Morning coverage focused on Iran's military escalation in the Strait of Hormuz, with multiple outlets reporting drone and missile attacks on US targets, a mined strait, and a struck cargo ship. Early afternoon brought Prime Minister Meloni's parliamentary declaration that Italy would not enter the war, emphasizing the government was neither complicit nor isolated in US-Israeli actions. Evening headlines consolidated around Iranian attacks on three cargo ships using mines, Tehran's threat to push oil prices to $200 per barrel, and Trump's contradictory statements about controlling the war's end.