Day 233 brief — An independent audit falsifies the debris account, Brent touches $110, and Cairo asks its parliament for authority to defend Riyadh

An independent audit arrived and falsified the defender's account of its own damage. Reuters, after interviewing 36 people and analysing radar, optical and weather-satellite data, counted at least 135 Iranian drone and missile attacks on at least 84 infrastructure sites across seven Gulf countries since 28 February, and found that in at least 34 official statements Gulf governments blamed falling debris from interceptions. All fourteen insiders and experts shown the findings said debris alone was highly improbable. Fujairah was struck at least nineteen times; two of Ras Laffan's cold boxes were destroyed, in a facility carrying nearly a fifth of world LNG supply, with a three-to-five-year repair estimate from QatarEnergy's chief; five of Saudi Arabia's nine largest refineries were damaged and Jazan's volumes fell to zero; four of Kuwait's eight power-and-desalination plants were hit; a May drone strike put one Barakah reactor on emergency diesel. Saudi production ran below 7 million barrels a day for most of the first six months against more than 10 pre-war, a loss Reuters prices above $50 billion. Brent then touched $110 intraday for the first time since May, December settling at $109.86 and WTI at $101.41, with Eurasia Group raising its odds of intensification to 65 percent from 35. Egypt's Sisi asked parliament for emergency authority to defend Saudi Arabia if asked. Two tankers were attacked northeast of Al Jubayl inside the Arabian Gulf, neither claimed. CENTCOM published its own blockade count of 138 vessels redirected. Washington waived the Russia sanctions it legislated a month ago. Direction holds escalating; the thirty-day probability holds at 5.