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2026-07-11 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Saturday Deadline: US Orders Iran To Declare Hormuz Open, Toll-Free...Or Else
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[ZERO] Update(1855): The US is back to setting deadlines, coupled with new military threats, apparently. Judging by this week, which marked a dangerous return to guns-a-blazing in the Persian Gulf, it seems Trump is ready to back these warnings with new bombing raids. The only question will be the extent to which the Islamic Republic escalates in return. So far it has shown willingness to 'answer' US attacks with its own missile and drone launches, against US and allied bases and facilities among the Arab Gulf states.
Axios newly reports (...just after market-closing on Friday, it should be noted), that if Tehran doesn't declare the complete opening of the Strait of Hormuz and safe passage to all ships by close of Saturday, then the... or else!
"The Trump administration is demanding that Iran publicly acknowledge that the Strait of Hormuz is open and pledge to stop firing on commercial ships," the report says. The US has also renewed calls for Iran to immediately hand over its "nuclear dust" - amid the warnings. Axios reports the message was conveyed "directly" and "through regional mediators" - citing three officials.
Both sides have already accused the other of severely violating the terms of the MoU. And US Treasury issued fresh sanctions on Tehran Friday, which violates the 'no new sanctions' clause of the memorandum. So the MoU is clearly on life support as it is. Diplomacy is still moving on some fronts: "Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Omani Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr al-Busaidi are expected to meet Saturday in Muscat to discuss the Hormuz crisis," Axios continues. But here's the deadline:
IRAN THREATENS TO HIT ISRAEL IN RESPONSE TO US ATTACKS
Hours before Trump’s social media post, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Council threatened to target Israel in response to American attacks.
"As we have already announced, any attack on infrastructure will be retaliated against, and the criminal Zionist regime responsible for these atrocities will not be spared from the response of our fighters," said Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, in a statement carried by state TV.
In Israel, the Kan public broadcaster reported that some in Jerusalem wanted to renew strikes on Iran, but were waiting for Trump’s go-ahead to do so.
The unsourced report said officials in Jerusalem estimated that the mutual attacks between the US and Iran
 ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
would continue in the coming days.
Similarly, The New York Post quoted a Jerusalem source who said Israel was interested in joining future strikes and fully renewing the war.
"We’re willing to do it again, if needed," the unnamed source was quoted as saying on Wednesday, before the US began striking Iran.
The source added that while Israel was "not eager to go back to the day when people have to go to shelters," it doesn’t want to "ignore what’s happening in Iran."
"So if that will be the price we’ll have to pay, we will bear with that situation."
RUSSIA SUSPENDS RETURN OF WORKERS TO IRAN’S NUCLEAR PLANT
Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom, meanwhile, said Friday it had suspended the return of its first employees to the construction site of new units at Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant following new strikes on Iran.
An Iranian official told state media on Thursday that a projectile had struck the perimeter area of the facility, hitting a military site on the outskirts of Bushehr.
"A few hours ago, the first group of people — six individuals — began their journey to the site, but following the attacks that took place last night, we have halted our team’s progress in Tehran," the Russian state corporation’s chief, Alexei Likhachev, was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying.
"We will decide on the next steps in the near future," he said.
Rosatom, which is building two new units at Bushehr, evacuated more than 600 staff to Russia after the launch of the US-Israeli war with Iran on February 28. Some of them started returning, arriving in Tehran, where their further journey to the plant was put on hold.
The Russian state nuclear corporation has left only 20 personnel there to maintain construction activities and has said that the expansion of the plant remains one of its priorities.
Unclaimed airstrikes hit Iran, raising possibility of Gulf state involvement
[IsraelTimes] After US completed attacks, a series of strikes targeted southern Iran; Iranian official warns UAE will ‘pay the price for its cooperation with the United States’.
Gulf Arab states, which repeatedly have been targeted by Iran since the war began February 28, did not immediately respond to requests for comment Friday over the strikes. The attacks come as they and the US insist the Strait of Hormuz, a vital waterway for world energy markets, must be open and free to ships.
The US military’s Central Command said Thursday around 6:30 a.m. local Iran time that it had concluded a round of strikes that saw some 90 targets hit. Shortly after that, Iranian news outlets and state media reported a series of airstrikes and explosions targeting the country’s Bushehr and Sistan and Baluchestan provinces, the cities of Ahvaz and Chabahar and other areas.
A US defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss operational details of the American military campaign, said there had been no new US strikes since the last round ended Thursday morning.
Iran responded to the strikes Thursday by launching a wider volley of attacks across the Mideast, targeting Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait and Qatar. Missile alert sirens sounded in the four countries, sending people to seek shelter. One person was reportedly hurt in Kuwait as air defense systems targeted the incoming fire across the region.
During the Iran war, there were also a series of unclaimed airstrikes. Officials later said both Saudi Arabia and the UAE launched airstrikes on Iran, after Tehran struck energy sites in their countries. Having a Gulf country again strike Iran likely could be an effort to deter Tehran from targeting the Gulf states again.
Israel, which, under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has engaged in an intense campaign against Iran, has not attacked the Islamic Republic since June. In most cases, Israel immediately claims its attacks on Iran.
Israel’s government said Netanyahu spoke with US President Donald Trump on Thursday night, with Trump updating Netanyahu “on American moves in the Gulf.”
Israel Katz, Israel’s defense minister, also renewed threats that his nation stood ready to confront Iran if needed. The Israeli military “is on alert and ready to renew the campaign, to reestablish aerial superiority, and to carry out a blue-white (Israeli) strike in Iran to remove threats, even for a third time,” Katz told a military ceremony. “If we will have to return, we will return with even greater force.”
Eyal Hulata: What’s next in the war against Iran
[IsraelTimes] The campaigns against Tehran achieved much, says Israel’s former national security adviser. But the accomplishments will be fleeting unless Israel gets the next phase right.
Iran isn't competing for one chokepoint. It's positioning itself across both.
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Iran isn't competing for one chokepoint. It's positioning itself across both.
While most external powers focus on either the Strait of Hormuz or Bab el-Mandeb, Iran is the only actor projecting influence at both ends of the Red Sea corridor simultaneously. In the north, the PGSA expands Tehran's leverage over outbound Gulf energy. In the south, years of IRGC support to the Houthis and a long-standing presence around Assab extend pressure toward Bab el-Mandeb.
The strategic objective isn't permanent closure. It's the ability to raise the cost, risk, and uncertainty of moving through either gateway whenever Tehran chooses.
| That’s nice. President Trump said they have until today to straighten up and fly right, if I understand correctly. I guess resupply is complete enough to be going on with. |
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