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US-Iran negotiations were suspended pending the burial of late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
WHY THIS MATTERS · This matters because with inspectors locked out of Fordow and Natanz, the world no longer knows how much enriched uranium Iran actually has, shrinking the warning time before a possible weapon and raising the odds of a preemptive Israeli or US strike based on guesswork.
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INGESTED ARTICLETIER 2JUL 7
abcnews.com — Tanker set ablaze after being struck by projectile in the Strait of Hormuz as Ir
"Talks between Iran and the U.S., meanwhile, appear to be on hold until after the burial of Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei , who was killed at the beginning of the war."
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Extracted by pipeline v0.5 (claude-opus-4-8) from abcnews.com · approved by christopher@vucanews.com JUL 7.
Extracted JUL 7; approved JUL 7 at 0.72.
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