LONDON — On the eve of the tenth anniversary of the vote to leave the European Union, millions of British households are opening notices of a 13% energy price hike.…
Beijing’s Urgent Plea As US-Iran Clashes Ignite The Strait Of Hormuz.
A Shattered Ceasefire, A Nervous Kuwait, And A Strategic Island Under Fire, China Steps Into The Void As The Middle East Teeters On The Edge Of All-Out War.
GULF ON THE BRINK: How A Night Of Tit-For-Tat Strikes Exposed The Fragility Of The Iran–US Ceasefire.
MANAMA, BAHRAIN / TEHRAN - The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced in the early hours of Wednesday that its Aerospace and Navy forces had launched coordinated missile and drone strikes…
Iran Asserts Control Over Strait Of Hormuz As Maritime Stand-off Deepens: Sovereignty, Sanctions And The Battle For A Global Chokepoint.
TEHRAN — Iran has doubled down on its claim that the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world's most strategically important waterways, falls under the sovereign jurisdiction of its littoral…
Iran’s Red Line On Lebanon, The Hormuz Stand-off, And A War That Refuses To End.
An Analysis Of The Deadlocked Negotiations, Contradictory Red Lines, And The Expanding Shadow War That Has Killed Thousands And Rattled The Global Economy.
US-IRAN: The Art Of The Double‑Cross: Trump’s Third Betrayal, A Naval Blockade That Won’t Lift, And The Spectre Of A Dead Supreme Leader.
TEHRAN/WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD — In the fog of a war that was supposed to have ended, the most dangerous sound is not the screech of an incoming drone but the silence of…
IRAN: Ceasefire On Paper, War In Practice: How The US-Iran Shadow War Is Spilling Across The Gulf And Rendering Diplomacy A Fiction.
KUWAIT CITY / BANDAR ABBAS / BEIRUT — At 4:50 a.m. local time Thursday, a ballistic missile arced across the dark skies of the northern Gulf, aimed at a sprawling…
IRAN: Iran’s Legal Counter-Offensive Exposes Gulf Complicity And Tests The Limits Of Diplomacy.
TEHRAN / UNITED NATIONS — As the smouldering wreckage of the latest U.S.-Israeli military campaign against Iran continues to be catalogued in Tehran’s intelligence dossiers, the Islamic Republic has opened…
IRAN/OMAN: The Strait’s New Gatekeepers, Inside Iran’s Plan To Remake Hormuz, And The World’s Alarm.
MUSCAT/TEHRAN — The Strait of Hormuz, a sliver of water just 21 nautical miles wide at its narrowest, has become the focal point of the most radical reordering of maritime…
IRAN: US Allies Warned They Will “Share Responsibility”: Tehran Escalates Rhetoric As Hormuz Dispute Widens Into A Global Confrontation.
TEHRAN/WASHINGTON - A single message posted on X early Saturday morning crystallised a diplomatic standoff that has been simmering since the guns largely fell silent across the Gulf region last…
