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Bureau: Jerusalem
The Persian Gulf Strait Authority emailed Lloyd's List an application form for safe passage on the same morning the White House readout called the regime a toll and ruled it out.
Six days in Iranian custody and no Ocean Koi-specific demand — Gharibabadi's BRICS conditional offer is the strait-wide demand instead, the protocol replacing the tanker.
No new IAEA report, no new Israeli intelligence statement, no new Iran enrichment claim — the thread's silence on the day of the Beijing readout is itself an artifact.
Two proxies the war's escalation watch turns on are quiet on Day 2 post-deadline — Hezbollah's feed runs Lebanese politics, Ansar Allah's runs Yemen domestic items, and neither carries a strike.