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A truce that has lost its clock has gained a list of preconditions — and a second table opens at State under Hezbollah fire while thirty navies write the Hormuz plan.
Thirty navies spent a second day at Britain's joint headquarters writing escort, mine-clearance and C2 text — none of them American, all of them sure this is what comes next.
In seventy-two hours Claudia Sheinbaum moved from demanding an explanation to threatening sanctions against one of her own states — the constitution found a pulse.
Drones and rockets in the same 24 hours as the Washington table — violence is the negotiating language neither side will drop before sitting down.
Baghaei, Pezeshkian's adviser, and Ghalibaf's deputy each named a different precondition Thursday — and none mentioned the others.
Islamabad talks the channel while keeping the door closed — the Vance meeting is not postponed with a new date, it is indefinitely dark.
Baghaei's morning line is the only official Iranian text timed to the Lebanon round at State — and it makes blockade relief the precondition.
The final-day choreography — stadium Mass, youth celebration, prison visit — was three venues arguing the same claim in three registers.
Equatorial Guinea's president has ruled 46 years and has not answered the pope's mineral-colonization charge — the silence is the state's reply.
A Senate foreign-relations hearing is on the calendar and Sheinbaum's sovereignty language is now a matter of congressional record, not presidential improvisation.
The front line in Ukraine produced no territorial change this week — a dormant marker the paper files so the thread does not disappear for readers.
China's foreign ministry has declined to answer the blockade-precondition question three briefings in a row — the non-statement is the statement.
The replacement-barrel mix India wired up in the first week of the blockade is now routine — and the policy shift is happening inside procurement desks, not ministries.
The UK-France communique under draft at Northwood carries command-and-control language the paper had been waiting for — a second Hormuz architecture on paper.