Rubio Names Plan B From Helsingborg as Trump Cancels His Son's Wedding to Stay at the White House
The diplomatic surface says slight progress, the presidential schedule says recall rosters — Saturday's lead is the gap between two Friday artifacts.
Yosef Stern
Bureau: Jerusalem
Qatar Lands a Negotiating Team in Tehran While Iran's Foreign Ministry Says Pakistan Is Still the Mediator
Doha breaks its own post-attack distance and arrives in Tehran with Washington's coordination — and Tehran tells reporters Saturday morning that the mediator is still Pakistani.
Six Lebanese Paramedics Killed in Twenty-Four Hours as Al Jazeera Documents a Triple-Tap Pattern
Friday's brief said Day 2 silence — Saturday's escalation is six dead medics, footage of the strike pattern, and an IDF that says only that it is examining.
The Iran-Oman Hormuz Toll Talks Are Now in Two Western Wires, and Muscat Still Has Not Said a Word
The Muscat document the paper had been waiting for landed in two MSM outlets this week, and the Sultanate itself has stayed silent on the talks named in its capital.
Saudi Arabia and the UAE Said Nothing on the Second Day of the AP Strike Wire
Two days after the AP quadruple-sourced that Saudi Arabia and the UAE struck Iran during the war, neither foreign ministry has acknowledged anything and Brent is holding the war premium.
Twenty Days Into the Pakistan Channel, Iran's Fourteen-Point Text Still Cannot Publish
Pakistan's army chief is on his third Tehran trip and Qatar's delegation arrived Friday, yet the actual text of Iran's fourteen-point proposal remains unpublished by any government party.