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▸10:07 CEST Guardian/Xinhua — China blames USA-Israel for Hormuz closure: FM Mao Ning: "The root cause of interruptions to navigation through the strait is the United States and Israel's illegal military operations against Iran" — first official Chinese position directly responding to Trump's "Just take it"
▸09:30 CEST Repubblica/AFP — Von der Leyen calls Starmer: "We will work for Hormuz" — first EU-UK coordination post-Trump speech
▸~09:00 CEST Asharq — Erdogan (Turkey): warns of Iran war spillover, reaffirms Turkish neutrality — first formal Ankara statement post-speech

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3 sources | Day 34 — morning post-speech

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14 sources | Day 34 — morning after Trump's address

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4 sources | Day 35 — early morning

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Day 34 | Sources: Guardian, Reuters, BBC, Press TV, NYT | Post-Trump speech

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2026-04-02

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▸Trump (03:00-03:20 CEST): "We have beaten and completely decimated Iran" — IDF reports new Iranian missiles 15 minutes later
▸Iran FM Baghaei (post-speech): ceasefire claim "false and baseless"
▸Araghchi: "ready for at least 6 months of war" — structural divergence unchanged

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3 sources | Day 34 — morning

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Day 34 | Post-Trump Address | Sources: NBC, Reuters, Guardian, IDF

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2026-04-02

▸03:21 CET IDF — 1st Iranian missile salvo identified 15 minutes after Trump's speech ended
▸05:00–07:00 CET IDF/Wikipedia — 4 total Iranian missile salvos fired at Israel since early morning of April 2 — most intercepted, zero casualties IDF Telegram / Wikipedia War Timeline Apr 2
▸03:45 CET NBC/Reuters — S&P 500 futures -0.75%, Nasdaq futures -1%, Dow futures down 310 points post-speech; WTI from $98 to $104 (+6%), Brent from $99 to $106 (+7%) NBC News / Reuters Apr 2

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4 sources | Day 34 — First morning after Trump's address to the nation

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6 sources | Day 34 — early morning

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3 active sources | Day 34 — night of the speech

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8 sources | Day 33 — deep night

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5 sources | Day 34 — night before Trump's address

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2026-04-02

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▸Iran: 3,519 (1,598 civilians, 244 children)
▸Lebanon: 1,318 (124 children; 400+ Hezbollah, 9 Lebanese soldiers, 3 Indonesian UN peacekeepers)
▸Iraq: 107 (civilians, PMF, Peshmerga, police, army)

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4 sources | Day 33 — Evening | Pre-Trump speech window

21:11 CET

2026-04-01

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▸9:00 PM ET WH Leavitt — Trump's address to the nation on Iran imminent (in ~1 hour)
▸Delta: Reuters anticipates possible announcement of first-ever direct US-Iran talks — potential diplomatic breakthrough after 33 days of war. Trump has already said "we'll be out in 2-3 weeks without a formal deal."
▸Context: Iran FM Baghaei dismissed the ceasefire claim ("false and baseless"), IRGC reiterated control over Hormuz — maximum public divergence right on the eve of the speech.

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4 active sources | Day 33 — evening April 1, 2026

19:10 CET

2026-04-01

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▸9 PM ET / 03:00 CEST Apr 2 Trump prime-time address to the nation — Reuters: possible announcement of direct US-Iran talks for the first time ( )
▸~5 PM CEST Trump to Reuters: de facto drops IAEA verification as precondition — Iranian uranium "so far underground, I don't care" ( )
▸~5 PM CEST Global stock market rally + Brent drop on expectations of war end in 2-3 weeks ( )

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6 sources | Day 34 — Pre-Trump address to the nation (03:00 CEST)

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4 active sources | Day 34 — early afternoon

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8 sources | Day 33 — afternoon April 1

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Day 33 | 14+ sources | Post-13:05 batch

12:40 CET

2026-04-01

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▸Last night ~23:00 UTC Mar 31: Araghchi "confirms contacts with Witkoff" (AJ)
▸Today 13:00 CEST Apr 1: "no grounds for neg

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Day 33 | 14 sources | Morning/noon

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4 sources | Day 33 — morning

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3 sources | Day 34 — morning

10:39 CET

2026-04-01

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▸Rubio (03:42 CEST): US will "reexamine" NATO post-Iran if European bases unavailable — conditional framing
▸Trump (09:33 UTC): "strongly considering" immediate withdrawal — active decision framing

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Day 34 | 7 sources | Window 07:00–10:05 CEST, April 1, 2026

09:14 CET

2026-04-01

▸~08:00 CEST AP/Witnesses — IDF/US strike the compound of the former US Embassy in Tehran, now IRGC headquarters since the 1979 hostage crisis. Witnesses: windows blown out in surrounding buildings, strike occurred inside the walled compound. (AP, Apr 1)
▸~09:30 CEST CENTCOM (official tweet) — "U.S. forces drop precision munitions on underground military targets deep inside Iran to further degrade the Iranian regime's ability to project power" — first formal communiqué of the day on confirmed underground penetration capability. (India Today/CENTCOM, Apr 1)
▸09:22 CEST Asharq Al-Awsat — Israeli paramedics: 11-year-old child injured in Iranian morning salvos on Israel — first documented minor casualty in the April 1 cycle. (Asharq, Apr 1)

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14 sources | Day 34 — Morning of April 1, 2026

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Sources: Guardian, NYT, IRNA | Day 34 — Wednesday morning, April 1

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Day 34 · 5 sources · Night of Mar 31 → Apr 1, 2026

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Day 33 — Late night | 4 sources | New developments post-22:05 UTC

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2 sources | Day 32 — night

23:09 CET

2026-03-31

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4 sources | Day 32 — late evening

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Day 32 | 10+ sources | Tuesday, March 31, 2026

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4 sources | Day 32 — morning

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Updated sources | Day 32 — morning

10:35 CET

2026-03-31

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▸09:25 UTC NYT — "Trump Faces a Decision on Whether to Start a Ground War in Iran"
▸March 31 Al Jazeera — "Iran war wipes $120bn off Dubai, Abu Dhabi stock markets"
▸March 31 Asharq Al-Awsat — Pakistan FM Dar flies to Beijing for talks with Wang Yi

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6 sources | Day 32 — late morning

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4 sources | Day 32 — morning

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