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: Inside Iran’s Hormuz Strategy – Security Protocols As Leverage Over Global Trade Artery.
"An Iranian deputy defence minister says the country would allow passage through the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf after the conclusion of the US-Israeli aggression under protocols that protect…
CHINA-IRAN: The Steel Silk Road: How The Iran-China Railway Is Redrawing The Geopolitics Of Oil.
BEIJING, TEHRAN - A year ago, on a sweltering May afternoon in 2025, a freight train painted in the livery of the China-Europe Railway Express negotiated the final kilometre of…
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…
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…
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.
IRAN: Strait Of Hormuz Closed Again – Iran’s Distrust Of US-Israeli Deception Fuels Escalation Amid Failing Lebanon Ceasefire.
TEHRAN - The rapid reversal of Iran’s position on the Strait of Hormuz, from reopening to reimposing strict military control within hours, has exposed not only the fragility of the…
RUSSIA: Russia, Iran, And The Fracturing Nuclear Order: Lavrov’s Doctrine And The Deepening Global Divide.
MOSCOW - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has once again placed Moscow at the centre of a rapidly escalating geopolitical confrontation, forcefully defending Iran’s “inalienable right” to uranium enrichment while…
PAKISTAN: The Islamabad Mirage: Inside The High-Stakes US-Iran Mediation That Barely Averts World War.
ISLAMABAD, TEHRAN - In the opulent corridors of Islamabad’s Serena Hotel, shielded from the cacophony of a world teetering on the edge, history was being written, or rather, painstakingly drafted…
IRAN: Iran Says Targeting Its Ports Would Endanger All Persian Gulf Shipping Hubs.
TEHRAN, April 13, 2026 – A tenuous two-week ceasefire has shattered, plunging the Persian Gulf into a direct naval confrontation. The US Navy, under direct orders from President Donald Trump,…
