Why can a geopolitical shock support the dollar and oil, but still fail to produce a straightforward rally in gold?

I’m trying to understand the economic mechanism behind a pattern that seems counterintuitive at first.

During the current Middle East conflict, my instinct was that gold should be the clearest safe-haven beneficiary. But the actual market reaction has looked more complicated. Oil rises because of supply risk, the U.S. dollar stays supported as a reserve and safe-haven currency, and gold can react initially but still fail to sustain a clean rally. Reuters also noted that stronger oil can feed inflation expectations and reduce the case for rate cuts, which seems to complicate gold’s role.

Is the cleanest explanation that one shock is operating through several channels at once, safe-haven demand, inflation expectations, and interest-rate expectations, so the same event can help gold in the short run but also create conditions that work against a lasting rally? I’m asking about the economic logic here, not for trading advice.