a new named hull.

Named American hulls and unconfirmed Iranian tallies stay unreconciled. Monday's diplomacy does not add a ship to either column.
Print five. Do not print ten.
No new named hull is in Monday's Tampa copy.
Monday is not a sixth named hull. Hull counts move only when CENTCOM names a ship, and Tampa named none today.
Hull counts are the war's most contested numbers because neither side has an incentive to correct the other downward. CENTCOM names American losses ship by ship; Iranian claims arrive as round totals. Five named against ten claimed is the shape of that gap.

CENTCOM names ships; Tehran names tens. Monday added no hull. Five named against ten claimed is still the gap.

Tampa added no name. Five named American hulls remain five against higher IRGC round totals, and Salalah's delay sinks none of them. Hanish is an island, not a sixth ship. This desk will not print ten to close an unreconciled gap.
Monday will not print ten. Tampa added no name. Monday added no hull.

Tampa added no name. Monday added no hull. This desk will not print ten.

Tampa added no name. Monday added no hull. Monday's hull file is still five, not ten.

-- YOSEF STERN, Jerusalem