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…
IRAN: Iran-US Nuclear Deadlock Deepens As Tehran Rejects Pressure Over Uranium Enrichment.
TEHRAN/WASHINGTON - The fragile diplomatic track between Iran and the United States appears increasingly close to collapse, with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi declaring that negotiations over uranium enrichment have…
IRAN-OMAN: At The Crossroads Of Empire And Sovereignty: Iran, Oman, And The Legal Battle For The Strait Of Hormuz.
MUSCAT, OMAN / BANDAR ABBAS, IRAN — In the gilded corridors of a palace in Muscat this week, behind closed doors and far from the gaze of warships massing in…
IRAN: Tehran’s ‘Reasonable and Generous’ Peace Bid and Washington’s ‘Unreasonable Demands’: Inside the Crisis Diplomacy That Is Pushing West Asia to the Brink.
TEHRAN / WASHINGTON / BEIRUT - In the smoke-choked towns of southern Lebanon, Hezbollah drones are outmanoeuvring Israeli air defences. In the Gulf, American warships shadow Iranian tankers. In the…
IRAN: Tehran’s Game Of Brinkmanship: Inside A Successor’s War Council, A Blockaded Strait, And The Riot-War Nexus.
TEHRAN -The words were delivered in the marble-clad sanctum of the Beit-e Rahbari, where Iran’s newly elevated Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei, now receives the commanders of a nation…
IRAN: How Iran’s ‘Deterrence Through Punishment’ Shook Trump’s Fragile Ceasefire, From The UN To The Persian Gulf.
TEHRAN - The predawn quiet of the Northern Arabian Sea was shattered again on Friday. At roughly 3:40 a.m. local time, an Iranian fast-attack craft of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard…
IRAN: Strait Of Hormuz On A Knife-Edge: Inside Iran’s ‘Deterrence Through Punishment’ And The Unravelling Of Trump’s Ceasefire.
The predawn quiet of the Sea of Oman was shattered again on Friday. According to maritime security sources and local witnesses, a tense standoff unfolded at the mouth of the…
