Rial Collapses Past Two Million to the Dollar as Iranians Queue
AP clocks a record 2.02 million rials per dollar hours before Bessent speaks; X runs cash-out queues as proof the blockade already won what sanctions merely formalize.
Katya Volkov
Bureau: Moscow
Putin Decree Seizes Infrastructure That Fails to Stop Drones
The Kremlin sells wartime stewardship of vital assets; ISW reads pretextual nationalization - strikes got costly enough that Moscow now moves against owners for its own air-defense failures.
Ukraine Guts Russian Air Defenses as Ozon Fires Spread Nationwide
Kyiv frames radar and warehouse fires as one attrition system; governors recite debris lines - between them a consumer economy loses its fulfillment spine before winter.
Iran Counts 313,000 Personnel For Janfada Without Setting A Date
Regime media sell readiness while inside-Iran accounts see rehearsal; the drill's missing start date is the tell, because a muster announced but unscheduled is pressure, not planning.