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Bureau: Washington
CTP reads the 313,000-person Janfada drill as suppression rehearsal timed to the fuel hike; regime media sells readiness - believe either alone and you misread Tehran's streets.
Washington annexes the strait as a meme the same day Tehran advances fees for it; the joke and the tariff land on the same tankers.
Friday's quiet rebel returns wrapped in the leader's authority, insisting no clause is surrender; Monday's American rollout will price the argument in sanctions.
Washington pre-sold its biggest financial offensive as history's toughest while Tehran called it defeat; what actually ships Monday is the part neither side has priced.