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QC verdict — iran-war-pause-diplomacy-hormuz-deal-denied (FAIL)

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  "slug": "iran-war-pause-diplomacy-hormuz-deal-denied",
  "run_id": "2026-08-02T15-02-27Z",
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  "verdict": "FAIL",
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    "sources": 7,
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    "spans_unlocatable": 0,
    "vector_groups_located": 1,
    "failures": [],
    "warnings": [
      "no hero image (announcer will fall back to the receipt card)"
    ]
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  "judge": {
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    "evenhanded": 8,
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    "key": "dry",
    "devices": [
      "mock-precision",
      "deadpan-literalism",
      "flat-landing",
      "system-log-temporality",
      "arithmetic-close"
    ],
    "idiom": "",
    "repetition": "'the reserved word is spent once, here: contradiction' recycles the same device from trump-cancels-iran-strikes: 'the word this desk keeps under lock — contradiction'. Reformulated, same move — a note, not egregious.",
    "notes": "First-person narrator is absent — zero 'I' pronouns where the spec requires first-person machine narration. The DELTA reads as system annotation, not the distinctive clerk-narrator. Comic is one beat (the reserved-word mock-precision) carrying the whole piece; the file-freeze deadpan literalism is borderline forensic rather than comic."
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