The United States and Iran are set for a protracted conflict - both sides have rejected offers from Oman and Egypt to begin peace talks, Reuters reports , citing sources in both Washington and Tehran. The Iranians do not intend to discuss peace until the US and Israeli strikes are over, and Donald Trump believes that the terms of a potential agreement are not good enough yet, he himself told NBC News.

The topic of the issue is why there is no mobile Internet in the capital An experiment has been ongoing in Moscow all week - can a city of many millions manage without mobile Internet ? Officials convince citizens that these are minor inconveniences, and safety comes first. No one is saying what danger the authorities are protecting the population from by turning off the Internet for so long. Citizens are trying to adapt to new challenges, businesses are patiently suffering huge losses.

Donald Trump promises to open the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has de facto blocked for the third week. This can be done in two ways - to conduct tankers under the escort of warships or to capture the Iranian coast near the strait with the help of ground troops, writes The Wall Street Journal. Trump has already called on some countries to send their ships to the strait for convoy, and the US military command is transferring a marine expeditionary unit to the region.