A hull burns off Qeshm. One dead. Monday is still a table.

An Iranian commercial ship was struck off Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz early Sunday. One of ten crew dead. Four wounded. IRNA quoted the governor blaming a “terrorist enemy.” He had not identified the projectile. The War desk files a hull the morning before a table.

UKMTO, separately, reported a vessel hit by an unknown projectile in the strait late Saturday. A fire. Local authorities evacuating. CNN could not say if it was the same ship. CENTCOM had no comment. U.S. forces have struck Iranian-flagged hulls while holding a blockade of Iranian ports. Pezeshkian, hours earlier: “Iran won’t surrender.”

Iran won’t surrender.

Monday Gulf ministers sit with Iran in Salalah. Bahrain will not. Araghchi says the maps are a lane, not a reopening. Diesel in America printed a new record this morning. The War desk files Qeshm as it is: a fire in the channel, a death, and a meeting that will not put the fire out.