Iran demands EU accountability for Ukraine's Caspian attack while stressing Hormuz diplomacy.

Iranian state media frames the call around Tehran's grievance, with Araghchi calling for international action against Ukraine and its backers and warning the strike cannot go unanswered.

After Hormuz and the Red Sea, has the Iran war now reached the Caspian Sea?

Al Jazeera situates the Caspian incident as a widening of the theater of the Iran war, drawing a third waterway into a conflict already straining Hormuz and the Red Sea.

A first post-war meeting meant to smooth strains over Iran strategy and the Gaza force.

AP and NPR framed the meeting as damage control after months of joint war, with Netanyahu putting Iran 'first and foremost' on the agenda while Trump weighed a negotiated end and the two managed the rollout of a Gaza stabilization force; the White House pronounced the talks productive.

Rare public daylight: Trump rebuffs Netanyahu on Iran ahead of and during the talks.

Western coverage highlighted the unusual friction, with Trump dismissing Netanyahu's warnings about the Pickaxe Mountain nuclear site and noting Israel's diminished bipartisan standing in Washington as Trump pursues a Tehran deal through Oman-mediated Hormuz talks.

Regional lens on what the summit means for Gaza, Lebanon and the Abraham Accords.

Gulf coverage laid out the agenda — the paused Iran war, a Gaza stabilization force, a Lebanon framework and Accords expansion — and what a deal would mean for the region after months of war.

Oman-brokered diplomacy appeared to gain ground, then a surprise Iranian missile attack on a US base threw the fragile channel into doubt.

Wire coverage relayed Trump's upbeat read and reports of advancing Oman-brokered Hormuz talks, with Tehran denying any direct US channel — before Iran's late-July 28 missile attack on a US base in Jordan, all intercepted and answered by US-Saudi strikes in Iraq, reintroduced the risk of renewed war.

Iran casts talk of direct negotiations as a US fabrication and refuses to bow to pressure.

Iranian officials denied any direct talks with Washington, with the Foreign Ministry saying Tehran 'will never allow the United States to determine the timing of war and peace' and framing the Hormuz calls as sovereign consultation with Oman and Saudi Arabia.

US-backed talks proceed despite a split opposition boycotting them.

Wire coverage reported the negotiations will start despite Machado's refusal, casting them as a US effort to stabilize Venezuela after the raid that removed Maduro.

Machado casts the US-backed process as legitimizing an unelected government.

Regional coverage relayed Machado's stance that she and Gonzalez will not take part, arguing the talks whitewash the Rodriguez government installed after the US raid.

Iran frames the strike as an unlawful killing that demands a response.

Indian and wire coverage relayed Araghchi's condemnation of the Caspian strike as a UN Charter violation that 'cannot go unanswered,' which he said was carried out at Israel's behest after a sailor was killed aboard the Iranian vessel.

Kyiv defends the strike and turns Iran's threat back on Tehran's own role arming Russia.

Ukrainian coverage reported Zelensky's rebuttal that Iran 'already attacked Ukraine' through drone and weapons transfers, framing the Caspian strike as legitimate interdiction of Iran-to-Russia military supply and touting results from long-range operations.

The largest-ever corporate sanctions batch aims squarely at Russia's evasion networks.

Center coverage reported the EU planning to sanction a record 1,600-plus firms for helping Russia circumvent restrictions, with a combined turnover above $20 billion, escalating the economic-pressure campaign days after the 21st package targeted Russian energy, finance and crypto and drew retaliatory Chinese export curbs.