The deadline demanded Tehran declare the strait open and free.
Instead the IRGC Navy shut it to ALL maritime traffic "until American-Zionist interference in the region has ended," and a Cypriot-flagged tanker took fire.
Then something new: land-based missiles, HIMARS by the reports, launched from Kuwaiti soil, the clearest Gulf participation since the ceasefire.
Ten-plus explosions rolled down the same southern coastline, Bushehr to the strait, before the wave ended.
Larry Johnson's eye went to the weapons choice.
Firing leftover ground missiles instead of massing aircraft, he reads as an attempt to keep airbases off Iran's retaliation list.
He doubts Tehran will honor the distinction, and expects tonight's answer to outscale Thursday's.
The diplomatic wreckage tells its own story.
Axios reports Oman proposed twin corridors, its side free and open, Iran's side managed but toll-free, and Tehran referred it home without approval.
Hours later came the closure. Larry's read of the two-corridor idea: dead on arrival, because the protocol paperwork was never the issue.
The fee is.
His question for Hegseth's "Iran made a poor choice, now they pay" post: wait for tonight, then check who's paying.
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