Day 4: IDF enters Lebanon; overnight summary

New Delhi has a national unaccounted for among GFS Galaxy's eleven-strong Indian crew, turning a standoff over transit rights into a consular emergency for a state with no seat at either table.

Muscat's 9 July arrangement to jointly manage Hormuz traffic with Iran, outside the frozen US channel, is overridden within days by Tehran's own unilateral closure and strike on GFS Galaxy.

Doha keeps mediating from an exposed position: Al Udeid hosts the CENTCOM strikes it is trying to broker a stand-down around, a week after a Qatari carrier was itself hit in the strait.

CENTCOM flew a third strike wave in a week, roughly 140 targets, killed Lieutenant Dehghani at Jask, and insists the strait remains open. It signed no instrument making that claim enforceable against Iran's closure.

Tehran struck GFS Galaxy and declared Hormuz closed, reasserting IRGC toll authority after its Oman-brokered management track failed to bind Washington to anything. The strike restores unilateral control after days of a negotiated alternative gaining ground.

Grossi's non-confirmation came from Kaliningrad, hours after Rosatom, the state agency that built and fuels Bushehr, hosted his talks. A refusal delivered from inside Russia's own nuclear orbit carries weight a Western capital could not manufacture, though Moscow itself made no statement on Iran's strike claim.