AGP Executive Report
Last update: 11 hours agoStrait of Hormuz Crisis: Iran says it has closed the Strait again after a warning shot hit a vessel using an “unauthorized” route, while the US insists the waterway stays open and launches a third wave of strikes; explosions were reported near Bandar Abbas and Sirik as Iran’s IRGC claims it hit US-linked bases across the Gulf. MoU Breakdown: Iran’s Foreign Ministry says the Pakistan-mediated memorandum is in “terminal” crisis and Tehran won’t meet its obligations unless Washington stops violating commitments, repeating “commitment for commitment.” Military Escalation: The US says it struck about 140 Iranian targets to degrade attacks on civilian mariners, using fighter jets, drones, and for the first time one-way attack sea drones; Iran retaliates with missile/drone attacks on Bahrain, Kuwait, and Oman, and warns it will reopen Hormuz only if US “interference” ends. Human & Rights Angle: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe condemns the rearrest of Iranian wildlife activists Houman Jokar and Sepideh Kashani as “unimaginably cruel.” Culture Lens: A feature traces how Ayatollah Khamenei’s literary corpus maps decades of Islamic intellectual thought.
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