
Common ground and differences in coverage across the media analysed.
The cargo vessel M/V Ever Lovely (Singapore-flagged) was struck by an Iranian drone on June 25-26 in the Strait of Hormuz, triggering the first U.S. military strikes since the signing of a ceasefire memorandum.
The U.S. Central Command conducted two distinct waves of strikes against Iranian military installations (missile and drone depots, coastal radars, communication systems, air defense) on June 26 and June 27-28.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps responded by targeting U.S. military positions in the Gulf region, notably Ali Al-Salem Air Base in Kuwait and the U.S. Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain.
Washington and its allies frame the U.S. strikes as a legitimate response to a deliberate Iranian breach of the agreement; Moscow adopts a symmetric framing attributing responsibility to both parties; Tehran accuses the United States of a flagrant protocol violation.
Iran claims a regulatory right over traffic in the Strait as a coastal state, imposing authorized routes; Washington and Western perspectives reject this interpretation as an attempt to exercise unilateral sovereignty over an international maritime passage.
Trump's declaration on Truth Social ('the Islamic Republic of Iran will cease to exist') is treated as a signal of irreversible rupture by alarmist media (France, Germany, Australia, Brazil), reported without commentary in Mexico and Brazil, and noted factually by Moscow without analysis of implications.
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Paris gauges the fragility of the US-Iran ceasefire through repeated strikes in the Strait of Hormuz, a critical oil route whose closure would directly threaten European energy supplies and reshape global markets.
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Mexico City watches with concern as military escalation in the Strait of Hormuz threatens direct disruption to the oil flows upon which its economy and those of key trading partners depend.
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Seoul measures the US-Iranian escalation through the lens of its own seized vessels: 43 South Korean sailors remain stranded in the Strait of Hormuz, and renewed strikes threaten to close a trade corridor laboriously renegotiated.
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Paris gauges the fragility of the US-Iran ceasefire through repeated strikes in the Strait of Hormuz, a critical oil route whose closure would directly threaten European energy supplies and reshape global markets.
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Paris, June 28, 2026.
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Mexico City watches with concern as military escalation in the Strait of Hormuz threatens direct disruption to the oil flows upon which its economy and those of key trading partners depend.
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Mexico City, June 28, 2026.
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Seoul measures the US-Iranian escalation through the lens of its own seized vessels: 43 South Korean sailors remain stranded in the Strait of Hormuz, and renewed strikes threaten to close a trade corridor laboriously renegotiated.
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Seoul, June 28, 2026.
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Berlin watches with concern as the fragility of the US-Iran ceasefire becomes undeniable: each exchange of fire undermines the framework agreement signed just a week ago, threatening free passage through a maritime corridor on which Europe relies directly.
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Berlin, June 28, 2026.
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Brasilia assesses the severity of an escalation that directly threatens global oil routes: the U.S.-Iran ceasefire, signed barely ten days ago, is collapsing under the weight of strikes and counter-strikes in the Strait of Hormuz.
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Brasilia, June 28, 2026.
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Moscow reads the Iran-US escalation as the progressive collapse of a memorandum of understanding that was never truly honored, presenting both parties as co-responsible for the security degradation in the Gulf.
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Moscow, June 28, 2026.
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New Delhi watches with growing concern each escalation at the Strait of Hormuz, a critical chokepoint through which a large share of its petroleum imports transit, and closely monitors the spiraling military exchanges between Washington and Tehran.
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New Delhi, June 28, 2026.
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Jerusalem monitors the American-Iranian escalation in the Strait of Hormuz with acute concern: each US strike, each IRGC counterstrike, is deciphered through the lens of the fragile ceasefire memorandum signed just two weeks ago—a document familiar to Israeli strategists who know the costs of direct confrontation with Tehran's Revolutionary Guard.
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Jerusalem, June 28, 2026.
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Canberra monitors with concern the fragility of the US-Iran ceasefire as repeated strikes in the Strait of Hormuz threaten freedom of navigation along one of the Asia-Pacific region's most critical commercial routes.
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Canberra, June 28, 2026.
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Washington frames the strikes against Iran as a clear and proportionate response to a deliberate breach of the ceasefire memorandum, with free commercial navigation through the Strait of Hormuz positioned as the cornerstone of its official narrative.
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Washington, June 28, 2026.
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On 25 and 26 June, the Singapore-flagged cargo ship M/V Ever Lovely was hit by a drone in the Strait of Hormuz. The attack triggered the first US military strikes since the signing of a ceasefire memorandum between Washington and Tehran. On 26 and 27-28 June, CENTCOM carried out two waves of operations against Iranian military facilities: missile and drone depots, coastal radars, communication systems and air defences. Iranian forces retaliated by targeting US positions in the Gulf, including the Ali Al-Salem base in Kuwait and the headquarters of the Fifth Fleet in Bahrain.
The escalation comes less than two weeks after an interim agreement meant to guarantee free commercial transit through the strait for 60 days. This waterway carries roughly 20% of global oil shipments, giving the conflict immediate economic reach for importing countries. The IMO's suspension of the evacuation of some 11,000 seafarers stranded in the region underscores the limits of multilateral mechanisms in this context.
Several points remain disputed. Each side accuses the other of breaking the ceasefire, while some actors assign responsibility to both parties. The legal status of the strait pits two readings against each other: Iran claims, as a coastal state, a right to regulate traffic and imposes authorised routes, whereas Washington defends the principle of freedom of navigation in international waters. A US presidential statement raising the prospect of the end of the Islamic Republic of Iran adds uncertainty about the real thresholds of escalation, and the 60-day negotiation window now appears compromised.
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