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
Tag: Strait of Hormuz
Caught In The Strait
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
Who in Iran Gave Orders to Capture the “Stena Impero”?
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
In a Naval Confrontation With Iran, Great Britain Can Find Neither Ships nor Friends
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
Strait of Hormuz – Clogged Oil Artery of the World
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
Why Trump Now Wants Talks with Iran
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
How Yesterday Resembles Today: Iran Confronted the US in the Straits of Hormuz in the 1980s
“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
Who Really Gains from the Gulf Ship ‘Sabotage’
After dramatic and patently scripted warnings of “Iranian aggression” by bellicose US officials, there then follows – conveniently enough – an alleged sabotage incident in
