The war keeps hitting new targets while the ceasefire memo stays exactly where it was last week.

…(cont) Through all three fronts — the strait, the base, the hospitals — state media says Iran is still weighing the same U.S. ceasefire counterproposal it was weighing last week. Same document, two weeks running, no new draft, no new answer. A negotiation that produces the same unanswered counterproposal two weeks running isn't a stalled process. It's the process — the thing that lets every other line on this page keep running underneath it, because as long as talks stay technically open, nobody has to call any of this a war that needs a vote.

That's the trick. Keep the tankers burning, the schools closed, the cancer hospital reopening and closing, and keep one sheet of paper marked "under review" on a desk somewhere — the review is the alibi. Sixteen days, three strikes, one air base, 1,300 schools, and the paperwork hasn't moved. Follow the paper. It's the only thing in this war that isn't.