The economic pressure being exerted on Iran by the United States is inflicting severe hardship on the population without materially changing the country’s core demands or preventing Tehran from challenging US operations
In a wide-ranging conversation originally featured in El País, American historian and journalist Stephen Kinzer argues that Iran’s modern political trajectory cannot be understood without returning to one defining moment: the 1953
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Saudi Arabia has long projected itself as a stabilising force in the Middle East, presenting an image of cautious diplomacy, economic ambition and regional leadership. But revelations emerging from the Gulf suggest
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America’s newest quagmire in the Middle East is like its old quagmires in the Middle East. It is based, as were the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, on a gross misreading of
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To speak of the Strait of Hormuz today is already to enter a language of reduction. In policy briefings and military analyses, it appears as a “chokepoint,” a narrow passage through which
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One month after the United States and Iran reached a fragile ceasefire agreement, the world’s humanitarian system remains under severe strain as the fallout from the conflict around the Strait of Hormuz
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A classified CIA analysis delivered to White House policymakers, as described by multiple individuals familiar with the document and reported in part by the Washington Post, concludes that Iran could endure the
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The United States is investigating a series of highly suspicious oil market transactions worth approximately $2.2 billion, amid concerns that traders may have used advance knowledge of sensitive developments in the Iran
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In a development on Monday morning,Iran attacked the UAE through cruise missiles and armed drones targeting the Fujairah Oil Industry Zone, which wounded employees, destroyed the fuel infrastructure, and tore apart the
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China’s shock warning to the US President Donald Trump that his road to Beijing goes through the Strait of Hormuz has been an audacious move directly linking his planned visit to China
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For years, Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) believed it was operating in the realm of policy research and strategic analysis. But a sweeping cyber campaign attributed to Iranian intelligence services
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