🚨👇Ten days. That is how long the ceasefire lasted.

Three days of mutual strikes between the US and Iran. The 60-day diplomatic window is under existential threat. The Strait of Hormuz is back in the headlines. And the question nobody in mainstream media is asking directly.

Who authorized the IMO Omani route on June 24? And did they understand what they were authorizing?

Here is the verified sequence that leads to that question.

The MOU was signed on June 17. Both sides celebrated it publicly. But Clause 5 of that agreement provided Iran with arrangements for controlling passage through the Strait of Hormuz. The US interpreted that as administrative coordination. Iran interpreted it as sovereign control. Those two interpretations were never reconciled in the text. They were deferred. Everyone at the signing table knew this. Ten days later, Oman announced a new shipping transit route through the Strait, coordinated with the International Maritime Organization, the UK Maritime Trade Operations, and the United States, all of whom consider the route legitimate under international maritime law. Iran was not consulted. The route runs along the Omani coastline specifically to avoid Iranian territorial waters. And Oman, which houses one of the most strategically significant US military installations in the region and whose leadership had already absorbed public pressure from Washington over Strait management, was the country whose name was on the announcement."

The IRGC responded immediately, stating the route had been announced without prior notification to or coordination with Iran. "The proposed route is unacceptable and poses serious safety risks," the IRGC said. "The only authorized transit routes through the Strait of Hormuz are those designated by the Islamic Republic of Iran."

That warning was explicit, public, and unambiguous. Iran was not being subtle. It was telling the world in plain language that any ship using the Omani IMO route was doing so outside Iranian authorization and would face consequences.

The following day, June 25, the Ever Lovely, a Singapore-flagged cargo ship owned by Taiwan-based Evergreen Marine, followed the UN and British military-recommended route. It had been stranded for over 100 days. And that context matters. But so does this. Iran's warning on June 24 was public, explicit, and reported across every major maritime outlet before the ship entered the Strait. Over 70 ships had already transited successfully using Iranian-approved routes without incident. The IMO Omani route had been announced one day earlier, without Iranian consultation, and Iran had already declared it unauthorized. The question of why Evergreen Marine, one of the world's largest shipping companies with full access to real-time maritime intelligence, chose to follow the IMO route on June 25 rather than the Iranian-approved route that 70-plus ships had already used safely has not been asked by a single outlet covering this story. A company of that size does not make that navigation decision without awareness of the risk. Which raises the harder question of whether the Ever Lovely was navigating a shipping lane or being used to test one.

Iran struck the ship. The US struck Iran. Iran struck US bases in Kuwait and Bahrain. Three days of exchanges followed. Trump threatened to militarily complete the job. The IRGC warned all diplomatic processes would halt. The 60-day window that was supposed to resolve Iran's nuclear program, missile capability, and permanent Strait arrangements has barely begun and is already under existential pressure.

This series has documented a consistent pattern since the Apache helicopter card in June. Unverified or unresolved trigger events. Immediate military responses before investigations conclude. Diplomatic consequences that dwarf the original incident. The Ever Lovely situation fits that pattern with one additional and deeply uncomfortable layer.

Unlike the Apache incident, where the trigger was disputed, the route conflict here was not disputed. It was documented, publicly warned about, and ignored. The IMO Omani route was announced without Iranian consultation. Iran warned of what would happen. Someone authorized ships to use that route anyway.

The Codex Signal is not asserting that the escalation was engineered. What we are asserting is that it was entirely foreseeable. And the question of whether anyone in a position of authority asked themselves before June 24 whether announcing that route was worth the diplomatic cost has not been asked publicly by a single outlet covering this story.

Foreseeable is not the same as accidental. And that distinction deserves more scrutiny than it is currently receiving.

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