Morning editors stayed with the postponed Muscat ministerial on Hormuz, now uniformly described as delayed at Saudi request after the pipeline attack, while live trackers noted plunging transits and Brent above $107-108. State outlets paired that with battlefield claims — a downed US MQ-1, a captured submarine described as war booty — and reaction to a CBS reconstruction of the downed F-15 rescue inside Iran.

By midday Tehran denied involvement in the Saudi pipeline strike and summoned Austria’s chargé over blocking its atomic chief from the IAEA meeting, as Trump told US media Iran was urgently seeking an agreement to which Washington remained open and predicted oil prices would collapse once fighting ended.

Evening coverage shifted to a UN fact-finding committee holding the United States responsible for the Kuhestak wedding-house strike and calling for an end to hostilities.