ITALY PERSPECTIVE

Rome, June 7. La Repubblica opens Sunday with a formulation rarely heard in the Italian press: "The battle for control of the Strait of Hormuz is being fought on radars." The analysis is precise: the Americans are trying to "blind the Iranians" to let ships through, Tehran responds by hitting "the American eyes" in the Gulf. It is the first time a major European daily has theorized the Gulf war as a war of electronic surveillance. Adnkronos relays the military timeline: 7 Iranian ballistic missiles toward Kuwait and Bahrain, 6 intercepted by air defenses. ANSA stays dry: 2 Iranian attack drones downed on Sunday in Hormuz, denial of damage to the U.S. Fifth Fleet. But in the same La Repubblica live blog appears the most explosive revelation: "The New York Times writes: 'The U.S. suspects Israel is spying on Witkoff and used white phosphorus in Lebanon.'" The detail is heavy: Steve Witkoff is Trump's envoy for the Iran negotiations, and the accusation of Israeli espionage on American talks reopens a strategic fracture. La Repubblica also quotes Khamenei: "America has lost, you have not divided us." It is the only European outlet that retains this line as a political signal. The Italian coverage blends technical strategy (radars), transverse accusation (Israel/U.S.), and Iranian rhetoric — a cocktail of complexity that few other European countries have produced in so few paragraphs.