Iran and the United Arab Emirates signed a joint statement calling for restraint at BRICS, in Saturday's file. [1] Reuters filed the line. [1] This paper printed a signed line, not a deal. Monday's Salalah postponement is a different table. A restraint statement is not a cease-fire. Print the line. Do not print a corridor.

The lead already named the delay. This page is Saturday's BRICS sentence, not a second postpone. Print the statement. Print not a cease-fire.

Pezeshkian shaking hands with Abu Dhabi's ruler at a BRICS sidebar is diplomacy's cheapest currency: a photograph and a sentence. Saturday spent it; Monday cannot spend it twice. Salalah sits on the lead as the other table, postponed, undated. Restraint statements do not compound like interest.

BRICS declarations are consensus documents; even summit members describe them as direction-setting rather than binding. A restraint line signed in that setting constrains nobody until capitals act on it. Monday shows no capital acting.

Unacted directions drift; Monday's drifts. Drifting is the update. Capitals decide.

Capitals decide; Monday shows no capital acting on a BRICS restraint line. Consensus documents constrain nobody until someone does. Direction-setting, not binding.

Saturday's handshake already spent its photograph. A BRICS restraint line signed by Iran and the Emirates is still a sentence, not a cease-fire and not a corridor. Capitals have not acted on it in Monday copy. The postponed Hormuz ministerial lives on the lead.
The lead already owns the postponement. Saturday's handshake already spent its photograph. Direction-setting, not binding.

The lead already owns the postponement. Saturday's handshake already spent its photograph. Direction-setting, not binding.

-- HENDRIK VAN DER BERG, Brussels