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The dilation that opened with no deadline closed thirty hours later with anti-ship missiles, kamikaze drones, and a tanker seizure — Day Two of Trump's one-week window met live ammunition.
T-1 to Saturday's slim parade — three foreign leaders confirmed, Lukashenko dines with Putin tonight, and the Washington Post reports a three-day truce and 1,000-prisoner swap.
Six days to Beijing — Wang's call to reopen the Strait of Hormuz remains in the Chinese readout and absent from Iran's, as a U.S. congressional delegation paves the summit road.
Three days after Macron promised to phone Trump about Hormuz, the call has not been scheduled — and the French carrier sits in the southern Red Sea waiting on it.
Two days after kinetic fire returned to the Strait, Tehran has still not republished the Hormuz reopening line Beijing put in its own readout — and Trump arrives in Beijing in six days.
The Iranian entity now charging tolls to ship Hormuz transits has no published charter, no named commander, and no procurement footprint — three days of fire later, that is the news.
Day 22 of the truce: UN logged 619 Israeli attacks against 30 Hezbollah attacks Tuesday, Beirut took the first strike since April 17, Salam called high-level talks 'premature.'
Sudan's war is in its fourth year, RSF leader Hemedti said this week his forces will fight 'until 2040' if the army insists, and the Quad mediation track has produced no documented round in 2026.
Pezeshkian's phone-call script survives Day 2 — Macron, Iraq, Pakistan all hear the same line while IRGC fires on three U.S. warships in Hormuz.