Quick recap of the neighborhood: Iran has declared the Strait of Hormuz closed, and for two weeks ships that sailed through anyway have had a mysterious habit of getting hit. On Sunday, Iran's Revolutionary Guards announced — via the semi-official Tasnim agency — that two more ships were "involved in an accident" after taking an "unsafe route." Two other vessels, hearing this, turned around. * France 24's live blog headline: "Iran's Guards say two ships involved in 'accident' after defying Hormuz warnings." Half of that headline is doing excellent hygiene. 'Accident' sits in quote marks, attributed to the Guards — the reader can smell the euphemism from here. * It's the other half that quietly switched teams. Tasnim's wording was that the ships took an "unsafe route." France 24 translated that into "defying Hormuz warnings" — its own phrase, no quote marks, no "Iran says." In the outlet's own voice, the ships are now the disobedient ones. Warnings existed. The ships defied them. Then an accident happened to them, the way accidents do. * That's the full mafia press kit, grammatically intact: nice ship you've got there — shame it ignored the warning. "Involved in an accident" is the insurance-claim construction where nobody does anything and misfortune simply visits. France 24 flagged Iran's euphemism with one hand and gifted it the causation with the other. * There's also a small legal detail buried under "defying." Under the law of the sea, Hormuz is a transit passage — the kind you're not allowed to close. "Defying warnings" converts an illegal closure into house rules, and the ships from lawful traffic into rule-breakers who had it coming. * And it's not even a one-off reflex. The same live blog sits at a URL reading "us-targets-iran-s-revolutionary-guard-in-retaliation-for-killed-troops." Retaliation. On France 24, everyone's violence arrives with a because attached — Iran's via "defying," Washington's via "retaliation." The quote marks, meanwhile, only ever protect one word at a time.