Iran Routes Reply to Trump Through Khamenei; U.S. Backs Off 'Largely Negotiated'
Iran's president said Sunday the final call rests with Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, not the MFA — a fifth Iranian voice in one cycle and a one-rung escalation.
Yosef Stern
Bureau: Jerusalem
Israel Will Not Explain Tyre Hospital Strike After Five Days
Trump's Memorandum included a Lebanon ceasefire; the IDF spent the same Memorial Day saying only that it was looking into a hospital it had warned to evacuate.
Iran and Oman Have Not Signed a Formal Hormuz Tolls Deal
Turkey is the only capital that has confirmed its side of Saturday's eight-call; Muscat is the only mediator that has not produced a paper.
Oman Has Issued No Document Confirming Iran's Hormuz Tolls Claim
Iran's ambassador to France keeps describing an Iran-Oman 'permanent toll' arrangement on the strait — Oman's foreign ministry has produced no Muscat document confirming it.
Six Gulf Capitals Stay Silent on Pakistan's 'Islamabad Declaration'
Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, and Bahrain have produced no readout of Trump's eight-capital call in four days — and Al Arabiya is now calling it the Islamabad Declaration.