Russian Diplomacy in the Middle East

August 26, 2019

New balances of power and a new equilibrium are being set up discreetly in the Nile valley, in the Levant and the Arab peninsula. On the contrary, however, the situation is blocked in the Persian Gulf…

Caught In The Strait

August 8, 2019

Opinion

It is clear that the United Kingdom could not have thought this through. Was it a touch of the Suez jitters, the haunting syndrome of 1956 leaving a false impression that the Old Empire still had it? …

Who in Iran Gave Orders to Capture the “Stena Impero”?

August 2, 2019

Opinion

The US officially asked Europe, in particular the UK, France, Germany and Italy, to provide a naval force to patrol and protect ships sailing in the Straits of Hormuz, even if the command and con…

In a Naval Confrontation With Iran, Great Britain Can Find Neither Ships nor Friends

August 1, 2019

Opinion

It was a knife-twist that originated in Florida, but it was felt across the Atlantic. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, appearing Monday on Fox News via a live feed from the Veterans of Foreign War…

Strait of Hormuz – Clogged Oil Artery of the World

July 25, 2019

Opinion

The US is provoking Iran to close the Strait of Hormuz, over which the Iranian drone was shot down yesterday. The overlapping of the main oil artery of the world can cause a global economic crisis and…

Why Trump Now Wants Talks with Iran

June 7, 2019

Opinion

Unlike Deep Purple’s legendary ‘Smoke on the Water’ – “We all came out to Montreux, on the Lake Geneva shoreline”, the 67th Bilderberg group meetings produced no fire and no smoke at the luxuriou…

How Yesterday Resembles Today: Iran Confronted the US in the Straits of Hormuz in the 1980s

May 30, 2019

Opinion

“We are going to intercept and stop all oil exports from the (Middle East) region if we are prevented from exporting our oil. We shall take every measure possible to close the Straits of Hormuz. If th…

Who Really Gains from the Gulf Ship ‘Sabotage’

May 17, 2019

Opinion

After dramatic and patently scripted warnings of “Iranian aggression” by bellicose US officials, there then follows – conveniently enough – an alleged sabotage incident in the Persian Gulf region impl…