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Trump authorized Navy lethal force, Iran seized a third ship, and Mojtaba Khamenei spoke for an injured father in one day of institutional hardening.
Sheinbaum moved from protest to legal characterization, while reporting that Chihuahua was the third covert operation in a year turned an incident into a pattern.
Round 2 produced a three-week extension on Oval Office letterhead; Hezbollah fired four rockets at Shtula while the signing was still underway.
The message is unity, the medium is text, the body is absent, and the New York Times has the IRGC running Iran like a board meeting.
The strait is empty, the allied communiqué is drafted, and the one Gulf capital whose geography makes the coalition work did not come to the meeting.
A weekend Moscow trip by the two envoys runs against a Kyiv track Zelensky has publicly called disrespectful.
Day Three of Baghaei's morning line keeps Iran's demand structure intact while avoiding a formal red-line declaration from the top office.
A third on-record dissenting aide shifts Tehran's mixed messaging from noise to factional structure Washington can no longer ignore.
Washington extended the Lebanon ceasefire window, but simultaneous drone and strike traffic kept the tactical war running underneath it.
Day Three produced no new outreach artifact from Washington or Tehran, leaving Islamabad to preserve process without movement.
Day Four keeps Kharg near operational limits, but tracker disagreement on exact utilization widens the decision fog around shut-in timing.
The hearing moves from scheduling to testimony day as reporting about a possible third operation raises the documentary-stakes floor.