After announcing a pause on US plans to guide ships through the Strait of Hormuz, the Revolutionary Guard announces that it could reopen the vital waterway to tanker traffic if the US were to end its blockade. Although sticking points won’t be resolved in a single round of talks, Pakistani go-betweens suggest that indirect negotiations have continued and that a peace deal may be close. 
In response to US sanctions on members of the International Criminal Court, Spanish prime minister Sรกnchez has requested the European Commission to impose its blocking statue (trade bazooka) to pressure America to stop intimidating the justices by enabling Europe to ignore the US embargo. The penalty was imposed on the court in response to its 2024 issuing of warrants for the Israeli prime minister and former defence minister for actions in Palestine. The UN is demanding the release of activists detained after their aid flotilla was intercepted off the coast of Gaza. The destruction of Hezbollah infrastructure continues in southern Lebanon.
synchronoptica
one year ago: planned tariffs for foreign cinema (with synchronopticรฆ) plus The Little Screw
thirteen years ago: a Bulli AT-AT plus feline toxoplasm
sixteen years ago: sovereign default plus in pursuit of a mad bomber
seventeen years ago: pollen in the air
