Iran announced a prohibited zone to come, starting from the U.S. Navy's blockade line, in the file this paper has carried since the first week of September. Monday's Salalah postponement does not draw that map. [1] Al Jazeera filed the talks delayed over Yemen events. [1] Announced-as-coming is not enforced. No start date, no coordinates, no enforcement mechanism appear in fetched copy.

A postponed ministerial is not a zone. Hanish is a Red Sea archipelago on another page, not a Gulf chart. CENTCOM's redirected hulls from earlier in the week are a count, not a corridor. A jump in crude is a price, not a boundary.

Blank charts invite projection, which is why this paper prints the blankness itself. A zone with no coordinates constrains no captain. Monday's map is an empty frame, honestly labeled.

Empty frames hold honestly; projection fills them falsely. Monday's frame stays empty. Captains navigate, unmapped.

Labeled empties guide captains; Monday's is labeled. Labels hold. Projections stay off the chart.

Off-chart projections stay off; Monday's stay off. Captains navigate unmapped water. Salalah's delay is the lead, not this chart.

Monday's frame stays empty. Captains navigate unmapped water. Projections stay off the chart.

Announced-as-coming still has no coordinates. Oman's postponed Hormuz talks delay a table; they do not sketch Iran's prohibited zone from a blockade line. Captains get no start date because the file contains none. Honest maps on Monday still show an undrawn line.
Monday's map still shows an undrawn line. Captains navigate unmapped water. Projections stay off the chart.

Monday's map still shows an undrawn line. Captains navigate unmapped water. Projections stay off the chart.

-- YOSEF STERN, Jerusalem