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.
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Russia Hits Kyiv With Biggest Attack in a Year; Trump Stays Silent
Macron, Merz, Kallas, and von der Leyen condemned Sunday's 90-missile, 600-drone Kyiv attack; the White House did not post on Ukraine for the entire weekend.
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.
Six Gulf Capitals Stay Silent on Pakistan's Iran Mediation Effort
Trump named eight capitals; two confirmed; six have produced nothing for a fourth day; Pakistan's text is twenty-two days unpublished.
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.
Pakistan Has Not Published Iran Mediation Document in 22 Days
Day twenty-two of the Pakistan-Iran channel; Pakistan's foreign ministry is still 'reviewing the US Views' and the text of the fourteen points sits in no government's archive.
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.
France's U.N. Hormuz Resolution Has Not Drawn a Co-Sponsor
Four days after Paris circulated its Strait of Hormuz draft, no second mission has signed on and no Council vote is on the June calendar.
Europe's Top Four Call for Russia Meeting After Largest Kyiv Strike
The EU's senior foreign-policy tier spoke as a group against Sunday's Russian attack on Kyiv; the foreign ministers meet within days to translate the chorus into a sanctions instrument.
Poland Scrambles Jets Over Kyiv Strike but Holds Off on NATO Consultation
Polish and allied jets were airborne over Polish airspace during Russia's Sunday wave; Warsaw has not invoked Article 4 and the NAC has not been convened.
Zelensky Confirms Russian Oreshnik Missile Hit Bila Tserkva
President Zelensky confirmed Russia used an Oreshnik against Bila Tserkva Sunday and called it the third operational launch — Pentagon corroboration is the next watch item.
China Stays Silent on Pakistan's Iran Effort as Quad Meets Without Beijing
Four days into the eight-capital call Trump named, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has produced no readout, no comment, and no objection — the same posture that preceded April's joint Hormuz veto.