Reality update 2026-07-13: US–Iran war resumes over the Strait of Hormuz#2
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The June US-brokered ceasefire (Islamabad Memorandum) collapses within weeks: tanker strikes in the Strait of Hormuz on 7 July, hundreds of US CENTCOM strikes on Iran, IRGC retaliation against US bases in the Gulf, oil back above $78, and Hormuz shipping traffic collapsing. Israel also breaches its June Lebanon truce, and Russia-Ukraine strikes continue at high tempo. - middle_east_stability 0.25 -> 0.18 - nuclear_risk_level 0.32 -> 0.35 - supply_chain_resilience 0.55 -> 0.52 - conflict_deaths 1503000 -> 1505500 - new node: 2026_hormuz_crisis Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Gijcw8927QGNrctseuMgMr
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Weekly reality-stream update covering 2026-07-06 → 2026-07-13 (last update was 2026-07-06, 7 days ago). Applied entirely through
21csim apply-reality-updates(dry-run then live) —reality_2026.yamlwas not hand-edited.Dominant story: the June US–Iran ceasefire collapses
The US-brokered ceasefire that ended the US–Israel war on Iran (the "Islamabad Memorandum") broke down within weeks. On 7 July two tankers — the Qatari LNG carrier Al Rekayat and the Saudi-flagged supertanker Wedyan — were struck in the Strait of Hormuz. The US reimposed sanctions on Iranian oil and CENTCOM launched hundreds of strikes on Iranian military sites near the strait; Iran's IRGC retaliated against US bases in Kuwait, Jordan and Bahrain, and both sides openly contested control of the waterway. Hormuz traffic collapsed to ~6 crossings per 12h (vs 18–22 daily), Brent crude jumped back above $78 (highest since 22 June), reversing the return to pre-war prices. Israel simultaneously breached its own June Lebanon truce with deadly strikes on Nabatieh. Russia–Ukraine continued at high tempo (mass strikes on Kyiv for a third time in a week; ~20 killed on the eve of the NATO Ankara summit).
Dimension changes (old → new)
middle_east_stabilitynuclear_risk_levelsupply_chain_resilienceconflict_deathsNew node
2026_hormuz_crisis— US–Iran War Resumes: Strait of Hormuz Crisis (2026-07, geopolitical). A US-brokered ceasefire collapsing back into direct US–Iran combat within weeks is era-defining; there was no prior node for the 2026 US–Iran war. Recorded asHISTORICAL.Deliberately excluded
ai_development_year_offsetmoved 4→5 just last week — a second integer tick one week later would double-count.global_gdp_growth_modifierchange.latin_america_stabilityin last week's update.Sources
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