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.
US: Operation Epic Fury: Anatomy Of A Failing War — How Trump’s Iran Gamble Became A Strategic Debacle.
WASHINGTON— Seven weeks into what the Pentagon has branded "Operation Epic Fury," the United States finds itself trapped in precisely the kind of "endless war" that President Donald Trump campaigned…
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…
IRAN-US-ISRAEL: The Chokepoint Gamble: Inside The U.S.-Iran Stand-off Over The Strait Of Hormuz.
TEHRAN, WASHINGTON - In the span of a single weekend in April 2026, the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow maritime corridor through which one-fifth of the world's oil supply flows,…
IRAN: A New Order In Strait Of Hormuz – IRGC Navy Mandates Authorisation For All Vessels.
TEHRAN - The Persian Gulf awoke Friday to a carefully scripted paradox. As the IRGC Navy declared a "new order" granting it absolute authority over the Strait of Hormuz, the…
UK: Britain’s Secret ‘Summer of Food Shortages’ War Plan.
LONDON, UK — For the first time, details have emerged of "Exercise Turnstone," a secret, high-level government contingency plan revealing that the UK could face significant shortages of chicken, pork,…
CHINA-IRAN: The Phantom Blockade: How A Sanctioned Chinese Tanker Exposed The Cracks In Trump’s Hormuz Gambit.
BEIJING, TEHRAN - The U.S.-sanctioned tanker Rich Starry slipped through the Strait of Hormuz in the early hours of April 14, 2026, carrying 250,000 barrels of methanol from the UAE's…
US-IRAN: Beneath the Thunder of Gunboats: The Geopolitical Tempest Over the Strait of Hormuz.
WASHINGTON, TEHRAN - The world awoke this morning to a new, perilous reality. The United States Navy, acting on a direct order from President Donald Trump, has begun enforcing a…
IRAN: Into The Kill Box – How A U.S. Navy Propaganda Run In The Strait Of Hormuz Became A Near-Catastrophe.
ISLAMABAD / TEHRAN – In the hours after a 21-hour diplomatic marathon collapsed in Pakistan’s capital, a far more dangerous drama was already unfolding in the narrow waters of the…
ANALYSIS PAKISTAN-IRAN-US: Inside The Islamabad Implosion: Why 21 Hours Of US-Iran Talks Collapsed, And What Comes Next.
ISLAMABAD, TEHRAN, WASHINGTON - For 21 hours, the world watched Islamabad. Delegations from Washington and Tehran, led respectively by Vice President JD Vance and Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf,…
