TEHRAN / WASHINGTON / DUBAI — For three days, the world waited for Iran’s oil fields to detonate from within. On April 26, from the gilded confines of a Fox…
IRAN: The Blockade And The Brink: Iran Vows “Unprecedented” Response To US Maritime Seizures Condemned As Piracy.
TEHRAN - The narrow, 30-kilometre-wide corridor of water known as the Strait of Hormuz has long been the world’s most critical energy chokepoint, a maritime highway through which a fifth…
IRAN: IRGC Threatens “Surprise Tactics” As Fragile US-Iran Ceasefire Masks Expanding Shadow War.
TEHRAN, WASHINGTON - A tenuous pause in hostilities between Iran and the United States is increasingly overshadowed by escalating rhetoric, Hollywood-style theatrics, unresolved military realities, and mounting evidence that a…
JAPAN: Japanese Tanker Transits Strait Of Hormuz After Obtaining Iran’s Permission.
A Japanese-owned supertanker carrying two million barrels of crude oil has successfully transited the Strait of Hormuz after securing permission from Iranian authorities, marking a rare passage through the strategic…
CHINA: A Financial Stranglehold On Shandong’s Shore: How America’s Sanctions War On Chinese “Teapots” Is Straining Global Trade And The Rules-Based Order.
DALIAN/BEIJING — The vessel-tracking screens at the world's commodity desks are painting a picture of a global oil trade in convulsions. On April 24, 2026, the U.S. Treasury Department escalated…
IRAN: Leader’s Aide: Unified Iran Stands Tall While ‘Deep Fracture’ Grips US-Europe Alliance.
TEHRAN, AYIA NAPA, LONDON — As the embers of the most devastating Middle Eastern conflict in a generation still smoulder beneath an unstable ceasefire, the geopolitical plates are shifting with…
UK: UK Insists Falklands Sovereignty “Rests With Britain” After Trump’s Warning On US Support.
LONDON/WASHINGTON - The unthinkable question is being whispered in the halls of Whitehall, debated in the mess rooms of the British Forces South Atlantic Islands, and discussed in the pubs…
IRAN: Violations, Threats, Blockade Main Obstacle To Genuine Talks Says President Pezeshkian.
TEHRAN, WASHINGTON - The diplomatic channel between Tehran and Washington, fragile at the best of times, has devolved into a vortex of accusation, contradiction, and what Iranian officials are calling…
UK: ‘Not Our War’, But Britain Pays The Price As Iran Conflict Pushes Inflation To 3.3%.
LONDON, UK - The conflict ignited by the US-Israeli strikes on Iran on 28 February 2026 was, for many in the UK, a distant crisis. It was a war of…
IRAN: The Touska Incident: Anatomy Of A Maritime Confrontation That Brought US–Iran To The Brink.
WASHINGTON/TEHRAN/ISLAMABAD — On the afternoon of Sunday, April 19, 2026, the Iranian-flagged container vessel Touska was steaming through the northern Arabian Sea toward the port of Bandar Abbas.
