Satellite copy showed construction at Iran's Pickaxe Mountain while Washington talked about underground strikes. [1] CNN filed the Wednesday construction. [1] The New York Post filed Trump threatening the site. [2] Construction is not a strike. A threat is not a crater. This paper has been printing unstruck since that file. Monday has no named hit in fetched copy.

Hormuz hulls and Salalah's postponement sit on other pages. They are not this granite. A later IAEA confirmation belongs to the edition that owns a later IAEA confirmation.

Mountains keep secrets well, which is the entire strategic problem. Satellites watch the entrances; only inspectors see inside. Neither has produced Monday news.

"Very soon" has been Washington's formulation for months, applied to several sites in turn. Formulation is not targeting data. Until craters or inspectors appear, the mountain stays a paragraph, not a target.

Paragraphs, not targets: Monday's mountain is text. Text waits for craters. Inspectors wait for visas.

Waiting texts wait; Monday's waits. Waiting is the update. Visas decide.

Visas decide inspectors; Monday's mountain is still a paragraph. Until craters appear, the site stays text. Several mountains have heard the same threat.

Granite is not a crater, and Wednesday's construction photos are not a hit. Washington's very-soon line still covers several sites in rotation. Salalah's postponed Hormuz talks live on the lead page; they do not retarget this mountain. Inspectors would need visas before they could change the paragraph.
Granite is still not a crater. Until craters appear, the site stays text. Several mountains have heard the same threat.

Granite is still not a crater. Until craters appear, the site stays text. Several mountains have heard the same threat.

-- ANNA WEBER, Berlin