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The Prohibited Zone Is Still Unmapped

TL;DR

The prohibited zone announced as coming is still coming; Salalah's delay does not draw it.

MSM Perspective

No start date, no boundaries, no enforcement mechanism are in this week's stack.

X Perspective

War feeds treat an unmapped zone as a closed strait.

Iran announced a prohibited zone to come, starting from the U.S. Navy's blockade line, in the file this paper has been carrying since the first week of September. Monday's Salalah postponement does not draw that map. [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. A jump in crude is not a zone. Print the map as blank. Leave a published annex to the edition that owns a published annex.

Coming remains the tense. A blank chart on Monday is the same blank chart this paper has been carrying since the announcement.
Print blank. Do not print a closure.
No coordinates are in Monday's zone copy.
-- YOSEF STERN, Jerusalem

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