The same coastline kept lighting up, Kish, Bushehr, the Bandar ports, with Reuters told tonight's package would outscale yesterday's.
An unconfirmed report points to an army base in Zahedan, which would be a first since June 17, and Al Arabiya reports Bahrain took part in the strikes. Trump posted his own framing: retribution for the ship attacks, and "if it happens again, it will get much worse."
Robert Barnes has his eye on Tehran's paperwork above anything in the sky.
Iran has threatened to terminate the MOU, seal the strait to all traffic, and, the one he flags hardest, walk out of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
An NPT exit, he argues, is how a country announces a weapon.
His expected sequence: Bahrain hit harder, Beijing consulted on a full closure, and if China balks, the treaty door slams.
Bombing can't reopen the water anyway, in his read.
Insurers decide that, and nobody can promise them zero mines, drones, or missiles.
One more headline in the chaos: Gadi Eisenkot's new party just overtook Likud as Israel's largest, per a Channel 13 poll.
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