Trump's two-day air war with Iran: a deal in the offing, or a war on autopilot?

Desk note: Monexus is reporting the three source items in this cluster as a coherent escalation, not as three independent stories. The Reuters wire supplies the kinetic frame, the BBC report supplies the energy-economics frame, and the Unusual Whales relay supplies the diplomatic text. The cluster is unusually clean for an Iran story in that all three items point in the same direction; that very cleanliness is itself the most important editorial fact, and is the reason this piece foregrounds what the cluster does not yet say.